The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-05
debate on the POStoffice APP
preparation Bill.
SPEECH OF SENATOR PLUMB.
--...,tt,n and Free LabOr-Amert-
can and English shiPs-The
Bill Passed.
SENATE

ne secretary VI Inc OuAO ~SSA7'S
.nvestIgation committee regarding the
-,rin.ing of the report that the commit
ZEE recently submitted to the United
states Senate. The letter states that on
Examining the copy printed by order OF
The Senate it finds that surrepu1ous
INTERPOLATION have been made IN the
COPY furnished the printer. The mat
tsr interpolated not being IN the orlgl-
nal COPY sent to the Senate by the ONO
House OF Representatives. The inter
oOiation, the secretary says, lis OF mat
Ter intended to reflect on the good
=aith of the majority of the Ohio com
mittee.
ON motion of Hoar the letter was re-
erred 10 the committee on privileges
ana elections, and the matter was
ordered represented in a correct form
and the distribution of the incorrect
copy ordered stopped.
After the passage OF a number OF
rriTate bills. The post Office appropria-
ION bill was laid before the Senate.
Call favored a proposal to appropriate
800. 600 for the carriage of United
states mails to Central and South
America, Japan, China. etc. He did
not regard it as subsidy.
Salisbury opposed the proposition.
Hale said, according to Beck's ex-
p,anation given yesterday, the post Of
ice department was more culpable than
he first supposed. as 70 the leaving at
Pernambuco of large body of Rio ia
NERO mails. From Beck's explanation,
Hale said, 1t would seem the Postmas.
ter-General had sent the mails by an
English steamer, while knowing they
3 long way this side their destination,
ana would have to await there the
coming Of the United States steamer for
Brazil. Hale could see no stronger IL
,ustratiOn Of the preference of the Post
master-General for foreign over Amer
:can ships. since he had sent the mails
Part the way by foreign ships.
Plumb said no Senator had shown
that the sum per mile provided for by
he amendment was too much. The
1rODOsed arrangement for foreign mails
Eas not based on the theory that il was
4 subsidy. but that we should apply to
orr foreign mails the principle that had
ior many years been applied to the
transportation OF the inland mails OF the
United States. Mr.. Plumb asked how
We we're to be benefited by the proposed
arrangement. The Southern States
Tould be the beneficiaries Of this propo-
sition, 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 to-day was the
south Of Calhoun, Of IanceY, and OF
Jefferson Davis.
Morgan interposed TO comment on
e unfairness, as he called it, of this
e - 49, \
he debate. The southern men, he
aid, had no opportunity to reply to 1t.
Plumb said no Senator should be cHt
tine At least, Plumb's vote would be
cast for a full opportunity of reply.
The south of to-day, in the national
control, he continued, responded to the
wishes. interests and princip, inocu-
.sted by Calhoun. enforced by Yancy
2nd represented to-day by jefferson
Davis. He (Plumbl did not speak o
that as in any sense personally of
lslsive or as qualifying the personal
sincerity of the men.
Morgan remarked that no such i'm /
pGtatiOn or accusation has the slightest /
otense for him. Every name men |
lOned by Plumb was cOnsecrated in |
Aorgan's memory as the name of an 1
honorable and great man. He hoped /
he State OF Kansas might some time /
OF other produce such q character /
as Calhoun, Yancy or Davis.
Plumb retorted that Morgan had |
hat aspiration for Kansas all to him /
self. Plumb would not take |
one leaf FROM the chaplets of |
any man as an honorable, sincere, hon.
ess OF able man. but these men repre-
sented the south of slavery, the south
nat did not want free labor; so the
s9uth took up to-day the burden of
nat song where it left off in 1861, yield
ing 70 the same determination against
Zee labor. 1t was the old doctrine in
-aEor OF capital and against labor. The
"a Pitallst. with his Golfers filed, and
oeueylng IN the law of supply and de-
.Ianu' as applied to labor like every
.Iiiiis else, said: Give me a right
where 1 can buy c6eanlv the
products of labor of other Countries
and don't care about American
a0or. the south, Plumb said. would |
never take Its proper place in the GAL
Ky OF states, or perform its part as
IVA! N the race for progress as long as
: SAID there should be no labor on the
UP or farm, that should realize that il
"a ehttled to good wages or to the as
~ lSiOh OF Its rights. The south had
seheEed manufacturers. That was the
81 oy which she had been conquered.
~e South had been valiant ard de
Sm a but had no mechanics. no
slied artisans who could make
Spienents OF warfare or means
transportation on land or
= Plum, however, had no
ny. 9t there was to be a new
"a deposits. Our nation sbonId he
~ % defend itself. 1t should have
~: cement Of defense established
5eff.sl it-eii. and while Plumb did not
az IN protection for projections
sas' !et whatever the tariff cost us
tbs insignificant in compariso With
on o., oehefts it conferred in buiiG. up
skinsS1S pacity for defense, in giving us
Wi,s l, artisans and many WORKSHOPS.
Nose We could hold the world in i