Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-05
MAILS IN YANKEE SHIPS.
,THE 100000 PROPOSITION
PASSES THE SENATE.

Plumb ReDuked for Disparaging the
Fair Names of Three of Dixie's
Greatest Ieaders-Need of Me
cbanics and Manufactures in the
south--synopsis OF the Votes.
WASHINGTON, April AT O'Clock
today the post Office appropriation bill
gas laid before the Senate. Mr.. Call
favored the proposal to appropriate
$500 900 for carrying the United States
mails to Central and South America,
China, Japan, etc. He did not regard it
asa subsidy. 1t was necessary, he said,
10 the establishment of commercial rela-
lions with those countries that we should
have regular and speedy mail communi-
cation with them.
No, Plumb said no Senator had shown
that the sum per mile provided for 0y the
amendment was too much. The same
Senators who objected to this amendment
in favor of our foreign mail, were here IA
voFing the apple OF an amendment
embodying the same principle for last
train from the Eastern States TO Florida.
NOT INTENDED AS A SUBSIDY.
The proposed arrangement for foreign
mails was not based on the theory that 1T
Was d subsidy, but that we should apply
70 our foreign mails the principle that
had for many years been applied to the
transportation of the inland mails OF the
United States. Dir. Plumb asked who
was to be benefited by the present ar,
rangement. The Southern States would
be the beneficiaries of this PROPOSE
ton. The cities and harbors of
the South were so placed that
they would naturally become the
mouth-pieces by which the United States
should speak to the peoples south Of
them. The southern States were now max
ing the cheap cottons, wanted by Central
and south America. Yet the Senators
from the Southern states were opposing
this proposition. They did not speak the
language OF modern progress or modern
civilization. The South OF to-day was the
South OF Calhoun, OF Yancey and OF Jeffer-
1On Davis.
MR.. MORGAN PROTESTS.
Mr.. Morgan interposed to comment on
the unfairness. as he called it. of this
class OF argument at this late stage OF the
debate. Southern men, he said, had no
opportunity to reply to it.
Mr.. PLUMB said no Senator should be
cut off from reply, by limitation of time
nj least Mr. Plumb's vote would be cast
for full opportunity tor a reply. The
South Of to-day in national control, he
continued, responded to the wishes, in-
teTests and principles iucuicated by Cal
houn. infOrced by ancey, and represent
ed to-day by Jefferson Davis. He
(Mr. Plumb) did not speak Of that as
in any sense personally offensive, or as
qualifying the personal sincerity of men.
ALL HoNORED MEN.
Mr.. Morgan remarked that no such i'm
parchment or accusation had the slightest
personal oisuss for him. Every name
mentioned by Mr.. Plumb was consecrated
in Mr.. MOrgan's memory as the name of
an honorable and great man. He hoped
the state OF Kansas might some time or
other produce such character as Cal
hOUn, Yancey, or Davis.
Mr. Plumb reuorted that Mr.. Morgan
had that as piratiOn tor Kansas all TO him.
self. Mr.. Plumb would not take one leaf
from the chaplet of any man as an honor
able, sincere, honest or able man, but
those men represented the South of
slavery, a South that did not want free
labor. SO thu South took up to-day the
burden ~ .>-,A & where it left of in
1861 yielding -. ~ same determination
against free -
CAPI.s a. AND LABOR.
1t was the old doctrine in favor of capt.
tai against labor. The capitalist with
his Golfers filed and BELIEVING in the la "
OF supply and demand as applied to labor
like everything else SAID, "GiYe me the
right to buy my ships where / please
where can buy cheaply the products of
the labor of other countries, ard | don't
care about American labor" The
South, MI. Plumb said, would never take
its proper place in the galaxy OF States, or
perform It's part as a rival IN the race for
progress as long as it said that there
should be no labor on snip or farm that
should rea ize that it was entitled to good
wages, or 70 the assertion of its rights.
The South had esche " ed manufactures.
That was the sign by which she had been
conquered.
LACK OF MECHANICS.
The South had been valiant and de-
termined, but had no mechanics and no
skilled artisans who could make imple-
ments OF warfare or means Of transpOrta-
ton on land or sea. Mr.. Plumb, however,
had no doubt that there was 10 be new
South that Won Id develop its coal and
iron deposits. Our nation should be able
to defend itself. Ii should have every
element Of defense established within
Itself, aud while MIR. Plumb did
not believe IN protection for protectors
sake, yet whatever the tariff cost us was
insignificant in comparison with the
dement's 1t conferred in building up our
capacity Tor defense, in giving us skilled
artisans and many workshops. With
those we could hold the world IN defiance.
the debate then closed and voting began,
A number OF amendments were offered to
the proposition Of the committee. Mr..
Pugh endeavOred, without success. to Sc
cure an appropriation Of $4,000 FOR better
mail facilities between Mobile and selma
Mr.. Morgan endeavored, also without
success. To secure an amendment where
by SHIPS belonging to American citizens
and manned by Americans might come
within the provisions OF the clause.
HOW IT READS.
The committees provision for foreign
malls, as finally amended by the Senate
ana agreed TO, reads as follows:
For the sportation OF foreign mails
oy American buIt and registered steam
snips to secure greater frequency and reg
uiarity IN dispatch, and greater speed i'm
tne carriage Of such mails TO Brazil, Mex
lc0, Central and South Ameri-
ca, the Sandwich, West India
ana MHndward islands. New CaledOni a
sew Zealand and the Australian colonies,
Chlha and Japan, $500, 900, and the Post
master General IL authorized to make,
aloer que advertisement for proposals,
such contract or contracts with the own
ers OF American steamships for teru o
not less tnan three or more than five
years and at rate Of compensation not
exceeding SOC. per nautical mile on
me trip each way actually Travelled be-
wen terminal points in the
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