Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-02-05
1cnntiuned from Eirst pncc.N J

ing vessels. lhe marine OF inc lulult. hl"iV
and more every day, is steam marine. and
we who stand here furnishing larger amount
of freight than anv other country in the world
Il was going TO say any other two countries !;
doubt if there be any two countries in the
world that furnish as large an amount OF
ocean freight as the United States-we stand
here to-day gaining nothing whatever out oi
that, or SO little that it only serves to point
the moral" We furnished last year l3,OOO,-
600 tons of ocean freight, and the proht on
CARRYING that and the passengers that belong
10 the sea was Sis, 100000.
Mr. Thurman. that include the coast
ing trade? =,
Mr. Blaue-No; wholly foreign. 1t all
went from our shores and came back. That
which goes of course is more bulky when You
measure il by tons than that which comes
Mr. Eaton.-Oyer $50. O00, 900 in gold WAS
paid into the pockets of foreign ship-ownerS.
Mr. Blaine.-My friend anticipates me in
that Nearly Ss9, 100000 ont of 81 ,U"'OV'
was so paid into foreign hands: believe "hly
S2G. 900, 900 into ours; and that mas Dech 90
ins on and is going on and Will continue L"
90 on unless the United States does something
that shall change it. And we cannot afford
not TO cIanceit savto the honorable chair
man of the Committee on Finance that unless
o'nui'io'. g -. =. ,,,,t ,,o5.;Llo chino
~ ., r,s;ntain over lonc series
II. f'r ,,ith that Jrauoh,
made unon onr resources. and with that
draught stopped specie payment VIII MAINTAIN
itself Gentlemen here remember the panic
of 1867. how it smotc the country, how 1t
went over the continent with the force and
violence of a tornado. prostrating great mer-
camille houses and manufacturing and com
mercial interests. and vet inside of ninety
days from the suspension of specie payment
the banks of New York, Baltimore and all the
great cities of the country resumed. Why
were they able 10 resnme specie payment aftar
that disastrous panic: Simply because the
freight moneys that lay TO the crcdlt OF .iihrr-
lean commerce in London were gnid 10 ne
called on by those who here needed II Tor tne
resumption of specie payments, ana the goid
that was deposited IN London to the cfcdit ot
American ship-owners was the very gold on
which the banks of this country resumed IN
1858, and that is the gold that we do not have
to-day. We should have had no need. we
should have been undcr no necessity oi sell
ing bonds to bny gold to resume specie pay
mens IT our falr snare OF the irelght moneys
on our commerce had been coming mo our
Golfers. Eighty-nlhe lillloh collars went
last year into the Golfers OF Europe on Amefl-
can frelght; less than S2h.o""'V!V came heFe.
Give us our falr share, ana specie payment
repeat, VIII MAINTAIN itscn'
In the last ten years-and that seems II very
short period "a most Of us-we have sent and
brought, fetched and carried between this
country and foreign countries from eleven to
twelve thousand million dollars worth Of
products. and the frcights on that with the
passengers attached to the trade were over
81 100, 600. 900, and out of that ST. 100 600 900
the European nations got nearly 5000. .0n0, 900,
and that was drawn right from us, and we go
on here appropriating for our navy to protect
a commerce that does not exist
am no. fnding f,nlt wifi, This naval hill.
understand mo Tho existiny naval estab-
lshment requires that we should appropriate
the amounts II contains we can do nothing
else but annronriate thi, money
rs we stand to-day. but I am asking.
Ear can osl, notI,in9 eIse in tho naue of
American commerce that Won will Give IN its
revival the snm Won are wasting on the navy.
Yon can take fonr IN Ave million dollars ont
Of the navy cxpcnditures in nv Judgment.
uthop, ;mna;r;ng tbn .fYic;oncv of tho navy
and if you will give four or five million dol
lars per annum TO building up American com
merce in this country You will turn so. .000,-
600 per annum of gold coin into your Golfers
YOU will employ countless thousands of men
on the sea and on the land, and you will
change the whole commercial and mercantile
character of the continent. oh. YES. but.
saws my friend from Kentucky. Mr. Beck.
'I.ct Us have free ships let Us have right
to bring in free ships and we will do it. "
How? What possible advantage do you give
to anv man to-day by enabling him to get an
American register for a foreign ship? Mr.
Vanderbilt. the great capitalist and head of
the New York Central Railway. is lust es-
tablishing. in connection. it is said. with for
egn capital. line of steamships to run in
connection with his road. The shius are
foreign-bnilt. Every spike that was driven,
every hammer that was sounded upon them,
went to build up foreign mechanic Every
sailor, stoker, fireman, engineer on board, is
foreigner; every officer Is foreigner; and
that is precisely such line of American
steamships as the Senator from Kentucky
Mr.. Beck and the Senator from Connecti-
cut Mr.. Eaton would establish by allowing
the free registry of foreign vessels. Why?
Mr.. Eaton.-At the proper time we will
dicuss that.
Mr.. Blaine.-This is the proncr time
Mr.. Eaton.-I do not think if il
Mr.. Blaine.-I said that the hill pronoscd
would enable inst that thing TO he done and
nothing else. and I saw to the honorable Sem