The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-01-04
WARRINGTON CORREDFON.s
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! WAsHI HGron,D G., Dec. q, 1879.
The weather. Clear ard Cool ana Anc
Sleighisg-Civil Service Refora-
Postal Teiegraph-Important Poe
taIDeeision-Railroad Inspectors
Pneumatic Tube.
For the fret time in fifteen years
Neutrality-suspicious. are favored with
three consecutive days OF good
eleighing. 1t commenced showing
on Christmas evening and con-
tinued without abating until noon
ON Thursday. The weather is now
clear and cool, and there is every
prospect OF several days more Of
continued sleigbing. Single teams
vt So, and double So to $40 al
hour are easily let.
The speech of Representative
Snapp, of IlliI ole, is considered
the commencement of wsr upon
the Civil Service system, and the
heads Of severa! Departments have
been continually importuned by
Congressman in behalf Of their con-
stituents who want Office and who
will not submit 10 compe tativc ex-
aninations.
1t is reported that o strong lobby
has been formed under the pay ol
the Associa' ed Press monopoly to
oppose the Postal Telegraph bill
likely 10 be favorsbly acted on
very soon. By the charter granted
to this monopoly by Congress sew
eral years ago, the Metropolitan
journals of the large cities. have
been enabled TO amass fortunes
from the enormous profts derived
from the sale of q portion OF their
dispatches to the smaller papers, al
the expense and detriment Of the
reading public. Now the Post Of
fee Committee proposes q bill
which provides that the Postmas.
ter General shall be authorized ia
contract with company which
will furnish aud operate all the
lines and transmit all tclegraphie
correspondence at rates fixed BY
the bill. which are ono cent WORD
not exceeding $50 miles, two cents
not exceeding 500 miles, and if Gen,
by night, one cent for any distance
LES thai 1000 miles. These rate:
make q reduction of from 80 to Sc
per cent. on the present cost o.
telcgrapbing add 80 pei cent. te
the length of the messages, double
the number Of offices, and bring thl
telegraph within easy reach o
every one in all country towns
all this without expense to thu
government.
The Acting Postmaster Genera
decided that several printed circu
lars, although they refer to til
same thing, and are, as it were,
part, cannot be sent through tn
mails prepaid by q one cent stamI
only, but must bear a one cen
stamp each.
Already tho position of Speaker
ship of the House is being agitated
There seems as yet but little doub
of the continuance Of Speake
Blame in that position, althougl
there is a movement on foot b.
several Southern members Of Con
gress to advance the claims Q
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee
The high compliment paid to MI
Blaine at the close Of last session
by the unanimous thanks of tn
House is o double assurance ths
he will have no formidable com
pe:itor.
So many are the terrible acc
dents on our railroads receutl
tina. people arc becoming arouse
to the necessity of prompt Congrel
sional legislation by appointing il
spec.ors similar to those that e.
amino steamboats,, to examine an
report upoL the condition of all th
railroads To that end bill wi
be introduced in Congress- provid
ing for such inspectors and denim
their duties.
The pneumatic tube, now CON
:aenccd from the Capital to til
Government Printing Office, by
Mr.. Brisbane, has every prospe.
Of not being finished fo- exper
ment this session. 1t will be r.
membered that Congress apprs
p lated Ole, 900 last year for its q
ecution, which was understood {
that time that it would he com
pleted at or be ore the convenin
of this session Of Congress. M
B., however, appears sanguine thu
it will he finished in season, an,
assures ns that he will, by it, verif
to the country that by the mean
of the pneumatic tube, the U.
mails and small parcels OF good
can be transmitted at the rate {
from $50 to 200 miles an hour, an
thus revolutionizs the whole e.