The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-03
A MERCHANT MARINE
The Senate Debates the Question
Of Subsidies.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Transmitting Letter From Secretary Blaine
Regarding the Establishment of Lines
of Steamers TO South America.

WASHINGTON, July Plumb, from the
committee on public lands, reported the Sen
ate bill to provide Tor the delivery of land
patents to their rightful owners, and asked
for Its immediate consideration. State
ments were made by Plumb, Paddock and
Berry that there were some two hundred
and fifty thousand land patents accumu-
lated in the general land office fer which
those entitled TO them had not applied; ;
that thrifty firm of Washington attor-
neys had been permitted to have lists made
of them; that they had then communicated
with persons entitled to them, notifying
them that they could get their patents on
the payment of certain fee; that this was
a collision between the assistant commits
sioner who was then assistant secretary
of the interior acting as commissioner,
and this law nrm; and that the bill was
designed to Illustrate that job. The bill
was then passed. 1t directs the secretary
OF the interior to send to the recorder of
deeds in each county in which the lands so
patented lie lists of land patents in that
county that have been in the general land
Office of the United States for twelve
months.
Hiscock called up his motion to recon
slider the vote by which the Senate yester-
day refused TO recede from its amendments
to the legislative appropriation bill. The
motion was agreed to and after debate the
Senate receded from the amendments. The
bill now goes to the President.
The Senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of two Senate bills reported from the
committee on commerce to place the Amer
lean merchant marine in foreign trade upon
an equality with that of other nations and
to provide for an ocean mail service be-
tween the United States and foreign parts
and to promote said service
Frye said the first bill was a bounty on
tonnage and the second was known as the
postal subsidy bill. He declared that I'm
Hess Congress did something to aid Ameri
can ships and that speedily, there would
| soon not be single steamship line travers
| ing the ocean carrying the American flag
not one. He was not going tc
discuss the tariff in connection
with these bills. There (referring to the
the American carrying trade) was a dead
| body. He wanted to know whether it was
worth while to resurect it and bring it tc
life. He could not understand the inner
most thoughts and feelings of the Ameri
can citizen who could listen to statement
of the facts about the foreign carrying
trade and not feel an impulse to go bacl
once more on the ocean where the United
.Strtes stood in such proud conspicuous
ness thirty years ago. The American car
rying trade was dead for want of protec-
ton; it was the only great American in
dustry of which the same could be said
The people of the United States had palt
fifty millions year to keep alive the suga
growing industry, Six millions yea
would revive the dead body of the Ameri
can merchant marine and keep it on tn,
ocean.
Vest addressed the Senate in opposition
to the subsidy bills. The foreign carry
ing power was languishing and almos
dead, but so was the cattle trade. And We
if he were to propose a subsidy for tn
cattle trade the proposition would be al
tackled as the most monstrous ever heard
He went on to speak of the Pan Amer L
congress as chestnut "a back mum
j ber." 1t was half made up when the Han
rison administration came into eXisteuc
and tie restless and ambitious spirit c
the present secretary of state seized upo
it and concluded to parade it before tn
country as great and phenomenal diplc
matte victory. The leaders of the Repul
lican party had always advocated thence:
: sity of dong away with foreign commerce,
but sudden and marvellous change ha
come. The Senator from Maine wanted t
give subsidies to vessels in the foreig
trade so as to bring about increased trad
, not only with the South American state
but also with all European countries an
the world at large. The effect, Vest sale
of substituting any particular line was I
discourage all Others Vest yielded til
floor without concluding his speech, an
! Frye said he hoped to have the Senate az
tomorrow on both bills, as he intended {
call up the river and harbor bill Monda,
After executive session, adjourned.