The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-05-27
THE SUBSIDY PROPOSITION.
The House Further Considers the $500, 900
Item.

W NA0hlNhlVNI |t VI Nihy Apt fAAhNA AllN
nsual amouut OF routine business has
reen considered and disposed OF In the
House to-day the body went into Com
mlltee OF the Whole on the POstofll:e
Appropriation bill and MIR. Bl0unt, OF
Georgia, securing the floor, addressed
hs remarks 10 that clause which II
known 40 the Subsidy" amendment.
aud made an argument In opposition 10
II, The appropriation Of $800,000, he
c1utendfd, would not secure any ad
vantage In the way Of obtaining addi.
tlOnal mail trips, but would have u con.
trary effect. Under the clause the 70 {
master General would be required 10
contract, II he contracted AT all, for nol
les than three nor more than Ave years,
aud this would act ~ an absolute inhi-
blton upon aly other company than the
Que holding the contract, attempting 10
traverse the same line. The increase In
the number Of the lines would be
stoI pad, and while the contract was IN
force, any increase OF the foreign postal
serYict would b, prevented. lie went
on 10 quote from statistics TO chow. the
difference In pay which tho steamship
companies received under the present
law for carrying the mails from that
which they w0u d receive II the pro-
posed Legislation were enacted; and as
an instance of the evils, which
ha stoutly maintained would follow
such an enactment he stated that the
mails now carried by the Oriental line
at "A cost Of 90 500 wtu'd have 10 BE- car.
ried by the Pacific Mai NJ a cost Of 800
$50. He tolicd the correctness OF thr
declaration that the decline Of Ameri.
can commerce was due TO the fact that
the Uuited States refused 10 pay suOsi
dies TO lts steamship companies, and as
serted that the cline was attributable
TO the narrow-minded policy which for
bids American cltl2sns rom purchasing
ships abroad,
air. Burrows, Il Michigan, In support
ing the amendment, said IL only author
zed the Po tmaster Ger eral TO do with
lne foreign service exactly what no did
with the Star Route and 60 siwlte scr
vice, and oil this ta k about subsidy was
simply an appeal TO prejudice, instean
OF aD appeal 10 the reason OF reasonable
men. He hoped this Senate amendment
would DO adt pied with an amendment,
when no proposed TO offer, authorizing
the Postmaster General TO expond fi00,
600 VI the appropriation on exl5ting
ines aud 100000 IA pu ting service on
new lines,
Mr.. Rtggs, OF Illinois, opposed the for
ugn mail service amendment, and said
u the gentlemen wished to build up
American commerce by granting subsl
ults, lot the transaction be called by ita
ght name, but the Government should
mol grant subsidies under the pretense
q payiDg u fur compensation for the
Transportation Of the muils.
MIR. Wpkt2sld, Of Minnesota, earnestly
opposed the amendn cat, and regretted
lbat his well known opposition TO the
subsidy clause had subjected him Il
groundll 80 attacks.
Mr. Guenther, Of Wisconsin, said thai
the appropriation did not rise TO thC
guilty of u subsidy. IL was neither
l,N, ilesh nor fowl. II was q gift. pure
eUd simple. II was charity 10 The
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, cor
puTnti0n which Congress eh0uld moi
| Il uch with q ten foot pole. Were mem
b.ls OF Congress really 40 verdant u,
to DO deluded and deceived by shallow
vietensesp Would they always TAXI
TIE baits Of corporationsp Were They
rpal y what were called "suckersp'
| Laughter The Republicans had beer
! turned out Of power because charges hat
been made, and believed that the Repub
II an party had been too remlss II
, voting the peoples money 10 corpora
gi0ns. That party should not any Longer
lev the Shylock OF che Pacific Mail Steam
sbip Company make II draw the chest
nuts out OF the flfe. He also denied th,
Newspaper statements that the opposi
tion to tho eubsidy was instigated b.
Captain Goldman. He did not know
Captain Goldman from Adam or Moses
aud no one had ever approached him fol
lle purpose OF inducing him 10 vot,
against tho subsidy. He then went OF
| 10 argue that subsidies did not have Oh,
effect VI increasing tonnage, and as M
illustration OF this he cited the fact tha
Germany, with q non-subsidy policy
has increased her tonnage faster thar
France with q subsidy policy. II wa
true that Germany had recently started
upon o subsidy policy, but II was onl!
an experiment. =. .
Mr.. Milliken, Of Maine, asked why |
was that Germany should enter upon
subsidy policy II she was, succeeding 8,
we'll without o subsidy.
Mr.. Guentber supposed that II was br
cause she was making fool Of herself
Mr.. Milliken had not thought that th
gentleman would 10 back on his countr,
"0u my country" exclaimed MI
Guenther, "What do you think m
country LISP want TO say to the gentle
man that though ! was born on Germal
soil, and have no renson to feel othewls