Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-11
HOUSE.


printing Office was non-concurred in.
On motion of Mr.. Cutcheon OIich.) Senate
bill was passed to establish a record and pen
sion Office in the War Department
Also Senate bill providing for the selection Of
: site for a military post at San Diego, Cal.
On motion of Mr.. Perkins (Kan.) a bill was
passed extending the time within which the
ChOctaw Coal and Railroad Company shall
construct its road through the Indian terri
tory.
THE LEaIsLATIvE BILL AGAIN TAKEN Up.
The House then went into committee Of the
whole (Mr. Payson of Illinois in the chair) on
the legislative appropriation bill.
Mr.. Stockdale Miss, touching upon the
civil service law, said that it was well known
that that law was violated. II the commits
| sioners did not know it they were incompe-
tent; If they could not apply q remedy they
were useless. Referring TO- the Barrundia
great and grand to be the silent, willing wit
ness Of as base murder as had ever disgraced
the annals of this or any other country.
MR.. MADoo AGAINST THE SHIPPING BILL
Mr.. McAdoo of New Jersey voiced his opposi-
ton to the shipping bill He denied the charge
that the opponents Of the measure were lacking
in patriotism or bin devotion to the flag The
bill would have stood q better chance Of free
and honorable discussion in the House If per
sonal aspersions and severe charges had not been
hurled against Its opponents. He inveighed
against the subsidy system and contended that
such system would not build up American
commerce.
The most singular definition of commerce he
had ever heard had been given upon the floor
OF this hall He had always understood that
commerce was the interchange of commodities.
But gentlemen on the other side said that an
American ship could be laden with American
manufactures and American raw material and
taken to Valparaiso; and that the nations would
run down, not with raw material and free wool
to take the place of the shoddy now worn
py the American workingman, but
with money bags. That might be
| poetic and idealistic commerce. but it never
had existed in the history Of the world and
| never would. Commerce would not be re-
gained by unfair reciprocity intended to de-
would not be restored to these by so-called re.
| ciprocity. The tariffs walls were responsible
for the decay. No one could eat his cake and
have 1t too.
| NO ANALOGY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AID rHI
UNITED STATES.
There was no analogy between Great Britain
and the United States. Man was not an am.
phibious animal; he was land animal. Blu,
England was 20 overcrowded that she forced
her people to the sea, Just as the mother eagle
forced her offspring from the nest. The United
States was at the beginning of its resource,
and capital was invested in homo indus
tries and upon the land instead Of upor
the sea- II this nation was going to comIni'
itself to the policy Of subsidy Il should under.
stand what it meant The subsidy proposed BY
the shipping bill was too much for nothing and
too little for anything. II was conceded thA,
iteost 10 per cent more to run an American
ship than II did to run . foreign ship. There
fore II this nation intended TO Sslpete With
other nstions In ths matter of subsidiss 4