The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-04
discussing the POStOffce APP
preparation Bill.
,7ROCITIES BY THE APACHES.
c.,srmations by the senate-EiGh hi
Hours in Denver and Eight
s5 the Bay.
SENATE

.,aster-Gelerai fOr MS failure TO exc cute
ne law passed by Congress. There was,
L said. no excuse.
Mr. Colquitt opposed the amendment.
Mr.. Beck desired TO explain the Incl
dent referred to b. Mr.. Hale on Friday
relating 10 seventy-twO bags Of Ameri-
can mail for Rio Ianeiro. said to have
been dumped on the dock at Pernam-
HUGO. Mr.. Beck said he had been told by
swell-infOrmed officer of the Postoffice
DEPARTMENT that the mail referred to was
moi sent by any ocean tramp" as had
been alleged, but by ship OF the Red
Cross Line of mail steamers. which
made regular trips from New York to
PernambucO. and which had been
regularly employed by the pOstoffice
department for the past ten years.
Mails for Rio Janeiro had been sent
regularly BY that line to Pernambuco,
there to connect with the Brazilian
nail steamer for their destination.
After the transaction of unimportant
b-siness, the Senate took up the post
cice appropriation bill, and Mr.. Vest
rOceeded to speak upon the amend
nsnt appropriating $4,000 for the
transportation Of foreign mails. He
maintained that the provisions would
5rOve destructive to the American
AEIElaLA IL was nOn PAO-
used to change the existing statutes
vhich permits competition and substi-
lIe in its place q declaration that
zone but an American steamship
shall carry the mails. To-day, he said.
ve have but two routes. upon which
there are more than two lines of steam
ships-Ole from San Francisco
10 England, and one from New York to
Havana. No competition could come,
except on these two lines. He cited
statistics TO show that in recent years
We have Laid four times as much to
American steamships as to those of
other countries, for the transportation
OF foreign mails, yet our merchant
marine and our navy had steadily
dEindled away. Since 1866 Congrs IS
had appropriated 1885, 900, 900 for navy
purposes, and to-day We have these old
wooden hulks that would not last one
4alt-hOur before any single armed YES
SCI Of q second-class naval power. Chilli
had two ships built in England which
could reduce to ashes every seaport city
in the United States without receiving
injury. Italy also could send one yes
sci that could lombard our cities and
DESTROY our navy, and it would be only
amusement for the Italians.
Mr.. Mcpherson said the English to
dav subsidized q mail line to South
America 10 the extent of $4,000. He
asked Mr.. Vest how he would get the
trade of South America against such
Odds?
Vest said he would repeal our infa-
nous navigation laws. No other civil
Ezsi nation had such laws. He would
rsigrm the tariff and put It on a reve
1-s basis, so as not TO handicap
o-s man for the advantage of
another. He believed in an honest
nail service, but this amendment
violated the sound principle So welded
we're Republicans 20 the protective tariff
that they we're unwilling TO break even
one link IN the chain of protection, but
they were compelled 10 acknowledge
that after q long season Of protection a
change was indispensable. Mr.. Vest
read printed notice from a so-called
Buckingham" whose name was not
printed. The wOrkingman, among
other things, said that all Congressman
isYoring a low tariff were not the
friends of workingmsn. Mr.. Vest said
he would forfeit years salary in the
Senate if that alleged 'workingman"
did not turn out to be a man who wore
three story silk hat, diamond studs and
French boots There was no doubt,
too. that the '.workingman" boarded at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel and his board
was paid by the manufacturers and
ship-buIlders of this country, who
wanted q high protective tariff con-
tinued.
Mr.. Eustis wished Mr.. Vest had ex-
planned his idea of subsidy" He
did not think Mr.. Vests position a con-
Slsient one. He (Mr. Eustis) did not
see how Mr.. Vest could reconcile his
opposition to a subsidy with his intro
ducuon Of bill TO guarantee the pay
ment OF So 800, 900 10 bald Eads' ship
railway on foreign soil. He (Mr. Kus-
uS1 inquired whether the United States
were to remain, in the future, as in
me past, with speeches-undOubtedly
able speeches-on the subject of
Tree ships and free trade, while
our commerce with the south and
central America was stationary. Must
We De content TO see all the other
nations Of the earth supplying the
markets Of those countries, while we
listened 10 Speeches2 Why, even Italy.
natlon born but yesterday, had closer
anu peter commercial relations with
me nations south OF US. Ships, Mr.
Eusus said, were not like wagons, not
outstanding the assertion of Mr.. Beck.
me question OF our shipping and
sOIeign Trade relations was one different
rom mat OF local manufactures. Ship
ping represented TO the other people
the earth the power and prestige
the nation. Our people believed,
ae added. that the trade countries
VI TINS continent belonged 10 US
1hd could be had with a little effort.
was not political question. The
fgest subsidies ever granted by the
@IReTlcan Government were granted by
democratic Administration.
sitter an executive session the Senate
sc!ourued.