The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-13
CABLE ACROSS
THE PACIFIC
Manner in Which 1t Shall Be
COnst ucted Causes Argument.
OFFER OF PRIVATE COMPANY
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DENOUNCED BY MEN FAV0RTNG
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
OFFER OF PRIVATE COMPANY

HThSHINGTCN. March 1.-THE Pa
/ w cidc cable discussion was renewed
in the house today. and AIr. Cor
4 liss CT Michigan made an attack upon
/ Mr.. Richardson OF Alabama, replying
to the latter's speech a few days ago
! He asked why M. Richardson had not
waited untH the bill was properly be
fore the house before rushing 10 the de-
tense OF a telegraph corporation. He
said that his experience was that there
was motive behind every act. and
stated thar Mr.. Richardson should e&-
plain his zeal and motive in regard to
the measure
Mr.. CoTIiss criticised F. B. Thurber.
president of the United States Export
association, whom he coupled with
the officers Of the American Asiatic as
sociatiCn, and styled them the devils
duet in the garb of heavenly twins.
seeking To mislead the public and con-
cedl the iniquiJy OF the cable mouop-
oly
Mr.. Richardson of A .abama then Sc
cured recognition to reply 10 Mr.. Cor
liSs. He said he would not have re-
piled had the gentleman from Michi-
san not INDUCED ia remarks personal
Co himself II regret" said he that
the gentleman is not in his seat at this
time. as Z do ont believe i'm the policy
OF shooting and then running"
Mr. Richardson then proceeded to
make some very caustic comment upon
The remarkable and exclusive faciIi-
ties possessed by the gentleman from
Michigan for the advance delivery Of
his speeches throughout the country"
Speeches Lying in Soak"
He discla.med any intention to re-
flect upon the correspondents Of the
.iress, but he expressed his surprise
that the speech made by Mr.. CorIiss
earlier in the day had been typewriter
and Lying in soak for two weeks.
Thereupon he drew from his desk
copy Of a prepared synopsis of Mr.. Cor
liss' speech literally iuterladen with ed
itoridl comments. and proceeded to
read some of the charaCterizati tons il
contained.
BY this time the members of the
house were interested and began
crowdins around the place where Mr..
richardson was standing. Mr. COrliss
himself entered the hall. Before he sat
down he denied that he had written
the advance newspaper article describ-
ing his speech, which had been circu-
lated
Mr. Richardson said he was conscious
o. the correctness of his own motives
and refused to be diverted from the real
issue of the raw head and bloody
bones conjured up by the gentleman
from Michigan, it was all the veriest
claptrap
What is this proposition" said Mr..
Richardson, that we have TO discuss2
Fhe gentleman from Michigan and his
friends propose that the government of
the United States shall lay this cable
from the coast Of California to Manila
at cost of conservative estimate Of
$4,000, 600.
The annual outlay for its mainte-
nance viii amount to 81 500 600. The
reasonable annual income that the gov
eminent can expect to derive will not
exceed $3.50, 900. That is the proposition
chat they make, and that is the propo-
sItlon that this house viii pass upon.
what IS the proposition for which we
are cOntending? IT is this: here is
the Commercial Pacific Cable company.
competent, qualified. experienced in its
work, with men of the necessary skin
They propose to build this cable from
the coast of California to Manila bv
January, 1903, without a single dollar
Oh cost Of subsidy from the govern
ment. They have entered into q con
tract to build this cable from san Fran
cisco to Honolulu and to complete il
by the list Of January. 1903 They have
expended on the contract $3.50. OOO Tt will
cost them 10 build To Honolulu some
INNS over S2.O00.o00 When this com
pany gives such an earnest evidence of
ERanF1frc -
guarantee that il viii proceed and build
the line TO Manila. where the business
win pay.
"The Commercial Pacific Cable com
pany proposes to build an alI-Americsn
line If possible There is no question
about that except the deep water
around Guam.
Government May Take It.
1T proposes TO take government mes
sages at half rates; and not only thar
put the postmaster general shall regu-
late the rate, and that the secretary of
state, Wherever he sees an emergency
arise. shall have right in the name of
li'e government 10 take possession of
Jhat line and To use il and Operate in
for the government until the necessity
Is past These are the propositions thar
We PROFOUND % those who raise his
cry of monopoly and octopus"
Mr. Richardson said the real track
Of the octopus and monopoly could bs
F. found in section $ OF the Coriiss hin
and he proceeded to read from the testi-
mony of Mr.. Clark of the Western
Union Telegraph company the state
men that government cable world
siNe his company its share of the brsi-
ness. while If the Commercial Gable
company constructed The Pacific Cable
10 would set nothing.
Mr. Corliss read a resolution. which
ne said be would ask to have considered
later II recit5s that an officer of tbe
. commercial Cable company has mada
combination with other cable com
panic@ in violation of conditions inn
posed upon the lines ana i'm violation of
the Sherman antitrust law. and III
Fefts the attorney general 20 institute
proceeding TO- destroy the mo0ouolv
Mr. Jackson of Kansas followed with
SET speech ia SAVIOR Of government
ownership of telegraphs.
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