2. Senate Document, No. 102, 56th Congress, 1st Session 3. House of Representatives, Report No. 221, 56th Congress, 4. Senate Document, No. 325, 59th Congress, 1st Session 5. House of Representatives, Report No. 2060, 60th Congress, The Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited). STATEMENT of Costs for Damage done to Company's Cables and Property by United States War Vessels For hire of schooner, including wages and victualling of electrician and cable hands Miscellaneous expenses in testing cables, fitting up, loading, and discharging Cost of 0.56 knot of intermediate cable Repair of cables cut and damaged off Cien- India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Works Company's account for the hire 318 0 0 200 8 0 671 12 0 [Senate Document No. 102, 56th Congress, 1st Session.] To the Senate and House of Representatives: I TRANSMIT herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, with reference to the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, a British corporation, for compensation for the expenses incurred in repairing the damage done to its cables and property by United States forces during the war with Spain. I recommend that, as an act of equity and comity, provision be made by the Congress for reimbursement to the company of the actual expenses incurred by it in the repair of its lines and property. Executive Mansion, The President: WILLIAM MCKINLEY. On the 12th instant the Secretary of State laid before the President the papers in the matter of the claim of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (Limited), for compensation on account of expenses incurred in repairing its Manila-Hongkong and ManilaCapis cables, which were cut under orders from Admiral Dewey during the late war with Spain, and on January 16, 1900, the President transmitted the same to the Congress with a recommendation that, as an act of equity and comity, provision be made by the Congress for reimbursement to the company of the actual expenses incurred by it in the repair of the cables. The Secretary of State has now the honor to submit to the President, with a view to its transmission to the Congress with a like recommendation, if his judgment approve thereof, the similar claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, amounting to £8,174 178. 9d., for compensation of expenses incurred in repairing the damage done to its cables and property by United States war vessels during the hostilities between the United States and Spain. Respectfully submitted. Department of State, Washington, Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay. Dear Mr. Secretary, JOHN HAY. British Embassy, Washington, November 6, 1899. The Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company have forwarded a statement of the cost of repairing damage done to their cables and property by the United States war vessels in 1898 during the hostilities between Spain and the United States. I am directed by Lord Salisbury to communicate to you this statement, and to inquire whether you will be prepared to submit it for the consideration of Congress in the same manner as the claim of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (Limited). (Submitted to the Congress on January 16, 1900.) In this latter case Mr. Adee, then Acting Secretary, was kind enough to inform me on September 8 last that the detailed statement of the claim preferred by that Company, amounting to £912 5s. 6d, would be brought to the attention of Congress at its next session with a suitable recommendation. As you will observe from the statement herein inclosed, the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company for the cost of repairing the damage done to their cables and property amounts to £8,174 17s. 9d. I am, yours, very truly, REGINALD TOWER. [Enclosure, Annex 1, Copy of Account.] Office of the Assistant Secretary, Washington, D.C., January 4, 1900. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 13 last, inclosing, for the information of this Department, copy of an informal note from the British chargé d'affaires at this capital, stating the inability of Her Majesty's Government to concur in the Attorney-General's views regarding the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited), on account of the expenses incurred by that company in the repair of its cable, alleged to have been injured in the war between the United States and Spain, together with copies of other papers relating thereto, and requesting an expression of the views of this Department as to the propriety of an arrangement to submit the subject in question to Congress. In reply, I beg to advise you that this Department entertains the view that it is proper to refer said claim to Congress, such course being in harmony with the action already taken on a similar claim made by the Eastern Extension Australia and China Telegraph Company. 56th Congress, 1st Session.-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Report No. 221.) Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company. February 1, 1900.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. MR. GIBSON, from the Committee on War Claims, submitted the following THE Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 7408) authorising the Secretary of State to pay the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company for compensation on account of expenses incurred in repairing the damage done to its cables and property by United States forces during the war with Spain, beg leave to submit the following report: Claim stated at £8,174 17s. 9d. Your committee append hereto a letter from the President, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, with reference to the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, a British corporation, and ask that it be printed as a part of this report. Your committee report back a substitute for the bill and recommend the passage of said substitute. (Then follows Schedule B hereto annexed-Senate Document No. 102 of the 1st Session of the 56th Congress.) ANNEX 4. 59th Congress, 1st Session.-SENATE. (Document No. 325.) Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company. MESSAGE from the President of the United States, transmitting a Communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying Papers, with reference to the Claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, a British Corporation, for Compensation of the Expenses incurred in repairing the Damage done to its Cables and Property by United States Forces during the War with Spain. April 13, 1906.-Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I TRANSMIT herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, with reference to the claim of the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, a British 722930 A |