The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-05
Extending Homestead Laws and
Providing For Railroads.
THE BONDING PRIVILEGES
COVERS MINERS OUTFITS. PRO
VISIONS AND CLOTHING.
Canada Expected to Allow Conces-
sions to New England Fishermen
Debate Over This Amendment to
the Bill - Contention That Has
Existed For Century.

Washington, March 4.-The Alaska
bill was laid before the senate, an
amendment by Mr.. Rawlins of Utah to
section 2 being under consideration.
Mr.. Carter of Montana, in charge of
| the bill, moved to lay the amendment
on the table. The motion prevailed
Sill
The last paragraph of section 6, re-
serving the right to the government
| to purchase or take by proceedings of
c, inflammation any railroad, tramway
or wagon road at its actual cash value,
| being in line of government ownership
| of railroads, was stricken out by an
aye and dnay vote, 4S-7, the sev :; 'otes
cast in favor of the paragraph y inc by
Messrs. Allen (Neb.), Butler c.,
| Harris (Kan.), Heitfeld Qdaho). Mel
son (Aiinn.), Teller (Colo.), and Turner
! (Wash.)
BONDING PRIVILEGE.
The reading and amending of the bill,
while long and tedious, was accom-
plished without particularly important
debate until section 13 was reached.
This provides for the extension to Can
ada of the bonding privileges on Alas
kand trade with Canada at the port Of
Wrangel, in Alaska, on condition that
certain concessions are given this coun-
try by the Dominion government,
among them being the right of our
fishermen to enter Canadian ports for
the purchase of bait or other supplies.
Mr.. Turner CWash.) moved TO strike
out that part of the section which re-
lated to the entering of Canadian ports
by American fishermen. He did not,
he SAID. make the motion because ne
was hostile to the New England fisher
les, but because he deemed it unfair to
~ dor ~tf1
upon the Dominion government that it
yield a contention it has made for a
hundred years.
Mr. Hale (Maine) inquired if Mr.
Turner did not think it would be Of
advantage TO the United States to OBJ
tain the fisheries concession from Can
ado
MIR. Turner replied that it would be
of advantage if we could obtain it,
but he did not believe it could be OBJ
tanned.
Mr. Hansbrough IN ID said that the
committee on public lands was in pos
session OF information that Canada
would ACCEPT the conditions imposed
by the section. He was firmly of the
would yield on the fisheries question.
in view of the concessions made to it
by the bill.
Mr. Hoar (Mass) expressed the hope
that Mr.. Turner would not insist upon
his motion. The fisheries question was
not a local one to New England, but
national question, a question, too, par
ticularly applicable to the people of the
northwest, where the fisheries interest
was annually becoming greater He
felt that the fisheries problem was one
of immense interest to the people. of the
northwest, and ought not to be stricken
from the measure.
MINERAL RESOURCES.
Mr.. Carter agreed with Messrs. Hoar
that the fisheries question, so far as it
was considered in this bill. was of a
national Importance. The fisheries in
dustry in Alaska and the northwest
now reached S6,000,0 900 per annum and
was growing in Importance every year.
Concerning the mineral resources of /
Alaska, Mr.. Carter said he was salts
fed, not from government reports
alone, but from the best authority in
this country that the output of gold
would in a year or two be larger. from
that district, than from any part of
the earth's surface. One authority in
which he said he had the utmost con- (
fidence, estimated that in Alaska gold
to the amount of 500 000 000 & year
would be produced in 4 comparatively /
short space of time. He said that if
section Is should be adopted as pre-
scented, Canada would be compelled to /
abandon that all-Canadian rout and
he believed that this country would I
obtain every concession which was de- /
maaded of Canada by the pending sec /
ton.
Mr. Turner's motion to strike out the !
fisheries portion of the section was ]
defeated by a yea and nay vote-34 TO /
16. The section was adopted without I
division. AS agreed to, section 13 is /
as follows:
TAKES IN MINERS OUTFITS.
THAT under rules and regulations to I
be prescribed, by the secretary of the !
treasury, the privilege of entering /
goods in warehouses and merchandise
in bond or of placing them in bonded I
warehouses, at the port of Wrangel,
district of Alaska, and of Withdrawing /
the same for expectation to any place
in British Columbia or the northwest
territory without payment of duty is
hereby granted to the government of !
the dominion of Canada and its citi-
zens or citizens of the United States,
whenever and so long as il shall ap-
pear to the sense of the president of
the United States, who shall ascertain
and declare the fact by proclamation,
that no exclusive privilege of trans
porting through British Columbia or
> |
sengers arriving from or destined for
other ports in Alaska is granted to any
person or corporation by the govern
ment of the dominion Of Canada, and
that the privilege has been duly ac-
corded to such possible persons or
operating transportation
lines in British Columbia or the north
west territory of making direct con-
nection with transportation lines in
Alaska; and that the government of
the dominion of Canada has consented
to, and is allowing, on behalf of citi-
zens of the United States the entry
free of duty of all miners outfits and
q supply of provisions and clothing,
the whole not exceeding in quantity
600 pounds for each citizen OF the
United States proposing to engage in
mining in British Columbia or the
northwest territory; and that the gov
eminent of the dominion of Canada
has removed all unequal restrictions
as to the issue of miners licenses to
all citizens of the United States operat-
ing or intending to operate in British
Columbia or the northwest territory.
and further, that fishing vessels of the
United States having authority under
the laws of the United States to touch
and trade at any port or ports, place
Or places in the British dominions OF
North America shall have the privilege
Of entering such port or ports, place
Dr. places for the purpose of purchas-
ng bait and all other supplies and out