Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
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officers. The commissioner general of the
land Office has submitted to the secretary
of the interior for his approval, list of
lands selected by the Kansas Pacific rail-
way, which was suspended by the former
secretary. As the road was completed in
the time prescribed by law, Secretary
Teller sees no reason for further suspend
ing action.
The exchange of 31s per cent. bonds into
per cents to date is $685., 596, 700.
The war department is informed that
two sergeants of cavalry and two Indian
scouts struck a camp of half-breeds and
Crees on Milk river, Montana. The party
fed with their horses, leaving behind fifty
eight carts and harness, twenty hides, 49,
Quo pounds of meat and other property.
The bill presented in congress to-day by
the joint select committee on the decline
of American shipping contains these Sec
tions: That no vessel engaged in commerce
with the dominion of Canada shall be sub
ject to tonnage or duty, nor shall consular
certificates be required from the same.
That the individuality of the ship owner
shall be limited to the proportion of any
or all debts and liabilities his
individual share of the vessel bears
to the whole. That when any vessel,
whether steam or sail, shall be constructed
and equipped in the United States for the
foreign trade, including trade between At
lantic and Pacific ports, in whole or in
part, of materials of production of the
United States, the owner or owners of such
vessel shall be entitled to receive and col
| lect from the United States a drawback or
sum equal in amount to the duty which
would have been collected upon i'm
| ported materials of like de-
| scription and of equal quality
| with American materials used in the con-
struction, equipments, engines, boilers and
! other appurtenances of such steam or sail
vessel; provided that in ascertaining such
drawback the duty on such iron or steel
material shall be computed on the iron and
steel advanced in manufacture not beyond
the point of plates, angles, bars, and rods,
and provided further that the section shall
apply only to vessels commenced after the
passage of this act.
The minority report is signed by Senator
Vest and Representatives McLane and Cox.
The report declares the wsr which began
in 1861 was not in any sense the cause OF
the commercial phenomena under calasid-
Grafton. It accelerated the course OF
events which, if circumstances existing
from 1856 to 1861 had continued, would
have been inevitable even had there been
no war. It would he great
mistake to infer as many that
have given testimony before the
Joint committee seem to infer. that if al
distractions and burdens upon instru-
mentalities of so much of the commerce
of the United States as pertains to the
ocean were removed, we should, at no dis
tant day, be again great ship-buildine
and ship-using nation. Such result is i'm
a possible. If all distractions were removed
and if ships of the most improved patterl
and modern construction and full.
equipped we're given US and placed as fret
gifts at our wharves, it is doubtful If on
Q oceen commerce and shipping would b
t materially relieved and developed. On
O reason of general nature such a revlva
is the pre-occupation of our people II
more attractive and remunerative employ
f meats. It is not likely that any great IN
!. crease Or revival of our ship building an
q shipping interests will take place until "
% have reached tho maximum production l
4 our lines of labor and enterprise
70 especially in agriculture. Whe
that point is reached and our energies al
| UlVcEI0U W Otu0I HOAouA0o3 SAAO OSossAA AA-S-
have its olden attraction and remuneratio
O for our people. Another, more practic
and tangible reason is this: ALI trade an
If commerce is barter, product being give
for product and service for service.
IN order to sell we must buy, and in order
a buy We must sell, and
who will not buy cannot sci
a and he who will not sell cannot bu
be- Again, ships have been truly called Il
children, not the parents of scommerc
a The merchant marine languishes for Lax
te of liberty. It's reviewal must come fro
IN the enlargement of our freedom. II
us minority, while concurring with the repo
he as to the measures reported by the col
r. mittee, desire also to present two 9th
he propositions: First, for the admission Fl
Az of duty of all materials finished and pr
of fected and ready to put together in shi
of and, second, for the free admission
We American registry of ships built abroad.
With view of guarding as far as pos
re- BILE against such land frauds as those !
ice Gently reported from Dakota and otf
le- parts of the West, the commissioner g
;he eral of the land Office, with the approval
ny Secretary Teller, has issued a circular
ter to registers and receivers of Unit
he States land Offices with regard to decla
ur- tory statements of homestead applican
ant New postofices were established tod
his at Boyleston, Wayne county, ILL.,, d.
inc Bots, postmaster; Wickware, SAM