Show CABLE TO PHILIPPINES Pacific Company Proposes to Lay One Without Subsidy 2SJohn W Washington Sept Mackay president of the Postal Telegraph Tele-graph company the Commercial Cable newlyorganized Pu company and the has Cable company clflc Commercial been in Washington for a few daya Ward viceprellent ot i wftfi George J Their mission was the cable company arrangementsi regarding principally to make I garding the landing privileges of their 1 cables which It Is proposed to run from San Francisco via the Hawaiian Isl I I ands and Guam to Manila The follow I Ing statement war made by an official I Intereated in the project In behalf of Mr Mackay The projeit Is different from anything any-thing which has been proposed as no concessions Indemnities or subsidies aro asked the proposition being simply that permission to land be granted The cable will land and bo maintained without any cost to the Government The cable company agreed to give the Government business right of way and In case of war or other public necessity to permit the cable to be taken over by Ihe Government It furthermore promises prom-ises to reduce Iho far Eastern rates from 40 to CO per cent below those now charged Mr Mackay and others connected with the new company are hopeful that the concessions they seek may be granted grant-ed but on account of the provisions of the treaty of Paris relating to the concessions con-cessions granted by Spain In the Philippines Philip-pines prior to American occupation of the Islands some doubt exists as to the right ot tho Government to grant such a privilege as Is asked to a private concern con-cern |