Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-01-28
FORTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
SENATE.-Mr. Garland introduced bill to
establish uniform system of bankruptcy !;
referred to the Judiciary committee.
Mr.. Beck called up his resolution offered
on the 25th, declaring that all provisions of
law which prohibit our citizens from pur-
chasing ships to engage in the foreign carry
ing trade, or which prevent the registering
of them as American ships when owned,
commanded and differed by citizens of the
United States. ought to be repealed, and to
that end Senate bill No. 741. or bill contain
ing the general provisions thereof, ought to
pass. Mr.. Beck addressed the Senate in
support of free trade in ships, extending his
remarks until O'Clock or half an hour be-
yond the morning hour, and generally de-
noureing the protective tariff system of the
country.
Mr. Blaine said the resolution was in favor
of dependence upon England for all future
time, to which he could not assent. He ar
gued that if the manufacture of iron ships
which required millions of capital was aban-
doned to Great Britain now it could never be
regained He said that from 1910, when the
first Cunard steamer entered the harbor of
Boston, to 1873 Great Britain had
lines upwards of e4O, 200. 600 sterling. Great
Britain had not abandoned that policy. She
had only abandoned aid to those lines which
could stand alone, and her postal report for
1879 showed postal aid to steamship lines
amounting to e7S3, 600 sterling. To build
up an American marine we must follow the
example of England and aid the men engaged
in the building of iron steamships. If
the policy of the Senator was adopted
it would disappoint everybody except the
English ship builders. Capital can now be
invested In British as freely as it could in
American bottoms with the same escape
from taxation as if it had an American regis
-. mi. r. he
Philadelphia line had English and American
owners with all the pecuniary benefits that
the Senator's policy would confer. This
question he said could not be considered
without taking into account the naval estab-
lishment and the merchant marine, out of
which the naval establishment must grow
He agreed with Mr.. Beck that the destruc-
ton of American vessels by confederate
cruisers caused the loss of our
carrying trade, but said it was
owing to the revolution in the construction
of ocean steamers which occurred while our
war was in progress, and of which Great
Britain was prompt to take advantage. He
would not, he said, enter into discussion
of the horrors of the protective tariff which
the honorable Senator had depicted, but
would say to him, and he presumed he would
concede, that the unfortunate venture in the
late campaign which had its origin IN Ken
lucky was political blunder.
Mr. Beck said Mr.. Blaine had admitted
the disappearance of our merchant marine
Be had not denied that we were paying
| 1920, OOO, 600 annually to foreign nations to
| build them up. He had not denied that we
were aiding England, Germany and France
and handspring our own people
He had not denied that the Amer
/ lean sailor was no longer known
ON the ocean, or that they had beer
| transferred TO Great Britain and we were to
day furnishing money to pay her $4,000 Oh