Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-20
news BY TELEGRAPH
From ALI Quarters.
PRESIDENT In TEXAS
Mr.. Harrison's Speech to a
Throng at Galveston.
DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR.
Several Firemen Hurt at a
Fire in Boston.
ACCIDENT IN A COLORADO Mine.
The Sixth Massachusetts,
Visit to Baltimore.
ACCIDENT IN A COLORADO MINE.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR.

THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR.
The Party Given a Royal Reception
| at GaIveston-A Great Throng Adj
dressed by the President How
Sunday Was Passed - Secretary
Rusk,s Sail on the Gulf.
| GALVESTON, Tex, April 19.-The presi
dent and his party were given royal re-
ception here yesterday. During the even
ing great throng gathered before the
Beach hotel and Mr.. Harrison was intro
duced from the hotel balcony. The mayor
was too ill to speak, and so General Waul
made the address of welcome. Replying
to this, Mr.. Harrison said: Il am glad
that the scheme of the engineer for giving
deep water to Galveston is to be prosecuted.
! am an economist in the sense that
would not waste one dollar of public money.
But am not an economist in the sense
that I would leave incomplete or suffer
motive of the interests Of our
people Great cheering.] We are
great and rich enough to reach
forward to grander conceptions than have
entered the minds of some of our states
men in the past. If you are content, am
not, that the nations of Europe shall ab-
sorb nearly the entire commerce of these
near sister republics that lie south of us.
1t is mutually in large measure ours-ours
bv neighborhood, ours by nearness of &C
cess, ours by that sympathy that binds
hemisphere without king. [Cheers. The
Inauguration of the pan-American con-
gress, or more properly the American con-
ference, the happy conduct of that meet
ing, the wise and comprehensive measures
which were suggested by it; with the fra
ternal and kindly spirit that was manifested
by our southern neighbors has stimulated
desire in them and in our people for a
larger intercourse of commerce and of
friendship. The provisions of the bill
passed at the last session looking to
reciprocity of trade not only met with my
official approval when signed the bill,
but with my jealous promotion before the
bill was reported. Great and prolonged
cheering It's provisions concering
reciprocity is that we have placed upon
our free list> sugar, tea, coffee and hides,
and have said to those nations from whom
we receive these great staples: ''Give US
free access to your ports for an equivalent
will reimpose duties upon the articles
named" Already one treaty with
that youngest of South Ameri-
can republics, the great republic
of Brazil, has been negotiated
and proclaimed. I think, without dis
closing an executive secret, may tell you
that others are to follow and that as a
result of these trade arrangements the
products of the United States, our meats,
our breadstuffs and certain lines of manu-
featured goods, are to find free or fav-
ored access to the ports of many of these
south and central American states. But
we shall need something more. We shall
need American steamships to carry Amer
lean goods to these ports. The last CON
gress passed bill appropriating $780,
600 and authorizing the postmaster general
to contract with steamship companies for
period not exceeding ten years
for the carrying of the United States mail.
We have been so close and penurious in
dealing with our ships in the carrying of
foreign mails that we have actually made
revenues out of that business. Not hav-
ing spent for it what we have received
from it, we now propose to change that
policy and make more liberal contracts
with American lines carrying American
mail. Cheers. Someone may say we
ought not to go into this bushes, that it is
subsidy. But, my friends, every other
great nation of the world has been doing
it, and is doing it to-day; Great Britain
and France have built up their great
steamship lines by government aid.
1t has been the careful study of the
postmaster general in preparing to execute
law to see how much increase in routes
and ships we could secure by it. We have
said to the few existing American lines:
''You must give us new lines, new ships,
increased trips and new ports of call. AL
ready the steamship lines are looking over
the routes to see what they can do with
view of increasing their tonnage and in
establishing new lines. This appropria-
ton is for one year; what the future is to
be must depend upon the deliberate judg
ment of the people. If during my term of
Office they shall strike down a law that
believe to be beneficial or destroy
1 shall bow to their will, but
shall feel greatly disappointed if we do not
| make this an era for the revival of Ameri-
can commerce. l do much want that the
| time shall come when our citizens living in
| temporary exile in foreign ports shall now
and then see steaming into these distant
ports fine modern man-of-war flying the
American flag [Cheers /, with the best mod
ern guns on her decks and brave Ameri-
can crew on her forecastle. Cheers. 1
also want that in these ports so long I'M
l
again be found our steamships and our
sailing vessels flying the flag that we all
love and carrying from our shores the
products that these men of toll have
brought to them to exchange for the pro-
duct of other clirnes. think we should add
to all this, if, happily, it is likely to be ac-
complished by individual efforts, the early
completion of the Nicaragua canal.
| CHEERS. The Pacific coast ,shonld no
longer be found by sea only by the passage
of the Horn. The short; route should be
opened, and it will be, and then with
this wondrous stirring among the people
of all our states, this awakening to new
business plans and more careful and eco
nomical work, there will come great pros
perity to all our people. Texas will spin
more of the cotton than she raises. The
great states of the south will be in discon-
tent with the old condition that made
them simply agricultural states and will
rouse themselves to compete with the
older manufacturing states of the north
and east. [Cheers.
| The president, acco mpanled by Pos
master General Wanamaker, attended
divine services this morning at the Firs
Presbyterian church. The church was
crowded.
In the afternoon the president went ou
for a walk through the city with Mrs
Dimmick and Mrs. Russell Harrison
Secretary Rusk and other members of the
presidential party enjoyed a sail on tn
gulf this afternoon and as the guests o
Governor. Hogg.