The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-14
WASHINGTON.
CAPTURED DlsrlLLERs.

uuu lMke 4unulty OF WWlues anu WnLb
KY. In the light two lnoonshlners wert
wounded.
Tho Assistant Attorney General Of thl
Postotice Department gives II as his opin
ion that members Of Congress elect ar
not entitled TO frank public documents.
Secretary Sherman In his letter TO thu
House to-day states that the estimate o
expenditures for the next fiscal year Il
S2S5, ,5B2, ,4l9; estimated receipts from tn,
customs, SiS3, 900; from internal
revenue, 10B, 900; from miscellaneou.
sources, Sls,600,0O0. Total S2b7, 800, 900
leaving a deficiency Of $27, ,0O2, ,419.
President Green, Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, was heard before the
Senate Railroad Committee this morning
In opposition to the Jones Telegraph Bill
Another meeting will be held tomorrow,
when the attorney for the company will
make an argument
THE Democratic Senators were in caucus
this morning on the subjects discussed In
the caucus on Monday evening, the ad.
visibility OF endeavoring TO repeal the
federal election law. Messrs. Thurman
and Bayard were the principal speakers,
The House Committee on Expenditures
In tho Department of Justice this morn
ing instructed Chairman Durham to re.
port the Revised Statutes, authorizing the
appointment and pay Of supervisors Of
elections and special deputy marshals.
Tho committee also decided to report the
bill regulating the mileage OF marshals
and for other purposes.
The Republican members OF the Senate,
IN caucus this morning, adopted the re.
port presented by the committee appoint.
ed TO arrange the order OF business for the
remainder Of the session. II was agreed
that the PostoitiCe appropriation bill shall
be taken up as soon as the pending meas.
TIRE in regard to Chinese immigration Is
disposed Of, and that preference shall be
given TO other regular appropriation bills,
including the river and harbor bill over
business thereafter.
The following measures are 10 be given
consideration, not TO interfere with the
appropriation bills when read, in the or.
der named:
The proposed constitutional amendment
on the subject OF war claims; the bill for
the further distribution OF the Geneva
award; WIndom's proposition authorizing
an inquiry and report 10 be made on the
adyisability OF extending Government aid
for the colonization Of the colored people
and various measures concerning the Dis
trict Of Columbia, for which one day Is to
be set apart. ltwas also agreed that from
and alter next Monday the sessions oft
Senate shall begin at II a. NJ, and that a
portion oil each morning hour shall be de.
voted to the unobjected business on the
calendar, under what Is known as the
Anthony rule.
The Chairman Of the Teller Committee
to-day appointed as a committee Messrs.
lIoar, Mcmillan, kirkwood, Garland and
Wallace, to inquire into the following
branch OF resolutions OF the Senate, name.
ly, whether in the year 1873 money was
raised by assessment or otherwise upon
the Federal office holders or employees for
election purposes, and under what circum.
stances and by what means, and II so what
amount was so raised and how the same
was expended, and further whether such
assessments were or not in violation OF the
law.
The committee then adjourned till next
meeting, subject to call Of the Chairman.
DR. GREEN, OF TIE WESTERN UNION, on THE
PROPOSED DTELEGRAPnL ny con.
0REss.
The Senate Committee on Railroads this
morning heard arguments with respect
to Senator Jones bill, authorizing railroad
companies to construct and maintain tele-
graph lines for commercial purposes,
and TO secure to the government the use
oil the same for postal, military, and other
purposes. DR.. Sorvin Green, President OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
stated that he was led 10 make a statement
by the misrepresentation Of facts, and
the very limited knowledge OF the subject
under which Congress appeared to be act
ing. He desired 10 say in his isargumenttha
there was no need for this legislation and It
accomplished nothing In the direction
OF what 1t aimed at. Its aim was to es-
tablish competition to the Western
Union Telegraph Company. Such compe.
tition was in bad direction. It went no
further than the present legislation, for 1t
merely gave the right to do what those
railroads which had telegraph lines and
those which had not had been doing for
the past twenty years. There were few rail.
roads that Ind any lines OF telegraph, and
fewer still that had any limos of poles.
The Baltimore and Ohio, lie supposed,
controlled moro miles OF wire than any
other railroad company. The New York
Central had not mile Of wire, and he
could mention half dozen lines that had
no wire. Nineteen out OF every twenty
used tho wires Of the Western Union.
Whethcrusing their own telegraph lines
or those Of the Western Union they got a
part OF the tolls received II they had a
contract with the Western Union. Now
these contracts had been sustained by the
courts MS being both legal and in conson-
anco with the public requirements, so that
even in the case OF tho Baltimore & Ohio
Road the Western Union was able. success
fully, TO restrain them from opening up
lines that were in direct competition. As
he sot out to soy, tho proposed hill aooom.
plishes nothing, because any telegraph
company could he organized In a day,
which might, under the statutes OF tie
State Of New York, and most OF the States,
under tho act OF 1866 referred 10 In the
proposed bill, get all the benefits which
this bill gave and which the Western
Union Company had. That statute was in
some degree q compact with his company,
for the Government reserved the right oi
transmitting the messages Of the Postoflice
Department at its own rates, and also OF
taking possession Of the telegraph lines al
valuation. The Government had Fixed
the!r rates ever SINCE, anil the
company had faithfully observed them,
although, not bound to accept the govern,
ment rates except for the Postoflice De.
partmcnt messages, they had themselves
applied the same rate to all the Govern.
ments department business and It's sub.
ordinate service In oil parts OF the country.
Was It becoming then forthe government,
now that the company had extended their
lines into tferritories, now that they
had opened Arizona and I,ower Galaiornia
where there was little or no business, 10
assume authority to FIX tho whole Of The
company's rates and make that investment
valueless. He knew that the company he
represented had been alluded 10 as a man.
moth monopoly.
He eadmittedthat 1t was strong corpor.
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