Year: 1873




express any opinion. We are engaged In what
believe To be important work. The cheapening OF
transportation Is broad question. requiring fairer
investigation than we have vet been able
are are here to-day to get them T rom ,AJsS you We
desire is to ascertain what is the best and cheapest
route and what Will best build up our country.
We are perfectly willing and shall be happy II II
This Continent, Mr.. President, is large enough Tor
al ofus, and there Is no reason for any jealousy
become the sranary ' Of or the world. We
are TO feed the world, and you win help
us to do It Il you become our carriers,
TO great extent because you can carry II cheaper
than anybody else. The world VIII thank you, and
We and the world will thank you, too II you can
think OF any route by way OF the St. Lawrence that
you view Iavorably, or any other route that you
think may best serve the interests both OF the pro-
ducer ana consumer. we OF tne west Will nal! IL
with pleasure and gratitude.


SENATOR NoRwOOD's SPEECH.


Senator Norwood, after repeated calls, delivered


He said that they had oil understood that there
were to be speeches, and that, as public recep-


On had X tn o1 h
pn,ns puSSs '' one on the 1owlns canal; the
that this was question of when the West should
ind a market for her supplies OF produce, and TINS
or came mere ss
them ALL This was question OF the commerce
Of continent; the ,slppa capacity Ior carrying



been found inadequate and there must
be some way to increase it. 1t might be by the
@ 81 6s o by Se o %
seek such outlet II 1t could be furnished by the
people OF Canada, and II they could carry the grain
to the seaboard cheaper than the Americans could
then they would have the trade.


SENATOR COMBINES SPEECH.


Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND sGESTLEMEN-In rising to
acknowledge your fiattering and courteous hospi-
tally feel myself in some sort q captive. Unlike
my friend from the sunny south did not come III


IN ofQ rim v
by him whenever he might find himself in
the eternal solitudes and unmelting SHOWS in
which he tells US he expected to wade IN British
America. My hope in coming was to see again and
learn more OF your majestic and impetuous waters,
hardly grander in their nature than in the colossal
tranic and commerce which they iare des.
tined to bear, i trust, in enduring peace and
prosperity, to the sea. came freeman. but in
stantly was seized, not by the crushing paws OF
neighborly and gentle hands, and locked up. Not,
to be sure, IN bastile, but still locked up
and not by water only, but by even more danger
GUS elements of liquifaction. (Cheers) My CON
finemcnt has been long enough to show that how
ever Canaoians may believe in water routes they
do not believe that commerce can be carried on by
water purely. In retaliation for my duress do
not mean TO make speech. humanity for
my captOrs restrans me. Uaughter.) Yetpeing on
my feet let me assure you that or visit concerns
sheds of our CONTINGENCIES granary which holds
the food OF the world. Part Of this broad field be-
longs to the United ID states we have APT basin 1000
which may grow there, and the cattle which may
Craze there, added TO those which British America
can produce are enough to feed all Christendom.
The value Of properly in this hemisphere is no
longer to be sought in what 1t is, but in
where 1t is: No product Is valuable in some places.
All products are valuable II you can place them
where the needs OF man require them. (Cheers,.
Now we no doubt fully contest the wavering
to her supply Of wheat to Great Britain.
WhyP Because, to bring bushel
OF wheat from Chicago to the Atlantic costs us
Rusaia tL
cuding the cost OF production. How can you and
how can we change oil this BY find
any other channel by which grain can reach
the seaboard for fifteen cents bushel. Do this
ana Rsa sn NO os coa the mar
longer the rival Of British America or Of the United
States. Thus far our needs and our destinies are
alike and Identical. and we have come here to
learn how to contribute to common object But
there is point at which the lines OF interest part
and Shippers There s no d
contesting with US for supremacy in the
gin, and we mean not to be outstripped by you
by anybody else. One OF the problems OF our


ns T 20 0f on me ana Or states
which we can win in the battle OF COM
petition. Where our interests are alike
we win gain over you; where our inter ests differ,
we will engage YOU in generous rivalry, a
friendly grappe for the mastery. But hostility or
councils. Speaking for the producers Of the
United States the capitalist, the man whose
Che 70 e go% r Ga n carry av af na oo
onlsm exists beyond the competition which alone
gives inspiration to enterprises and progress.
route. ss Is dcubiy interesting to US in the
United States. A ruthless rebellion rolled
oar peoe Enough Steadily snS erav %e
1t away. show us how to transport cheaply the
growth Of the West st., into the port Or New
shadow OF passing hour. Cheap transit is, indeed,
the great material question of the hour.
We are all IN earnest m ABOUT u, ana we sna De IN
have authority to speak here. Not for the great
State OF New York, whose destinies and honor are
Legislature tried and trusted men, and they may
speak for her. There Is no other State for which
may speaS-certalnly cert not for alimand, there
leve that in the East and In the West
tie problem of creating channels Tor commerce
Is successfully solved. How our governments will
act cannot be now foretold; but wisely, thor
oughly and promptly they VIII Keep abreast Of the
cilites we bid, you, God speed. There is
belief give you sentment-"Brltish America
and the United States; may they unite in ad-
vancing industry civilization and progress, and
may they unite also in generous rivalry for
primacy in the enterprise and commerce or the
world" loud cheers.)


SENATOR sHERMANs SPEECH.


Senator Sherman said:-People West consumed
at the present time two bushels OF grain in remov-
ing one to market Il o costs ten cents % bushe to
II the West could send 1t Tor a
cent less by any other route to
their market that route would be used. Though
the States built 67,o0o miles Of railroad
it was sun insufficient. Canada had given
tol her water carriage, made by the
hands OF the Almighty God, and Ohio
pc ople said that New FORK did not offer faculties
ior the carriage OF grain, why they would bring 1t
into Montreal loud cheers The progress OF
trade and Its development knew no nationality
and no accidental difference. The West must have
an outlet.


HON. JOHN YoUNGs SPEECH.


The Hon. John Young preiaced his speech by
allusion TO his many years OF experience, during
which he had paid special attention to the subject
OF cneapening transportation between the West
and the East. Railway transportation is eleven
and half cents per ton mile whereas, cccord-
ing TO the Canal Engineers report, the rate Is
four cents per ton a mile, making 1t nearly one
third per cent OF the cost for the transportation
OF the great products Of the interior. There is
another element in this matter OF transportation,
and that Is the question OF the size oil the vessel
the the chpaDer the TRANSPORTATION