The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-28
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FORFY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
LAST SESSION.
SENATE,

Washington, N.--DAWes presented
q petition, signed by Bishop Simpson
Joseph Cook, Wendell Phillips, anC
$4,000 others, besides churches and
societies, representing $1,000 people,
praying Congress to observe Indian
treaties and deal justly with them.
It was referred to the committee on
Indian affairs. 1t was a very bulky
package and attracted much alten.
ton.
4 bill was introduced by Garland
for uni!or bankruptcy system.
Beck advocated tree ships, speak
ing 10 the resolution for the repeal OF
laws prohibiting citizens engaging in
the foreign carrying trade or prevent
ing their registration as American
ships. He argued that We we're
handicapped by the whole world
through these oppressive laws. Every
dollar ne made our ships cost above
what Vas paid 5y the peopls and by
other countries 9aly handicapped u.
and diminished our chances of sue
eesBful competition. Before the war
We could buy ship chesply, but the
effect OF our policy had since been to
build up navy for England which
now had the fines! Eody OF sailors an
the world. while the United States
was without a marine. The I'M
dangers to the United States in
case OF a foreign war, with our de.
'enseless ocean and gulf coasts, were
next referred to. Our surplus being
argely agricultural, and so great that
t cannot be Consumed at nome, we
Are obliged to lOas our exports in
oreign ships, and thus Germany,
England and France we're doing our
carrying trade. II these nations went
o war, although We might be on the
)est terms with the belligerents, We
you'd suffer more than they. because
'ur products would go to the bottom
IS the cruisers Of each destroyed the {
merchant vessels of the others.
Blaine followed in q reply to Beck. ,
{ was a remarkable fact that for ,
Tenty years. or from the time of the !
var to this hour, the Congress of the
United States had not done one coli ;
airy thing to uphold the navigation r
of the United States. The r
reat march forward OF cur old COM r
neroial rival had been witnessed and r
verywhere recognized. The repre-
o. the people OF the United
tates had sat in their two halls of
agisla,ion as dumb as though they
Ould not speak, and had not offered
single remedy or aid until the Seu- 2
tor from Kentucky Deck had risen =
! his seat and proposed to make y
OF the perpetual de. :,
endence Of this country upon Eng =
nd for such commerce as she may l.
ljOy, holding up to the United States 7,
ermany, Italy and other European :.
,Euiries that ara as absolutely de- q
sndent upon Great Britain for the .,
,mmerce they enjoy as the District of =,
olumbia upon Congress. During -
iese twenty years this Congress had % D
lssed ninery-two acts in aid OF in -
rnsl transmission by mail II has q
wen 200,0O0,000 acres OF public .
nd, worth. to-day, 1000, O0O. eco i.
money, to which i: has added q
y COO, eco in casa t. the same end, ~
Id yet it had not extended the sid II
q single dollar to that vast ard ex
nsiYs transportation, whose i:- port
ICE had not been exaggo j by
nator Beck, from Kentu. The .
oited States could not VII n this y
eat international struggle without -
opting exactly the same means that - -
ID achieved victory for others. What q,
as that? Il Sss not to help john =
bach or anybody else, but 10 make -
great and comprehensive policy thar ..
al give every man and every COM "
ny the specific aid of 80 much per 49,.
ut. for a certain term of years. -
i the American marine feel that NJ
e government OF the United States -
behind them. Let the United -
ates only take from her treasury =,
? snnum $4,000, 900. the same sum ~
at Great Britain is paying only as q 'e
stscriptto her 5000, 600, coo Of in
stment. He was not prophet nor
9 son of one, but If this was done fat
Ventured to predict that the loCg LII
terred and much desired event &C
q revival of the American We
am marine would soon arrive. nj.
3 would have the country do one
ing more to which England had I
iuted the way for the United a