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Show Canada Adopts Important Bill Ottawa. March 31. Ouc of the mo.'t Important measures of the present pres-ent sefslon was put through the House of Commons last night by Ralph I-emieux. postmaster general, when a bill was passed giving the railway commission control of the rates and facilities ef cable companies. The rate legislation Is in lieu of the proposition proposi-tion for the laying of a transAtlantlc cable by the government. The bill provides schedule of rntes whereby urgent mesvagej are to b transmitted at 'he present rate one f hilling a word: semi urgent at sixpence six-pence a word, and prss matter at three pen-e Instead of at the present rate of Ave ponce a word. |