The War on 'Fly-by-Night' Newspapers

Representative Haiteman, of Jefferson county, is after the fly-by-night newspaper men of the state that are always hatching up schemes to capture the legal printing of municipalities by issuing cheap newspapers that are not circulated among or read by the people, and offering to take advertising at a rate far below that necessarily charged by legitimate newspapers. Mr. Haiteman has introduced to the house a bill providing that at the first meeting after the qualification of the members of the city council elected at each annual election they shall let the advertising to the publisher who shall be the best and lowest responsible bidder, provided that in all cases the council shall consider the question of circulation. It also provides that no paper is eligible to receive the contract unless it has been published at least six months.