Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-08
In CONGRESS-.
Business Transacted Yesterday in
the Two Houses Of the Legis-
lative Body.
SIGNS OF PEACE IN THE IRISH
POLITICS.
Tried for Dueling: Life Among the
Soldiers OF the German
Army.
MEXICAN CONSUL FIGHTS FOR
HIS HONOR
Youthful Desperate, Playing the
Role Of a Hold-np With
Fatal Result.
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MEXICAN CONSUL FIGHTS FOR
HIS HONOR
BY Telegraph TO the SEws.i
CONG REssIONAL.
The shippin. Subsidy Bill in the

House.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. I'm the
House the Senate bill increasing
from fifty 10 seventy the number oil
army officers who may be detailed
to military colleges was passed.
The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the Shipping bill
| Herbert Ala opposed the meas
ure because il proposed indiscrim-
mate subsidy 10 vessels Of every
character in the foreign trade Ii
was a natural result of The Nc
kInley bill.
DIngley (Maine), reviewed the
decadence of American shipping
interests, said in such a condition
As the country now found itself.
with only l24 per cent Of the
foreign-carryiug trade, with Great
Britain entrenched on every ocean
route, IL WAS obvious that il was
utterly out of the power OF private
individuals, without assistance in
some direction, 10 dislodge the ship
ping Of Great Britain. IL was said
the bill would not do for our mer-
chant marine what was claimed
| for il.
We could judge of that by what a
similar policy had done for France.
| With less maritime people than
those Of the United States, within
| five years from the establishment
| Of a subsidy system, the steam tom
| mage OF France had doubled. With
the widest extent of coast known TO
| any nation, the United States could
| reap benefit from subsidies far
greater than any other nation. Italy
a opted IA subsidy policy in 1855, and
in four years her steam marine had
increased 40 per cent. The maxi
mum expense of the bill the first
year would be $1,000. 200, of which
all Tut about $4,000 or 500. 900
would come from postage and tom
mage dues. Taking the highest rate
Of increase in tonnage il was esti-
mated that as result of the proyi--
ions Of the bill the greatest amount
Of expenditures that would be neei-
ed in one year would lie $1,000, 0c0,
after which the Fate OF payment
would steadily diminish.
Dockery (Aiissouri) said three
causes constituted an efiectual bar
the American carrying trade. The
first WAS the difference of cost be-
tween American aud foreign vessels;
second, the greater running expen-
ses American. vessels We're under;
aud third, the harsh and restrictive
features OF our navigation laws, ex-
acting heavy tonnage dues, consular
| fees anu other dues Furthermore.
l the republican policy OF exclusion
/ OF Imports was AT wac with the in
tertsts OF the American carrying
trade He opposed subsidies anu ali
other protection u special industries,
and asked Farquhar, chairman OF
the committee, how much the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company,
which at one session, he said, cor
rupted the employees Of the House,
would get
FarQuhar replied that It would get
the same as all other steamship COM
panies.
Dockery said that was no answer,
and asked If the Pacific Mail stock
mad not risen on the possibility OF
the passage OF the bill?
Farquhar warmly replied that if
it We're SO he was glad of it, and
hoped the stock of every American
company would increase in value.
Dockery, retorting, said he wanted
to take the fact home to the farmers
Of the West that five millions Were
being taken out OF the Treasury TO
sustain anu support the New Eng
land ship-ow ners. George Gould,
ne understood, was one of the
''labering men TO be benefited"
Dockery then invited attention to
the restrictive scope Of the reciproci-
~ advocated by Secretary Blaine;
50 far as the farmers We're concerned,
the defect that was fatal to su ,sidy,
vas alike fatal to reciprocity. The
farmer could derive no benefit from
reciprocity, because the South
American countries had almost
every article necessary for their own
consumption. Let the country re-
turn to that propitious policy under
which it explored every sea and
cast anchor in every harbor. Di-
vested Of artificial restrictions, our
marine could renew and assert IL,
importance upon the ocean.
Pending further debate the COM
Inittee rOse and the House adjourn
ed.
IN THE SENATE.
| wAsHISGTOS, Jan. lin the
Senate the conference report on the
public printing deficiency bill was
agreed TO.
The financial bill WIS taken up
and Daniel spoke in favor Of free
coinage.
Plumb followed. He credited the
silver act Of the last session with
having had the effect Of preventing
a universal financial panic What
ever might be said aoOut its short
comings, its effect on the immediate
situation had been OF "A munificent
character. He did not share the
fears of the Senator from Ohio
(Sherman) as 10 what wOul happen
rom the free coinage OF silver. Per-
haps he was not as sensitive on that
point as he might have been il he
had not heard similar fOrbOdings
from the same quarter had not Teen
realized. He (PlumbJ was not able
TO give his support To the bill re-
ported by the financial committee.
he was opposed 10 the first section,
providing for the purchase of ST.,
0O0,00 worth Of silver. 1t would,
Of course, add that much money to
the circulation, and il would in
evitably bear on its face a DISPOSE
ton to help a certain class of per-
sons at the expense of the Treasury.
Ii was in the interest OF cur
trade and honest money that the
country should establish as nearly
as possible, a parity between gold
and silver. The population Of the
country WAS increasing at the rate of
two and a half per cent, while the
business was increasing at the rate
of eight per cent. The circulation
should have relation to both popula-
ton and business. There should be
international bimetalism. He did
n.t hold that the free coinage Of sil-
yer was a pauacea for all evils, but
he did contend that it was n wise
and much-needed step in the right
direction.
Hisceck spoke against free coin
age. The people he represented
had never believed the free coinage
OF silver would place that metal Or
a parity with gold.
Sawyer moved executive session.
ssOh," said Edmunds' "let us
take a vote on this bill now"