Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-14
The Tariff Laid Aside.
Congressmen Working at the
 Appropriations.
DISCUSSING MAIL SUBSIDIES.

MT. Dolph Vigorously Opposes the Fish cries Treaty in the Senate-He Says This Country Ha, No Reason to Fear Great Britain.
 WASHINGTON, July 1.-The house passed yesterday in debating the mail subsidy clause ill the postoffice appropriation bill.
 MT. Blount, of Georgia, presented the con- ference report on the postoffice appropriation bill An agreement had been reached on all amendments excepting the senate mail sub sidy amendment. The rate of postage on seeds, bulbs and roots had been fixed at one cent for each two ounces. The report was agreed to.
 MT. Bingham then moved to concur in the senate subsidy amendment, with an amend ment reducing the appropriation from SS0O,- GOO to $450, 900; authorizing an increase of mail facilities to China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands and Australia, as well as to Central and South America, and providing that American ships carrying mails shall be al- lowed four times the present rate of compen- sation.
 The question presented, Mir. Bingham said was not one of subsidy or bonus but read justment of compensation under the law of 1858. Postage was the basis of compensation to steamships, and that basis had been radi- cally changed since 1858. Then the rate of postage to Great Britain was twenty-four cents; to France, fifty cents; to Germany thirty cents, while now the postage to these countries was but five cents, and it was not just to compensate the steamship companies now under the inaexible law of 1858. The conditions were different to-day, and a fair adjustment of compensation should be made.
 MT. Blount opposed the amendment and the subsidy system. England's subsidies, as a general rule, he said, had gone to her col onies and had been profitable, while the same system adopted by France and Germany had resulted in bankruptcy to their lines, and he was opposed to this country adopting any such policy.
 Mr. Dingley, of Maine, thought the amend ment proposed only fair and reasonable com pensation, and not subsidy, and unless some thing were done to increase compensation American steamship lines now running to | South and Central America and the east | would disappear entirely within five years. | Wise statesmanship demanded an increase in l our means of postal and commercial inter- l course with the leading countries of South l America.
 Mir. Holman opposed subsidies in general l and this ill particular.
 MT. Owen, of Indiana, favored the amend
  l interests of the country.
 l MT. Nelson, of Minnesota, said the govern ment had put the merchant marine in a sort l of straight jacket; it said to people wishing l to invest their capital ill ships: l You cannot engage in this enterprise un l less you buy American vessels" He referred to Norway, country so pool | that she could not subsidize a single ship, anc l yet with free trade and free ships she stooC | next to the Uuited States in tonnage anC l commerce.
 | MT. Cookery, of Missouri, argued agains subsidies and said the effect of the pending l amendment, if it became law, would be tx discourage the building of additional line and enable men like Jay Gould and Russell Sage to prevent competition to the Pacific Mall Steamship Company In the senate MT. Dawes presented a pro test of large number of wool manufactur CTS and dealers against the legislation pro posed in the Mills tariff bill. l Consideration of the fishery treaty was re stunned, and MT. George finished his speecl | (begun Thursday in favor of its ratification
 Mr. Dolph then spoke in opposition to tn treaty. Under the treaty of ISIS Great Bri tain, he said, had secured compromise b, which the fishing rights of this country hat been greatly restricted. The fishermen O
 
 operations of the Canadian governmen against American fishermen had been fla | grant violations of treaty rights, and hat l been resorted to for the purpose of driving the United States into the admission of ire fish.
 The pending treaty proposed to surrende l the American position concerning bays anC l harbors, and the American claim to recipro cal commercial privileges, and to purchas partial commercial privileges for American fishermen He quoted from Senator Nor gans speech in support of the retaliation ac of March, 1887, and, alluding to the fact tha | Republicans had been charged with beins | governed by political considerations in op posing the treaty, asked how we were to ac count for Senator Morgan's sudden change O. position on the question: Politics had caused it. The decree had gone forth that tie stat, department and the administration must b, supported in this matter.
 MT. Dolph did not fear war with Grea Britain, even if this treaty was rejected; tht sentiment of the two countries was in favo of peace, and peaceful means of settling diff ferences were so great as to prevent war. He was free to admit that with the exposed coasts of the United States, and with its un protected coastwise commerce, the country did not want war with Great Britain anC
 
 not afford war with the United States. A the call of even ths present pro-English ad ministration, in case of war, armed mel would spring into the field from every stat and territory to make the conquest of th Canadian provinces, and a few months O hostilities would find an American privatee on every sea where British merchant vesse was to be found. There were some thing more to be dreaded than war. When natiol basely yielded to unjust demOido it lost it own self respect and the respect of othe nations
 The Color Line in 8 Board of Education
 KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 14-Rev. J. Lawrence, an influential colored minister o this city, recently elected member of tn board of education, went into a meeting 0 the board, consisting of four white men an' himself The minister was quickly expelled although he is a legal member of the board