Show UUCTOY WIRIU Adrfin 2ren > 174le I t ia llll or tne iventern nlnd VASHIVOTOV Feb tSt num bee bf iveraona intirtsted in Izotti I Uj rniprji cisthihled lu the room df iho house Posbfllce Comrallii tliU morning t listen to Dr Xorvin Green president o the > e ten Unloa TUrgratih Company Iosl roaster General lb Wauamakir m his assistant AttorneyGenera T > ncr Gardner Hubbard nn J r pretentaUves of different telegmpl companies were present Dr Green began hIs remarks by discussing the merlUand demerits of tho European government teli graph systenH He said while In instance their charges were lowe than thosu I in tie United States they were conducted at n J5 Hu presented a table showing that the domestic mpnules hid 1SOOJ its lOllS and sent over CO000 < XW mes Mgca annually against 5 3tJt stations sta-tions nnd 173000000 sngesIntliL rest of the world They In J more titan half of thn entire uliltnzo of the world The Vestern Union controlled elevmUis of this muliies Its stock was heM by ry > fl txirsons in iho United States HI of thesis being ft males Dr Green belieted Uie Uniled States government has no I usines6 with ho management of the telegraph It could not be managed as cheaply It could not do it better and none of the senders of telegrams had askei it U It was proiioFcd to make tins rate t onehilf l dot he cost of sending tho messages and the deficiency would haTe lube n1J le u by the 3700100 people who did not lo I it f i tn use the telegraii rue reeeipt3 of lie Nest York omre of the vrauru Union Included 700001 annually from pool rooms and sporting pisces A large class of telegraph users are stock brokers and speculators and thew weN the fojlu to be protected pro-tected and In whore interest the people peo-ple were to be taxed |