St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11

bills in the past he believed that corn to-day
would be used as fuel in Kansas and Ne
braska and that cattle would be killed for
their hides and horns, as they could not be
transported to the Seaboard. Men could not
comprehend the immense saving i'll water
transportation. It could be figured out
mathematically that the saving was S100, 000,-
coo year. The solving of the problem of
transporting grain and coal to the seaboard
was to come by rivalry between railroads and
water communications, and it was absolutely
essential that.the government should
TAKE HOLD OF THE WATER ROUTES
and improve them so as to give the people
chance for fair competition. Mr.. Chase de-
clared himself heartily in favor Of the Hen
nepin canal project. Mr.. Ingalls, said that
every dollar appropriated for an east and
west water way was dollar expended
in violation of the laws of nature
and against the best interest OF
the West. The Mississippi valley had its own
waterway. The reason for the opposition by
the press was that these river and harbor bills
had come to be regarded as illustrations of
the most rapacious venality. In this there
were appropriations to the amount of SIS 0O0,-
600, which could be characterized by no other
term than that OF "boodle;'' So, 600, 600 that
would be flched from the treasury for the
purpose of making men strong in their
districts at home. The people whom he rep
resented would spurn him If he were to say
that the money should not be appropriated
by great national ObJeets-for the great har-
borS on the Atlantic and Pacific, for the
Ohio, the Mississippi and other great natural
waterways. 1t was Lot such appropriations
that the country complained Of, or which the
press assailed. What was objected to were
the appropriations that were put in the bill
for the purpose Of advancing political for
tunes. He commented upon the fact that out
Of So, 500, 900 increase in this BILL as reported
by the committee on commerce, nearly
WI IN n
had members on that committee.
That, he said, could not be coincidence. By
fine and subtle purposes the bill had been
built up to its present proportion. Coming
down TO the pending amendment he criti-
ciZed the position O. the state OF Illinois in
this matter his remarks giving offense to Mr..
Logan, who said that such an argument
ought not to be used by gentleman who is
statesman, which will admit. To this Mr..
ingalls, replied that he did not pretend to be
statesman. The senator from Illinois, Mr..
Logan, had
MONOPOLY OF STATEsMANsHIP.
He GngalIS) did not therefore feel any
humiliation at the criticism that the remarks
which he had made should not emanate from
any statesman. He pretended to be nothing
more than cheap sort Of legislator and
was not an aspirant for any higher position.
and Of course he must presume to act from
motives different from those that Influenced
the senator from Illinois. If the stories
about the engineering difficulties of this Hem
nepin canal were not fictions like those OF the
Arabian Nights he did not wonder that the state
of Illinois was willing for the government to
take it Off its hands. The government was
asked to commit itself to the expenditure Of
between 10000, coo and SEA, 000, GOO to tax the
commerce of the Northwest step BY step up
to a gigantic water stairway Of z0S feet up 10
the Mississippi river and then let it down
again step by step land up again 40 feet
more) to Chicago. 1t was one of the most
marvellous schemes that had ever entered into
the mind Of man to conceive. The ascent of
of 208 feet was almost as perpendicular as
the Washington monument The locks (as
shown in the pro6le) were as consecutive as
stairs on a staircase. Mr.. Logan replied to
the remarks Of Mr.. Ingalls, touching the con-
nection OF the state OF Illinois with this pro-
ject. He defended his state in that matter
and ridiculed the engineer pretensions OF Mr..
ingalls, who made no distinction between the
horizontal and perpendicular proflles. one Of
which was on the scale Of an inch to nine
miles and the other on the scale OF an inch to
$50 feet. He had no fight with railroads OR
with the friends Of railroads, but he asked
them to keep their hands OF propositions that
were for the
BENEFIT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
engineers had reported the project to be not
only feasible. but that its cost would not ex-
coed $1,000. 600. The remarks Of the senator
from Kansas would go to show that the en-
gineerS were crazy. OF course the engineers
would not say the same of the senator, but
| they would certainly say that he was mis-
taken. This proposition seemed to have been
! selected by certain senators to make raid
| on the whole bill. If the project were carried
out it would furnish the cheapest route from
| the West and the Missouri river to the At
laptic ocean. 1t would be benefit to ell the
people of the Northwest, producers and con-
sumers. 1t would be d route coming in COM
! petition with railroad routes and it would tx
decent rates for transportation to that ex-
| tent that it wonld benefit everybody. Mr..
Mitchell Of Oregon spoke in favor of the
| amendment. Without reaching vote the
senate went into secret session and afterwards
| adjourned.