Evening star., 1902-08-09
Important Conference at 0ys-
ter Bay.
ATTY GEN'L'S REPORT
CONDITIONS TO BE IMPOSED ON
THE COMPANY.
Full Text Given Out Here-Subject to
Future Action by Congress
or President.

OYSTER BAY. n. Y, August e.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today made formal
nouncement that he had granted the ap-
| plication of the Commercial Pacific Cable
| Co. to land a cable on the shores of the
United States, on the Islands of Hawaii
and Guam and in the Philippine Islands,
and for access to certain soundings and
profiles in the possession of the Navy De-
partment
The text of the memorandum on the SUBJ
ject, which was prepared by the Depart
ment of Justice and contains the conditions
imposed by the United States government.
was one of the subjects considered yester-
day by the President and Attorney General
Knox.
Text Of the Conditions.
Following is the text of the conditions
upon which the Pacific Cable Company
will be allowed to lay a cable from the
United States to Hawaii. Guam. the Phil
lppine Islands and China:
The President, having duly considered
said application. herewith consents that the
said company may lay, construct, land.
maintain and operate telegraphic lines of
cables the Pacific coast of the United
States and in the various territorial waters
of the United States, to connect the city of
San Francisco. in the state OF California;
the city of HI nolulu in the Island of Oahu,
Hawaiian Islands, and by way of the said
Midway Islands and the Island of Guam.
the Island of Luzon. Philippine Islands,
and point on the coast of the empire OF
China not yet determined.
1t is a condition to the granting of said
consent that said company first lille with its
said application its written acceptance Of
the terms and conditions on which said con-
sent is given, to wit:
l. That the said company has not re-
eeived any exclusive concession privi-
lege, and is not combine or associated with
any company or concern having such con-
cession or privilege, such would exclude
any other company or concern formed in
the United States Of America from obtain
ing the privilege Of landing it's cable or
cables on the coasts of China or connecting
them with other cable lines, or inland lines
OF China, and said company, its successor
or assigns, will not receive or become asso-
clated with concern having any such ex-
elusive concession of privilege. The said
company has not combined or associated
itself with, and will not combine or asso-
ctate itself with, any other cable or tele-
graph company or concern for the purpose
OF regulating rates between points In
American territory, or between them and
any point in China, Japan or other oriental
places.
~. Idl sdiu CuiIpdLy CaDIe ShdH tOuCh
at no other than American territory on the
way from the United States to the Chinese
empire. The line from the Philippines to
China shall be constructed by said COM
pany and operated Independently OF all
foreign companies and concerns
III. That the rates to be charged for
commercial messages shall be reasonable
and in no case in excess of the tarin set
forth in congressional report No. $685.
House of Representatives, Fifty-seventh
Congress, first session, signed by George G.
Ward, vice president of the Commercial
Pacific Cable Company, and attested by
Albert Beck, secretary, with proportionate
rates for intermediate points
Governments Right of Way.
". That the government of the United
States, any department thereof. its officers,
agents and insular or territorial govern
ments upon the route of such cable shall
have priority for their cablegrams or cable
grams to them, over all other business, at
such rates as the Postmaster General shall
annually fix.
V. That the United States shall at all
times have the right to purchase the cable
lines, property and effects of the said COM
pany at an appraised value to be ascer-
talned by disintereSted persons, two to be
selected by the Postmaster General, two by
the company or concern interested, and
the NTH by the four so previously selected
VI That the government of the United
states shall have authority to assume full
control of the said cable when at war or
when war is threatened
VII. That all contracts entered into by
the said company with foreign governments
for the transmission of messages by the
said cable shall be null and void when the
United States Is engaged in war.
VIII. That the United States shall have
authority to sever at discretion all branches
which may be connected with the main
cable line aforesaid during war or a threat
ened war.
TX. That the operators and employees OF
said company (above the grade of unsklled
labor, after said cable shall have been
laid, shall be exclusively American citizens
x. That the citizens of the United States
shall stand on an equal footing as regards
the transmission of messages over said
| eompany's lines with citizens or subjects of
may connect.
XII. That the company shall agree to
maintain an effective speed Of Transmission
over the main cable route from California
| to Luzon of not less than twenty-five words
per minute
XII. That the cable laid shall be af the
| best manufacture.
XIII. That ample repair service for said
cable shall be maintained.
XIV. That the line shall be kept open for
daily business and all messages in the order
| Of priority heretofore provided for be trans
| mltted according to the time of receipt
XIV. That no liability shall be assumed
| by the government of the United States by
| virtue Of any control or censorship which il
| may exercise over said line in the event of
| war or. civil disturbance
! XVI. By the grant of this permission the
United states government does not insure