| Show Jt J HAWAII WILL HAVE A CABLE I Everything flow Looks Favorable Favor-able to That Conclusion Con-clusion INTEREST IS VERY KEEN Ll FRAACE ItUSSfA AND JAPAX ARC AilREDY AROUSED otlutlonM Hswci flit Civrrletl oix i Very Quioil > 7 Bttt 1Ivero in Every RGOSOU to Believe Tlmy Have I Been Snceesgfa1 and That Incorporation f Incor-poration Papers Will Be Filed IVltliin a Very Few Dare TFeal thy Americans saId to Bo in the Syjidic tc V 1 Washington March 8 Wlica Congress Con-gress failed to provide for building the Hawaiian cable it by no means ended tJ the question On the contrary it has brought forward a project jf international inter-national Importance by which Russia France Japan and HawaiI will jein in an American enterprise for laying a I f cable from the United States to i t Hawaii and thence to Japan with J Ii Jbranch cables to the French islands and extensive naval stations in the South Pacific Tho negotiations with I r these governments have proceeded 1 QUietly but with such satisfactory re eults thai they are well along toward 1 < completion A number of conferences I f I I have been held with the officials of the I I Japanese legation here and several 1 phases of the 5ubject are now under negotiation between Toldo and Washington i Wash-ington Minister IKurino is much in < ierested in the project It is probable I c fie or six at the most influential and Tvealthy Japanese merchants Trill be named among the incorporates I Suggestion From Xhrivxice I France has also been interested and In the course of the negotiations she I nas made a suggestion to Hawaii to L the effect that the French interests xvill be better subserved by having the I cable go Tla the United rte instead of the Vancouver route which would be controlled by Great Britain The chief interest of France is in securing cable connections with Tahiti and her other Pacific possessions and with her wwai rendezvous which are now cutoff I cut-off from communication Hussias Interests in the project are regarded as even more important than those of Japan or France Russias cable communication with the western hemisphere is now eastward through London or Paris and this filtering of all her news and official messages I through London In particular has long been a source of irritation The Russian > Rus-sian imperial family already have a cable from Vladlrostock the easterly point of Siberia to Japan BO the new line would give Russia through cable communication eastrsrard Intead of through London or Pas The military and strategic Importance of this I very ureat for should Russia be arrayed ar-rayed against the triple alliance she could not communicate to the outer world but could always maintain corn munlcatlon eastward to the United fitzaes and to France Hawaii is also interested in this enterprise as she regards it as a practical realization other ot-her efforts to communicate with the QJter world Scope of he Ca < erj > rac > The United States Congress failed to feet and it also declined to vacate thereat t the-reat m order to let Great fBritain l < bud the cable Under these circum etances the new enterprise with Rus Ia Prance and Japan Joining has commended itself to Minister Thurston I the Hawaiian minister and to ther leading men of Hawaii The foregoing governs the enter J national scope of the enterprise The 1 American branch is on a similarly broad lie Admiral John ErwIn J United States navy who wrote the 1 able report when in command of our fleet in Hawaii and General Roystone are principally interested I the enterprise I enter-prise in Washington With them are President Alvord of the Bank of California Cali-fornia and the vicepresident of the bank also the president rind Vice president of the San Francisco chamber cham-ber of commerce John 1 > Spreckels eon of Claus Bpreckels Eefntan Oel richs soninlaw of the ate Senator Pair and other millionaire capitalists Besides these there will be the several Wealthy Japanese capitalists heretofore hereto-fore mentioned Negotiations are also in progress which cannot now be made public by which 8 financial house known the world over will be amonsr the projectors The principal work of organization is being consummated here In Washington Wash-ington The only question at present is whether the incorporation shall be I under the state laws of New York New Jersey Maryland Virginia or California Their advantages are being I be-ing compared and the corporation will be under the state laws most favorable i favor-able An effort was made a few da sago s-ago before Congress expired to secure I a national incorporation but it was i denied as it threatened at that time to tie harmful to the governments cable project then In conference committee I com-mittee I was not known at that time that France Russia Japan and awatt were Interested in the project favrail failure to secure a national charier has in no way checked the enterprise The organization will be under one of the state laws as heretofore hereto-fore stated and the arrangements are so fa along that the fUn of the articles arti-cles of incorporation wH be made during the present month Airon e Keciv Interest The consummation of the plans which are now made known for the first time cannot fall to arouse keen interest in Great Britain and throughout through-out Europe The British project of a cable starting from Vancouver appears to be ended with the failure of the Senate to so modify our treaty with Hawaii as to let the British cable land on Nekar island The only recourse induce for Great Britain would be to Hawaii to break this treaty obligation with the United States but 1 is known positively this wU not be done Instead In-stead therefore of a British cable across the Fcc as has long seemed mminent France Russia Japan and Ilavall ire now uniting with American Ameri-can enterprise to execute this work ol I ance cn vast commercial and military Import |
