New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
TIE POSTAL CAR SERVICE.

TIE PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTIMORE
RAILROAD COMPANY DEMANDS THE coMPENsA-
11oy RECOMMENDED BY THE SENATE COMMIT
TEE.
Isaac Hinckley, President Of the Philadel-
pbia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company,
has written a letter to the Hon. j. W. Marshall POST
masterGenera in relation to the price paid that ROAD
for postal car service He says:
The rate now paid us is but Insignificant fraction
uIOre than five mills linear foot OF car run Dy US III
mail service one mile. The rate reported az "a ploP'
one Senate Committee after more than IL months
consideration OF testimony and examination OF evidence
eight mills per uedr tOOt OF car OF " per cons
OF what we are now PAID per me run Ihe rare
importance than the Philadelphia, wilmington ana
Baltimore Railroad. IL Is less than 80 per cent Oh INC
rate paid for carrying express matter upon piai
trains. We paid for milk cars, on passenger accom-
mediation trains per more than are paid Tor
the same amount Of car service re"ucre 10 & iIo %
Ohice Department. We are paid for furnishing ana
moving upon slow lrelsht Trains oltn pa. y o &
loaded Win breks or pig lron 70 per cent more thn We
are paid for furnishing Lighting, warnlag ana moving
upon our fastest passenger trans the e4penshe pV.
cars, with 2S clerks OF agents lrIe, AT ouI Ish, 80
fares alone, at regular rates, would amount 10 ear AZ
per cent oi entire mail pay And, IN addition your
Department demands Tree transport at al tunes oi l''
special agents to the nunDcr Of more than So
The Department notified, some weeks since, ihai
should cease TO periorul posaLcar service on anu
after the first prOXmO unless We cOul1 D. pad led
soDab'c compensation when we HAed AT 10 h,ils pr
linear foot OF car or portion oi car, emP'oyeu st -
mail transport, under certain Conditions, as oct
Iorih on page II OF pampyet sned tha lame fisS tme
offered to submit to the decision OF ar0i- traitors
OF the courts as TO what CONSTITUTES ieasomaolJ
compensation Senate Document No. 47o, printed
since adjournment of Congress, ana kindly sent %
by yourself enunciles page 29 the opinion that eigDt
mills would be far rate Oi payment, as mat Vi IIo
Senate Committee. THIS Company now oilers 10 con-
nue the present service until the 1st Of January next
condition Dat the terms be those set IOrth on page
II pamphlet herewith sent, for the service from
9st of July lst Of January next with the exception
price paid stall be that named by the senate
Committee, eight mills instead or thirteen lIs per
linear OF used. And We still remain Wiling 70
submit me whole question Of rates anu conullOus 10
arbitration or adjudication.
In Offering to accept FOR the current six months the
rate deemed iar by The Senate Committee, are iuly
aware that firing To accept rate lower thah
that paid TO railroad companies both larger ana
smaller than Aud in so doing we are not ihnl
enced by any belief will afford reasonable com
pensatlOn Or deny positively that l. doesl out by
our earnest desire to offer a compromise, which we
think should be unobjecuonaole to the PostOice De-
partment. We notfy your Department that II, on
after the lt proXiDio your agents continue TO use
our postal for mail service, II can only Dc npOh
terms offered. at rates deemed By Iuy eduin
slider our terms accepted as above.
is with the greatest reluctance that we take this
POSITION after years wasted Ill attempts TO obtain JUS
lice at the hands OF the POstOlce department, ana
after the fullest notice botn to Congress aud TIE
Department. But now, after ten years OF entrey Ea
utOus service OF our postal cars introduced upon tS
road upon any other road, ana upon tie az
that We should be PAID Tor thelr use We can no
longer that they be longer fnrnhed AZ te
expense stockholders, nor do we think that te
public wish them furnished Even at the made
quate rate ~ pay named by the Senate Committee ana
fbould have paid s2jO0OOmore thau We have
paid for the past ton year, II. as believe our
service has BEEN during these ten years. nearly as large
10 Is
IT. in carrying out our determination TO require rea-
sonable ompensatlon for mail service II be alleged
that by doing stop impede the transportation
of the mailswe deny the assertion We are not aware
Of any law which prevents payment by the Department.
Of reasonable compensation 10 mall carriers, although
advised that, in your opinion such reasonable compen
sation must be denied this Company. Parties other
than this Company stand ready to perform the mail
service between Philadelphia and Baltimore, exactly In
all respects 1t performed and that the pub
lie would not be IN any way affected by change OF mail
carriers If you will invre such proposals. we guarantee
that they will be received. No interruption Of mail
service Is necessary-no inconvenience need be sus
tanned by the public and you need pay only reasonable