The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-24
IJTAH'SNEWSENAT0R
nrAL WITH RAILROADS AND
MORMONs ALLEGED.
THE CHARGES NOT DENIED
...,,ToR VEST PUNCTUREs SHIP
SUBSIDY BILL.

To- and Their OtncerS Tor whose
n,sst the Bill Is to Re Passed.
ericaD Line Would Get $40, OOO,-
ooo subsidy-Pacific Mail Would
20, 81 900. 600 and the Next Bene-
oaiarv Is the Standard OIL Com
pany.
washington, Jan. Reconsideration of
ginning bill was resumed this after
r5on by the Senate.
=. WAS made the unfinished business
.,s restoring it to its privileged posi-
ton.
r,e blind chaplain, Mr.. Milburn, in his
.-.-ira invocation referred beautifully
,ol touohingly to the death of Queen
Victoria.
Nv Vest, of Missouri took the floor
,,,r,edjately in a Enthusiastically bril-
,i.rt forceful and interesting speech
,,stipr nearly three hours He vigor-
.,.slv attacked the navigation laws of
.ba United States. holding that they
u,rs responsible for the decadence of the
..orcbant marine of America.
Mr. Rawlins of Utah, precipitated a
lively colloquy by charging that a deal
b,d been entered into between the Re-
,,b1ican members of the Utah Legisla-
,nre and certain railroad interests and
tba oflcials of the Mormon Church to
sscnre the election of Thomas L. kearns
"a the Senate from that state.
~ Rawlins. of Utah. discussed the
.snatorial situation in Utah. He referred
~ newspaper statements that a deal had
haen entered into between certain Re-
.,bl,cans and the Mormon Church to
bting about the election of Thomas
Kearns ~.
"sucb 4 deal" said Mr.. Rawlins, would
cast infamy and disgrace upon the state
Mr. Hale maintained that it was not
citing that the Senate should inquire into
senatorial contests in the various states
before an election was effected,
The shipping bill was then proceeded
with Mr. Vest, of Missouri, addressed
the Senate in opposition to the measure
and in favor of free ships, which he has
advocated consistently for years.
ASH member of the Committee on Com
merce he said the pending measure had
come really from committee of promo
tion COMPOSED of twenty-five prominent
and intelligent men appointed by the jun
ior senator from Maine, Mr.. Frye.
THE chairman of this committee of
promotion." Mr. Vest said, "is Clement A.
Griscom. president of the International
Navigation Company a man OF high
character, of great Intelligence, and of
ndefatigable energy. The company
which he represents is by far the larg-
est beneficiary under this bill.
Not one member of that committee of
promotion is in favor of an American
buving his ships where he can buy them
cheapest and then sailing them under the
flag of his country. Its members are
unanimously in favor of the obsolete, IN
famous and outrageous navigation laws
of the United States, which are stain
on the statutes of the United States, and
which for fifty years have been riding
10 death the merchant marine OF this
country"
Mr. Vest referred TO the advocacy of
the measure by Mr. Eugene Chamberlain,
the present Commissioner of Navigation
who he said. had been appointed to his
present Office by Mr.. Cleveland and had
signalized the assumption of his duties by
his advocacy of free ships Now, he said,
Mr. Chamberlain was vigorously in favor
of the subsidy legislation.
He minated that this was the opinion
OF a man only who drifted with the cur
rent
Mr.. Vest said that our merchant marine
had continued to decline since 1855.
He declared that the policy proposed
by the pending bill was one of "barbaric
exclusion" He thought the people at
large had done enough for the Northeast
ern coast without contributing $lSO,C0Ooo
more 10 build up it's ship industry.
Mr.. Vest ridiculed the claim that the
bill was intended to provide auxiliary
cruisers in time of war. He commended
that b6unties are unconstitutional
In his opinion to give a subsidy to any
body was unjustifiable and unconstitu-
tonal, but to give il to great corporations
was naked rohDnry," under the guise of
law
Mr.. Vest said the vessels of what is
known as the American Line (the Inter-
national Navigation Company, in the
course of the twenty years the subsidy
was to run. would receive at lest $4,000
700 Of the total which would be paid out.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
he said, would be the next beneficiary
under the bill With its present ships and
the two vessels it was building now it
would receive $55O,00O a year of the sub
sidy
Inc next poor, emaciated, starving
corporation which will receive a subsidy
under this BILL said Mr.. Vest, sarcas s.
tlcally, lis the Standard Oil Company.
Qaughter1
he believed a trust would be formed for
'ne control of all this American shipping
"a trust that would get every dollar of
the subsidy
Everything in the country is under a
rust said the Missouri Senator. from
"e cradle to the grave"
ne Republicans, he asserted, dared not
,'lse the black flag against the trus S
neiore the last campaign and now in graf
nuue for their financial assistance they
would not raise their hands against them.
mis- bill" continued Mr.. Vest, will
pass the Senate. 1t is a part of the
protective system sacred to the Republi-
Tau party, especially in New England.
D'uhK with victory the Republican party
INV VIII stop at nothing"
p, ne legislative bill was then taken up.
ne pending question was the amend
lent OF Mr.. Jones of Arkansas, provid-
s Tor the appointment of an assistant
NOrhey general to represent the gov
nment in all matters Of claims pend
before Congress.
mr. Chandler opposed the amendment
qua offered an amendment providing that
e assistant attorney general should
ave an Office in the Capitol, an assis-
,aul az a salary of so. 800 per annum and
assigned two clerks. who should as
H MN in the work OF his office.
VT, chandler withdrew his amendment
"'' Jones amendment and offered as