At page 4546 you are told by Mr. Ker that—Nobody ever heard of expedition on a route before.
We proved what form of contracts had been in the PostOffice Department for twenty years, and proved that in every one of them there was a clause for expedition. So much for that evidence, gentlemen.
At page 4546 Mr. Ker tells us that J. W. Dorsey testified—That the routes were taken so low as to cut out other people, but that they knew they were to be expedited, and they knew they were to be increased.
J. W. Dorsey testified upon that subject, and his testimony will be found at page 4085:
Q. Did you have an arrangement by which you should bid an extremely small amount on the routes, with the further understanding that the service was to be increased and expedited?—A. No, sir; I never thought of such a thing.
And in his entire testimony in chief and cross, I believe there is not another question on that subject.
On page 4549, referring to the letter of John M. Peck, which was in fact written by Miner, Mr. Ker says:
Cedarville ought to have had as many mails as the other points between, according to the order, but they were going to supply it only once a week. .
As a matter of fact, gentlemen, this letter was written on the 22d of October, 1878, and at the time the letter was written the mail, according to the contract, was carried only once a week on that route, and consequently Cedarville would have had exactly the same mail as any other point; that is to say, once a week.
Page 556 of the record shows that three trips a week were put upon this route to Loup City with a schedule of thirteen hours, but not until the 10th of July, 1879, nine months after this letter was written.