The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-11


government.
Mr. shackeIford of Missouri advocated
the adoption Of the rule.
Mr. GrOsvenor of Ohio said the COM
fate Of the COrliss bin. The rule left
the door wide open for any proposition
which might be submitted.
Mr. Dalzell announced that he was OPP
posed 70 the construction Of a govern
ment cable. The necessity for a cable an
admitted The administration was il-
sistenL- in the interest of economy. that
there should be "a cable connecting the
United States directly with our insular
possessions, but ne did not believe in
government ownership of the cable The
experience of foreign countries as re-
CARDS both railroads and telegraphs was
against it,
Dalzeu Roasts Mackay.
Nor did he favor the proposition or the
Commercial Pacific company. Of which
Mr.. Mackay was the head. His informa-
tion, he said. was that English capital
was behind that company. Dir. Mackay
might be a loyal American. but is was
many years since he had lived In America
He belonged to that class Of Americans
who were denominatcd eNpatriated
Americans. The Commercial company. ne
said, proposed TO build a cable in Eng
lish workshops, with British capital and
lay II with British ships He wanted
an American cable, built by American
capital, in American shops, by American
wage earners, laid by American ships,
under the American FLAG.
You speak Of Mr.. Mackay as an eX-
P2trated American interrupted Mr.
NeWlands of Nevada. While Mr.. Mac
kay's family lives abroad. he resides in
the United States nearly all the time"
II retract the statement replied Mr.
Dalzcll. 1T is not material. The cap
lLal behind the enterprise is English
Mr.. Richardson of Alabama here inter
posed to deny the latter statement He
4 III
Mackay owned majority of the shares
OF the company.
Where is if proposed to make this ca
bic? asked Mr.. DdlZeI.
I'm England" replied Mr.. Richardson:
and at the proper time I viii show why
IL IS 10 be made there.
That is enough" said Mr. Daizcil.
mat IS why oppose the proposition Of
the Commercial company"
Will Offer Substitute For Cable Bill.
Proceeding, he said that at the proper
time he would offer as a substitute for
the bin, the bin recently introduced in
the senate, which he understood had been
drawn by the attorney general. By which
the president would be authorized 10
make a contract for the construction Of "A
cable, under certain specific conditions.
The rule was adopted, los To q. Cousid-
Grafton Of the bill then began.
III. Carliss WAS the first speaker. t"Ehis
measure" he said. provides for gov
erument cable uniting our islands in the
Pacific with the American continent. BY
its terms the cable shall be American
made, laid by American ships and man
aged by the American government
lie argued that no one had a right TO
lay a cable without the permission Of
congress. He placed the cost OF con-
Structlon at not exceeding &l0,0900 eco and
the cost OF operation at 10000 per an
num- A government survey of the route
already had been made, he said at an
expense Of $4,000. He estimated that the
revenue from commercial business alone
would be far in excess Of the cost of Op-
Grafton.
Corliss DenOUnces Monopolies.
Mr.. Corliss presented to the house state
ments and figures intended TO show the
existence of cable monopoly and it's
purposes. He presented the grants oh
I tanned by the Eastern Extension Gable
/ company from China, Japan and the
Spanish islands in the Pacific. including
Guam, the Philippines and Marshall is
lands, TO show that this cable COmDanr
had control Of cable cOmmuniCa lions In
the far east and control OF 1001g miles
OF submarine cables. Il had an exciu-
sive monopoly in China he said. until
1880. and its Spanish grant I'm the Phil
lppines ran until 1870. He contended that
the Commercial Pacific Cable COMPANY.
which proposed 70 lay a cable to Hawaii
and thence 70 Manila. was merely the
American branch or ally of the Extcu-
sion cable monopoly Mr. COrliss dwelt
on the effect upon our military control
in the Pacific, should a foreign corpora
ton be permitted to own this cable and
he argued that the only way 90 brea k
down the monopoly was for the govern
ment 90 own, construct and operate the
I cable.
Air CorIiss denounced private cable mo-
nopOlies, and read letters from Captain
Squier Of the signal service. who, be
said had been in charge of the cables
I in the Philippines for three years. and
I from Admiral Bradford for the necessity
I Of a government cable and the existence
I of a cable monopoly i'm the east. A ses-
/ sion was ordered on Sunday. June % at
I IL O'Clock. for eulOEies on the late Rep
resentative Cummings OF New York. st
I 5 O'Clock the house adjourned.