Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-17 | Page 4 | Ex-Cabinet Men Discuss Cables

EX-CABINET MEN DISGUSSCABLES American Companies Secure McAdoo and Lansing As Conference Counsel WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 Two; former members of President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet have been retained to represent inieroBtB of American tele graph and eabic companies at the international in-ternational communications conference confer-ence here next month. W. G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, has been retained by the Western Union Telegraph and Cable company as counsel while Robert LaninK. former secretary of state and Lester H Woolsev, former counsellor of the state department. hac been retained by the Postal Telegraph and Table company Ellhu Root Jr . son of the former secretary of state, is .'Xixrted to represent the interests of All-American Cables, Inc. SETTi E ROW AT HOME Some questions at Issue, officials ,nid vesterday. are such as to involve in-volve ' not only eonfllrtmg interna Monal interests, but interests which tend to divide American companies For the sake of American claims to be presented it bar. had the effect of merican officials of the gnernmont to settle in advance all disputes be tween domestic companies in order to present n united front. Mr. McAdoo has complied with a lequest of the stale department that tho contract between the British Western Union company for the con-itructlon con-itructlon A n cnDl connecting the east coast of South America with l he United Siat s be made known to the American government. It was pend InK the filing of this contrati With the slate department that President Wilson recently refused to grant the Western T'nion company a permit for the landing of a cable ai Miami, Kla. OFFER MONOPOLY Officials said yesterday the British Western Tflegrapb company original ly offered Ml American Cables a mo nopoly of all cable business on the west coast of South America, where All-Amerlcr.n cables has been opera tins exclusively for some years, in return, re-turn, for an agreement that All-America Cables would not compete as contemplated with the British Western West-ern Telegraph company on the cast coast. Officials would not say whether examination ex-amination of the contract had re moved all difficulties attending the giant Inc. of a permit to the landlnc of the British cable at Miami, but destroyers dispatched to prevent a cable landing recently were recalled.