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58TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
2d Session. No. 1012.
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY.
FEBRUARY 24, 1904.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. WARREN, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 1362.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1362)
for the relief of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, have carefully
considered the same and now report it back to the Senate, recom-
mending its passage without amendment.
A similar claim of the Western Union Telegraph Company, arising
from the same cause-namely, an order of Postmaster-General Wana-
maker, dated June 29, 1889, in which the rate for the fiscal year begin-
ning July 1, 1889, was fixed at 1 mill a word, irrespective of distance,
for all Government messages, day or night, which order was deemed
by that company to be neither fair nor reasonable, it being found
impossible to perform the service at such rate except at great loss-
was decided by the Court of Claims on November 22, 1897, in favor of
the claimant.
As set forth in the preamble of the bill S. 1362, pending the decision
of the Court of Claims in the Western Union case, sufficient time
elapsed to place this claim beyond the jurisdiction of that court.
In view of the fact that the Postmaster-General has reported favor-
ably as to the merits of the claim, your committee are of the opinion
that the bar of the statute of limitations should be removed and the
claim paid.
The report of the Postmaster-General is as follows:
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL,
Washington, D. C., January 30, 1904.
SIR: In compliance with your request for all papers, or copies of same, on file in
this Department relating to S. 1362, for the relief of the Postal Telegraph Cable Com-
pany, and requesting my opinion as to its merits, I have the honor to inform you
that the most careful search has been made in the files of this Department, and cop-
ies of such papers as are found on the subject are transmitted herewith.
The bulk of the correspondence on this subject is found in the report of the Post-
master-General for the year 1889, marked Exhibit C, pages 67 to 89, inclusive.
A copy of the report is forwarded herewith. Apparently there are a few letters
missing, but it is believed the papers sent are sufficient to show, in a general way,
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