New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-22

An,erican-hence no expense spared in their con.
srcton They have been tested and proved themselves
be the finest models OF naval Architecture afostAn
honor 10 their propYieors and TO the country Amer.
lean skill i shown in all its superiority In these yessels
10 enable those results 10 be accomplished the con,raon
were cmpeedto 90 10 an expense, which has rendered
their present compensation insufficient and entsilnx
a heavy loss, amounting 20 $1,000 per trip. Ths
vessels are greatly beyond the tunnage required by
the contract Nothing has been drawn from the Treas
ury TO support this line The hostages received BY tho
Departnent on foreign letters since the adoption Of
the Postal Treaty up 30 March 81, 1872 has been
ss2s coo This Is the aggregate amount OF posagcs
by the two lines since the Postal Treaty went
into OPERATION OF this sum SlStO was received BE-
fore the Collins line commenced The postsgcs for tho
present year show large increase over past ycars
The Postal Treaty produced by, and would never
have been made had not been Tot the establishment
of the Collins line; therefore had not the Collins nas
been started this vast amount OF SuV PAID Tor post
ages would not have gone into our treasury but would
have gone to support and maintain te brush neet Of
war steamers, which up 10 that time had enjoyed the
monopoly Of the business He looked upon this propo-
siton in no way conierring monopoly upon few
individuals but he looked upon IL as measure which
hsd already extent broken down the monopoly
of Great Brifain-a monopoly which she would never
regain. Abandon this line, and Great Britain draws
American contributions 10 support her steamers;
maintain this line, and British monopoly Is bro
ken down He thought that those individuals
Collins and his associates) who had run this hazard
which had resulted in such signal honor and creii to
the whole American name. should be encouraged aided
aid the Collins but whether American skill, enterprise
snd honor should for want of aid from the Government
be abandoned and foreign line OF steamers inferior
in every respect take their place. IL was national
question
MIR. HUNTER said he would oppose the
amendment First, because it no deficiency and
ought not be in the bill in the next place, Con-
gress should sanction the ordering up OF the number Of
trips from 20 10 % would only call ut the present
rates tor a deficiency OF $4,000 This S236OOO added
,ha al his ~
aggregate annual compensation 10 Collins over sou
OOO while allowance OF s3SOOO tor every Trip
would make the annual compensation over ScVuuM
The Government had not received enough nom the Col
Inns line to pay what had already been expended for s
support The hostages received from the Cunard line
had nothing to do with credits for the Collins line
annual compensation of S3sS0OO, making little
over $4,000 per "Trip. England pays the Cunard
line annually, S696,00o being less than $4,000
trip. 1t is now proposed to give Collins $1,000 trip.
a sum more than twice much as the CuDsrd line re-
ceives From the 9th April 1850, To the 3lst March,
1852 the whole amount Of postages received from the
Collins line S}26,616. OF this sum, that line wn
entitled credit of wothirds the other third being de-
Quoted for inland postage, American ar English In tho
time, $4,000 received tor post ages ON news
papers, and $4,000 for closed mails There were no
OF ascertaning how much of this was received
from the Cunard Collins but lowing Collins halt OF
these sums together with wohirds of the letter post
age and you will find that the sum received from
that line does not amount to one-half OF what has
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true that the Cunard line receives more than the
Collins that the receipts OF postage by the Col
Inns line pays the amount il receives. lie could
not consider it achievement OF national
credit or renown order enable ship TO sail across
the ocean faster than English one, to take money
from the public treasury and spend for that sole pur
pose. Where could be the credit OF so doing, at the
expense and injury and sacrifice OF other interess
which, II the Government stands neutral,
may sustain themselves. How can this be
jusiifeds The Illusion that by building these
vessels, a stesm navy would grow up, mas
been dispelled. He read several documents to prove
that for actual purposes these steamers as well
the Cunard line, were inefficient II this New-fork
line was be aided how could aid be refused to lines
In Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans and elsewhere
As to the argument that this aid
sary to enable this line to compete with tho
British 1t nothing but the argument OF the
Iron of Pennsylvania the tsrif-they too said
unless protection given, Great Britain would have
monopoly, and would sweep away everything There
not an argument which had ever been used in ia
of protection TO manufactures but which might be
used in favor Of protection 10 this line OF steamers
there not argument which had been used against
protection b American manufactures, but applied with
equal force against this proposition. He referred
to the msny memorials of shipowners and
others of Boston, New-York and elsewhere.
complaining that Government aid given 10 steam
against sailing vessels. This proposition protection
to steam and he difference between aiording
protection TO iron and afordng 1t to steam The bust
of carrying passengers and freight was selfsus
tanning or not II not then II carried on by the British
theirs will be the loss. When 1t does become self
supporting the private enterprise of American cit
zens will enable them TO compete successfully, as the
sailing marine already did, with the world This taking
money out Of the Treasury 10 compete with another
nation to which could sail vessel across the Atlantic
fastest was rather expensive amusement should
the hostages from the Collins line exceed the COM
pensation given them, he would he willing 70 give
them the For the present he for abiding BY
the contract, and allowing no more
Mr.. MILLER got the floor, and the SEN