The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-02-14
Singular Silence ia Political Circles
A Calm Before the Storm.
Speaker Carlisle Rights a Wrong Of
Kelfer's Gathering.
Postal Teiegraphy Considered In Cons
mlttec at Length.
Miscellaneous Washington News Notes.


mat err now appears, to reopen the trail to
cattle drovers.
| TIE house commerce committee has
spent two regular sessions prayeriuly con-
sldering the toEen interstate commerce rtg-
nla,ion now before it. They have dis.
cussed d ese points. namely:
First-Remedied legislation.
Second-shsll there DO u commission TO
regulate raj saysP
Thitd-sbsll the regulatio, extend to
water transport nion?
Fouitn-C,n ell these features Of lsgi.la.
tiop, Il adopted, be Incorporated IN the
same bill
The committee favored remedial legisla.
ition.
The Evening Star today states a fact,
when It rays there is unnsusl quiet in
every thing pertaining 10 politics, when 1t
Is considered that the presidential noRina-
tious are not six months Off In congress
there seems to be disposition to shun pc
litical questions. SO far absolutely moth
ing has occurred 10 congress TO indicate tho
DRIFT Of The sentiment with regard to pr 81
dental candidates. No boom mas yet
made noise enough to be heard throughout
the chambers and corridors Of tho capitol.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S--rhe sub-oomm t.
tie OF the privileges ana l-ot'ons comm T.
/ 20 appointed 10 invest gsta tho c:rse which
led t, the death Of MatheNB, 20 Copiah
county, Mis- i'sIpp', bli y meeting this
/ morning and decided IN Ilsl Of acton.
/ 'rney lave Wsshiny ton Tue sday mnrGing
] A.. III mr. nas ~ an A-sf q
county, snr v | decide IN ther prncee rnSs
upnn arrival Srssl rs will he held 1T New
| OIL -aus aud Jackson. Mississippi.
speaker Ca l,se 'C-iby made the first
81 criou under the new sys'e. =, Of aDpnin'-
! ing stenographers by appointing Andrew
Devine slenorrhpher for thu m m,t'er on
Expenditures III toe denartmenG OF justice.
! Devine is Que oi the oticiil steaographers
rem we'd by SpeaEer Keller.
| Inc pre- idert to-day issued the foil )w-
| il- order announcing tho rs.tremeit Of
General Sherman: General w | lam T.
Sherman, Resarai OF the army, hnVlng this
| day reached the are OF GA years, Is in &C
corsnce With tho law placed on
line retired list of the army with
out restriction as to paw and allowances.
The announcement Of the severance from
command OF the army OF ono who has been
for 10 many years i.s Distinguished chiefcan
but awaken IN the minds not only OF the
army, but tho people of the United States,
mingled emotions OF regret aud gratitude;
regret If the withdrawal from active serv CO
Of an officer whose ,fty sense OF duty has
been model tor sll soldiers since he first en-.
tered the army, July, 1870; and gratitude
freshly awake neu for service of incalculahle
value rendered by him in the war for the
Union. which his great military gerius
,nd daring old 80 much to end. The pres-
dent deems this a fitting reason TO give ex.
preston in this m,nner to the gratitud felt
towards General sherman by his fellow t.
liz 'Bs and to the hope that provi fence may
graz him many years of hea til aud happi-
meas IN his relief from the active duties OF
| his profess ion.
ISiguedl CHESTER A. Arthur.
GarIintr G. Hubbard made an argune
belpre the senate committee on pest ffires
and post--Gads t'-tny upon the general
snhjec' OF postal telegraph, ana psriicu-
L. IL III ms wer t. the recs argument of
DE-. Norvin Green. He siid tua' uroer the
pressure of di, cussion the Western UDiun
| COMPANY, according to the admission Of its
prs dsit had been forced to begin TIE
work # reducinf rats ard I'm,
1868 and 1873 toe average rates
rsd been reduced from 81 Oh t.
SO cents por message. ULdef this Tt0uc-
! t on W nunbbrr "i I -leRrams had increased
from 600 GOO 10 "a 900 600 DER annnm AID
the profit from S2,H00,O00 10 So 100000
Then = en- 4nge had taken plaza In the p J.
lev Of the Western Union company, by
which ctr y | mes mad been ab, orbed. AID
the r.du,t on rata ceased. From 1876 to
the present me- the redu,t ons were OF "
nine mills per message. Was this the way
tn treat the publ'cP Did not the Western
Union company know tlat new compett-
tton would be brought outp The whole
history of thu company, with the excei on
nj the period from 1868 TO 1878, woUl teach
THE. 1t was this course OF the Western o D.
ion that had led the put to ask II the
1t Ick holders & ad not Jared well enough and
II now the pub 10 had the same rights II the
premises tho telegraph business was bound
to be monop ls, whether Carried on by
the w, stern Union company or not. IL
was true we now had new company. Mr..
Carr. tt would come before the committee
Tomorrow ard say he does not pr pose ID
be bought out. He said that in 1873, when
he had Quilt another set of competing lines
vt u cost OF 81 600 co., and subsequently
sold them to the Western Union for
81 s0J GEO.
g.. O. Reffny, interrupting. stated that
this WAS incorrect. Garrett He'd his lines
with The mericAn Union, but when the
A mercsn Union was sci tn tne Western
Union Garrett refused t. allow the Balti-
more & OHIO lines TO be transferred and
they remain intact day.
Hubbard continuing said that II the
mes were hullt and managed as proposals
IN the bi bv The chairman of the comm t.
tee (Senator II III, there would be ~ aD-
nual deficit which the reasurer would pay
aud private lines would be swept away.
Evsrts had maintained that the govern
meut should not go into this matter unless
it purchased ths existing lines. This he
(Hubbard) would agree 10, # the Western
Union lines hau been built by the coDtri
button of stock holders, but this was not the
case. In 1865 the Western Union bad 75,-
GOO miles OF wire. In 1883 1t had 432 100
miles and not dollar of money had been
so contributed. All was paid for by the
rublc, in addition TO dividends to stock
oiders.
, In answer TO an inquiry by Senator Pal
n,r, Mr. Hubbard taid he sunoosed the
ttockhol6eTs of the Western Union hsd
actually 90, tribnied in money about $780,
600; thst tue cobtriDut ons OF the Western
Union Stockholders anu others who had
bull the competing Ines now part OF
the We tArn Union, were altogether about
IS 600 0t0
J senator Hill asked what grounds the
speaker bad for asserting that under his
(Hili'.) bill there would be ap annual de-
mott. Hub pard said in reply that the aver
age Gu t of sending a telegram was %
CEN q IA &c, t. Of this WAS for the opera
to,H, instruments, etc.. class OF
the same Ia the distance, while the remain
, ins IL cents was for messengers and offire
exp snees, in respect IN which distance was
rot met rial: The average di't'nce Tor t,tt-
grams was 800 III les. A message SCI a
shorter distance was handled at
smal,r expense while for oi.'ancr
of more tlan 800 miles the expense
of handling was above the sum named.
Now uniform rate would not increase tbs