Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-04-30
The Evils of Awarding Mail Con-
tracts to British Ships Wv
......s ai idly Depicted.
jeff Davis Delivers a Stirring Ora
tion to the People of
Alabama. s,a.4
Prof. Bell Before the Telephone In
vestigation Committe-In
~" Brief.
SENATE.

passed authorizing the construction of
bridges across the Mississippi at Winona,
Minn.; across the Yellowstone, in Montana;
across the Missouri at Pierre and across the
Mississippi river at Red Wing, MINI.
Mr.. Mitchell spoke on the memorial sub
mitted by the conference of the New York
Methodist Episcopal church, praying for
protection for the Chinese in the United
States. He recited the statements of the
memorial referred to, which it argued,
among other things, that Chinese SUBJ
jects had been put to death in Oregon and
their property destroyed. No such thing
had happened in Oregon. Mr.. Mitchell
said the statement of the memorial, so far
as Oregon was concerned, was an entire
and eastern men, even eastern statesmen,
had misrepresented Oregon and the whole
Pacific coast OH this question. Much of the
misrepresentation was due to newspaper
editor in Oregon, whose paper he named
and whom he characterized as "distin-
guished politician" Referring to the al
legged insult to the new Chinese minister,
he said it would be found on investigation
that no insult had been offered. There
was an idea in the east that people on the
Pacific coast were not we'll disposed to the
Chinese government. This was another
misrepresentation.
The postofice appropriation bill was
then taken up, and some debate arose on
the amendment proposed by the senate
committee appropriating $8O0,OO0 for carry
ing the South and Central American, Chi
nese and Australian mails. and authorizing
the postmaster general to make, after due
advertisement, contracts for five years with
American steamships, at a rate not to eX-
ceed, for each outward trip, 81 per nautical
mile OF distance by the most direct and
feasible course between terminal points.
Mr.. Plumb explained the purpose of the
amendment. 1t was similar in character to
the provision OF last years bill to which
the postmaster general had not given effect.
There had been statements to the effect
that an intention existed to subSidize steam
ship lines engaged in foreign trade. This
was not so. American people had been so
busy in developing the great empire west
of the Mississippi that they had seemed to
eliminate from the problem of their nation
al development the factor ofcommercial in
tercourse with the world outside. The
proposed amendment was intended as
step toward doing for American commerce
with foreign countries, what we had been
doing for the international commerce in
the facilities for mail communication. Mr..
Beck said his objection to the amendment
was that it looked like crippling our mail
facilities rather than advancing them. This
amendment sought to pay American ships,
that might take twice as long to deliver the
mails, as the other ships might take. Our
our mail wagons were built: Mr.. Plumb
cared good deal where wagons were
built He would have them all built in
America. He said we had more sea coast
than any other nation, and inquired why I
we should be the only nation that was to
have no ships built in our own country. If
he had his way: he would never permit the
American flag to float over ship of any
but of American manufacture. He asked
the senators from the south, If they wanted
to vote the money to buy British ships ''If
have read the history Of confederacy
Alright" said he, "it tells me that
men who fought that gallant fight in the
to despise, loathe and hate Great Britain
than any other people on earth. She prom
ised the confederacy that which made the
confederacy alive with hope, and she broke
her promise, as she always did when it
suits her interest" AS to the expense in
VOlVcu Ill Lue proposed aMcnumenL, Ine
speaker said we had given very much |
more funds to aid the great New Or
leans exposition; very much more to erect
a library building; had put millions into |
Eads' jetties, and were soon to throw $5,- |
100000 into the Mississippi river to be |
washed away. Yet the democratic party, |
when asked to vote for the proposed |
shivered from center to cir |
cumference. Germany had taken Mexico,
and there was great danger that the Mexl-
can Central railroad would go into the
hands of British and German capitalists, |
though built by American capital
Mr.. Frye said that we now saw working
men of the republic in great confusion, in a
sort of daze; we hear of strikes, boycotts
and other disturbances. Each house of |
congress and the president had remedy,
which remedy was arbitration. That did |
no harm, but it was giving brown bread
pills to a feyered patient. 1t did not strike |
at the root of the disease. The great ques-
ton was, how did it happen that there
were enough men to take the place of the
strikers? 1t came from the fact that the |
product of our factories, farms and mines
was more than we could use.
WASHINGTON WAITS.
WAsH1NGToN, April 2s.-The house COM