The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-29
XLlXth CONGRESS- FIRST SESSION.
SENATE.


published statement purporting to have been
made, he said, by the Receiver of the Florida
Railway & Navigation Company. The statement
reflected on Mr.. Calls course in the Senate, in
connection with a claim of the company to GER
tain lands in Florida. Among other statements in
the article was one to the effect that when asked
why he (Mr. CalD had pursued the course he had
in opposition to that company, he had replied that
he WAS obliged to do so because he had no money
The article further stated that when Mr.. Call was
in Florida he had no money, but that now he was
building a fine residence in washington Mr.
Call, with great warmth and Indignation, de-
nounced the whole article as an absolute false
hood and SANDER.
The post Office appropriation bill was then laid
before the Senate, but was temporarily laid aside
to permit Mr.. Mitchell, according to previous no
tice, to speak on the memorial submitted by the
conference of the New York Methodist Episcopal
church, praying for the protection of the Chinese
i'll the United States. Mr.. Mitchell saidthere
had been no outrageS upon the Chinese in Oregon,
and statements to that effect were misapprehen-
sions.
Mr. Mitchell said he had been assailed by east
ern enemies and even by eastern statesmen he
denied that the people of the Pacific coast were
not friendly to the Chinese government and said
that the reported insult to the new Chinese
minister would be found to be no insult at ALL He
desired to have inserted in the Congressional
Record the memorial on the subject OF Chinese
immigration adopted at a recent meeting of citi-
zens in Sacramento, Gala, but several Senators
at once lnterpoSed objections.
Mr. ingalls, said consent had some days since
gwen n to have prned In the Rse9rds o the
women of Utah. 1t turned out to be vulgar pro-
fame, obscene and indecent document and Mr..
ingalls, had concluded that he for one would not
again consent to having any thing printed in the
Record ''by unanimous consent unless some
Senator would vouch for its contents Mr..
Mitchell at once vouched for the contents of the
document but finally agreed to its being printed
as document instead Of in the Record, and it was
ordered printed in that way.
The Interstate commerce bill was unfinished
business but it was temporarily laid aside and the
postofice appropriation bill was taken up Some
do hot piptt f1pn
mail service.
Mr.. Plumb denied that it was intended to subsi-
die American vessels. He said the American
people had been so engrossed in the development
of the great empire west of the Mississippi, that
they had seemed to eliminate from the problem of
their national developments the factor of CONNER
cial intercourse with the world outside our own
republic. The proposed amendment was intend
ed as a step toward doing for American commerce
with foreign countries what we had been doing
for International commerce in the facilities for
mail communication. He appealed to the Sena-
tors to aid in doing something that would lift
American commerce to its proper plane.
Mr. Frye, who followed on the same subject,
said we saw the workingmen of the republic in
great confusion. In a sort of daze we heard of
strikes, boycott and other disturbances Accord
ing to Col. Carroll D. Wright, of the Labor Bu-
reau, we had a million of idle laborers, conse
quently when Knights of Labor stopped work.
which they had right to do, they found to their
amaZement, just as many men ready to take the
s@an 5 Raees as there Were PLACES Yaeant Then
the temptation to resort TO violence, and then to
riot. Then came an appeal, perhaps to courts or
to arbitration, but possibly to arms The great
question was, how did it happen that there were
enough men to take the places of strikers 1t
came from the fact that the products of our fac
tories, farms and mineS was more than we could
USE Last year we produced fifteen billion dol
lars worth OF goods, and exported only two per
cent OF the whole. We imported from Great Bri-
the cotton for which had been raised in the United
States. The last tariff commission made reduc-
tlon OF from 16 to SO per cent in the duty on cot
ton goods That increased importation, but
stopped work. The present Morrison tariff bill
proposed another reduction of from 16 to 33 per
cent of the duty, and if it passes the importation
OF cotton goods instead of $37 100000, will be-
come $75,U00,000 year. Last year we imported
$40 ,0OO, 900 worth of Woolen goods, S40,O0u 900
worth OF iron and steel manufactures, and ST.
600 900 of linen goods, every dollars worth of
winch we could Just as well have made in the
United States. If we had made those goods here
CoI; wright would not have been able to say one
million OF our people were out of employment
and the President would not have been obliged
TO send message to Congress for a commission
OF arbltrati0n. Mr., Frye then proceeded to show
that Tor every surplus yard of cloth in the United
STATES there was surplus OF 10 yards in Eng
land and that France, Germany, Russia, etc.. had
tariffs against us. Where then, he asked could
we sell our surplus manufactures. We could send
them to Mexico and to Central and South Ameri-
ca which needed them and whose products we
needed in return. The Argentine Republic three
years ago appropriated $96 900 for the carriage
of its mails to the United States but the Demo
cratic party of the United States and the post
master general refused to pay more than $4,000
to carry the United States mails to the Argentine
Republic. wy
Mr.. Reck replied that the reason why England
could trade with South America was that In re-
turn for English goods England took copper, wool