Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-27

In the discussion of the Senate amend
ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill
by the House of Representatives in COM
mittee of the whole Wednesday afternoon
week, the subsidy amendment was adyo-
Gated by Messrs. Millard, Rep, IN. "
Phelps, Rep, IN. j. y, Hiscock, Rep, IN.
-, Peters, Rep, (kan. J, Bingham, Rep,
(Pa.), Lore, DEM, (Del. and Dingley,
Rep, (Me. D and was opposed by Messrs.
Dockery, DEM, (Mo.), Springer, Dem,
tlI.), McAdoo, Dem, On. J.), and Hol-
man, Dem., (Ind.) Mr.. Doekery said it
proposed gift of the public money to
private corporations, the larger part of
which would 60 to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, officered, owned, and con-
trolled by such men as Jay Gould, Rus
sell Sage, Sidney Dillon, and O. p. Hunt
ington. He called upon his party friends
to halt and hesitate before they gave their
sanction to measure which did not
advance or enhance the interests of the
merchant marine, but which put into the
Golfers of that corrupting corporation, the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 1896, ,308
more than it received last year for the
same service.
Mr.. Lore spoke as follows MIR. Chair
man, nfter one years consideration, see
no reason why | should take now diff
ferent position than was taken by me
during the last Congress upon like
measure. With many other Democrats,
voted for the $400,000 amendment in
the Appropriation bill of the Forty.eighth
Congress, and / want to say to my friend
from Missouri (Mr. Dockery) that the
vote in the Forty-eighth Congress upon
the $400, 900 amendment was vote not
given under pressure, or under any in.
fluence other than the enlightened con-
Viction of the men who voted for the
amendment, that ii was in the line of wise
craftsmanship. II was the expression,
sir, of men who fearlessly represented
their constituencies ON this floor and who
could not be deferred by the hackneyed
cries of fraudand subsidies SO ingeniously
and persistently iterated by its opponents.
This proposition, as | understand it,
and | think we all have pretty clear
apprehension of it's simply to place in
the hands of the Postmaster-G General the
sum of $780, 900 with which he may pay
u liberal, or it should be said rather II fair
compensation to American built steam
ships for carrying our mails to foreign
countries. l do not believe, sir, that any
patriot can look upon that map in front
of thespeaker's desk, on which are marked
theroutes of the different steamship lines,
and not feel his cheeks suffused with the
blush of shame. Not single line of
American steamships is there on the
western coast Of South America,
while the ocean is literally ribbed
wi b the tracks of European steamers that
are reaping her rich harvests, and we sit
supinely by at the mercy Of other nations
Why is this so2 Their lines plow the in
teryening oceans from one end to the
other. From Europe To the western con-
tinent (Which heretofore has been con
sidered ours) you find line after line of
European ships, but no American. How
have those lines been establisheds /
assert, sir, without fear of contradiction,
that they have been established largely if
not entirely by subsidies or by the pay
ment Of liberal compensation for mail
service. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr
Ilountl has furnished TO this House a
table which desire to insert here
Subsidies paid to steamship companies
during 1884. lFrom General Statistics OF
the Postal Service published by the Inter
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