No. 102.
Mr. Brulatour to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
Paris, June 25, 1884.
(Received July 10.)
No. 574.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt,
on the 24th instant, of your telegram to Mr. Morton in relation to the
permission sought by the Commercial Cable Company to lands its cables on the
shores of France upon the same terms as those granted by the United States
to the French company, and to state that on the same day I addressed a note
to Mr. Ferry, conveying a translation of your telegram and insisting upon
our right to expect that an American cable company shall be treated in
France as the French cable company is treated in the United States.
I inclose herewith a copy of my note to Mr. Ferry.
I have, &c.
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[Inclosure in No. 574.]
Mr. Brulatour to
Mr. Ferry.
Legation of the United States,
Paris, June 24,
1884.
Sir: Referring to my communication of the 17th
instant in relation to the right claimed by the Commercial Cable Company
to land in France upon the same terms granted in the United States to
the French company, I have the honor of sending herewith to your
excellency a copy of a dispatch received this morning from the Secretary
of State of the United States Government.
Your excellency will see that Mr. Frelinghuysen states, in almost the
identical language used by me in the above-mentioned communication, that
the agreement of 1879 was intended to assure reciprocity of treatment to
any American citizens applying for the privilege of landing in France a
cable connecting the two countries. It was not supposed at the time that
a question would ever arise upon the route taken by the cables
connecting the two countries, and that the fact of touching at an
intermediary point could make any difference at all in the matter.
The President of the United States believes that the American Commercial
Cable Company is entitled to the full and unrestricted right of landing
given to the French Cable, and has no doubt that the French Government
will come to the same conclusion.
It is with this view that I send a copy of the telegram of Mr.
Frelinghuysen, which was only intended for the legation, but which shows
exactly the position taken by the United States Government in the
matter.
Copies of the notes to the French minister referred to by Mr.
Frelinghuysen are undoubtedly in your excellency’s department.
I avail, &c.,
E. J. BRULATOUR,
Chargé d’Affaires ad
interim.
