Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-04-30

SENATE.

but pending action, the morning hour ex-
pired. s...5 -5..s -
In committee of the whole, the river and
harbor appropriation bill, pending amend
ment providing that the appropriation for
the Missouri river shall be expended under
the direction Of the secretary Of war, with
out the intervention of the Missouri river
commission, was rejected, but it was
agreed that vote should be allowed on it
in the house. a..- ....
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, was in favor of
liberal appropriation for the Missouri
river. ,. .4..
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, moved to strike
out the appropriation for continuing the
operations upon the reservoirs at the head
waters Of the Mississippi river. Lost. g.
The paragraph making an appropriation
of $2,250,OOO for the Improvement Of the
lower Mississippi having been reached, the
committee arose.
Mr.. Van Eaton, of Mississippi, from the
committee on public lands, reported bill
to grant the right of way through the public
lands to any canal or ditch company formed
Mr.. Beck said the provision of 100000
for carrying South and Central American
mails had nothing to do with the mail
service, butt simply looked to the building
up of our commercial relations. Appropria-
ton bills should not include new
legislation. He insisted that it was
bad policy for the republicans
to force the, administration provisions.
against which the president, the postmas-
ter general and house of representatives
spectacle Of an active, commercial people,
permitting their mails to be in the postof-
flee day after day waiting for slow SUBJ
sidiZed vessel to sail, while there was
swift vessel at the dock ready to carry the
mails at once. The matter was rendered
that the swift vessel was willing to take
the mails for One-tenth the compensation
which would be paid to the slow vessel.
Yet the pOstOffice department was required
to see that the mails were carried with ex-
pedition. The object Of this proposed
amendment was to give bounty to certain
steamship lines, in the hope that trade
could thus be built up. That was matter
not for the postoffice department, but for
the senate committee on commerce. Mr..
Beck quoted variety of statistics to show
that subsidies had neverEincreased our for
eign commerce. When western man
wanted to get his corn or cattle to Liver
how'much it would cost him to get it there.
That will decide his profits; ship costing
100000 would carry his freight cheaper
that one costing 100000.
Mr.. Plumb asked whether it would not
be an important element in the cost Of
transportation to have the haul shortened
by having the man who made the wagon,
ship, or locomotive, live nearer to the
point where the grain was raised, that
would give the farmer market. Beck
said that would be an important element.
Mr.. Plumb-"Then we are in accord"
A ship, like wagon, Mr.. Beck said,
WAS mng REats p p5bapsFy 5appFsy nd hsre S
counted a note or contracted the currency,
looked only to himself. If General Lee
were living and kept store in Richmond:
and If General Butler kept store next to
him, although Butler was never favorite
in the south, especially with women, ye. if
he could sell calicos one-half cent yard
cheaper than General Lee, he could ruin
him in six months. Frepchmen were de-
voted to their flag, but it did not prevent
them from buying goods In Germany. We
could never develOpe our country fully till
we made up our minds to reach foreign
markets and abandoned the policy of man
sniacturing for our own people alone. Our
cheapest market, all but 16 per cent of our
exports being agricultural products. When
manufacturers had produced all they could
sell, they encouraged strikes and were glad
when theirwOrkingme struck. The price of
their manufactured stuff went up, while the
wOrhngman's family was starving. Coal
operators met and resolved to produce no
more coal till the price went up, and so dis
couraged their men.
HOUSE.