Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-19
F0RTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. May IS.

WASHINGTON, May IS. | SENATE.-Mr. Hale presented memorial of tn
 Pacific Mail and other steamship companies whic
 @ Deen 1T mads to ProRy influence inf in t fs
 mails and said if this great effort to revive Ameri
 not be done by the influence of any lobby. Mir. Beck presented memorial relating to oleo
 consistent with health 1t should not be taxed, whi
 Ii 1t were inconsistent with health the remedy wa
 manufacture of the article should be pr prohibited Mr. Beck said as the petition related to revenue il
 erenee Gr Miller opposed and an eompIained of the
 lnroads made from time to time on the Agricultnra oleomargarine butterine, etc, were infamous arti cles. The petition was referred to the Committee On motion of Mir. Gibson the Senate passed the
 s3 House bill supplying deficiency appropriation of
 arnlnations and surveys at the South Pass. Missis
 Sppi i river E bill was also passed extending the
 clnde the east bank of the Wiilamette river.
 Proceeding othe calendar the first bill in order
 Sewails absence MT McPherson objected to it's pres
 en6 e9nsderaton MT Frye moved that the bill be
 motion was lost. The bill on motion of MT. Harri-
 endar.
 At2 o'clock the pension bill was laid before the
 senate put temporarily laid aside in order that
 coke might address the Senate on the labor arbi
 tration bill
 The pension bill was then laid be ore the Senate.
 The pending amendment that of MT. Blair to the amendment of Mir. Van Wyck. The amend pension paid hereafter under any law to any sol dler should be rated at less than four dollars a month
 Mr McPherson said the Senate was not definitely informed as to the amount the bill would take from to the approximate amount he moved that the bill
 MT Blair said it would take iron, twenty to twen- ty-five million dollars year far as he had been able to estimate, but undoubtedly the amount was not easily ascertainabe He regarded the question, however, as like that of man paying his debts. The debts ought to be paid wheter they were large small. He special advantage in recom-
 Mr Teller did not think any. further information bill even though it took more than the amount
 Mr Culioms idea of the bill was that the soldiers who were diseased from causes not arising from their wickedness should be put the roll as not able to take of themselves. He thought it the duty of the government to put on the roll all sol diers who were unable to take care of themselves bility was incurred in the service If such a biil was not passed would find the old soldiers in the
 MT. Ingalls would vote for the bill, tn ough he thought It might be made more definite in some re- no good could be done by that course. It would be many of two million seven hundred thousand men who enlisted in the Union army would be entitle to g pension under this bill.
 Without action on Mr McPherson's anendme pt the Senate at 515 went into executive session and an hour late adjourned
 HoUsE.-AIr. Blouut of Georgia from the Com nittee mt on Postoces and Post Roads reported back ments, and it having been referred the Commit for the purpose of considering these amendments MT. Blount addressed his remarks to that clause when sa IS known as the suosiay amendment, lime and priation of SS00O00 he contended, would not mali trips but would indeed have a contrary effect Under the clause, the Postmaster General would be not less than three nor more than four cars. and this would act as an absolute inhi bition upon tract attempting to traverse the same line The in crease in the number of lines would be stopped foreign postal service would be prevented. He went on to quote from statistics to show nies received under the present law for carrying the mails from that which they would receive if as instance of the evils of which he maintained would follow such an enactment he stated that the mails now carried d by the Oriental and Occidental the Pacific Mail at a cost of $1oe, ,ao1 MT. Blount was not due the refusal of the United States to pay subsidies to it's steamship companies but to the frn poey wIGn sins bd Aercan
 MT Burrows of MIchigan in! in supporting p,t the amendment maintained that all talk about subsidy simply an appeal to prejudice instead of an ap- peal to the reason of a reasonable man. The pro- posed increase in the facilities for mail transporta tion. he said, would have tendency to extend our relations with Mexico and Central and South America. He showed that in twenty-two years Great Britain had paid $22, 900 for mail service to South and Central America while in the same time the United States paid for the same ser vice only S35o,OOo. He quoted statistics showing shat the South american trade was almost com. pletely inonopolzea by Great Britain and said of the S35 100000 of manufactures imported5Eto Chilli the United States furnished only four per cent. He would not permit England to hold this market ment of liberal compensation for carving the mails the United States could rescue the trade from her, and he hoped the Senate amendment would be adopted with an amendment which he would offer authorizing the Postmaster General to expend other pang oa on neW 5e
 MT. Riggs, of Illinois, opposed the foreign mail cited instead of showing that too little was paid foreign service showed that too much was paid build up American commerce by granting subsi- dies let the transaction be called by its right sides under che pretense of paying fair compensa 5ion for the transportation of the mails.
 Mr- Wakefield, of Minnesota, earnestly opposed the amendment and regretted that his well known opposition to the subsidy clause had subjected him he St Paul Poneer-Press had declared that the op position shown by Mir. Guenther and himself to the the representative of the English steamship compa- nies This he said was an infamous and ine1cus- and MT. Guenther said that the appropriation did not rise to the dignity of subsidy. It was neither It was charity to the Pacific Mail Steamship com pany, corporation which Congress sho i'd not IRaGn eans % han been e turned @ u out ef pow CT be cause charges had been made and believed that he peoples money to corporations. That party should not any longer let the Shylocks of the Pa cific Mail Steamship company make it draw the .hestnutS of the fire. He also denied the news paper statements that his opposition to the subsidy was instigated by Captain Goldman, He did not know Captain Goldman from Adam or Moses and no one had approached him for the purpose of induc ing him to vote against the subsidy.
 Mr Miiiken. of Maine argued that the subsidy clause would not give the United States more ves- ses or lines If line subsidized for five years monopoly would be created No other line would start because it could not compete with the line, so that instead of promoting com nerCS the reverse would be the case. He would not be induced under any circumstances to vote for ,his misappropriation of public money. If 1t was proposed to make the close of the session coudi-
 onal on the adoption of this amendment; if it was proposed to make it a question of physical endur- ance he was willing to stay and rather than yield, .ather than be coerced into submission to the dic- ates of subsidy hunters he was determined to stay lere and in the language of an immortal hero flight it out on this line if it takes all summer" Applausel
 Pending further discussion the committee rose and he House at 4:45 p. adjourned.