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

But, sir, if you measure the oomrensa-
tion proposed to be given tothese different
steamship lines by the amount now pnid
to many of these railroads, by the
amount now given for star-route service,
by the amount given TO your coast wise
steamers and your steamboats, plying up
and down your rivers, the compensation
here proposed is but n bagatelle. II is
much less than is given on many of these
routes.
Mr., Blount-Will the gentleman allow
me o question:
MIR. Lore-Certaiuly
Mr.. Blount--I wish to inquire of the
gentleman which line of steamers he
would take as the true test of the proper
compensation to be paid The steamers
engaged in the coastwise and the inland
service are paid different rates according
to the particular contract and the rates
vary with almost every line. Which would
the gentleman adopt as the true test for
proper compensation
Mr.. Lore-You might take the average
for coastwise service or the average pay
upon your railroad lines, and if you add
all considerations into account, such as
the character of the steamships required,
the long routes and competition of foreign
subsidized lines, submit that the amount
proposed to be given here would be only
fair compensation?
Take the line of steamers running from
San Francisco to China and Japan, with
not stopping place from terminus to
terminus. II is M American line floating
the American hag. There are no inter.
mediate stopping places from which that
line can obtain business. The service is
to be measured largely by the distance
travelled, and the compensation should be
the value of the work done in running
five or six thousand miles without any
stopping places. Now take many of the
routes of which the gentlemen speaks
The coastwise steamers can afford in
many cases to accept comparatively low
rates for mail service because all along
their routes there are stopping places
where they can gather trade of every
character, which helps to pay expenses
and necessarily enables them to carry the
mail at low rates.
Take your star routes. You are paying
none of these for mail transportation
upon the basis of the number OF letters
carried or the quantity of mail matter. If
that were the basis, the rate would be in
some cases so cents letter for every let
ter carried. You must take the circum
stances OF each particular case. And
when you do SO, measuring the compeu-
sation by the methods / suggest, sub
NIT to my friend from Georgia the COM
pensation proposed to be given under this
amendment is not equal to that allowed
either upon the star routes, the coastwise
routes, or upon many of the railroad
routes.
But there is another consideration.
believe not only that the compensation
here proposed is Just and proper, no sub
sidy, simply fair compensation for the
work to be done, but the very lines
which it is proposed by fair mail COM
pensation to help are the lines which to-
day connect us with the central and
southern portions of our continent. There
are O,000, 600 people i'll Mexico, Central
and South America who are to-day, with
outstretched arms, asking us to come and
take their commerce. That commerce
amounts TO $500, 100000. 1t is q harvest
so rich that the countries of Europe vie
with each other in the ambitious effort to
secure its wealth; England, France, Ger
many, Italy, Norway, are gathering from
South American soil the bounty that right
fully is our heritage.
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lands, while we sit idly by the great
ocean highway, and through the mouths
of unwise economists periodically and
spnsmodicaily cry ont subsidy, ,""f fraud, !"
and turn over again to our sluggish sleep.
How much Of that $3.50, COO 600 Mcxi-
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every hlastheau, uullt, onihene wall
alohg our zen tlouSahu iiiiles oI sea-coast'
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states government turned q cola shoulder
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