The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-08-06
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WAsHsh0roN, July 5i.--Fiyo Amori'
can sisnmship companies the facihc
Nah, san Francisco . AUSTRALIA, the
Rsd u, New Noft 10 VoneSuolN, the
Ce it, Nov ork % TURKS Island, tho
New York, Hayhns ard MeiIeo, Aod
tha Now York aud Cabs limos have
eollnod 20 carry United states malls
titar today Ia q,ia .,,tla..,,l
upon uhls acuoh roa'@N .'a,,
lsrtsin American steamship haes,
pfohably audor The lead ~ no Pgoihc
Miii Steamship Company entored
into a combination apparently with
the pugpos0 OF forcing the distribution
among Them Of $4,000 Npp, opTlatad
bv Con resE Tor miiugge compensation
ilr CARRYING tho mails. SOME on th0m
wrnto 10 mo fostCihrN Department
10 know what terms Wor,fl be given.
4 proposed Ia each OF tie 90 ipanies u
20 20 the fun limis that tbs lew would
alto v and award TO them both sea
aud inland postage. This Is nhout
thraa times what th0y had been
foeelvlng for the same service dur,ug
The past II years. AZ Is three times
whnt ispald tor carriage Gcsoss the AZ
Iafftic aud II lie probably in most cases
All thai should no paid for carry
Ing the insiis. The conse-
oueuce OF their combination Is
a refusal TO accept those terms. which
were no liberal as compared with those
they had had. They felt, suppose,
that they could drive the Government
ont OF the position It had taken BY
compensation offered. The companies
seemed TO think tina. II they refused 70
carry the mails there would be no
other course left to the Government
but 10 make contracts with them and
distribute the 100000. Accordingly q
complete schedule for the Transports
ton OF the mails has boon arranged
and they will all go with very
little difference in point OF time TO the
points of destination. A statement
has boon made in the newspapers TO
tho effect that the United States gov.
eminent Is not rs liberal as Great
Britain in compromising steamship
lines, In point of fact, the
ratio which has been offered to our
lines very much exceeds the rate paid
by the Government OF Great Britain.
Tho rate we offered IL about G3 per
cent. more than the British lines
receive from their Government.
It was rate upjustihably
large--more than ought to have boon
paid-but the Government deemed IL
fair to go to the utmost length which
the law and reason allowed In
with the American steam
ship companies until Congress
could meet. The department has made
such arrangements that the public Will
suffer no Inconvenience worthy OF
mention in respect to carrying the
mails, and In somo cases, notably the
Cuban mails, will be expedited.
MIR. Bell, the superintendent OF the
foreign mails, said the American COM
panies had refused an offer Of SLIGO per
pound for carrying the mails. This Is
what is known as the combined Inland
and sea postage, and Is equal to $3,SO0
per ton that they receive at present
rate, or Al cents per pound.
The Postmaster = General has
decided that the following changes be
made in the dispatch OF correspond
ence for foreign countries, to take ef-
feet on the Let of August:
Mails for Cuba, heretofore dis
patched by sea from Now York, to pe
forwarded to Key West, Florida, via
Tampa, Florida, for dispatches from
Key West for Havana every Wednes-
day and Thursday.
and the Australian colonies, hereto
fore included in the mails made up at
San Francisco, for dispatch to those
colonies, decided to be forwarded OK,
clusively via Great Britain, Wales and
New York, as we'll as San Francisco.
There being but one dispatch during
August next ION the lat rroximol from
San Francisco for China and Japan,
direct correspondence for China,
japan and the East Indies,
to be also forwarded until
August 20 via Great Britain in
mails made up at New York as well
as San Francisco; the mails made up
at New York to contain all Registered
correspondences for the destinations