New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-18

worth IL cheaper than abroad lie au.ooaoo
the victuang OF ships. duty free from bonded ware
houses thought, also, that the character OF Amesi
psS Tor the abolition OF local harbor
iation OF potagc both OF which are great burdens
siderable length He favored. In the maln rebate OF
duties He showed that on the building OF Two s %M
Gold were $4,000 lower than the American II they
could get put down in their yard a. tno Frcss
firm built many iron steamers for the south American
ys eea,S dn1 English make their
Ger ships cost Just much our American SHIPS luis
SSSb"ilders he said would like to have the tariff
iron taken completely OH. but regarded as mPtaccapo
yeIy then m other countries but unskiled labor
bounty on American iron used would Induce builders
Our iron is superior and the work DO done more
promptly 1t would cost about 10000 currency TO Dud
Months S sq to S SS AD lie thought with
should sell ships to 70 srns ere asdS Shs wilmington
the cheapest point for iron shpbuildinB In inc oh'eu
Samuel Harlan Of the firm OF Harlan & Hollngsworth,
Wilmington wrote To the Committee, stating that IRON
hipbuding had never been IN as depressed
that the chief cause was inc rise III price Sd0 ot No.
ranging from 90 TO IS cent The remedy could no. %
found in reduction IN tho price OF LABOR until oo's !"
living reduced. This firm says; ..., ,,, n.
nor. nTp sSn s s@sS.a. eS
been before Board va 70 ,rm the duties on ~ sh
ro sailing ships d,wbaet be allowed 90 al
articles Ofdome.iie manufacture equivalent !" 'A daus nn''
T5i. latte. especially desirable, tia, pbad, ma, no.
~, America manufacturer"
They declare that whethe Scotch and English have
more experience have IN quality OF iron and sk OF
workmen greater advantage Free trade IN ships Is
f s 40. oqly s- ,h. .bpo-osn grGs.', . y..'s:
given building interest will produce ships equal to any
The repeal oitSs TsvSor -ou enable the hpo-nsr
procure cheap ship, b V Of every foreign country and even sSa
ships the sbipbodisg interest buglsnd ss ecot
,o SPI,d state os The cI Ptp u si S close up ou ship
Srd, Ie.p, % the building could not safely
Ats koeI,ad the building Of our mercantile ",As
she now has earring trade"
A CAMILLE STEAM MARINE AS DEFENSIVE MACHINERY
Admiral Porter's evidence s long and valuable. ana
was naturally turned TO the idea OF tho naval use OF com
mercal steamships There was not vessel IN our navy
to-day to DO compared with the foreign mail steamers
plying to NewYork and European ports They could
readily be made available for warlke purposes Had We
possessed half the steamers now engaged IN newborn
and European trade when the Rebellion broke ONT we
should closed port and not bale OF cotton
would have got ont The Navy at present was made OF
There were many ironclads the lists but &c
demned only 1T To be sold for old IRON These English
and French would be made twice as efficient
as any vessels have had We did not catch thirty
vessels by fair running The depression OF our CONNER
cal marine decreased with our available force OF
engineers. and OF masters and officers The best
class of these disappearing Our Atlantic liners are
the best merchant seamen in the world but they are all
going gone into foreign service. The only vessels
that pay tho old rattraps that we sell out OF the
Navy at very low price, High duties affect the Navy
as well as the merchant service s =, Inc
backs build as cheapy as on the Clyde,
labor costing so much He would subsldlze mail
to the extent OF the postage on all man naIer
carried With regard the English Naval Reserve sys-
TEN, he stated that 1t worked well Eighty thousand
seaInen could raised through it in short time The
reserve proper amounts to twenty th0nsand men: Al
steamships must be built OF IRON Inc navy woud i
probably wood for clippers only All the cOmmercai
Powers use iron altogether.
LETTERS PROM BUILDERS OWNERS
Messrs. Thayer s. Lincoln. Geo. Il. Uptun, 7. b. Wales
Coz X. b. Forbes. Isaac Taylor, and Donald Mckay
send letters OF interesting character. The remedy
presented by more is q drawback OF duties william H.
he ia Onfd
com posite ships can be bnt that coast ard made
great success with rebate OF duties IN AID OF the
builders. 49,
r. p Buck Co. New-York give as an estimate Of the
cost OF victualng aud manning an American lO0Otun
officers $685. per month"; Of l3O8 tuns, Il per
sons SLIPS; ship OF l5oe tuns 25 persons NS6S A.
victuang $50 per month.
OUR WESTERN cLrDEs-sHIPs CAN BE BUILT cHEAPLT
IN THEM.
The Committee have been strongly Impressed by the
facts them Of the capacity OF Western
rivers for ship building purposes Tho almost boundess
resources Of tho Missouri tho Ohio. and the Tennessee
and Western and Southern valleys in the way OF
COAL iron and timber with the opPortunes OF reaching
day enf96e' AS ae t oS s
S popt tSe Strongest evidence was presented
IN paper forwarded by Mr' I Hhlg., fla yen
master aud practically acquainted with the localities
fcrred in bis statement Mr.. Payen states that his
points are show that it is not the low Of
Europe alone which prevents revival Of shipping
Interests but lack OF orgazatOn. and the situations
OF the different establishments that prevent ship plate
iron being chespy produced. He says that IL IL fact
beyond dispute that iron be made rs oheapy and
than the Tees, in England ships can, in his
opinion, be built as oheaply on the Ohio and
foated Ia the He declares that our failure
is due to the want OF organization The best
w be- found on the Mississippi or Ohio Rivers above
Cairo. Iron DO obtained and made on the Ohio as
cheaply in England MT Playen declares that 1t Is
the gntude OF the grand rivers OF this con
tpent which enable the foregoing plans as
quite practicable" He also argues that American iron
superior TO British enabling our vessels 10 DO Dut OF
lighter material, giving greater tunnage than that OF
Great Britain lie declares that scores of places can be
pointed out where pig iron can be made AZ cheapy ~ IN
England beside the ONO valley.
sHIP.BUILDIsG on THE Lakes
Wiley NJ Egan OF Chicago declares that the business
may be almost considered abandoned since the
shp.bulding was profitable from 1854 to 1860. After
giving differences OF price, Mr. Egan says:
ns vessels onA built 10 thi, por, for Chicago veo~ue
eOmpeO, With provincial builder po,dot y. eOS eCs s the
beng we %s d S sas.d &, oss them Sdsi the
,s. Of oas sss. su own aSeJ . tbs
inconvenience Of owners going foreign port
Americas mechanics may fairly placed against the lesser Of the
o.sau .o%sa @ The ;s1 IL 1"J , ss that
Of oarO~ than Ae style Of provincial builders"
Frank Perew. builder at Buffalo says that shpbudinS
would from 1854 to 1850 have cost from $4,000 to $4,000
At present the cost would be from 100000 to $4,000
REPORTS OF UNITED STATES cossULs-rHE BRITISH
The Committee sent letters Of inquiry to all the leading
Consuls In Europe and elsewhere. But comparatively
few answers have been received yet, the mos import
ant OF which those sent by Morse OF
London In It he gives full information OF the condition
gsh navy. the mall subsidy system, and tho
| OF our COMMERCIAL decline.
He makes the following summary OF the Britsh navy
set OF This naToe, ar, sun6o OF small :Ie 80 OF the whcs
Only Line OF these built Government yars constructed Of ron