Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-05-04
Hot Times In the senate.

w ASHINGTOS, ID. u, May 3.-Mr.
Hoar, from the committee on privi-
leges and elections, reported favorably
ON Senator Ingalls, joint resolution
proposing on the amendment to the
constitution, providing that the Both
of April shall hereafter he substituted
for the 4th of March as commencement
of the official term of the President,
Vice President and Congress.
Calendar. Mr.. Dolph reported from
the committee on public lands the
original bill to repeal all laws, pro-
viding for the presumption of public
land laws allowing entries for timber
culture and for other purposes. He
said il was designed to be offered as
substitute for the bill on the same sub
ject reported from the committee. An
amendment to the Notifications appro-
priation bill appropriating Sl0,Ooo,O 600
for the construction of Notifications
and other works of coast defense, in
accordance with recommendations of
the board of Notifications or other
defenses to be expended under the
directions of the secretary of war.
The postoffice appropriation was
then taken up and Vest proceeded to
speak upon the amendment appropri
ating $SOO, 900 for the transportation Of
foreign mails. He maintained the
provision would prove destructive to
| the American merchant marine. Ii
WAS now proposed ~ change the exist
log statue which permits competition
and substitutes In its place the decla-
ration that none but American steam
ships shall carry the mails. To-day,
he said, We have but two routes upon
which there are more than two lines
of steamships, one from San Francisco
to the east, aud one from New York to
Havana. No competition could come
except upon these twolines. He cited
| statistics to show that.in recent years
| We have paid four times las much to
| American steamships as TO those OF
other countries for transportation OF
foreign mails, yet our merchant marine
and navy had steadily dwindled away.
Congress had appropriated 1886 ,000, 0OC
for naval purposes and to-day we have
these
OLD WOODEN HULKs.
That would not last one half hour
before one single armored vessel OF
second class naval power. Chill had
two ships built in England which
could reduce to ashes every seaport
town in the United States without re.
ceiving injury. Italy could send one
vessel that could lombard our cities
and destroy our navy and 1t would be
only amusement for the Italians. All
had not gone to these old hulks, IA d.
Mr.. Vest, but what had not " at -
the support of officers who FIR twenty
years had been nautical lamp posts In
the city of Washington or naUticals OF
sheep routes and assemblies, and who
had no ships to 60 upon. Roach had
been telling US over and over again
that he could build ships as cheaply as
they could be built abroad, but he had
never done il. Macpherson said, the
English subsidized mail line TO
south America to the extent of $780,
OOO. He asked Mr.. Vesr how he
would get the trade of South America
against such odds. Vest said he could
repeat our infamous navigation laws
and no other civilized nation had such
laws. He would also reform tue tariff
and place II on revenue basis so as
not to handicap one man for the ad-
vantage Of another.
Mr.. Eustes reviewed the history OF
subsidies in this country and continu.
ed that there was a decided feeling In
this country in favor of sending our
mails in American ships. Why
did not the United States
control the markets of Gen.
trail and South America? For
the same reason that New Orleans
did not contract the Liverpool wheat
trade, viz: for want Of speedy, regular
and absolutely certain communities
ton. We had not lost the carrying
trade Of the world. We had relin-
auished Il. Great Brilain's carrying
trade, the statistician stated, did not
realize one per cent on the capital In.
vested. Mr.. ingalls, read from the re.
port Of the commissioners appointed
by President Arthur. extracts goinl
TO show that our merchants did mo-
accommodate the people Of Contra
and South America with either credits
or the class of goods they wanted