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No. 109.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Morton.

[Telegram.]
Washington, August 11, 1884.

Mr. Davis telegraphs Mr. Morton that in the Commercial Cable matter that, besides the single condition named by the minister of posts and telegraphs, of one year’s notice to buy the cable after 1889, he proposes:

(1)
That, without his permission, the American cable shall not change its rates;
(2)
That the rates between France and America shall be the same as those between any other European country and America;
(3)
That the American cable may be suspended arbitrarily under police regulations at any time (aside from the suspension mentioned in Mr. Morton’s dispatch); and
(4)
That all American cables shall be subject to the London convention.

Mr. Morton is instructed to communicate to the Department any information he can obtain on these points.