§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that the regulation which restricts the length of a prepaid reply to an inland telegram to 48 words causes much inconvenience by preventing a person from obtaining by telegraph any statement or information of a lengthy character; and, whether he will remove all restriction on the length of prepaid replies?
§ * MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General is not aware that inconvenience has arisen from the length of a prepaid reply to an inland telegram being restricted to 48 words, and he does not think it necessary to make any alteration in the regulation.