Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
FOR PACIFIC CABLE LINE.
Application of the Commercial Pa
cifc Cable Co. to Land Its
Cables Granted.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
Conditions Imposed By the United
States Government Precedent to
the Granting of the Application,
and Which the Company Will Ac-
cept in Entirety.

ment, Saturday, that he had granted
the application of the Commercial Pa
cific Cable Co., to land a cable on the
| shore of the United States, on the is
lands of Hawaii and Guam and in the
Philippine islands, and for access to
certain soundings and proiles in the
possession of the navy department
The text of the memorandum on the
subject is as follows:
"The president, having duly con-
sidered said application, herewith
consents that the company may lay,
construct, land, maintain and operate
Geographic lines of cables on the Pa
cific coast of the United States and
of the various territorial waters of
the United States, to connect the city
of San Francisco, California, the city
Of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Ha-
waiian islands and by the way of the
Midway islands and the island of
Guam, the island of Luzon, Philip
pine islands, and a point on the coast
of the empire of China not yet de-
termined.
"It is conditional to the granting
of consent that the company was to
file it's written acceptance of the
terms and conditions on which con-
sent is given, to wit:
The Conditions.
'1-That the company has not received
| any exclusive concession or privilege, and
is not combined or associated with any
company or my concern having such
concession or privilege, such as would ex-
clude any other company or concern
formed in the United States of America
from obtaining the privilege of landing
its cable or cables on the coasts of Chi
ma, or connecting them with other cable
lines or inland lines of China; and said
company, its successor or assigns. will
not receive or become associated with a
concern having any such exclusive con-
eession or privilege. The said company
has not combined or associated itself
with any other cable or telegraph COM
panyJ or concern for the purpose of regu-
lating rates between points in American
territory or between them and any point
in China, Japan or other oriental places. :,
'2-That the company's cable shall
touch at no other than American terri
tory on the way from the United States
to the Chinese empire. The line from the
Philippines to China shall be constructed
by said company and operated indepen-
IDENTIFY of ali foreign companies or con-
Germs.
"3.-That the rates to be charged for
commercial messages shall be reasonable,
and in no case in excess of the tariff set
forth in Congressional report No. 56S
house Of representatives Fifty-seventh
congress-, first session, signed by George
G. Ward, vice-president Of the CONNER
cial Pacific Cable Co., and attested by
hlhort panly caorataru with nropOrtion-
ate rates for intermediate points.
"4-That the government of the United
States or any department thereof, it's Of
f%icers, agents and insular or territorial
Bile, shall have priority for their cable.
grams or cablegrams to them, over all
other business, at u rates as the post
mas~ter-general shall annually fix.
"5-That the United States shall at all
times have the right to purchase the ca
BILE lines, property and effects OF said
company at an appraised value, to be as
c%ertained by disinterested persons, two
to be selected by the postmaster-general
two by the company or concern interest
ed, inc the fifth by the four previously
selected
"6-That the government of the United
States shall lave authority to assume full
control of the said cable when at war OF
when wal Is threatened.
"7-That all contracts entered into by the
said company with foreign governments
LOT the TRANSMISSION Oh messages ny Lilt
said cable shall be null and void when
the United States is engaged in war.
"S-That the United States shall have
authority to. sever, at discretion, az
branches which may be connected witt
the cable line aforesaid during war OF
threatened war.
"9-That the employers and employees Of
said company (above the grade of labor
err after said cable shall have been laid
shall be exclusively American citizens;
"10-That the citizens of the United
States shall stand on an equal footing as
regards the transmission of message:
over said c%ompany's lines, with citizens
or subjects of any other country with
which said cable may connect.
'11-That the company shall agree tt
maintain an effective speed of transmits
sion over the main cable route from Cal
ifornia to Luzon of not less thar rs words
per minute.
"12-That the cable laid shall be Of the
best manufacture. =,
'1s-That ample repair service for sait
cable shall be maintained.
"14-That the line shall be kept oper
for daily business, and all messages II
the order of priority heretofore provided
for be transmitted according to the TIM
"i5-That no liability shall be assumed
by the government Of the United State
by virtue Of any control or censorship
which it may exercise over said line II
the event or wal Of civil disturbance.
"16-By the grant Of this permission
the United States government does no
insure or indemnify said Commercial! Pa
cific Gable Co., against any landing right
claimed to exist in favor Of any compan!
or companies in respect to any. of thu
tnsular possessions of the United States.
"17-That the consent hereby granted
shall be subject to any future action b!
congress, or by the president, affirming
revoking or modifying, wholly or in part
the said conditions and terms on which
this consent is given. The acceptance o
the terms and conditions upon which thi
consent is given shall be evidenced by
copy of a resolution by the board Of di
rectors Of the cable company under tn,
company's seal to be filed with the post
master-general of the United States, upol
the filing of which full access shall b
granted to said company by the secretar.
of the nav to all soundings, profiles an
other helpful data in the possession 0
under the control Of the, navy depart
ment."