Note 417 — Chapter VI · The Extension of Federal Control over Postroads

For an account of proposals in Congress to take this action, a history of its recommendation by successive postmasters general, and much valuable statistical information concerning the operation of the American privately owned, and the foreign publicly owned, telegraph and telephone systems, see “Government Ownership of Electrical Means of Communication,” 63d Congress, 2d Sess., Senate Doc. No. 399.