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Página 67 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of it« servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Página 66 - It is probable that there has never been a time in the history of the...
Página 66 - It may impart an irresistible power to the caprice of an individual, and the reputation of the ablest and purest public man may be fatally tainted in every town and village on the continent by a midnight despatch.
Página 65 - ... presented simultaneously to the public, from ocean to ocean, through this instrumentality. The agents who collect the news respond to the central authority at New York, and are subject to removal at its pleasure. Here is a power greater than any ever wielded by the French Directory because, in an era when public opinion is omnipotent, it can give, withhold, or color the information which shapes that opinion. It may impart an irresistible power to the caprice of an individual, and the reputation...
Página 88 - An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes...
Página 5 - Senator Edmunds, before the Hill committee, in 1884, said : " It seems to me for the best interests of the country that any appliance with which its welfare is so intimately connected as is the instantaneous transmission of intelligence should...
Página 16 - ... managers and their friends the Western Union need not send untrue market quotations. It has only to give the true quotations a single hour, or less than that, in advance to those whom it means to favor and the work is effectually accomplished. No such power should be allowed to exist in this country; the temptation to abuse it is enormous and will sooner or later prove to be irresistible.
Página 83 - What the United States, in regard to its postal affairs and the welfare of the people, needs more than anything else, is the construction of a postal telegraph beginning moderately between great points in the country and all intermediate points, and then extending it just as we have the mail system as the needs of the community and fair economy would require until every postoffice should have, or be "within the reach of, a postal telegraph.
Página 115 - 83 gave the managers an opportunity for rearrangement which they improved to such purpose that Dr. Green, the president, is reported as saying: "The several hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been lost in the strike I regard as the best financial investment made by the company.
Página 234 - House by fine or imprisonment goes beyond this or not, we are sure that no person can be punished for contumacy as a witness before either House, unless his testimony is required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen.

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