The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph: Or, A Review of the Two Propositions Now Pending Before Congress for Changing the Telegraphic Service of the CountryScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1873 - 172 sider |
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The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph, Or, A Review of the Two ... David Ames Wells Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1873 |
The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph, Or, A Review of the Two ... David Ames Wells Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1873 |
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Side 139 - States may at any time after the expiration of five years from the date of the passage of this act, for postal, military, or other purposes, purchase all the telegraph lines, property, and effects of any or all of said companies at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five competent, disinterested persons, two of whom shall be selected by the Postmaster General of the United States, two by the company interested, and one by the four so previously selected.
Side 164 - We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.
Side 48 - Clause 17, of the Constitution of the United States provides that Congress shall have power "to...
Side 115 - ... at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five competent disinterested persons, two of whom shall be selected by the Postmaster-General of the United States, two by the company interested, and one by the four so previously selected.
Side 15 - The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides that private property shall not 'be taken for public use without just compensation.
Side viii - I desire to express my acknowledgments. The table shows that, with a cost per mile for construction and equipment much lower here than in Bavaria, France, Great Britain, Italy, and the average of Europe, and about equal to that in Belgium and North Germany, and with a yearly expense per mile of line which will compare most favorably with that of the countries mentioned, the telegraph in this country collects an average of 70 cents on each message, against...
Side 155 - That we as a people believe in these objectives as set forth in the preamble to the Constitution of the United States is evidenced by the fact that we fought a great war to abolish slavery; that is, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
Side 164 - I am deterred from giving any order to exclude the whole series of abolition publications from the southern mails only by a want of legal power ; and that if I were situated as you are, I would do as you have done.
Side 7 - That the operation of the Telegraph between Washington and Baltimore had not satisfied him that, under any rate of postage that could be adopted, its revenues could be made equal to its expenditures.
Side 33 - ... and $30 per mile of additional wire. For equipment an allowance of $5 per ' mile of line is ample. Were all the wires to be strung at the same time, as they would be if the present system were to be duplicated by the Government, the cost would probably be much less. The cost of a new system, equal in extent to the present, would, at the above rates, be $11,880,000.