A discussion in the Chamber concerning the duration of the state guarantees to certain of the great railway Companies ended in a vote unfavorable to the Cabinet, which resigned, whereupon Casimir-Perier seized the opportunity to go too.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
They were bought at first at a ransom, they have involved an increasing loss nearly ever since, and the public have to pay practically as much for their telegrams-perhaps more-than the public of the United States pay to their telegraph Companies.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
If Government made a bad bargain with the telegraph Companies, it would be sure to make a worse with the railway Companies, who are fifty times more powerful; and besides, it would very likely have to borrow its money at a higher figure, for though it could borrow two millions at 3 per cent.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae