Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-01

Congressman Stone, put bis hand over
his uninjured eye and the sight OF tue
other one was found TO be perfect.
The stricken man rested in the COM
rnitiee room half sn hour before he was
removed to his home. BE was taken out
on lounge and placed in carriage,
several doctors and eX-Representative
Phil Thompson accompanying hun.
Subsequently he was taken to the ProVl-
dence hospital
The latest report is to the effect that be
is resting quietly, and that there 10
prospect that be may recover, though
the physicians SAY il Is very
serious case. The bullet entered
just below and q little TO the right OF the
left eye il Is believed that It then went
around the side of the face and lodged
behind the right ear. No paralysis mas
set in so there is good reasons 10 believe
that neither the spinal column nor brain
has been affected. Friends Of the injured
man say the wound may be only
facial Que, which will not have serious
result 1t is, however. OF such char
AFTER that few hours will permit an
accurate diagnosis OF the case.
KInraid SAYS Taulbee has been hound
ing him for more than year past aud
has several times insulted him. He cir
culated a story that he was
coward and afraid to meet him
(Taulbee). These reports in his
nervous state so overwrought him that
he hardly knew what ne was doing. He
also understood that Taulbes had threat
ened him with violence. To-day he as
saulted him and pulled his nose and his
ear, and this was more than he could
bear.
POSTAL TYPOGRAPHY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. PA number Of
persons interested in postal telegraphy,
assembled in the room of the house post
Office committee this morning, to listen
TO DR.. Norvin Green, president of the
Western Union telegraph company.
Postmaster General wanamaker, As
sistaut Attorney General Timer and
representatives OF the different
telegraph companies were present.
DR.. Green began his remarks by
discussing the merits and dement's of
European governmental telegraphy sys-
tens. He said that while in instances
their charges were lower than those in
the United States they were conducted
at loss. He presented tables showing
that the domestic companies had Is 900
STATIONS and handled over so, 900 900
messages annually, as against 200
stations and l73 900 900 messages In the
rest OF the world. They had more than
half OF the entire mileage of the world.
The Western Union controlled ten
elevenths Of this business. Its stock was
held Dy $500 persons in the United States,
and ll4I of them were females. DR..
hall ha
government had no business wish the
management OF a telegraph system, and
could not manage il as cheaply. II
could not do IL better, and none of the
seuders of kilograms had asked for it.
1t was proposed to make rate Of half OF
the cost OF sending messages, and the
deficiency would have to be made up by
the 81 600 200 people who did not use the
telegraph The receipts of the New
York office Of the Western Union in
Guided 500, 900 annually from pool
rooms and sporting places. A large
class OF telegraph users were stock
brokers and spectators. Were those
the people who were to be pro-
tected? Were these the people i'll whose
interest the whole people we're to
be taxed? II the government wanted |
TO go into the telegraph business it should |
buy the lines outright. 1t should not |
seek to FIX losing rates for existing COM |
paHies. That would not be fair to the |
$500 stoch holders OF the Western Union |
The government would need twice as |
many lines as were now in existence to |
do the business. Here was O scheme
presented TO 90 to 447 postoffices where
there was free delivery, and where there
were abundant telegraph facilities. This
was the way the pOStmaSter-g general pro-
posed to supply the needs of IS 900 goo !
people. This was the entering wedge of
q movement to break down the
present companies aud establish q
complete government system and
against that ne protested. DR.. Green
then made q comparison between the
American and English telegraph systems
and mentioned that our rates were in
reality, (taking INTO account free ad-
dresses and signatures and the enormous
area of territory cOvered), much lower
than the English low rates; and yet il
was proposed to reduce these rate;
arbitrarily still lower. 1t would require
81 $50 miles of wire to supply q
single connection to the 447 places
comprised within the postmaster
generals plan, and to do
business practically would require al
least 100 GOO miles of wire. At press
contract rates the rental OF TINS wire
would be So, 600 900. whoever under
took 20 do the telegraph business over
this system would do il at loss.
In this country there were more teie-
graph offices than postofices. In the
Older part Of the country II was 90 per
cent. greater, and yet Great Britain
owned both telegraph and postoffires.
Did that look as If the Western Union
was not keeping abreast of the times? In
North Carolina the Western
Union had telegraph Offices that
did not pay % cents q day
In gross receipts. In the Az places
named by the postmaster-generul as tele-
graph Offices the government owned but
l04 postoffice buildings. 1t was becom-
Ing grave question as to whether IL now
prOtited the Western Union TO continue
Its contracts with the railroad compa-
MES. Originally they were sources OF
great revenue, but now railroad business
Was Increased TO such an extent that 1t |
was doubtful if the telegraph company |
" hiCh handled their business free did not
lose 10y The agreement.
The chairman asked how much Of their
business the Western Union did in the