The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-03-03
ON THE VERGE OF
WAR WITH CANADA
EIhl0s Delivers Red-Hot Speech In
the Senate.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Al the Bottom Of the Tfonblr Alashan
Railway Bill Bfiag, 0at Spirited D!s-
cussiOn B8ndsd Goods

Washington Mafra . rod1ys debate
In the senate on the Alasknh homestead
and railway rlght u ~ay I'LL was DO.
cidcdiy spirited. tt-'t, Of Montuna. de-.
livcr,d a vigorous sprrcl In rrrly 20 that
made during the paH rno days by Raw.
linn of Utah. In the eolrro of which he
made u strong defense u ths honor Of the
congregational committee ard ciiieisls In
the several government departments ono
~ the special features y the debate was
The speech delivered By Elsina. Of wot
vlrrinia. n which Nc explained thai tho
Canadian Pacific road was saabl9G 20
make war on American interests and SOW
and why the competition of that great
railway ought 60 be stopped by the United
States Tho speech wa answered py
ilosr N Masrachusrlis Chll,on Of Tex.
as. and nelson OF Minnesota.
ElkIns who had been waiting during
the greater par, ri 90, afternoon Tor an
opportunity 90 address ,he senate. said Ia
the b,slnnlng of hls remarks that he was
siad goo 500 that an cnort Vas being made
TO eSnct somcthing from Canada In view
~ all that thr dominion government ana
lts corporations received from ihp United
States That part oi section % ot the
pending bul to which ElNns particularly
referred auj upon which h.s -marks
ver, principally based provides that
"thr privilege of entering goods under
bonds or ~ placing them In boudod ware.
BONUSES az the pof, 90 Wr1usr In the dis
,riatof hiaspa a1d s.tf #rtH'hE ,hc uuoo
Tor vApouation to auy p,ac, in British
Columbia nr the NorihWeat Territory
without tho paymcn, of duIy ls hereby
granted 10 m, goyrrum,ni ot the domin-
lon of canada and iis citizens. when upon
% proclamation by lhr president 90 the
United States ~ shall pp,lr that no
exclusive privilege ~ transporting
through British Columbia or n, North.
ives, Territory goods or passengers ar.
rlvlnE from or destined for other ports In
Alaska has been or will be granted to any
person or corporation 10y the government
of the dominion of Canada"
For long years said Elklns. Canada
has taken the business from our country
and dcspoilcd the business or our rail-
roads, and all this without any proper re-
turn. In order to understand better what
have to say. | desire 10 refer particular
ly 10 the Canadian Pacific Railroad"
In answer to question by Wilson, OF
Washington. as to the tficct the abolish
mcnt Of the consular seals at Vancouver
would have upon the trade OF the ports
ot Tacoma and Seattle Elkins replied
that II would hll those ports with trade
and II would at the same time increase
the business Of our railroads and reduce
the railroad charges.
As remedy for existing rls, Elkins
said he would FIRST abolish the bending
privilege and consular seals at Vancou-
yer, The erfcct OF this would be to d.
vert trade from the orient to San Fran
cisco, Secondly. he would compel obedi-
cncc to the Interstate comncrco status
by all lines connecting with the Crnadian
Pacific, Thirdly, he would enforce section
% OF the present tarift law In accordance
with It's meaning and as II reads. The
consular seals at Vancouver Elltins said,
could be stopped In an hour by the Sec
rotary OF the treasury
Concerning the difficulties In bringing
about what he deemed desirable changes,
Elllns said;
"rhc only difficulty about stopping the
oggrcssions Of the Canadian Pacific is
that some local interests In Now England
and the northwest are aubservod, II is
unfair that one-twcntioth Of the popula-
tion should have these advantages and
nlnoteen-twentcths should not New
England has no right to get Ter supplies
cheaper than any other section of the
country.
"If we had enforced section % just as 1t
stands on the statute looks we would
have had Canada todly at our feet, suing
for terms TO save the canadNn Pacific
interests In our country instead OF sug-
costing what policy should cove n us
touching Canadian matters ana asking for
a reduction Of the ta;ir rates rs Z, ndi-
tion precedent 20 the stopping of the XIII
ing of sealss"
In conclusion 1lSlns said that we were
on the Threshold of actual war arrong
nations for he cXtonG,on of commerce
Conflict Is Inevitable,
ut seems now" said ho "as II the INT
ted states would have to NEE. her share
of the war single handed asking no fa-
vors and expecting none While we do
not court such conflict we need not shrink
from II. The conditions aS to OH" shipping
and our commercial relations with can
ada cannot be made worse, Any change
will make them better"