Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-01
STEAMSHIP CONSERVATION.
Five American Steamship Companies
Refuse to Carry the U, S. Nail.
THEY WANT The APPROPRIATION
For Mileage Of 100000 Distributed,
Though They are Paid More Than
Great Britain's Mail Steamers,
IAN EXCEEDINGLY BOLD SCHEME.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Five American
|sseauship companies, the Pacific Mail, San
francisco 10 Australia; the Red "D,' New
|York to Venezuela; the Clyde, New York to
Turkestap, and New York, Havana and
Mexico, and New York and Cuba lines have
6seHned to carry the United States mail
Aftsr to-day. In commenting upon this
Action, Postmaster General Villas said
central American steamship lines, probably
knder lead Of the Pacific Mail company en-
sered into q combination apparently
nth the purpose Of forcing distribution
3mong them of 100000 appropriated for
pilesgs compensation for carrying mails.
Some of them wrote to the Postofice De
artment desiring to know what terms
Culd be given l proposed to each CON-
Any to go to the full limit the Law would
low and award to them both sea and In
md postage. This is about three times
hat they have been receiving for the same
.trvice during the past twelve years. 1t is
fhree times what is paid for carrying across
lhe Atlantic and it is probably IN most
sSses
All That should be Paid
1,r carry the mails, The companies were
81 acting in council and in consequence of
LIZ combination refused to accept these
TEL ms which were so liberal as compared
81 b those they had received.
They feel suppose that they could drive
- Government out Of the position il had
,Si en- by refusing to carry the mail for the
80 pensstion offered The companies
istm 10 think that if they refused
te carry the mails there would
t4 no other course left to
II government but to make contracts with
thlm and distribute the money (St00,00O).
: Steordingly complete schedule for trans
h6ration Of the mails hss been arranged,
Sra they an 90, with very little difference
in time, 10 their places Of destination. A
,skemeDt has been made in papers that the
Cnited States government is not as liberal
stGrest Britain in eompenssting steamship
Iires In point of tact, the rates offered to
,rr hines very much
greeeds the Rate Paid by Great Britain.
f.e rate we offer is about 63 per cent. more
Lao the British lines receive from their
I04ernment II was rate unjusthsbly
tIt e, more than enough to be paid, but the
loSernment deemed it fair to 60 to the ut
z,bt length which law and reason allowed,
kder 10 avoid any difference with the
t4erican steamship companies un-
Congress meet. The Department
made CD arrangements that the public
IN suffer no inconvenience worthy et men
Io1Iin respect to carrying the mails, and in
"a cases, notably the Cuban service, the
X,lls will be expedited.
he superintendent Of foreign mails said
meEican companies had drefused an otfer
M 60 per pound for carrying mails. This
mai is known as combined sea snd In
"a postage, and is equivalent TO $1,000
81 lon. They receive st'present "a cents
<tOund
New Arrangements,
, Ike Postmaster General has directed that
tt tipllowipg changes be made in despatch
ttign correspondence for foreign coun-
. 5ff 70 take effect August l:
I Alsils for Cuba heretofore despatched by
, i. ION New York to be forwarded to Key
3 Fssk Fla, via Tampa, Fla, for despatch
: o. Key West to Havana by steam
which leaves Key West for
4 snna every Wednesday and Friday,
= nrsspondence for New Zealand and Aus
hn colonies heretofore included in
|, alp made up at San Francisco, for dis
y .,ak 10 these colo,.ies direct to be tor
Al st',ed exclusively via Great Britain in
=, ais made up at New York, as we'll as San
. ,aoEisco. Correspondence for China,
. .h and East Indies also 10 be forwarded
i i.1 August 2O,h, via Great Britain, in
~ made up at New York as well as San