Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-21

AUSTIN CoRBIN. scheme of estab
fishing line of first-class passenger
steamers to run between Montauk Point
L. l.. and Milford Haven, Wales, short
route between America and Great Brit
ain.
Not u New idea.
Mr.. Corbin has been working on thi:
idea for the last ten years, and during
that period has annually endeavored tC
get congress to enact the necessary leg
islation, but without success. This
time he believes that he may get the
bill through because Of the precedent
established in the concessions granted
to the hman line.
His idea Is well known. He proposes to
incorporate company to be known as the
American Steamship company, with q
capital Of $1C, 600, 900, to construct and
purchase feet of first-class passenger
steamships to run between MontauR
Point, L. l., and Milford Haven, il
Wales. Fast trains are to be run oven
the Long Island road to the steamship
piers at Montauk Point in little over
two hourA- Once there the voyager need
not wait for wind or tides, but take ship
and start across the ocean with so much
time saved.
Mr.. Corbin, at the time his measure
was introduced into congress some six
years ago, took occasion to point out
that by his plan that the average time
of mail carriage between New York and
London could be shortened to about siS
days, three hours.
Would Get the Mails.
y. Il
line will be q powerful competitor OF
existing transatlantic steamship com.
panies for the carriage of the mails.
These ships now receive 81 per pound
for LETTER mail, whereas If this mail
were carried by American vessels the
rate would be only forty cents pei
pound for letter mail. 1t goes without
saying that the vessels Of Mr.. Corbins
line, making as they would better time
than their competitors, would receive
the bulk of Uncle Sans business.
Mr.. Corbin Talks.
Regarding the proposed line Mr.. Cor
bin said:
1.-THE money to construct the line will
be forthcoming whenever an American
register is given to the vessels to be en-
plcyed on the line. Every year for the
last ten years have been trying to get
bill through congress for this purpose,
but it has been set upon in most I'M
American manner.
1.-The bill will go through this time
When was in Washington took din
ner with Senator Chandler. The other
gentlemen present were Secretary
Blaine. Secretary Tracy, Senator Frye
and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
minister. / said to Senator Frye: If
clothes or cloth to make them are
brought from Great Britain you impose
tax. but you let British ships come
into and go out of American ports with
out any charge whatever. If you tax
them $40, 900 every time they crossed the
bar that would be something like jus
tice.'
~ turned to Sir Julian and asked:
How long would American ships be
permitted to sail into British ports and
do what the British were not allowed to
dor"
GAS long as it would take to repeal
the law was the reply.
"And what if the law were not re-
pealedY
"'There would be a revolution.
Mr.. Corbin added that by the opening
Of the tunnel under the Severn the time
between Milford Haven and London was
now but six hours, the same as between
London and Liverpool. In every way
the carrying out of his plan would be a
benefit to American commerce. The
bill provides that all vessels owned by
such company, of not less than 1000
tons, and of speed not less than nine
teen knots, shall, under certain condi-
tons, be entitled to receive American
registers in accordance with the condi-
tons of the act of May 2, 1892.