The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE remon-
STRANGE of the board of trade of Jackson,
Tenn, against the federal election bill, was
presented by Harris. The.Senate resumed
consideration of the two shipping bills and
was addressed by Vest. He spoke at
length against subsidy bills, showing how
former subsidies ended IN failure and
scandal, and illustrated his argument by
reference to some subsidized steamship
lines He predicted that subsidies would
never bring a dollar of foreign commerce.
to the country.
He was followed by Stewart who gave
it as his opinion of the plan proposed that
it was only a mode of reviving the ocean
carrying trade; that free ships would de-
stroy American Shipbulldlng yards WithouE
affording relief.
George then spoke in opposition to the
bills.
Vest said he would like the Senator from
Maine Frye to explain how 1t was there
was time when the United States with
out dollar of subsidies, when the country
was undeveloped and Just emerged from a
colonial condition, had grappled with Great
Britain and came near wrestling from her
the control of the ocean carrying trade. he
quoted from a speech of Daniel Webster
| to the effect that the success Of the Ameri-
can merchant marine had not come from
protection or country but from skill, perse-
| V6r6ncG ana ccOQOulN. ut SLOWCU bu6D
| former subsidies had ended in failure.
and scandal and summed up the whole
question by reading an extract from a
speech by Representative Cannon showing
expenditures of over twenty-one million
dollars in subsidies between 1S4S and 1873,
and asserting that 81, 100000 would buy all
the American steamships then afioat- A
dearth of commerce followed the nag.
| Vest said it was a monster fallacy. He
alluded to the Interpolation in the British
parliament as the Mckinley bill and said
that as soon as England found she could
dispense with American products she
|, would do so and yet, he said,
all that American statesmanships aimed at
was to put I'D duties against Great Britain
He predicted that subsidies would never
bring a dollar of foreign commerce to the
country They would enrich the men who
got contracts and there would be repetl-
, ton of the same old scandals that has at
tended the expenditure OF s2l,OOO,OOO IN
subsidies, an expenditure which has left
D the country to day with the shipping aDso-
3 lutely dead
! Stewart gave it as his opinion that the
: plans proposed in the pending bills was the
ONLY mode of reyiving the ocean carrying
trade of the United States and that free
ships would simply destroy American ship
/, building yards without afording any re-
= lief.
n Harris offered an amendment Providing
a that the total charges to any vessel sailing
/, between any American port and foreign
I. ports should in no case exceed the sum
Il paid by vessels for the same class and ton
n mage between such foreign ports and the
d nearest american port thereto. Rejected
i yeas. 81; nays, 81, party vote
q Teller offered an amendment providing
4 that no vessel be entitled to payment undei
= the act that makes any discrimination be
'e tween or gives unequal facilities to compe
1t titiye Transportation lines in receiving o
n forwarding freight or baggage at an.
'e American port or at any foreign port
Agreed to. A vote was then taken on TIL
70 amendment offered yesterday by Vest pro
Id viding for free ships for the foreign trade
$ but not for lake or coast trade Rejected
ne yeas. IS: nays, %; strict party vote.
le The tonnage subsidy bill was the
I'll passed. yeas 80; nays Is. The only exceI
as ton to a strict party vote were those o
en- Payne voting with the Republicans for th
n bill. and Edmunds and Plumb with th
ne Democrats against it. A vote was the
nc taken on tee Plumb subsida bill and
ne passed, yeas, IS; nays. 16, Payne votin
us ave, Edmunds nay, and Plumb not voting
et On motion of Merrill, the tariff bill wa
a taken up and made unfinished business.
OF After executive session the Senate az
VI journed.