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Show H IMrOKTANT ACTIONS IN C0K6WSS. H Two or three recast setleBS by m CosgreM immediately before Its nd- B Jaaraweat ere of eoasldsrabte later H est to the average citizen. One Is its H action oa the Ship subsidy bill. Uy M a vote of 176 to 172 the house of M Representatives rejected thle maure. H The rote wm a elote eae, aad the 1 Bght engendered considerable bitter H aeee and even acrimony. Rep. Meoa M of Teaaeeee indignantly deelared the H neeenre to tie Man 'Infernal' fraud m designed to plander the national H treasury." Champ Clark declared B that a lobby had been carried on In B favor of the bill "right on the floor M of the boaee." K The bill provided for a boouty to H be paid out of the national treasury H to all American steamboats carry I on M a regular trade with oertala foreign m oonatrlee. All ablpa ef sixteen knots B or aver and of not lees tbaa 5000 1 toaa displacement were, aeoordlng to H the bill, tn be paid 94.60 per aaut- H leal mile oh outward route of 4000 H mllne or upwards to Bents Aaaeriua, H the Philippine, Asia, or Australia. H The object of the bill waa to enoour- H age American ship building and con H mere, To Illustrate; A ship own 1 er who sent out a ship with a oargo H to the Philippines, or to Qhlaa or to H aay oonntry of Asia, or of South H America, besides getting the proflta H whloh aoorued through carrying the H felght la hla ship, would get an addl- H tiojal futH of 94.00 per mile paid to K hlai out of (be Rational treasury for P every outward trip. Thus a ship H owner running between Saa Frauolsoo IfH and tbe Philippines would resolve I H out of the treasury between 916,000 H aad 918,000 as bounty oa his outer- H prising spirit for every trip his ship H We believe uudrr oertala alroum H stanoes that a bounty might work H good results; but we think that such Hj a provision would be too sweeping. H it Is ouly the wealthy capitalists that H can build ships for carryiug on our H trade, and only that class could reap K any poralblo bonelita from nuoh a H bouaty. Moreover, we nrn not cer H tain that the oommeroe oarrylug bus H inese on the ooean Is such a poor In- H vestment that it needs suoh bolstering H up out of the national treasury. If H the steamboat oumpanlee reap any H where uear tbe proilt our railroads H do, they certainly need no such fos H taring care. If the uatloual govern H aaeut would paaa a bill giving every H farmer In the great arid tracts of the H west a bounty of five or tea cents for H every bushel of wheat raised ou those H great wastes tlmt are not under irrl bbH aatlou. it would wo think, be cokhr H lag Itself tn a more laudable outer H prise. It would certainly etrlko at H tho heart of ovory poor man who is H anxious to build a homo and turn the H deeort wastoa into proiltablo wealth H producing sootlone. And wo fool that H tho vonturo Into arid farmlua la aa H hazardous, nnd tho dltlloultloa ns H great ns thotto confronting u capital- H 1st who builds 11 ahiu und bo ml a it out H under tho mHUUgeinout of skilled ei- H The history of tho ship subsidy H sohomo sooiua rather auspicious ou H Its faoo. It was tho pet projoot of H Mark Uanna, who over Blxtoen, years H uko luttoduood tho mensuro into tho H aotiato nod fought so hard for iti pas H sago. At that tlmo It waa n uovol H sohomo; it wnu denouuood iu unmena H ured tonus ns uuro graft, and mot Itn H death by nu ovorwholmluK vote, H Slnoo that tlmo it has boon broaohod H aorerul times, until at proeout on no H count of lta fumlllarlty it does not B look ro bald ; but it is the anmo old H meaauro whoao cud Is to pamper the H onpltallst oiasa at tho expense of tho H goverumout. H Tho tight this tlmo waa n bittor ami H olobo ouo but tlianka to tho judgomeut H of tho majority tho measure wna do H fontwl. It la iutoreatiuir to Utah H peoplo to learn that Hop. Howell H waa not amoug thoae who voted B ngnluat tho bill. |