The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-27
IDAHo's INTEREST.

Judge Hepburn of Idaho said that no
section of the country takes greater inter-
est in the completion of the Nicaragua
canal than Idaho, whose people favor any
enterprise which will furnish cheaper and
quicker transportation As one of the
instances of the practical application of
the question, he cited the fact that the
farmers Of Idaho alone expend 81 900, 600
annually for sacks in which to ship their
grain across the 1sthmus of Panama to
reach an eastern and foreign market,
which expenditure would not be neces-
sary should the canal be completed.
CALIFORNIA DIVIDED.
@. W. Cross, of California, made the as
sertion that California is far from unit
on the proposition of the government
buying and completing the canal. He
opposed the proposition of charity TO
England by expanding millions
of dollars on a waterway thousands
of miles from the soil of the
United States when the country is too
poor to improve the thousands of natural
waterways within her own boarders.
Every congress is overwhelmed with petit
tions for aid to improving internal water
ways and the granting of such petitions
would mean the expenditure of vast
sums at home, thus keeping the money
within the jurisdiction of the home
government and thereby increase the tax
rolls of assessment. The proposition
which has been sprung by members, that
only American laborers be employed
was not practical for the reason that no
white laborers can live in the section
through which the Nicaragua canal
would pass. The speaker went into de-
tails and questioned the statement that
the canal wouid be paying investment
from a business standpoint. In conclu-
sion he asked why the government should
go 2, 600 miles south on Latin American
territory and expend vast sums of money
for the benefit of the world, when its own
railroads are SO poorly provided for.
j. w. Feighau of Washington, as a
member of the sub committee which re-
ported back the resolution, stated that the
resolution had been thoroughly discussed
in committee and its members had been
divided upon the proposition. Some OF
them, the friends of the canal, had argued
that if the government gave any financial
aid to the enterprise it should own the
canal when completed. What the Pacific
coast wants is not to be compelled to ship
by any one or number OF lines of railroad.
but to be connected with all parts of the
east by waterways and railroad.
PIONEER SHIPPER.
). II. Roberts of California, an old
pioneer and shipping man, was friend
of his branch Of business and explained
how water navigation had always kept
down freight rates. The government, he
said, should build and own the canal. 1t
is indispensable, and, though the scheme
comes high, it must be had.
HARVEY SPEAKS FOR UTAH.
Colonel Harvey of Utah said his terri
tory desired to be modest, but on the
proposition of the Nicaragua canal she
desired to be heard and raise her voice in
favor of ths building of the canal by the
government The building OF the canal
would bring the shipping in direct COM
petition with the railroads which traverse
the continent and force the latter to meet
the freight rates of the water route.
VOICE FROM OREGON.
Glen o. Holmes of Oregon thought that
as all other states and territories OF the
Trans Mississippi had spoken. it was
only proper that Oregon should be heard.
He was surprised at California, whose
delegates assured him that they were a
unit on the Nicaragua canal proposition.