Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-16
|;ABLE HEAD DEF|ES
WILSON AND COLBY
BARBADOS RULING
Will Connect West Indian
Wire via Cuba, Declares
Carlton.
READS PREPARED PAPER
TOT. C. C. SUBCOMMITTEE
Declares Groundless Apprehen-
sion of Censorship in
Peace Times.
OPPOSES ALI~ANiERICAN co.
business Messages Copied in Eng
land md Turned Over to British
Merchants, II Is Asserted.
OPPOSES ALL.AMERICAN CO
business Messages Copied in Eng
land md Turned Over to British
Merchants, II Is Asserted.
Il,y Associated press.l

W aSflN6TON. Dec. lJ.-Notics
"as given the American government
oday by Newcomb II. Carlton. prcs.-
lent OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company. that his company intends
% connect it's new cable from Bar
oadccs with it's lines In the United
States by means Of existing cables to
suba. regardless OF the opposition of
President Wilson and the State De-
partmcnt
Mr. Cartons statement was made
in testimony before Senate Inter
state Commerce subcommittee which
has before IL an adm nstration meas
urc giving the executive department
absolute control over the landing OF
cable lines on American soil. lie was
one II four witnesses examined At tho
opening OF an inquiry into the whole
subject OF cable communications and
from whose testimony the committee
developed among other things that
the Aii-Amcrica Cables. Inc. an
American concern. IL engaged with
the support Of the State Department.
in a fight against the Western Telc-
graph OF Great britain and the West
err Union. in an effort to break the
ish company in Brazil.
There also was testimony that the
-hli-America Company enjoys cable
nlonopolies In several Central and
South American countries; that the
international Communleat tlons, confer
snce here has reached tentative
agresnirnt that no censorship shall
be imposed upon cable messages
merely passinE through relay points,:
that there liz no cable communication
between The United States and Ger
many, except over British controlled
II: cs: that some foreign governments
are substituting news agencies dis
scIninatinS reports In other countries
and that the Western Union plans
further independent connections
through American cable lines %
Ray. Holland and Scandinavia.
Continue Inquiry Today.
The committee Will continue is in.
auiry tomorrow and again next week.
and IL pians to inquire particularly
into The matter of the dissemination
OF American news abroad and the
handling Of cable messages of Aneri-
can firms seeking foreign business
These subjects were touched upon
generally tblay and the committee
received suggestions from Mr.. Carl
ton that independent cable lines be
established between the United States
and Japan and the United States ana
China for the exchange of news be-
tween those countries.
Tho committee was told today by
Mr.. Carlton that the censorship of
foreign cables was not to be feared.
in time of peace. He said 1t required
a very big organization to censor
communications and that these had
been broken up by European coun-
tries generally since the war.
Reading a prepared statement 10
,sle committee, Mr.. Carlton discussed
can government to permit the land
ing at Miami. Fla, of his company's
cable from Barbadocs. which Is to
connect with the British line there to
Brazil. and charged that by its ac-
ton the government was seeking to
preserve "a United States-South
American monopoly In favor OF an
other company"
Elihu Root. Jr.. appearing for the
All-American Cables, gave an entire
..ly different version of the contro-
versy. lie said the question in stop
ping the Miami cable landing was
that 1t might lead to tho British COM
pany giving up its Brazilian monopoly
and charged that the Yves tern
Union had entered into n contract
with this British company by which
the American concern would direct to
tho British lines all the business col
lected by it in the United States.
Mr.. Root said this contract with the
western Union was counter attack
By the British company on the ALL
American Cables as result Of the
latter company obtaining through
court litigation In Brazil permission
to build it's own lines to Santos and
Rio Do Janeiro. He added that the
All-America was given the option "of
retaining its west coast monopoly and
giving up its lines on the east coast
fof South America. or taking on In a
commercial war the two greatest
commercial communication COM
panies.
Offer Is Re fused.
The All-America Company, he said.
refused tho offer. The British gov.
ernment. the witness testified, Is sup-
porting the British company I'm tho
fight .s
Acting Secretary Davis. of the State
Department, testifying as to the con-
troversy betweon tho government and
tho Western Union. said The Presi-
dent had refused to permit the land
fng Of the Barbados cable because 1t
would connect with the British line.
which enjoyed monopoly in Brazil.
and that this action was "ins cons.
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