Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20
President Harrison and Wana-
maker Attend Services at
aPresbyterian Church. =
CONFERRING ABOUT CATTLE
A Number of Western Men Call Upon
RuSk and the Chief Magistrate.
PLEA FOR THE MERCHANT MARINE
The Presidents Speech in Favor Of Culti-
waiting the Southern Trade.
ADVOCATES NEW LINES AND NEW SHIPS

GALVESTON, April 19.-The President
and the members OF his party enjoyed a
much-needed rest at Galveston to-day.
While the people were desirous of showing
every honor and attention TO the Chief Mag
istrate, they respected his request. to be al
lowed to pass the day in quiet and repose,
and abandoned several demonstrations re-
served Tor to-day. He as we'll as all other
members of the party are loud in their
praises OF the unbounded hospitality of the
people of Texas. 1t is the first time that
the Chief Magistrate of the nation has ever
visited the State in his official capacity, but
if President Harrison is anything of
prophet, aud his successors are at all moved
hv his pleasant experience here, it will
never be overlooked in that respect in the
future.
A noteworthy feature of the grand de-
monstration of yesterday was the cordial
welcome given the President by the Italian
colony of the city. All their local societies
participated in the parade, acting rs a
special escort to the Italian Consul at Gal
weston, and that gentleman aiterward on
their behalf presented the President with
beautiful floral design symbolic of peace
and fraternity The American and Italian
flags were crossed at the top OF the piece
with 4 floral dove between them. The
Italian Consul also paid his respects to the
President In company with the other foreign
consuls resident here. The floral tributes
received from the citizens of Galveston were
so numerous that they nearly filled the two
apartments assigned to the President and
maker rejoined the party at Galveston last
evening. Hon. William II. Grain, the
Congressional representative from this dis
trict, also arrived in Galveston last night.
lie took prominent part in the demonstra-
ton and made ringing address of welcome.
lie accompanied a committee of citizens ap-
pointed to accompany the Presidential party
10 San Antonio.
Comforting With Secretary Rusk.
Among to-day's arrivals at the Beach
Hotel we're Senators Teller, of Colorado,
and Squire, of Oregon, Senator Warren,
of Wyoming, and other gentlemen from
those States and Montana. They
had a long and satisfactory con-
terence with Secretary Rusk in regard
to the shipment of cattle to the States
named during the summer months. Secre-
dents order in regard to that matter would
be changed to suit their wishes, provided
the cattle so shipped would not be reshipped
South before the first of December. The
gentlemen afterward paid their respects to
the President aud Mrs. Harrison. Secre- |
tary Rusk having accomplished the busI- |
ness that brought him 10 Texas has con- |
clu6ed to remain with the President during |
the remainder of his trip.
General Stanley, commanding the depart |
ment of Texas, Joined the Presidential party |
at Galveston. and accompanied it to San |
Antonio for the purpose OF explaining the |
military situation along the Mexican |
border. Major Sanger, United States
Army, who accompanies the President as
his military aid, always appears at his side |
in full uniform on all eeremonious occa- |
sions. The President, accompanied by
Postmaster General Wanamaker, attended |
divine services this morning at the First |
Presbyterian Church, and listened to a |
sermon by the Rev. DR.. Scott, who took his |
text from St. John i, 13. The church was |
crowded.
In the afternoon the President went out |
for a walk through the city with Mrs. DIM |
mick and Mrs. Russell Harrison. The |
people regarded this as an act of democratic /
Secretary Rusk and other members OF the |
Presidential party enjoyed sail on the |
Cult this afternoon, as the guests OF Gov |
ernor Hogg.
Harrison's Speech Saturday Night.
The main points of President Harrison's |
speech last night at the reception given him
at the Beach Hotel are appended. After |
thanking the people of Galveston for their |
cordial welcome, he said, among other |
things:
l am glad to have beeen able to rest my eyes |
upon the city OF Galveston. l am glad to have |
been able to traverse this harbor and to look |
upon that liberal work which a liberal and |
united government has inaugurated for your |
benefit and for the benefit of the Northwest. |
l have always believed that it was one of the |
undIsputed functions of the General Govern |
meht to make these great waterways which |
penetrate our country, and these harbors into |
which our shipping must come TO receive the |
tribute of rail and river, safe and easy of access.
This mlnistering care should extend to our |
whole country, and am glad that |
policy with reference to the harbor work here, |
at least, which insisted upon public mes /
sage has been adopted.
The appropriation has been made adequate /
TO dilligeuC and prompt completion OF the |
work In the past the Government has under
taken too many things at once and its annual |
appropriations have been SO inadequate that |
the work of the engineers was much retarded
and sften seriously damaged in the interval of
waiting for fresh appropriations. 1t Is a better
policy when a work has once been determined
to be of national significance, that the appro-
priation should be sufficient to bring it speedily
and without loss 10 conclusion. I am glad
that the scheme OF he engineer for giving deep
water TO Galveston is thus to be prosecuted. l |
have said some of our South Atlantic and Gulf
ports occupy most favorable position for the
new commerce toward which we are reaching
out our hands and which is reaching out its
hands TO us.
Doesn't Believe in False Economy.
am an economist in the sense that would
not waste 81 of the public money. But ar,
not An economist in the sense that would
leave incomplete or suffer to lag any great
work highly promotire of the true interests of
our people. We are great enough and rich
enough to reach forward to grander concep-
tions than have entered the minds of s1me of
our statesmen in the past. If YOU are content,
! am not that the nations of Europe shall abb
sorb nearly the entire Commerce of these near
sister republics that lie south of u.s. 1t is nat
urally, in large measure, ours-ours by neigh
ours by nearness of access ours by
that sympathy that binds hemisphere without
a king.
The fraternal and kindly spirit that was
manifested by our Southern neighbors has
stimulated desire in them and IN our people
for larger intercourse of commerce and OF
The provisions of the bill passed
at the last session looking to reciprocity of
trade not only met with my official approval
when 1 signed the bill, but with my Jealous
before the bill was reported. Its
provision concerning reciprocity is that we
have placed upon our free list sugar, tea, cof-
fee ana hides, and have said to those nations
from whom we receive these great staples: 4
Give us free access to your ports for an equiva-
lent amount of our produce in exchange or
we will reimpose duties upon the articles
named.
The law leaves it wholly with the Executive
10 negotiate these arrangements II does not
need that they shall take the form Of treaty.
They need not be submitted for the concur
renee of tho State. II only needs that we,
having made our offer. eh1ll receive their offer
in return; and when they have made up an ac-