Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-03
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.
lis Warfare Against the Railroads Of the United
States.
BY THE AID OF IMMENSE SUBSIDIES
1t is Enabled to Take Trade from other
Lines-seuator Elkips States
Facts.

Washington. March 2.-Senntor Ell
kins late this afternoon secured tnc
floor and made a speech dealing with
our Canadian relations, basing his re-
marks directly upon section IL of the
Alaskan right OF way and homestead
bill which gives Canadians the beneht
OF the bonding privilege at Wrangie'
provided Canada grants no exclusive
privilege to the transportation COM
panies. Mr.. ElkIns said! The Canadl-
an Pacific railroad extends from Hall
fax to Vancouver, making with connec-
lions 7,129 miles, nearly 1000 miles OF
which are In the United States. 1t con-
trolls the politics and dictates the poll
cles of Canadn. 1t could with It's sea
connections transport $4,000 troops
from England to Canada in ten days.
For it's ship line now being built to run
between Southampton and Halifax II
will receive n subsidy of SlbV,OO0 from
England and Canada; from us steam
ship line from Vancouver to the Orient
1t receives s300,0O0 and from Van
couver to Australia n subsidy of $780,
900. The Pacific Mall, for carrying more
mail, receives from the United states
only Sl4S2O. The Canadian Pacific
forms the land connection of CONNER
cial and military highway that spans
the globe. Since its establishment II
has received from Great Britain In
subsidies, gifts and concessions S2l5,-
600, 900, an equivalent of so 100000 n
year. BY aid of these immense con-
cessons. It Is enabled to take trade
from railroads and does 1t openly and
defiantly.
MIR. Eilsins said that the Canadian
Pacific had been nicknamed by the
railroad world the Sitting Bull. He
said that the deferentials made by the
Canadian Pacific aggregated from
thirty to sixty dollars to eastern and
western cities less than by American
in 1881 the American rail-
roads gave the Canadian Pacific n
railroads gave the Canadian Pacific IA
bonus of 900 to keep out of Amer
lean territory. Subsequently the Cana
dian Pacific refused to take this sum
and 1t has since been waging war upon
our railroads. 1t Is now cutting rates
against American railroads to get
Klondike business and Is actually
carrying passengers from New York to
Vancouver, distance of 5000 miles
for SSS. He said that II the Canadian
Pacific is permitted to proceed on these
lines, It would shortly monopolize the
through business from the Atlantic
board to the Pacific and all the bust
ness to and from the Orient, leaving
the American roads only local business
and making only one transcontinental
line on this continent.
Mr.. Elkins said that the amount OF
business taken from American roads
annually by the Canadian Pacific ag-
gregated nearly s50,O00.000.
"This sum should be saved to the
United States" said he, ito give em-
ployment to our own people and as
trustees we should see that II is saved"
In 1895 the Canadian Pacific hauled
eight million tons of freight in 4s0.TS0
cars from points in the United States
to other points in the United States
through Canada. These cars would
make train that would stretch across
the continent
1--WE pay $500. 100000 per annum or
100000 for every working day in the
year" Mr.. Elklns said, ito foreign
ships to haul what we sell and buy.
our exports and imports, England get
ting sixty per cent of this vast sum.
Ninety per cent of this should be saved
to Americans. Americans have suf-
fered the great humiliation of being
driven from the sea. And to make
this humiliation the more emphatic
England and Canada seem to make the
Canadian Pacific the only transconti-
mental line and to monopollze the car
rying by mail of a large share of our
transcontinental line commerce and all
of our trade to and from the orient"
Mr.. Elkins said that seemingly there
was little help for our condition, for
eign influence being TOO powerful, not
withstanding the fact that st. Louis
platform, the Presidents letter of ac-
ceptance and his inaugural address all
favored discriminating duties. When
those utteranccs were made there was
great enthusiasm, but now the whole
commercial world is chilled
AS n remedy for the existing Ills Mr..
Ellsins said that he would first abolish
the bonding privilege and consular
seals at Vancouver. The effect OF this
would be to divert trade from the
Orient to San Francisco. Secondly. he
would compel obedience to Interstate
commerce statutes by all lines connect
ing with the Canadian Pacific. Third
ly he would enforce section go of the
present tariff law In accordance with
its meaning and ms II reads.
Mr.. Elkirs explained that the bond
ing privilege had grown up simply as
custom under permission Of the
treasury department II was not a.
thorized by the treaty of Washington
and is not warranted by any law or
treaty. He then read opinions OF ex-
President Cleveland. ex- President
Harrison, the late Secretary Window.
ex-Secrctary Charles Foster and
former Attorney General Miller in sup.
Fort of his position. He maintained
that 1t is not a party question and
could net in any way be construed as
such.