Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-24
ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
A Lite Girl Lights a Fire With Coal
Oil and is Burned to Death.
ENGLAND AFTER OUR COMMERCE.
The Danger that Threatens San
Francisco from the British
Trade Policy.
ENGLAND AFTER OUR COMMERCE.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE axOoRDun1Oz.
OUR COMMERCE.
The Effort of England to Take the Trade
From San Francisco.

The Effort of England to Take the Trade
From San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, July 23d-The regular
quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, which was postponed from last Tues
day, was held in the rooms at the Mer-
chants Exchange this afternoon. The
attendance was not large, when the i'm
portance of the subjects which it was an
nounced would take place is taken into
consideration.
The President. Ira P. Rankin, was not
present, and Captain Goodall, the Vice
President, is suffering with a severe cod,
SO Colonel Taylor presided.
After the reading of the minutes of the
last quarterly meeting the reply of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to President Rankin's
inquiry respecting Consular certificates. to-
gether with Colonel Mosby's opinion, were
read.
Captain Merry moved that the Chairman,
at his leisure, appoint three merchants who
are importers, and therefore interested in
the matter. 10 act as suggested. The Cap
tain said he understood there was some
| $3.50 600 year involved. The opinions of
Colonel Mosby and the Secretary of the
| Treasury seemed to clash. The committee
will look carefully into the matter. and
protect the interests of the community in
that regard. The motion was unanimously
carried.
Hon. w. w. Morrow and Professor
| George Davidson were elected honorary
members.
The communication of Captain Merry in
reference to the aggression of British cor
porations on American commerce was
read.
FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The Captain, in support of his resolution
said he desired to make few remarks
He said:
British foreign commerce is controlled
by Board of Trade, whose President is a
Cabinet officer. Consequently British leg
islation on this subject has been consid-
cred, and in pursuance of policy which
! has been in effect for several hundred
years. Our legislation on this subject
hes been extremely desultory, and in &C.
cordance with the feelings of Congress at
the time it was passed, and consequently
without system. In fact, we at one time
developed our foreign commerce without
any legislation at all.
England's policy at the present time is to
divert the entire commerce of the Pacific
Ocean to the end of the Canadian Pacific
line, and to establish network of steam
ship lines to take the commerce away from
San Francisco and the United States.
What are we going to do to prevent this
policy from being successfully carried out :?
One thing we can do is to establish lines of
steamships, which, by reason of subsidies
! from the Government, shall be independ-
ent of any other earning, excepting that
from passengers and what may be termed
express freight.
Captain Merry then went on to ask why
the American policy, as applied to coast
wise commerce, is not also applied to for
eign commerce
THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OF THE COAST.
"The British" he said, intend to make
Victoria the commercial center of the coast,
and they intend to strive for this object
Their statesmen have in view large metro
polls at that point. And, again, collision
is liable to take place at any time Our
navy is not worthy of the name. Great
Britain is building numerous cruisers
yearly. We are two or three years in fin
ishing one vessel. We are not building at
a rate that can even be mentioned in COM
parison with the vigorous activity dis
played by European powers in naval mat
| tiers.
I'VE have here commercial question
that must be met. If we do not grapple
with this matter and successfully we are
not worthy of the name of citizens, and we
deserve to have the grass grow in our
streets and our commerce to depart from US
forever" [Applause
The resolutions, after remarks BY Captain
Goodall and Hugh Craig, were UNANIMOUSLY
adopted. These resolutions call for COM
mercial convention to discuss the questions
at issue.