Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-29
WRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WAsHISGTOy Apr;l 81

'iofiua. Among other statements in tha
articie was one to the effect that when asked
why ne Mr. CalD had pursued the course
ne h'u III opposition to that company, he had
,ePorteo that he was obliged to do so because
ne mao no money. The article further stated
'ii"' "heh Mr. Call was IN Florida he had no
nm, y out mat now he Was building a fine
ies'ueice III Washington. Mr.. Call, with
| warmth and indignation, denounced the
whole article as an absolute talsahoo5 .,d
foul slander
lhe post Office appropriation bill was then
iaid before he Senate, but was temporarily
ia.u aside to permit Mr.. Mitchell, according
|" previous notice, to SPEAK on the memorial
submitted by the conference of the New York
Sethouist Episcopal church, praying for the
protection of the Chimes in the United
states. Mr.. Mitchell said that there had
peen no outrages upon the Chinese in Oregon.
Statements to that effect were misapprehen-
slons.. Oregon, Mr.. Mitchell said. had been
assslled by eastern enemies and even by
eastern statesmen. He denied that the peo-
pie OF the Pacific coast were not friendly to
The ChInese govern ment and SAID that the re-
ported insult to the new Chinese minister
would be found to be no insult at all. He de
MED to have inserted in the Congres sional
Record memorial on the subject of Chinese
the citizens in Sacremento, Cal but several
senators at once interposed obj -ctons
Mr.. ingalls, said that consent had some
days since been given to have printed in the
Record, on request of a senator, a memor
lal from the women of Utah. 1t turned out
to be vulgar, profane, obscene and indecent
document, and Mr.. Ingalls, had concluded
that he for one wouldn't again consent to
having anything printed in the Record by
'unanimous CONSENT" unless some senator
would vouch for its contents
Mr.. Mitchell at once vouched for the con-
tents of the documents, but finally agreed
to its being printed as a document instead of
in the Record and it was ordered printed in
that way.
The interstate commerce bill was unfin.
ished business, but was temporarily laid
aside and the post office appropriation bill
was taken up.
Some debate arose on the appropriation
for foreign mail service.
Mr.. Plumb d. MED that it was intended to
subsidiZe American vessels. He said that
American people had been so engrossed in
developing the great empire west of the Mis-
sissipp that they seemed to eliminate from
the problem of their national developements
the factor of commercial intercourse with the
world outside of our own republic. The pro-
posed amendment was intended as a step
toward dong for American commerce with
foreign countries what we had been doing for
internal commerce in facilities for mail COM
munication He appealed to the senators to
aid in doing something that would lift Amer
ican commerce to its proper plane.
Mr.. Frye. who followed on the same sub
jeet, said that we saw the workingmen of the
republic in great confusion, in sort of a craze.
W., haord of striLoc boy nd 4 l;s
turbances. According to Col Carroll d.
Wright of the labor bureau we had a million
idle workmen. Consequently when the
knights of Labor stopped work, which they
had right to do, they found to their amaze
ment just as many men to take the vacant
places as their was places vacant. Then
among the more thoughtless of the idle men
came the the temptation to violence, then to
riot, then came an appeal perhaps to the
courts or to arbitration, but possibly to
arms. The great question was, how did it
happen that there were enough men to take
the places of the strikers? 1t came from the
fact that the products of our factories, farms
and mines was more than we could use
| Last year we produced SIS 200, 900, 900 worth
of goods and only exported two per cent. of
the whole. We imported from Great Britain
last year S37 10000 worth of cotton goods,
United States. The last commission had
made reduction of from l6 to SO per cent.
in the duty on cotton goods. That increased
importation but stopped work. The present
| Morrison tariff bill proposed another reduc-
ton of from l6 to 33 per cent of duty, and
| if it passes importatonsi of cotton goods in
stead of $4,000, 900 will become S75, 900. 900
year. Last year we imported S4S ZOO. 900
worth of wooden goods, $40, 900, 900 worth of
iron and steel manufactures and Sl7 ,000, 900
worth of linen goods which we could Just
as we'll have made in the United States. If
we had made those goods here Col. Wright
wouldn't have been able say that one mil
lion of our people were out of employment
and the President would not have been
obliged to send message to Congress for a
commission of arbitration. Mr. FRYE then
proceeded to show that for every surplus
ward of cloth in the United Stated there was
a surplus OF ten yards in England, that
| France, Germany and Russia, etc, had
tariffs ngainst us. Where then, he asked,
could We sell our surplus manufactures. We
could send them to Mexico and to Central
and south America, which needed them and
whose products we needed in return. Ar
yentine Republic three years ago appropriated
500 900 for the carriage of its mail to the
| United States, but the democratic party of
the United States and postmaster general re-
fused to pay more than $1,000 to carry the
limited States mails to the Argentine Re-
public.
Mr.. Beck replied that the reason why Eng
land could trade with South America was that
in return tor English goods England took
copper, wood and other products of South
America, admitted them free of duty and so
gave her people work tariff of 46 per
cent prevented the bringing OF such goods
here upon which our people could work.
Mr.. Frye continued at some length to show
that the mail facilities lay at the root of COM
mercial activity, making many citations from
commercial statistics. To show the popular
itv of American goods in South America, he
said. that one-half the English goods sold in
South America were frauduently marked
"American manufacture" so as to secure a
more ready acceptance among the people.
MIR. Beck said he would tomorrow answer
Mr. Frye's argument.
The Senate then, at 4.40 P. NJ, went into
executive session.
Alb 30 the doors were reopened and the
Senate adjourned.
Tn the House this morning Senate bill was
nassed establishing port of entry at MI.
| Desert Ferry, Maine.
| At the conclusion of the morning hour the
u,use went into a committee of the whole
on the river and harbor appropriation bill.
Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa offered an amend
ment providing for the expenditure OF tne
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