NOTE. The grand total is obtained by adding on 65 channels made available through the applicatio of articles 5 and 6 of the agreement. Senator KEAN. I should like to ask something more about this cable business: You must have the agreements and the owners hip for instance, of the Mackay cables. Assistant Secretary CASTLE. We have a part of that information, at least. Senator KEAN. Mr. Chairman, don't you think it important that we have for the record a statement of what agreements the Mackay Co. has in foreign countries, and what agreements the Western Union Cable Co. has in foreign countries, and what agreements other cable companies have, not only with the Governments but also with the telephone lines and the radio companies? 1 Used by Newfoundland. The CHAIRMAN. I think that would be highly desirable, and I should like to ask Mr. Castle if the State Department has that information. Assistant Secretary CASTLE. We would not have all of it by any means. The CHAIRMAN. What would you have? Assistant Secretary CASTLE. For example, we would not be informed as to what amount of their stock was owned by the British. I think all these things should be secured by you direct from the companies, and then you will be sure to have the whole thing. The CHAIRMAN. Has the State Department copies of any agreements between any American cable company or wireless company and foreign companies? Assistant Secretary CASTLE. Probably Mr. Vallance can tell you more definitely about that. Assistant Solicitor VALLANCE. There are a good many of these agreements that were printed in the hearings that were held by a subcommittee of which Mr. Kellogg was chairman, back in 1920, in connection with an investigation of the cable landing matter. Those might be reprinted in your hearings if you wish it done, as I understand this volume is about out of print. The CHAIRMAN. Have you any additional agreements that have been made subsequent to the 1920 hearings? Assistant Solicitor VALLANCE. Yes, sir; we have a few, perhaps 12 or 15. The CHAIRMAN. If agreeable to the committee, we will take care of those that were put in the hearings of a subcommittee of this committee in 1920. Senator DILL. I think that might be done. (Copies of cable-landing licenses and acts of Congress authorizing the landing of cables on the shores of the United States prior to the hearings of the Interstate Commerce Committee in 1920 are as follows:) List of cable-landing licenses and acts of Congress authorizing landing of cables on shores of the United States prior to the hearings of the Interstate Commerce Committee in 1920 Act of Mar. 3, 1857-- New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co. Act of July 24, 1866-- Act of Aug. 15, 1876. Act of July 25, 1882-- Act of June 21, 1884_. May 27, 1899. Nov. 24, 1902_ Mar. 14, 1903. Do__ Apr. 4, 1903_ (American Atlantic Cable Telegraph Co.) (Celso Caesar Moreno and associates.) Campagnie Francaise du Telégraphe de Paris a New (Robert Garrett and associates.) (Samuel L. M. Barlow and associates.) John W. Mackay, James Gordon Bennett, and associates. (Commercial Cable Co.) (Samuel L. M. Barlow and associates.) United States & Haiti Telegraph & Cable Co. Commercial Pacific Cable Co. Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (to Midway Islands). Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (to the island of Guam). Felten and Guilleaume Carlswerk Aktiengesellschaft Mexican Telegraph Co. and Central & South American Commercial Cable Co. of Cuba. Compagnie Francaise Des Cables Télégraphiques. Western Union Telegraph Co. Do. French Cable Co. Michigan State Telephone Co. Intercontinental Telephone & Telegraph Co. Western Union Telegraph Co. Cuban-American Telephone & Telegraph Co. AN ACT To expedite telegraphic communication for the uses of the Government in its foreign intercourse Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State, in the discretion and under the direction of the President of the United States, may contract with any competent person, persons, or association, for the aid of the United States, by furnishing not exceeding two ships in laying down a submarine cable, to connect existing telegraphs between the coast of Newfoundland and the coast of Ireland, and for the use of such submarine communication when established by the Government of the United States, on such terms and conditions as shall seem to the President just and reasonable, not exceeding seventy thousand dollars per annum until the net profits of such person or persons or association shall be equal to a dividend of six per cent per annum, and then not exceeding fifty thousand dollars per annum for twenty-five years: Provided, That the Government of Great Britain shall, before or at the same time, enter into a like contract for those purposes with the same person, persons, or association, and upon terms of exact equality with those stipulated by the United States: And provided, That the tariff of prices for the use of such submarine communica tion by the public shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the Government of Great Britain or its authorized agent: Provided further, That the United States and the citizens thereof shall enjoy the use of the said submarine telegraph communication for all time on the same terms and conditions which shall be stipulated in favor of the Government of Great Britain and the subjects thereof, recognizing equality of rights among the citizens of the United States in the use of said submarine communication and the lines of telegraph which may at any time connect with the same at its terminus on the coast of Newfoundland and in the United States in any contract so to be entered into by such person, persons, or association with that Government: Provided further, That the contract to be made by the British Government shall not be different from that already proposed by that Government to the New York, Newfounldand, and London Telegraph Company except such provisions as may be necessary to secure to each Government the transmission of its own messages by its own agents: And provided further, That it shall be in the power of Congress after ten years to terminate said contract upon giving one year's notice to the parties to such contract. Approved, March 3, 1857. (11 Stat. 187.) AN ACT To encourage and facilitate telegraphic communication between the eastern and western continents Whereas the Governments of Russia and Great Britain have granted to Perry MacDonough Collins, a citizen of the United States, the right to construct and maintain a line of electric telegraph through their respective territories, from the mouth of the Amoor River, in Asiatic Russia, by way of Behring Strait and along the Pacific coast to the northern boundary of the United States, with a view of thereby uniting the telegraphic systems of both continents, and of |