, 1890-07-03

WASHINGTON, July Plumb, from
the committee on public lands. reported
the senate bill to provide for the delivery
of land patents to their rightful owners.
and asked for its immediate considera-
ten. Statements were made by Plumb,
Paddock and Berry that there were 250.-
900 land patents accumulated in the gen.
eral land Office for which those entitled to
them had not applied; that a thrifty firm
OF Washington attorneys had been per-
mittsd to have lists made of them; that
they had then communicated with the
persons entitled to them, notifying them
that they could get their patents on the
payment of a certain fee; that this was
an act of COLLISION etween the assistant
commissioner (who was then assistant
secretary of the interior acting as som
missioner) and this law firm. 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 city in which
the lands SO patented lie, lists of land
patents in that county that have been in
the general land Office uncalled for for
twelve months.
Hiscock called up his motion to recon.
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day refused to recede from its amend
ments to the legislative appropriation bill.
The motion was agreed to, and after de-
bate the senate receded from its amend
ments. The bill now goes to the presi-
dent
The senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of the two senate bills reported from
the committee on commerce to place the
American merchant marine, engaged in
thef foreign trade, upon an equality Sitn
that of other nations. and to provide for
ocean mail service between the United
States and foreign ports, and to promote
the service.
Frye said the first bill was a bounty on
tonnage, and the second was known as
the postal subsidy bill He declared that
unless congress did something to aid
American ships. and that speedily, there
would soon not be a single steamship line
traverslng the oceans carrying the Ameri-
can flag. He was no going to discuss
the tariff in connection with the bills.
That (reterring to the American carrying
trade) was a dead body. He wanted to
urrect it, bring life into it. He couldn't
understand the innermost thoughts and
feelings of the American citizen who
could listen to a statement of facts about
the foreign carrying trade and not feel an
impulse TO go back once more on the
ocean,, where the United States stood in
such proud conspicuousness thirty years
ago. The American carrying trade was
dead for wan of protection. 1t was the
only great American industry of which
the same could be said. The people of
the United States had paid $50, 900, 900 a
year to keep alive the sugar-growing in
dustry of the United States; &c, 900, 900
a year would revive the dead body of the
American merchant marine and keen it
on the ocean,
Vest addressed the senate in opposi-
ton to the subsidy bills. The foreign
carrying power was languishing and al
most dead, but so was the cattle trade;
and yet, if he were to propose a subsidy
for the cattle trade, the proposition would
be attacked as the most monstrous ever
heard: He went on to speak of the Pan
American congress as a "chestnut''-a
back number. 1t was halfmade up when
the Harrison administration came into
existence, and the restless and ambitious
spirit of the present secretary of state
seized upon it and concluded to parade it
before thecountry as a great and phenom-
email Diplomatic victory. The leaders of
the Republican party had always advo-
Gated the necessity of doing away with
foreign commerce. but a sudden
and marvellous change had come. The
senator from Maine wanted to give sub
sides to vessels in the foreign trade 80 as
to bring about increased trade, not only
with the South American states, but also
with all European countries and the
world at large. The effect, Vest said. of
substituting any particular line was to
discourage all others. Vest yielded the
floor without concluding his speech, and
FRYE said he hoped to have the senate act
tomorrow OF both bills, as he intended to
call up the river and harbor bill Monday.
Adjourned.