Show PACIFIC CABIE Recommendation for Its Construction is Renewed I renew the recommendation made in my special message of February 10 I 1899 as to the necessity for cable communication com-munication between the United States and Hawaii with extension to Manila Since then circumstances hae strikingly strik-ingly emphasized this need Surveys have shown the entire feasibility of n chain of cables which at each stopping place shall touch on American territory terri-tory so that the system shall be under un-der our own complete control Mu nila once within telegraphic reach connection with the systems of the Asiatic coast would be increased and profitable opportunities for a more direct di-rect cable route from our shores to the Orient than Is now afforded by the transAtlantic continental and trans Asiatic lines I urge attention to this important matter |