Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-31
Furnishing Invoices in Proof Of Less.

Just after the Virginia City fire no
little vocation and trouble Wa caused TO
the property-losers there by til, e. .c-
tons Of tho aliIsters and insr .ranes
agents. We call TO mind the G ese of q
lawyer who had but y little ehi,s before
purchased a library. 4 .lt;s books were
burned. When the .eent Of the com
pany in which Icy were insured came
to see about ,.ae less, ie made certain
Unrsasoh' de demands about a catalogue.
tie ra' Il have 6 full list Of the books, he
sal =, or The insurance would he with
, esll. Of course the lawyer knew better
than t. be troubled with such ippsIiin
snco and SO lie dismissed Master Agent
with lea in his eag. BIt all people
who find themselves BARRED and worried
and attacked by the sharp practice Of
insurance office drummers are not law
yers, and for tae ediicetion Of this
numerous class we reproduce The fol-
loving from the ST. Louis IrlGt JU"f3.dl:
In fire policies there is generally in
:, Tted a condition that the insured shall
proIuce copies Of all bills ana invoices,
the originals OF which have bean lost.
This condition is l.wful and reasonable,
for the insurance company Is entitled TO
every facility IL arriving at a jsst con-
clusion before tLey pay the loss. Parties
- " TO
gats loss 10 be immense that figures in
the shape Of invoices are needed TO show |
the items which make up the aggregate |
On the other hand, the company has no !
right to demand impossible things of |
his recovery. lie is fully excused if the |
invoices are destroyed or are not accessi- |
be. When the demand is made on the |
nlsL all he has and can reasonably pro-
cure. and beyond that lie Is allowed to |
prove Up his loss by the best evidence |
t.taina5ia.
In other words, both parties to the
cou:rac: are to be treated with fairness /
aud 70. compelled to perform impossl- |
b.liIiss
AMONG OTHER QUESTIo>s with |
which Congress will feel itself called |
uponto wrestle, is the postal, or rather,
postage question. By the most bum
glasome of all bOtchwork, the laws re-
Iating to the mail fees of all printed .
matter are little less than barbarous. !
Nobody seems willing to father these |
preposterous provisions. They seem !
to have been born OF parcntsSe one |
side OF which was a spiteful sense |
against the busybodies of the press for |
raising the howl they did over the !
FrankinS privilege, and the other a
preclpitous and ill-considered rush in |
the supposed direction Of retrench |
ment and IT form in the Post Office De |
partment. Bat we cannot help re- |
Sarding the Postal cards with which |
the mails are flooded, as the greatest
mistake, in business sense, known |
to the Mail service. In the first place
tho card system is All absurdity. In
the next place the cards are neither
letter nor telegram-5ut a base and
cheap evasion of the duties Of epistOli-
ling and a slow and tallacious imita-
ton OF Geographic message. In short
they are al impertinence. But third
and more vital reason why they ought |
to be done away with is that they
cause a loss of revenue to the Mail |
service. They do not at ali satisfy the
demand for cheap letter postage.
IVha. should be done il to cal the
one cent postal card pro on and
substitute therefor &C % filing the
rate of postage on all letters OF single
letter weight, al two cents, all round.
We believe that such q provision as
this would be real service to the poo
pie and prove a substantial help to the
deficient income OF the Post office