Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-08
Tried for Durling: Life Among the
Soldiers OF the German
Army.
a MEXICAN CONSUL FIGHTS FOR
HIS HONOR.
Youthful Desperate, Playing the
Role Of a Hold-np With
Fatal Result.
by Telegraph 70 the NEwsI
CONGRESSIONAL.
The shipping Subsidy BiII in the
House.


| WASHINGTON, Jan. I'm the
| House the Senate bill increasing
from fifty to seventy the number Oi
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 it proposed indiscrim-
mate subsidy to vessels of every
character in the foreign trade. IL
was natural result Of The Me
kInley till.
Dingley (Maine). reviewed the
decadence of American shipping
interests, said III such a cOnuitiCn
As the country now found itself.
with only i24 per cent Of the
foreign-carrying trade, with Great
Britain entrenched on every ocean
route, it 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. Ii 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 II the United States. within
five years from the establishment
of subsidy system, the steam ton
mage of France had doubled. With
the widest extent of coast known to
any nation, the United States could
reap A benefit from subsidies TAR
greater than any other nation. Italy
a opted a subsidy policy in 1855, and
i'll four Years her steam marine had
increased 40 per cent. The maxi
mum expense OF the bill the first
year would be $1,000. 900, Of which
all but about $4,000 or 500, 900
would come from postage anu ton
mage dues Taking the highest rate
Of increase i'm tonnage il was esti-
mated that as n result of the provis-
ions of the bill the greatest amount
of expenditures that would be nee1-
ed in one year would Ice $1,000, 900,
after which the Fate OF payment
would stesdily diminish.
Docke5 cry. / tt AAittsssonril said ~, three
rier agaIt-, any attempt 10 r.-star..
the American carrying trade. The |
first was the difference of cost be- |
tween American aud foreign vessels;
second, the greater running expen-
SEES American vessels were under;
anu third, the harsh and restrictive
features of our navigation laws, ex-
acting heavy tonnage dues, consular |
fees anu other dues. Furthermore.
the republican policy OF exclusion
OF imports was AT wac with the in- |
terests Of the American carrying
trade. He opposed subsidies anu Nil
other protection To 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?
FaTquhar warmly replied that if
il Were SO he was glad of il, anu
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 and support the New Eng
land ship-Owners. George Gould,
ne understood, was one Of the
'labcring men to be benefited"
Dockery then invited attention to
the restrictive scope Of the reciproci-
ty advocated by Secretary Blaine;
so far as the farmers were concerned,
the defect that was fatal TO su. sidy,
was 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 AMI
cast anchor in every harbOr. Di-
vested OF artificial restrictions, our
marine could renew and assert It's
importance upon the ocean.
Pending further debate the COM
lnittee rUse and the House adjourn
ed.
IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I'm the
Senate the conference report on the
public printing deficiency bill was
agreed TO.
The financial bill was 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.