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Show REDUCTION IN CABLE RATES DENVER, Colo., Nov 10. An Inquiry In-quiry having been made of Clarence Mackay, president of the Commercial Cable and the Postal Telegraph Cable company an to the rumors of a pending pend-ing reduction In Cable rates, M. . Mackay said: "The Commercial Cable company has been at work for some time past In formulating a plan by which the rates for cablegrams sent by the general gen-eral public in other words, cablegrams cable-grams In plain languuge as distinguished distin-guished from code language reduced re-duced about one-half. The plan hss now been worked out, and inasmuch as it will require the co-operation of the telegraph lines in Kurope, where the government owns the line-c our plan Involves a proportionate reduction reduc-tion In the land line rales charced by European governments, and hence the co-operation of tho;-e governments will le neee&snry. "At present the cable rate Is 2.1 cenis per wonl The proposed plan Is to charge 1.2 12 cents for every live chargeletters (every letter In the cablegram ca-blegram being counted as though the whole cablegram was one wordi. the result would be that th- public in sending cablegrams would pay but nm-half ot what it pays now fur those cablegrams, It bcln:; pi rt of the pin 11 thnt these reduced r;it" m e-s it:e- would be suhjc-ci in ;rlor tian-mls-ion of Nio.-sngo.i paid for at a higher rnte "We hope ') able to put the plan Into operation in a hori time, it I." Ing uecesary first to iua!" arrange, inents with the Kurope. in governments. govern-ments. I would add th it t'lis now mode of charging mr 1 .ii.l i;r.r.ns will j be of decided ndvantnce :ilso to I h. business public whlen n.-e, a ceil . inasmuch as it w ill le- an 1 1 1 I .;i cm-nt to put a portion at .;ii-t of ller ethic-grams ethic-grams in plain latunie rathe,- thin use a very complicated rode, which requires a crcat deal of time on their part first to ode and wen to unced,-. |