Show h GREEN GETS wnt Vlille GlTtnr III Te llmoDj On The roatnl Telegraph Bill WAsmvcroK March IDr No vln Green president of the Western Union continuing his statement pectlng the pending pcslaltel Jptln t do pldlng f1 tl graph blllbefore bo 10t commit tee on puatofflces and post roadssa the ratio between out tatekand the British rates wak akCStvBO The 1 potraasttfgeneral proposed to re I duce these rates onehalf and this In the face of the fact that the Kri tOt Brt Ish system had been operated wit I a deficit of ncarjy SI 20IXV noo In the past levn ytaw and probably 510 000000 since Its establishmtnt yet the British system had been lost tube under the lemn pledge that it should be selfsupporting The salaries of the Briteh operators ope-rators average from J28 J 510 per month while in Ne pr kf the average Including male and fcmalo operators wfts 31S I more than double Ibb Ijrllijh ave age Tlc government could not do tile business as cheaply a the Western Union All of the fml and hlt cohlpAnles weh > under iipnll a much larger proportionate proportion-ate expense than the Western upns Union Dr Green presented figures fig-ures to show that tlie actual cost t the Western Union of handling Its I business was 221 cents a message He then took up the details of the PostmasterGenerals plan Dr Green made a comparison between Oar domestic telegraph rates with those In Europe showing that for Eurpshtwlng 1 tibtanoes over Z milts our rates were much lower yet ald he the Iet PostmasterGeneral would establish a uniform rate for 1500 mlledUtan ces a distance over which no Ingle wire had ever been lUtccttrull workuli IAS AS TO LOW RATES tlie Western Union had never fough opposition companies with low rte The opposition companies usually butted against the Western Union The latest formidable competitor I had WItS the Baltimore A Ohio Telegraph Tele-graph company They started to smash things up and hail dUb It TIt coulpaby tulned three compe bIg companies ruined llsclf and so nearly ruined the Baltimore da Ohio rallroa company that It had been nlt obliged to Bell its sleeping cars and construction shops to tide over the financial stress The Postmaster ieueal in fixing the rates for Government busiiieuumnde i an order whleh this boahi of directors of the Western Union decided would proc business ically order the confiscation heir Tax DOCTOB became somewhat excited at this pInt and looking hard at Postmas lerGcner Wannmater who stead astly returned life gaze he exclaimed ex-claimed And jet he says ilb on fintrate ten wih thetelrgrapl companies I We propose to conlro ert that order fixing the rate for government message in the court gerumcnt rurj and demonstrate that it is i not hAl or the cost of service This proposed pro-posed legislation has failed to receive pS Presidents recommendation although submitted in the Postmas erGeneral8 report before his annual message was pent to Congress Con-gress I hisv never heard before mt a Cabinet Minister may g before a committee to coach I and help his pet schemes through when ley hive not been recommended by the President Crain of Texas said the Postmaster Post-master General had not coached him In fact had never spoken to him about It Dr Green The Postma tr Gen eral has between 80000 and 100000 clvii appointments to make And very member has two or three in hate district tltCADLF member of lie committee rail It seemed to him that Dr Green hid an unjust conception ofhe PostmasterGenerals position when he assumed that he was at lacking the Western Union Tho Iject which had Influenced the committee and probably the mind fllie PostmasterGeneral 0 for be attainment of an advantage ligher and more Important to the mass of tho people than might be uf poed from some things that hoi ntti raid Dr Green remarked tbattbis conn try was a great agricultural country Fanners and artisans had no occasion to ue the telegraph once a ot r year They would not telegraph i hey could do I for five cents The of the bulnesswas bulk bUflnt8 was commercia I or speculative This concluded Dr Greens t t mony and the committee listened t horeadlnzofa statementbr Bar um representing the VIsular Syn bronlsm Telegraph company in I 1losor of the PcstmasterGenerala plan |