The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-20

from the Legislature of Ohio, and that the
Senate will have to take action upon it if
the Legislature makes the point He says
that the Senate is always non-partisan in
such matters, and that. Senator Brice's
title will be impartially passed upon.
Questions of this kind, he says, have come
before the Senate before, and IN two no
table cases Senators have lost their seats
through nonresidence in the states
IN which they were elected. One
OF these was IN the case of General James
Shields, of Illinois, and an another notable
case but OF different nature, was that of
Albert GallatiD. Gallatin was born in
Geneva and he had been thirteen years in
this country when he was elected Senator
from Pennsylvania. He had been natur-
allied, however, only eight years, and the
law provides that man must be nine
years citizen of the United States. The
Senate made issue on the question of nat
uralization and Gallatin, after two months
sitting, was put out. This was in 1898,
when Washington was President. When
Jefferson came in he madeGallatin his secre-
tary of the treasury, and he acted as such
during the whole of Jefferson's term and a
part of that of Madison.
A BAD CONGRESS FOR M'GARRAHAM.
The last Congress was called the Billion
Dollar Congress. This is to be Five-Cent
Congress. Judge Holman tells me every
thlng Will be pared down to the bare ex-
penses of the government, and that moth
Ing Will be considered which will increase
the size Of the appropriation bills. The
claimants about Washington are aware of
this, but they stay here as much from
habit as rnything else. l saw a clean cut,
well-dressed 1rishman of sixty talking TO
Senator Teller yesterday. He had pleas
ant blue eyes, smoothly shaven face, and
he chatted earnestly, using kind of
brogue. 1t was Billy McGarrahan, who
for the last thirty-four years has been
pushing his claim before Congress, and who
is no nearer its settlement now than when
he left his business in California and came
here to get what he thought was right
He told me yesterday that his fight with
the government was the worst and the
most desperate fight that man ever made.
Said he:
vi l were young man again, all the
money IN the treasury could not tempt me
to try to get claim through these Houses
OF Congress. was % years old when |
bought the land on which the new Idria
quicksilver mines are located. 1 was
worth $3.50 and was making $1,000 a
month at my business in San Francisco
Well, one day friend of mine asked me
to buy Mexican grant, and said l could
get lot of land for 81, 100. Eleven hun
dred dollars was no more to me than half
d
flyer. l thought the title was good, and
and all | ask of Congress is that they will
give me chance to have their own courts
pass upon it, but they won't do it. l have
wasted whole lifetime in trying to get my
! rights, and | came within an ace af getting
it last year, but the old Congress has gone
away and now l have to begin all over
again"
The story of McGarrahan is that of nine
tenths of the private parties who try to Go
business with the government The mean
est creditor in the world is Uncle Sam and
the man who tries to get anything out of
Congress should have fortune to begin
with aud the prospects of living TO the age
of Methusaleh in addition.
THE WORLDS BIGGEST TELEGRAPH OFFICE
Postmaster-General Wanamaker is going
to push his scheme for postal telegraph
before the present Congress and he will get
lot of facts from Mr.. Rosewater, the ed
ltsr OF the Omaha Bee who spent the sum-
mer in Europe making study of the tele-
! graph systems of different countries,
Rosewater is an old telegraph operator.
He served as such in the war department
| here while Lincoln was President and he
was manager of the Western Union lines
at Omaha just before he founded the
| Omaha Bee and got thereby property
which Nebraska men say now pays him
| $50, 600 year. He went to Europe this
summer with letters from Postmaster
General Wanamaker to the Postmasters
General of Europe and he has come back
with his head packed full of Interesting
| telegraph data. He described for me last
night the biggest telegraph Office in exist
ence Said he:
The biggest telegraph office in the world
is that of London. 1t is located in the
general post office building and it is not
accessible to the general public. 1t con-
tains more than three thousand operators
and its batteries are supplied by plant of
thirty thousand cells or enough to make
| three solid glass rows of cells from the
Capitol to the White House This office
does more business than any Office in the
| United States. 1t dispatches its business
| much quicker and more quietly than our
offices do and its main operating room is
not half so noisy as the main office of the
| Western Union Company in New York
! OF these three thousand operators about
| one Thousand are women. They have a
room to themselves and they do their
work with American Morse instruments
with registers and paper reels. In the
| other parts Of the Office all sorts of instru-
ments are used and the Hughes printing
instruments are the most popular. |
visited also the big telegraph operating
raom Of Paris and here one thousand
| NGarlY
| one-half of these are women and they nave
day and night operators. The day operat-
ors work only only seven hours, while the
| night operators, but they get bigger paw
than those who work during the day. /
! found the Morse Instruments used some
what ii Paris, bnt the French Baudet In
struments are the favorites. These have
keys like piano for the transmitting, and
| the receiving is done on an automatic paper
, flr6p-QnarfnrG q mol trid
which the message is printed"
HOW PRESS DISPATCHES ARE SENT.
1.-THE newspapers are better treated by
the telegraph offices of Europe than by
those of America" Mr.. Rosewater con-
tinued. Every precaution is taken tc
hurry the dispatches, and the rates are
such that the smallest newspaper can af
| ford to have press messages. You car
send one hundred words between {
in the morning and 9 in the even
ing for % cents, and you car
send any additional number at the same
rate. These are the press rates, and you
cannot put any business messages in with
them. There are no notes to the editors in
a press dispatch, and if at the close of il
you add "More TO follow,' you have to pay
for those three words at business rates
You can lease wire from one part Of
Great Britain to another for $500 a year
payable quarterly, and the government
pays the operators at both ends of the wire
You can have leased wire in France a,
any time you want for SO an hour, and you
can get press wire fer five minutes 81
cents. The average transmission of press
kilograms in France is 1000 words pei
hour, and you can send 800 words in five
minutes. This is at the rate of one
sixth of a cent word and i
covers all parts of France There
is an international leased wire service be
tween England and France. and the New
York Herald has a leased wire from Lon
don to Paris. Such wires are dear bu