The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-26

The Fishery BoUnties Question.
THI PRESENT POSITION or rag QUESTION BEFORE
C0SGaEss--Io FORTHCOMING REPORT ON THE SUB
5BcT by TiiE aoISE COMMITTEE on COMMERCE
REPUBLICANS AGAINST THE REPEAL AND DEMO-
Gratis ron 1.-THE ARGUMENTS on BOTH SIDES
VOTE OK THE PASSAGE OF TIE BILL IN THE Sc
NAIE-wtlL THE BILL PASS THE HOUSE?
We learn from Washington that the bin for the repeal Of
the fishery bountes passed by the Senate the 18th May
last, and in the House referred the Committee Com
mercc, viii shortly be reported back by that committee,
with recommendation for its passage The following ar
tce showing the present position Of the question: and the
arguments both sides, has therefore been prepared
Fisher Amos SAID, in the first Congress Of tho United
States, s'The Catching Of cod is very momcntous con-
Germ and certainly seems, from the interest which II
has excited all the world, the imminent danger Of
war which has often occasioned and the present agta
tion on the subject, that Mr. Ames was about right
The fishery boanos according To the policy OF the go
yesnment l7s9-wth the exception OF an inerreg
mum OF six years from 1907 to 1Sl3are paid to those
gagged in the cod fisheries, according to the amounts
caught cured or exported. In 1915 they amounted
10 ssh, and in 1867 to $6ol Ash The total amount
paid has been SIC 532 average OF S205 900 per
The average for the last ten years has however
been $323ol6 They have been generally considered
intended TO tester the fisheries and assist in the education
OF class OF scanen who have always proved efficient ana
ready in time of They have been paid under all adj
&,
and now the House has under consideration bill
introduced - Mr.. Clay of Alabama, which passed the
Senate, repeating the bounties altogether
TnE ARGUMENT FOR THE REPEAL OF THE BoUNrIEs
II Is urged by those IN favor of the repeal OF these
bouncs that however much they may have been appro
pirate the time they st instituted, they are now
but subsidy 10 oeai interest aud an Unfair appropria
ton or the government funds that the twelve million
olQrS pail the Of the tw has been divided
amoig about fifteen thousand persons. OF which sum
Maine and Massachusetts have received twetths
that while the goldfish tonnage OF 1876 was eighth OF
te ontre tonnage of the United States but
forty eighth thar while the value OF exported cod in 1904
was proportion OF one TO seventeen and two tonths
OF tho Of the whole export N 1857 is but in the
proportion 81 To SIX huudrc al Tie vauc oil tho whole
export the value OF exported cod has decreased
81 So 52 1884, While the value Of other domestic
exports has increased s2aT I $685. tina. the predictions
of their adding have proved false because
they aA and take out twelve dollars rom the Urea
snfy where they put IN one
In reply to the argument OF the other Side that the
fisheries nursery Of American seamen,
the rcpealss urge that seamen enough will be educated
without the boGntes II is urged that while IN 1892 the
coGlishermen composed half OF seanen, they
but trtecuth part; ms against thirteen thousand cod
fishermen, we have hundred and sixty engaged
in the aLere and whale fisheries and merchant service
Both Mr. Clay aud Mr. Toombs IN tie Senate. copcnded
strennousy that the bounes we're predcaed upon The
idea of a fawhack the duty salt that U.s. paying
back the exporters Of fish amount OF money 10 com
pensate them Tor tue duty on the salt which they had I'M
ported-n fact merely payment OF debt by the govern
ment II Is CLAIMED that bounty suc, is now given
by the operation OF tho law sought for or claimed
bv TIE Gshcrmen's friends or Intended he given hy
voycruner The act Of 1890 quoted showing that full
proof required of the expectation of the fish, and Of
the curing with foreign salt aud the language of the act Il,
Gin lieu ot drawback OF the duty On the SAT- expended
thcrcnIon.
In he debate on this question the Senate in May last
ii urgca La up TO 1882 DRAW back AMI not bounty
was evidently intended by Congress. la that year the
allowance shifted from the shipper or exporter Of
The fish the OF the vessel and from the exported
th to The tonnage This was done az the Instance Of the
fishermen and allowance was grau;cd on the tonnage
OF the vessel which was still meant only rs drawback
the duty. Mr. Clay read extracts nom the speeches
OF every advoc ate Of the fishery bodues made in lI01 TO
show that n purpose ayowed by the alvocates OF this
system 10 gecurea drawback. AMI hoi bounty that
tey all reccd the charge Of seck NJ bounty and ihr
protesting their demand fnr justice only, tho act vas
Il was ,gcd that the act aly, 1897 increasing the
sail DUTY 10 twenty cents. likewise the allow
The &C, Of 800 merely cont met the allowance and
che az 1907 repealed both duty and allowance that all
the objection g. the repeal was % the repeal Of the
duty, and nothing was said about the bounty; that
wheu ,i, duty restored IN 1918 the allowance was
restored, and mat 10 shoIt o-pat1a WIN the SUI
duty, with the salt duty, persisted with the
salt duty, revived with the salt duty has been
continued with tho salt duty, hut has been re-
enrea with She salt duty. Mr.. Cay, in summing
up his argument ON this poiut sad - appears, thcn
by the language the acts hs by the arguments
oi the of those acts, By the memorials OF the
fishermen praying for those acts by the construction Of
those ~ the fishermen and by the construction Of the
Treasury department. thst Congress gave, 81 intended 10
give, and tho fishermen asSe, or no'.ssrd TO ask no
ihng more Than drawback, and bounty. but, sir.
~rnt 1 III IL this Instead Of merely receiving
drawbac. they receive large amount 81 bounty
~ IA ~ MOD nom the reduction 81 The salt duty with
ou any correspondent reduction a The tonnage allow
ansC.
over IN amount duo drawback s22O.s22 in 1851
II was IN excess SS30ss 1854 az rycess OF s3i3ooo
is51 oi sA12 Na; snd that Tue aggregate cxcs
~ logit - n drawback has been ia AL nearly $1,000 900
besides r,a MI The alt duty and o. late years more
than the saN 'luy.
spUcb, cNos tie tonnaee q vessels engaged IN hecod
Nshefas hr allowance pad sums dup a. drawback On ihc
salt I'M, an tic IF tie bounty oycr the duty
yAplI 'SulrrIiSG Tng TONNAGE ~ VESSELS ~.
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