New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
TELEGRAPH OONSOLIDATTON.
ANOTHER INJUNCTION OBTAINED.


TIE UNION OF TUE land COMPANIES.
The COmpagRie Frdnca,Se du TeleOrGphe de Paris a
Nec- YO.k vest, rday filed bill against the Ameri-
| eau Uulou Telegraph Company, the Western Union
Telegraph Company. the Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
| grii Company and the Union Trust Company of
New York. in the Equity branch OF the United States
Circuit Court. The dill IS signed bv Paul de Cam
bOurg, tie agent of the plaintiff company in New
York, aud by George F. Edmunds, Clarence A. Sew
ard. Joseph II. ChOate. Charles ~ Da Costa and
Lewis l.. Delahed as counsel The complaint is in
most respects similar to the one filed last week by
the Direct United States Gable Company against the
same defendants 1t differs in that it is directed
against the American Union Telegraph Company in
stead Of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany. The bill recites the arrangements between
the Direct Gable Company and the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company and be-
tween the AnglO-Amercan Cable Company and
the Western Union Telegraph Company for the mu-
tua. interchange of messages. The or9auzation of
the American Union Telegraph Company Tor the
purpose OF engaging in active competition with the
ABOVE named land companies, and the alliance with
the plaintiff company for a term ct twenty years
from June IS, 1879, next sec forth. The con-
solicitation agreement is next referred to! and the
danger arising therefrom to the interest OF the cable
company IS described. One clause of the complaint
SAWS IUdl OblOI6 pldlullu buCCbcutu BCJlllb
copy of the consolidation agreement 1t had learned
through the public prints that contract of sale
merger of some kind between the land companies
had been or was about to DE executed. ThereupOn
Fe ,ruary g. 1881, the following letter was adj
dressed to the American UniOn Telegraph Company:
CoMPAGME FRANCHISE Dg TELEGRAPnEl
DE PARIS A SEw- YORK.
D. II. BATES; esq First Vice P'sstae,t Of s A"e'ea"
Union 4eteGr0ph Company, Nei1' York
DEAR 1 lust received nom our General
Ma a-er te f1oTinS lelegram: %
preSden OF the American UuiOn Telegraph Company,
We nave not received any information from you re-
gard.nR the amalgdmatlon OF your company with tue
oeT In ne pf1ss c US k S to w6s
will become OF our exclusive contract with you. and how
An the tn UsW cables OF III Jay Goud to be iad What
arrangements. and wat VIII be the cOmmun,a
tn rgut, Of the COmpagnie Frauclse du Teegraphs dc
Paris New-York Please be SIND eDouga to send all
am, dear sir, very respectfully yours.
Representative OF the Company A.Gerlca.
The following was received in reply.
The AMERICAN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.,
GENERAL OFFICES, Noe 49, aud l57 BhoADwAY}
kEw-l oKK, Feb 7. 1881.
Baron p. DE CAMBoURG. RepreSentattre French AHannc
Cdbte Company Ne~-Fork.
CLOSING cOp' OF Telegram from your General Manager, 10
gamaton Of tIs company with other land iine compd
has been received In reply thereto. beg 70
Anso-Amercan and tue Direct United states Cable
Companies announced IN the pubnc prints several
months ago, but tue facts and details In regard
TO nave not been communicated to
us by your company, have been
informed how such consolidation of between
the companies will affect this company. The
quries relative TO the cables should made the
American Cable Construction Company, Wnlch company,
am informed has engaged to lay them Very respect
fully, I5Ignedl ID. ii. BATES, First Vice-Pres't.
February o, the French company replied as fol.
lows:
d. H. BATES esq., Fret Vice-Prestdent American Union
Tete1r0ph Company NeD- York.
DEAR beg To ackno wledge receipt OF your let
daJed 7tn inst, aud 10 say that
agree with statement regarding the sOcaed anal
panIee.
the 18th OF October, 1880. as had received
by wire full OF agreement with the English
caDie cOmpauieP communicated t at once TO General
EcKert according Instructions, giving blm at the
Same contract with the Ameri-
Can Union Telegraph Company would not be affected.
ABOUT fOrtn ght after received printed copy OF the
same agreement and supplementary agreement, with
direction deliver TO Genera Ecker actua president
OF the American UulOn Telegraph Company, which l
did. uad few days after conversation with your
sell about that contract the details 0 winch you seemed
10 know very well at The lime.
cal your attention u the question prOpOunded by
my company, which you have not yet answered re-
main. dear sir, very respectfully yours,
No reply was received 10 this letter from the
American Union Telegraph Company. The prayer
of the petition IS the same Is Ill the OF the Dr.
OF the petion yesterday Judge BatchfOrd made un
order granting preliminary injunction until Feb
ruary "a, when argument will DO heard by him on
the question OfmakIng II perpetual.
WESTERN UNION STOCKHOLDERS.