Mr. MCDOUGALL. liMr. President, I will take occasion to remark here that there has been a struggle on the part of GreatBritain and on the part of France and on the part. of Russia to obtain command of the commerce of the Pacific, and obtaining the command of the commerce of the Pacific the command of China and India. We have been at fault in not maintaining a pesitive policy. Our diplomatic relations with the countries on the Pacific have not been equal to those of other States. It is time that we should go to work to maintain ourselves firmly there and command that commerce. A gentleman who went from Bos ton to China, an eminent merchant, was at HongKong, where he talked with a tea mer chant from the interior who was worth a bun dred millions. Said he, “ You must be a very i“m ortant man in your part of the country.” 0, " he replied “the salt merchants do not recognize me.” ir, the silver and gold of the worl have been poured in there for 18 or 20 centuries. They are there now, and the trade of those countries is sought for by all the intelligent States of Europe. Portugal made great efforts for it at one time; Holland did at one time; England has done it since; and France is trying for it now, as she has got relations with Siam. We have by right, by right of power, the command of China and India andpthe islands of the Pacific the greatest field for commerce that the world has known. Questioning about these small things is questioning about cents when millions are involved; and a subsidy of $500,000, in regard to its relations to our country and its wealth, is a more bagutelle. What is the wealth of our country? It is the wealth of individuals, not the wealth of the State, for from individuals in a republican Government comes the material that makes and maintains the State. If we can command the commerce of the Pacific we shall command a Wealth that cannot be responded to by any part of Europe, and by our communications with Europe can make it our own, possess it ourselves; and every enterprise that tends in that direction is strengthening our Republic. I this not worth while to argue this matter in Argument will have no effect upon those who have not studied political econom ical science well enough to'know that devel opment'is wealth, that the wealth of the individual is the wealth of the State, that the wealth of the community is the strength of the community. We now owe, sa, 3 or 4,000 million dollars. how are we going to pay it? By taxation on a circum scribed line? No. It is by bold, brave on ter.rise, by bringing the wealth of other lands an making it subject to our own land; and those who 0 not understand the philosophy of that policy have lost the lessons of history. It was done in old Rome; it was done in Greece before; England has proved it well; it has been our own sound policy, but we have not yet. been held enough to throw off the shackles on our enterprise. Out of enterprise grows wealth; out of that grows strength; out of that grows the power of the Government. It has been so all through history. If we could only indoctrinate into this Government the policy that England adopted long ago of subsidizing vessels to run to all the ports of the world so as to command their commerce, England would be but simply an island in the sea, and we should be the great nation of the world. That is all we want to do; and if we are wise we shall do it. It is written in every book, it is the deduction of every sound thinker who studies political economical science. We have got the power, we have got the opportunity, to command both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and the Indian sea, and if we do not do it we shall be false to our own great office.