CONTROL OF CABLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 5

CONTROL OF CABLES.

STATE ACTION. CANADA'S PROPOSED SCALE OF RATES. Bx Telorrapli-Preas Ajsoclation-OopyrlrtS. (Reo. April 1, 10.40 p.m.) Ottawa, April 1. The Canadian Houso of Commons haß adopted a Bill giving tho Railway Commission control of the rates and facilities of tho cable companies. Mr. Lcmioux, Postmaster-General, stated that tho Motherland has promised to enact concurrent legislation. Ho had decided to get from the cablo companies a schedule of rates satisfying the public and tho press. ' .. He proposed that urgent messages should remain at one shilling a word, semi-urgent should be sixpence a word, and the'press rate should bo threepence. . . [The Otta>va correspondent of "The Times" writes: "The Government Bill respecting ocean cable companies is designed to secure lower rates for both Sn vate"and press messages between anada and the Motherland. By being made subjeot to the jurisdiction of the Railway Commission, as is now the case with toe telegraph and telephone companies, the cable companies will bo required to disclose the full particulars of their business in order to justify their, present charges, which are held to be abnormally high. IV is expected that concurrent legislation will bo enacted; by the British Parliament."]