Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-01
NEW AND GOOD.
Popular Proposition of the Postal
Telegraph Company.
The WIRES WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL
A Novel Scheme that Will Confer
Priceless Boon to the People
Without Expense to tHe
Government.

WARRINGTON, March 3l.-The House
Committee on Postoffices will probably re-
port fayorably, within week or ten days,
tie bill establishing postal telegraph
system, which they have now under con-
sideration. This is the bill which directs
the Postmaster General to enter into
contract with the Postal Telegraph Com
pany of New York for the Transmission oi
telegrsphic correspondence.
The conspicuous feature OF this bill Is
that by 10 posronce telegraph system can
be established without the appropriation
of a dollar Of money by the government
This company is the only one which uses
a steel core copper covered wire, Of very
much greater power than the iron wires
in use By other companies, and which uses
besides this, instruments OF TRANSMISSION
capable Of doing
A Vast Amount OF Business
much morerspidly than by the lnstru'
mepts in common use. It's presloeht
offers to undertake the Post Ofice tele
graph business at certain rates, which are
much lower than the present telegraph
rstes, and TO do this without charge or ex'
pense 10 the Government, except that the
company will require the use OF an oPe-
rating room in post offices, whlch the 9e'
partment woUfd, at sny rate, require, De-
cause il could not let correspondence go
ont of its hands except TO be delivered 10
its address.
The proposition made by the company
10 The Government is the first pracucal
one which il has received on the subject
OIber Companies, with far less means OF
doing the business, have asked 10 De
bought out by the Government; and there
is also plan for the construction OF tele-
graph lines by Government engineers at
Government expense. But the postal COM
many offers to undertake the whole bust
ness OF a postotfica telegraph for the c9un,,
nv, under the authority and control oil
Tie Postmaster General,
At Its own RIsh,
and on terms that will for the FIRST time
make telegraphing so cheap as to be pop
ulsr.
The bill provides for a uniform rate on
nfsssRes wi, hin certain limits, tkus:-For
each message Of twenty words or less, eX-
clusive OF me Gate, address and signature,
under said contract, transmitted IN the or.
dinary course OF business between any OF
the places in The United states lying east OF
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers ana
south OF Omaha aud Minneapolis, twenty,
five cents, and ten cents for each addltionaI
len words in excess Of twenty words; and
for each messsge directed to be transmitted
AT night and delivered the following morn
ing fifteen cents, If Of twenty words or less,
spd ten cents for each additional ten words
or less in excess Of twenty words, except
that between the cities of New York, Pnlla.
rIelphia, Baltimore and Washington aud
such other points separated By short dls'
tspces as may be FROM time TO time agreed
upon, the ordinary services shall be PAID
for al the late Of fifteen cents for each mes
ssge of twenty words or less, as aforesaid,
ard ten cents for each ten words or less IN
excess of twenty words, the
Payments 90 ne Made hOa'hiys
as hereinafter provided.
F,r all messages transmitted between
sny points in the Western or Pacific Ill
vision, as defined in section , the com
persalion shall De the same as Tor the
Atlantic division, bYt for all messages
transmitted from any point in the Atlantic
division TO any point in the Pacific division
the conversation shall be fixed at fifty
cents for each message OF twenty words or
less, and twenty cents for each additlona!
ten words or less in excess OF twenty words
for ordinary services. end for night ser
vice at twenty five cents for each message
of twenty words or less, and ten cents for
each additional ten words or less in excess
OF twenty words. Upon sll the tariff rates
above specified there shall be deduction
OF two cents on the local rate OF postage,
if less tbsn two cents, on each message, as
compensation TO the government Tor de-
livery.
on prtss messages, when these shall be
sert bv tho postOtiice telegraph, the charge
is 10 be uniformly seventy i've cents per
lOl words for day messsgSs and ttty cents
per 100 words for night messages.
The bill docs not give 10 either the post
Office or the company any monopoly ot
ul.erapking, and does not interfere in
snv way with the operation OF the present
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