The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-07
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, February 6.-Considera-
ton of the conference report on the
Nicaragua Canal bill was resumed, it
being agreed that the debate should DO
closed at 8 o'clock.
Nelson, of Minnesota, opposed the
conference report.
Chapman, of Michigan, said he
favored the bill ~ it csmo from the
Senate. He had not favored it as it
passed the House, the amendments
which had been placed upon 1t having
served to emRsculats il. They had been
incorporated on the idea that the
United States should be free from en-
tangling alliances, and that it should
isolate itself. The day for i,slation
had passed. Voices from all parts Of
| the world were warning the United
States on this. Voices from the 18th
mus, from Canada, from Samoa, from
wherever foreign nations had planted
their flags, attempt to make it imprac-
| ticable for an American enterprise to
place itself in foreign countries, but it
was too late. We are carrying our hag
into that region of Central America
We are carrying it with the endorse
ment of this government. We have
put ourselves where. though we may
not be pecunisrly liable,
WE SHALL BE MORALLY RESPONSIBLE
for the safety and protection of great
American enterprise, which will help TO
spread our country over the world. 1,
for one, hope this step is only preluds
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and We. as people, will plant our feet
in those regions, and when our flag
shall wave over the stats of Nicaragua
as State of the United States of Amer
lea. Applause.
Dingley, Of Maine favored the report.
O'Neill, of Missouri, said he was in
receipt of many kilograms from prom
insut men in st. Louis in favor of the
bill. He had no extreme sensitiveness
concerning the bondholders. The
trouble with the American people was
@ lack of self-assertion. They wers
continually quibbling and afraid to do
this or that on account of the conse
quence. The greatest nation should be
the first to lead giant enterprises, and
conservative,
NossBAcR Statesmen NEED NOT 81
| ALAhhhD.
Scott. of Pennsylvanla, said tho gen
tleman from Alabama (Cobb) had sup
plemented his constitutional argument
by an expression OF the interest he took
in the lambs Of Europe. and for fear
Congress mlght do something by which
those lambs would be invsiglsd into the
investment and lose their money. II
the lambs of Europe, a. represented the
Barous Rothschild and other great
banking houses, were not able to take
care of themselves and look out for
themselves, he did not think the Con,
gress of the Uni. ed States could,
Cleary. of Missouri, closed the debate
in support OF the conference report, and
it was agreed to-yeas ". nays go.
MARINE AND EIsHERIKs.
The COMMITTEES on merchant marine
and fisheries reported resolution call
ing on the Secretary of the Treasury
for information as to what orders were
given to the commander of the United
States revenue cutter Rush, in regard
to the protection OF the seal fisheries il
Behring's Sea, in the spring and sum
mar of 1s8 and whether such insiuction
offer from those given the same COM
mander in the spring and summer
of 1887, and if so, what reasons existed
for any material change in such in.
struc ions. Adopted.
The House then took O recess, tn,
evening session to be for the consiGera.
ton of the bills reported from the com
mittee on Indian affairs.
EVENING SESSION. 2
Peel. of Arkansas, called up tn,
House bill to divide a portion of tn,
reservation of the Sioux Indians in Da