McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
POSTAL TELEGRAPH.

POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
The Report by the Senate Subcommittee.
Washington Telegram.
The subcommittee of the senate COM
mittee on postoffices and postrOads,
having several postal telegraph bills
under consideration, formulated and
had printed, as embodying the views Of
the majority of the subcommittee, a
bill providing that the postmaster-gen-
eral shall establish telegraph offices at
all postoffices on telegr1phic circuits
and at all other postoffices within ten
miles of such circuits, where the salary
of the postmaster is not less than $500.
The charges for transmission of tele-
grams, excepting service and govern
ment kilograms, shall be prepaid by a
telegram stamp or by postal telegraph
cards, and the maximum rates for tele-
grams of twenty words or less shall be
as follows: A telegram, when the dis
lance of transmission is one thousand
miles or under, twenty cents; when
over 1000 miles or under 1000 miles,
forty cents; for all greater distances,
fifty cents. For night kilograms, under
1900 miles, fifteen cents; for greater
distance, twenty-five cents. For every
five additional words or less, one-hfth
additional rate will be charged. Gov
eminent business shall have priority in
transmission without prepayment, and
it's rates annually fixed by the postmas-
ter-general, all other kilograms to be
transmitted in the order received, ex-
cept night messages. The charge for
the transmission of special kilograms to
newspapers and commercial news asso-
Citations for each one hundred words or
less, for each circuit of one thousand
miles, shall not exceed fifty cents if
sent at night and one dollar during the
day, but when copies of the
same kilograms are dropped off
at one or more offices the
rate for each office shall not exceed
fifty cents at night and seventy-fve
cents during the day, at the same pro
rata rate for each word in excess.
Where special kilograms are delivered
at the same Office for two or more
newspapers ten cents addition shall be
charged for each one hundred words
or less for manifolding for each news
paper receiving the same. kilograms
Shall be privileged communications in
law to the extent that sealed letters
are now. The postmaster general shall
issue postal telegraph cards of the de-
nominations of fifteen, twenty, twenty
five, forty and fifty cents, one side of
which be ruled for writing kilograms.
Such cards may be deposited in any
letter post box at the postoffice or else
where where there is postal telegraph
connection, and be transmitted. The
money order system now in operation
shall, as soon as practicable, be
adopted to the postal telegraph, and
the charge for the transmitting of
money orders by postal telegraph with
in the United States, wherever there
are money order offices now establish
ed, shall be the rates charged upon
money orders transmitted by mail in
addition to the regular charges for pos
tai kilograms, but no Geographic
money order shall exceed a hundred
dollars. The bill authorizes and di-
reefs the postmaster general to adver-
tise for three months for scaled pro-
posals from any telegraph company
now or hereafter Incorporated for the
transmission of correspondence by tele-
| graph, according to the provisions of
this act, and shall contract with the
lowest responsible bidder to perform in
i whole or in part the telegraph service,
said contract or contracts to be entered
into for ten years and terminal at the
option of congress. The contracting
, companies shall have the right to con-
: struct lines on all post routes, and may
establish telegraph offices in addition
to those established by the postmaster.
= general; the postmaster-general is au-
. thorized to advertise for sealed propos.
ais either to sell existing telegraph lines
, and franchises to the government, SC
located and arranged as to connect the
= northeastern, northwestern, western,
southwestern and southern parts of the
| United States with the city of Wash.
ington. If, upon investigation, any
g, such proposition, either to sell existing
lines or to construct new lines for the
government are deemed fair and rea
sonable, the postmaster-general viii
report the same to congress at the mex
session. In the event that no satisfac
tory proposition to sell or construct
!. . lines be submitted before November
!. %, 1884, then the board, consisting O.
the secretary of war and postmaster
general, shall locate and arrange foul
of said lines of postal telegraph, to bt
!, constructed and kept in repair under
direction of the secretary of war through
a corps of engineers. Two millions arr
appropriated for the purposes of THU
act for the fiscal year ending January
80, 1885. The bill has been submitted
to the full committee, and will be taker
, up for consideration in few days.
The Heroic Mother.