The age-herald., 1902-02-26
Aabamian Delivered a Powerful. Address in House .ea
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SEVERELY CRITICISED
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Thinks Company Should Lay the Gable and Ought Not to Be MaIlaned Without Facts to Verify
 Such Assertions.

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 Washington. February 25.-The house today passed the diplomatic and consul appropriation bill. It was the fifth of the regular annual supply measures to be sent to the Senate at this session. Many amendments of importance was adopted The feature of the day was the speech of 1 MT Richardson. Alabama, in reply to Mir Corliss' speech a few days ago in favor of the construction of Pacific cable by the government.
 1 MT. Richardson, Democrat, replied to the remark made some days ago by Mir. Corliss, Republican of Michigan, in favor of the construction by the government Of a Pacific cable. MT. Richardson is a member of the Interstate and Foreign 1 Commerce committee which is considering the cable bills. He protested against Mir Corliss course in delivering what he term | ed as his well prepared and widely dis eminated speech" before the subject had come before the house for consideration and said that it looked like an effort to forestall the judgem ent of the house. Tt ! Is procedure" said he, that is more hurried than Hamiton's mothers mar riage to her husbands brother" While 1t was an opportune time to discuss the | question of whether the Pacific cable should be constructed by the government or a private corporation. he said he did believe that the errors and misstatements had been sent forth to the country that they should be corrected
 No Right to Maien. : He did not believe he said. that a member had right to malign or im- pugn the motives of any person, or any corporation had the right to reply here He proceeded to a point to some of MT. Corliss mistatements and errors He took up the Michigan members statement that Great Britain was about to construct a 7o00-mile cable from Vancouver to Au- stralia and declared that the statement was ingeniously made to afford a prece- | dence for our government. whereas as a 1 matter of fact he said Great Britain had offered a subsidy to any private corpor- | ation which would build the cable. It was only because no corporation could be 1 persuaded to take the risk that England decided to construct the cable itself. He also contradicted other statements made by MT. Coriiss. He denied that the Commercial Cable Company had been offered a subsidy by Germany to land on the Marshall Islands. The company, he said. was prepared if it was practicable, to build an all-American cable He ridi- culed MT. Corliss' description of this | company as an octopus" He warned the members of the House not to decide the question until the facts on both sides had been regularly and finally presented.
 Violent and Aggressive. l Referring to the criticisms of Mir. Cor 1 loss of the offer of the Commercial Cable 1 Company, MT. Richardson characterized 1t as the violent and aggressive language | that the gentleman from Michigan uses throughout both of his untimey- delivered l speeches when he refers to- the cable | company which made simple and plain | proposition to build this cable without asking a subsidy from the government Continuing. MT. Richardson said: How can the United States government restrict privileges to foreign cables by a foreign government simply be- | cause the United States cable con- meets with such foreign government The only way 1t can refuse to connect with foreign cables would be for a Unit ed States government cable or United States cable corporation to encircle the globe and thereby build about the octo- pus monopoly so greatly dreaded by the gentleman from Michigan. Every Ameri- can cable in the Atlantic connects with the foreign cable companies in Europe"
 Relative to the charges that Germany offered a subsidy to have the cable land on Marshall island and Guam island. MT. Richardson said it had been denied by the Commercial Cable Company. He said the speech of MT. Corliss indicated that he surely must possess well-defined populistc views and tendencies"
 Mr Richardson also said
 Here is a company that offers to build this cable, that has contract already let for a part of 1t, that obligates itself to build 1t by 1905 without a single dollar of subsidy from the government Tn the | last Congress the proposition was made for the government to pay $4Ooo0o an- nually for 20 years.-
 Extends Discussion. An extended discussion occurred on the consular service, MT. Grosvenor maintain- l ing that the present consuls were render | ing excellent service. while Messrs. Feely, | Illinois; Gaines. Texas; Green Pennsyl- vania- and others urged reform in the system.
 MT. Newlands. Nevada, took occasion | to defend his plan for the ultimate annex ation of Cuba from the charge that pre- | liminary grant of customs concessions was d move ito blackmail the island into | annexation
 MT. Champ Clark, Missouri. made a characteristic speech. urging that instead l of criticizing the present consular system. | definite plans for the bettering of the 1 system should be presented. For himself, he did not favor the so-called merit sys- tenn When the Republicans carried the elections he believed they had right to | the office; when the Democrats carried the elections he believed they had right | to the offices. MT. Clark caused mucn | laughter by referring to the Democratic success in electing Mr. Cleveland as ''the | greatest calamity that has befallen the