Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS LAST SESSION SENATE Washington 27 Dawes presented a petition signed by Bishop Simpson Joseph Cook Wendell Phillips and 32000 other besides churches nnd eocieties representing 500CO people praying Congress to observe Indian treaties and deal iustlv with them It was referred to the committee on Indian aDaira It was a very bulky package and attracted much attention atten-tion A bill was introduced by Garland for a unior bankruptcy system Beck advocated free snipe speaking speak-ing to tho resolution for the repeal of laws prohibiting citizens engaging in the foreign carrying trade or preventing prevent-ing their registration as American I ships He argued that we were handicapped by the whole world through these oppressive laws Every dollar wo made our ships cost above wbat was paid by the people and by other oouutr ily handicapped us diminished our chances of mc cceaful f L com Iito n Before the n pu war we could buy a ship cheaply but the effect of our policy had since been to build up a navy for England which now bed the finest body of eailordin the worid while the United States was without a marine The imminent im-minent dangers to the United States incase in-case of a foreign war with our defenseless de-fenseless ocean find gulf coasts were next referred to Our surplus being largely agricultural and so great that it cannot be consorued nt nome we are obliged toUoat our exports in foreign ship atjd thus Germany England and France were doing our carrying trade If f these nations went to war althounh we mirrht be nn thn best terms with the belligerents 1 vs would sufier more than they because cur products would go to tho bottom as the cruisers of each destroyed tho merchant vessels of the others Blaine followed in a reply to Beck It was a remarkable fact that for twenty years or from the time of the war to this hour the Congress of the United fitatea hud not done one solitary soli-tary thing to uphold tho navigation interests of the United States The treat march fel ward of our old cern mercial rival had been witnessed and everywhere recognized The representatives repre-sentatives of the people of the United States had sat in their two halls of legislation as dumb as though they could not speak and had not oOered a single remedy or aid until the Senator Sen-ator from Kentucky Beck had risen in his eeat and proposed to mako a 1 proclamation of the perpetual de pendence of this country upon Eng land for such commerce as she may enjoy holding up to the United States Germany Itdly and other European countries that are aa absolutely dependent de-pendent upon Great Britain for the commerce they enjoy as the District of Columbia upon Congress During these twenty years this Congress had passed ninerytwo acts in aid of internal in-ternal transmission by mail It baa given 200000000 acres of public land worth today 1000000000 irs money to which it i has added 87000000 in cti tj the earns end and yet it had not extended the aid of a single dollar to that vast end extensive ex-tensive transportauon whose port anco lied not bean rxagg J by Senator Beck from Kentu The United States could not w in this great international struggle without adopting exactly the same means that had achieved victory for others What was that It Tae not to help John Roach or anybody else but to make a great and comprehensive policy that ehall give every man and every company com-pany the specific aid of so muoh percent per-cent for a certain term of years Let the African marine feel that the government of the United States is behind them Let the United stares only take from her treasury per annum 4000000 the same sum that Great Britain is paying only as a postscript her 200000000 of investment in-vestment He was not a prophet nor I the Eon of one but if this was done he ventured to predict that the locg deferred and much desired event of a revival of the American steam marine would soon arrive He would have the country do one thing more to which England had pointed the way for the United i States We have nine navy yards I and no navy If we would put the I expense of these navy yards into the I building up of great private shipyards ship-yards this would form subsidy enough or aid enough if Senator Beck liked that word better It would help enough from the saving in the construction of naval vassels to float this whole scheme for a revival of American navigation The election elec-tion bad shown that the public opinion opin-ion of this country was in favor of keeping up American competition against foreign manufacturers and he would say to the upholders of protection pro-tection that this ccnld not be done by the destruction of the commercial marine of the country Beck was glad cf this presentation of the premier of the next administration ad-ministration Tho senator from Maine had not denied because he knew it was true that we had no foreign carrying trade nor that it had dwindled since the war nor that we gave 120000000 per year to build up the trade of our rival and weaken ourselves nor that while we give the right to Germany England and Franco to carry our goods from our ports in cheap free ships we are handcapping ourselves nor that instead in-stead of caving 6000000 7000000 American sailors as we had in the war we now have none On motion of Windom tha Senate tok up the naval appropriation bill Windom stated the amendments of the committee and that tho net amount added to the bill as passed by the House was 259750 making a total aa reported to the Senate of 1472287 which was 301603 less than the estimates and 314987 in excess of the bill last session In committee of the whole the amendments amend-ments of the senate committee were aereed to as also the amendment offered by Burnside admitting boys to naval training school at fourteen instead of sixteen years of age The bill was then reported to the Senate and passed finally The following bills were then severally sever-ally considered On motion of Allison the House deficiency bill relating to interest on the S65 bonds of toe District of Columbia passed On motion of Kernan the bill authorizing au-thorizing tho issue of an American register to the Egyptian steamer DM song passed Teller submitted resolutions requesting re-questing the secretary of the interior to forward to the Senate the Ute com mhsion report and also calling for all the correspondence between the secretary sec-retary and the commission and between be-tween the secretary and the governor of Colorado concerning the Ute Indiana In-diana since March 1880 Both resolutions reso-lutions were adopted The Indian land in severalty bill was taken up as unfinished business and the Senate adjourned I HOUSE The post route bill wan reported and recommitted Speer called up tho YeatEEMartin contest case and after some sarcastic allusions by Conger to the Speakers ruling yesterday CR to questions of privilege the case was taken up and Speer argued in favor of Yeatee contestant con-testant Tho discussion was protracted pro-tracted Keifer presented the case of be con tejteo Martin and at the conclusion of hie speech warned the democratic party that if it did not place the seal of disapproval upon such practices as had been resorted to in these cases the day was coming when they would be swept from the halls of Congress by the American people Russell also warned the democratic party that if the reasonings of tho committee on elections were adopted some fifteen or twenty gentlemen from the fouth in Congress would wake up some morning to givo place to men who had been counted whether elected or not A democrat We wil see about that At the conclusion of Russells speech Springer demanded the pre vions question and tho republicans refusing to vote tho House was left without a quornm Adjourned |