The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-09
Western Union Telegraph Co.

80 Us are S9,3oo, Ol65l gross expenses 30,
o'oO3oS2; net earnings S2,757, 1926. The
number Of messages transmitted during the
bas6 year were IA, 456, S32, being an increase of
Z,ol2, 533. or about 16 per cent. During the
past year $7O6, .5S was expended for repair
OF the line, and 1862, 753 for reconstruction
| The net profits of the company for seven years
rom na July l, 1866 to June 80, 1873, has been
| SzO,3l2, 61S.81. OF this "a So. 239. "a has
Deen distributed in dividends TO stockholders,
ana $2,216, 1874 90 was paid for interest on the
company's bonds. The Western Union has
purchased during the past year the control Of
the international Ocean Telegraph Company,
Whose Ie lines extend from Lake City, Fla, to
iiaVana, Cuba, at a cost of 1,03s, 400. They
nave also secured a majority of the stock of
1 Inc Pacific & Atlantic Telegraph Company.
Iney are now operating more than 100, 900 miles
OF Wire, and during the past two years have
oeen extending at the rate Of 10000 miles of
Wire per annum.
Railroad Conductors Association.
The sixth annual convention of the Railroad
conductors Life Insurance Association of the
United States and Canada, met to-day in Hor
ticultural Hail. President James Marshal, of
'1e New York Central road in the chair
Inc report of the executive committee was
submitted. 1t gives in detail the financial con
dltlon and yearly business OF the Association.
Out or the IA conductors killed during the year
| an put two were in charge of freight trains.
VI the IS conductors who died natural death
| All out IL were engaged upon passenger trains.
Inc receipts for the year which ended on Aug.
o!st including balance on hand at the Begin
| ming of the year of 5000 20, were $16.641; ex-
pendltures S7,03l; leaving balance in bank of
| $9,oiQ. The total cash receipts to Aug. 3lst,
| 1913, have been $204. 75 Present number of
members 1880 During the year there have
| been lost to the Company 90S members as fol-
lows: Delinquent 655, Withdrawn 213, killed
| IA, died 43, disabled 3. The whole number of
certificates issued to date bias been 1854, killed
| 60, died ia, disabled 20. Since the organza-
| ton OF the Company there has been paid to the
| families of deceased members no less than
| S5S6,SS7, at cost of $194 to each member.
Comptroller Green.
| delegation of the Reform Association call
| ed on Mayer Havemeyer to-day and read q
| long specification of the charges against Comp
| troller Green, charging him with paying to
| Dexter A. Hawkins over $1,000 for lobbying at
| Albany last year; charging also that large
sums OF public money were paid out to influence
legislation and for keeping Green in office; that
| he was not able to discriminate between just
| and unjust claims, contestng all in the courts,
| thereby entailing immense legal expenses upon
| the city.
Catholic Temperance Union.
| The third general convention Of the Catholic
| Total Abstinence Union was held today. There
| was large attendance of delegates. In the
evening the delegates repaired to ST. Patrick's
Cathedral, where solemn high mass was cele-
| brated Rev. Father Quinn, Vicar General of
| New York preached long sermon, during
| which he spoke of the immense amount of good
accomplished through the Influence of the tenn
| perance movement IN this country, and eXorted
| the members OF the convention to continue in
| their prosecution of The righteous work
| On rGassembling several addresses on tenn
| perance men were made by cergym
Evangelical Alliance,
| This was busy day with the Evangelical
| Congress, three meetings being simultaneously
in session. All the forenoon, Association Hall
was so crowded that many ladies we've COM
| PEELED to stand.
| DR. Prime announced that owing to theEnum-
| bersof meetings being held, It was necessary to
appointsadditiona vice presidents.
| The following were selected: Macris X Jes
| supoi New York; j. Court Of Canada; Gen.
| Fisk, st. Louis; - Dawson Canada; Rev.
| Drs. Cox, Patton, Charles, PeciSant Hayue of
| New York, and Rev. DR.. Wilkes, Secretaries.
The second section met at st. Pauls church.
| After devotional exercises, Prof. w Kraft, d.
| D., of the University of Bonn, Prussia, read u
| paper on Papal infaIlibility and old Catholic
! ISM The speaker said in all DEGREES from the
| Pope, no reference was made to st. Peters sue
| cessor but to Peter himself VINO denied his
| Lord The Pope is teacher and shepherd of
| the entire church-his decision is final. He
| said the old Catholic church now had 30 con-
| gregations. five thousand members and forty
/ priests, and next winter six students will be adj
mitted to the college at Bonn. At the conclu-
sion of the paper from the Old Catholic Con-
| gress, Prof. Q, Pronier. d. D., of the Theologi-
! cal Seminary of the free church of Geneva,
delivered an address upon Catholicism in
| Switzerland since the last conference.
| Report of the Senate Committee On Privi-
iiescs and Elections.
| Senator Norton, chairman OF the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, furnishes the fol
| lowing:
| 0. T. Morton, Indiana. Matt H. Carpenter,
| Wisconsin, ii. B. Anthony, Rhode island,
| Thos. +. Bayard Delaware, members of the
Standing Committee on Privileges and Elec-
! lions Of The Senate of the UniIed States, to day
| closed their conferences which have been con-
| tiuued from day to day for tde past week at
| the Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city, in refer
| euce to the mode of electing the President. The
| Senate just before ad iourning last spring, in
| structed the committee to examine the whole
| subject during the vacation and report their
| conclusions at the next session of Congress.
| The subject of their deliberations may be brief
| ly stated as involving the following PROPOSE
| tions which were considered:
| LIST, To abolish electoral colleges.
I'd, That the President aud Vice President
| shall be elected by the people voting directly
| for candidates.
sd, That each State shall be divided into as
many districts as the State If entitled to repre-
| sentation in Congress, to be composed of con-
tiguous territory compact IN the former, and as
| nearly equal in population as may be-. and the
| person having the highest number of votes for
President in each district shall receive the vote
of that district for President, which shalhcount
| one Presidential vote; that each State shall be
entitled to two Presidential votes at large, which
| snail DE counted Tor the person having the nigh
| est number of votes in the whole State.
| 4th The person having the highest number
| of such presidential votes in the United States
| shall be President.
9TH, These PROVISIONS to be applicable to the
election of Vice President.
9th Congress shall have power to provide for
| holding and contracting the election for Presi-
dent aud Vice President, and to establish tribu-
! nails for the decision of contests as to vote in
any district or State, and to make regulations
4.,h
| the adoption of the district system of voting by
the people directly for candidates, with two
| Presidential votes in the State at large and the
| plurality rule for determining the result, the
election is brought as nearly home to the Deo-
| pie as can be, not to make it an election by the
| nation as one community, and it still recognizes
the States as such while it enables the people of
each district in the State to express their will,
| so that hereafter State need not cast a solid
| vote, as under this system it tends to dispense
| with the convention which is now necessary in
| October to form an electoral ticket for each
State, and it enlarges the liberty of the nd
| vidual voter, who can vote for any citizen he
| may select for President or Vice President BY
the plurality system the election will always be
| final and there can be no necessity for an cleo
ton by the House of Representatives,
which is so much objected to. The plurality
rule has been adopted successfully in all States
| in the Union except four, in the election of
State officers, and it generally prevails in the
election of members of Congress, In none of
the States where it has been tried is there any
thought of abandoning it. Other questions are
considered in connection with tie votes in
| States aud districts, and providing for the ex-
igency of the death or resignation of the Pres
ident after election and before inauguration.
These are suggestions which have been consid-
ered but of course conclusions could be
arrived at.
VariOas Matters.
The government to-day obtained verdict of
5000 in an action against Oscar King and
his hondsmen to secure the payment of internal
| revenue taxes to that amount
Wylie & Knowles. sugar dealers on Wall
street have suspended.
Gen. McClennan and family sailed for Eu-
rope today
The store of Lyon Davis, "a East Broadway,
was robbed last night of $4,000 worth of jewell
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