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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... tions under which it should land, is one which, in my judgment, the Interstate Commerce Commission would be competent to settle. They would have the advice and counsel of such departments as they care to ask, but it is not a question that requires the ponderous machinery of diplomacy. It is a business question. It is the kind of question that the Interstate Commerce Commission is accustomed to handling. The Chairman. Under the administration of President McKinley or Roosevelt, I am not sure which, he referred the subject of the landing license of the Pacific Commercial Co., which is the Postal's connection on the Pacific, to the Department of Justice, and it was Attorney General, handled the question of the landing rights of the Pacific Commercial Cable Co. Mr. Taggart. That was an act of Congress, was it not, under which it landed? The Chairman. No; they entered into a contract with the United States. I have the contracts and I will put them in the record. (The contracts referred to by the chairman were subsequently produced and appear in Mr. Goldhammer's testimony.) The Chairman. You may proceed and give us the history of this South American situation, and the question as it affects your company, of their landing rights and your reasons for making the connection. Mr. Carlton. I will be very glad to do so. Perhaps it will be illuminating. The Chairman. However, I do not wish to disturb the continuity of your statement. You may take your own course as to that and present it as you please. Mr. Carlton. You want to know our views--the views I take on the Miami landing situation? The Chairman. Yes; we would like to have them. Other parties have given them here, and we would like to have your views. Mr. Carlton. I think perhaps some misapprehension may arise, n
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Cable-landing licenses; Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, on S. 4301
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