The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-04

iconrse they shad perfec
. fright to ~sdo it,. Some O
them were the mostssiistinguished me
in the United States; some of them wer
candidates for high.oshees; the secon,
cfice of government might go to..a di
:: rector of the Canadian Pacific. Scr
man here read g list of the offices ant
directors of the eOad among the dinec
tors appearing the snemes of Levi i
= Morton and WRham L. Scott. GormaI
lGuhmitted thatit ia time for the Amer
can Congress. withoutfegard to party
TO Eecognize this condition of affairs.
/ Mitchell, interEupting, said, if Tx
Senator from Maqyland had faken th;
| trSnhie to read the names Il the dtfec-
tors % western road which had lately
fallen into the bands of the Canadian
4 Pacific. he wound have fouad the name
Of the ckairman of the Democratic Ma
y tioual Executive Coz mittee.
i GoTmsa said he had no daAbt of it but
that gentleman was aot condidate
4 for office. He did not believe theirs
4 ought TO be any parGsanship in this
j question, but as the Senator from
\ oregon bFenght,it out so pointeGly, he
desired to express the belief &hat no
| mSu-who il acandidate 10, high office,
whether he DE Democrat or Repub-
licana who, IL elected, migat become
President OF the United States. could
| properly ACCEPT of the Office nntii ne
had pEreed hiRaSelf of every interes: In
a British enterprise. 1t was not q
question Of pol tics, and be had Esq
brought it in for political purposes.
The Canadian Pacific Railway was
reaching into the United States By the
purchase or building of railroads 10
4 hi fHn
from Sau!t Ste Marie to DnlutI
| and Minneapolis, which were to be
feeders 10 the Canadian Pacific. In
| addition to all that, the British govern
ment or the Canadian government re-
Gently subsidized line of steamers 10
China and Japan for the purpose of'se-
curing commerce between those
countries and the United States, and
Europe. Whatever might be the exact
facts IN these III alters, all the Senators
would Rgree that whatever could 0e
done consistently With the relations be.
tween the two governments and under |
the Constitution Of the United States |
onght TO be done so that the commerce
between China and japan and the !!
United States shall be carried Oh |!
American roads instead OF Canadian |
roads. The purpose of the recent sub |
sidy OF 100000 year to line Of three !
s:es nships on the Pacific from |
the western terminate Ct the |
Canadian Pacific, was to give |
to the Canadian Pacific business, which |
would naturally come 10 the Union |
Pacific, Northern >Pac' &c or Southern ]
Pa ,ifio. and the result SO fer has been !
that ~ percent. Of the tea consumed In
this country was carried by the Ca
naoisn Pacific.
Ho2r inquired ss to the fact @! the
steamers being Co aYertible
into ships of var.
Etmunds-The British goYeromen.
aiways requires that.
Mitehell-I can give smother item.
This subsidized line OF steamers is
bringing in Chinese at the rate o. coo
a month, and they are flowing down in
8 very. great variety Of streams into
the United States through British
OQlgDbla.
a lengthy discussion, principally of 4
political nature, then eDsued between
Edmupds and German During Tia Coll |
tinusnce Edmunds said there vas one
thing that might be taken as true on
both sides of the chamber and that Was,
that the physical geography OF the
globe could not be changed either
by tae st. Louis or Chicago
platforms or by President Cieve-
land or his successor, President
Harrison. If goods could be carried
cheaper between Liverpool and Hong
Kong across Canada, commerce you'd
seek that route, but besides the ply 81
cal facts OF geography, the physcalD
condition q he climate played it, pat
3lG no government could change It,
He believed therefore that his Aonor =
allie friend, Go.0ian, was Immensely
wrong in sssyy!ag that the Canadian
Pacific. line, whether going by through |.
l!de OF MT, 0nul! e{ compete wi b
re American Pacific lines without 60
n 30 ruin Unless sustained from its
There Were seven
months in year when the Transports
ton af a million chests OF tea Or mil
lion boxes of silks would not cost half
as much by American lines as by other
lines ana when to that was added the
fact that the Americans we're capable
OF doing, and were doing, an I'M
mense local business, any American
citizen WHO lashed himself into great
fever on the subject of competition TO
Asiatic trade, was falling into an i'm
Ul6AS6 uSitSluus Id WAS hTu0 ludb Eu
long IS money could be found to run
tie Canadian line t q los, and to earrvi
goods at half the cost, it might be done
and the United States could not help it.
1t had to be said, however, that the c n
trast between the governments of the
United States and Great Britain,
in regard tc encouraging trade.
commerce and manufactures, was
very great. The British government
subsidized railways and steamships
and established colonies and cor sulates
and resented any instant reparation for
wrongs tn its subjects The govern
ment Of the United States as at present
constituted did not do that.
Culom closed the discus sion, declsr-
ing in conc usion that ifit was ne es
sary Il at the flag of the American ma
ton should float over Canada in order
to protect the American peopls.
he should he in favor Of
1t before the subject was got
through. A resolu ion was then
adopted without division and
resolution yesterday fixing the hour Il
delayed meeting at II q. m. wss
.adopted-yeas "a, nays % (aparty vote1
and a resolution offered byGrat thsa I