Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The DiOgley shipping Bill as Amended
by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, May II.
The House shipping bill as amended and
PASSED by the Senate today, provides that on
and after July lst, next, no fees shall be
charged by customs officers, inspector of
steam vessels or shipping commissioners for
the following services to vessels of the Unit
ed States
Measurement of tonnage or certifying the
same; issuing license or granting certifi-
ca es OF registry; record of enrolment, in-
GLIDING all Endorsements; certifying and re-
celvlng manifesto, including the masters
oath and permit; granting a permit to touch
and trade: granting certificates of the paw
meht OF tonnage dues; recording bill of
| sale, mortgage or discharge of mortgage;
furnishing certificate of title furnishing
crew list; certificates of protection to sea
men; Dill OF health; shipping or discharging
seamen; inspecting, examining or licensing
steam vessels or licensing a master e n gineer,
mate or pilot.
Customs officers or shipping commissioners
! paid wholly or partly by fees, shall be paid
from the treasury whatever they would be
entitled to before the passage of this act
Shipping commissioners may ship or dis
charge crews for any vessel engaged in the
coastwise trade or in trades between the
United States and Canada, New Foundland
or the West Indies, OF that part of the coast
of South America bordering on the Caribbean
sea or the Republic of Mexico, at the request
OF the master or owner of the vessel, the fees
in such cases to be one-half those provided
by section 45l2 Of the Revised Statutes
The bill changes the Revised Statutes in a
variety Of o,her particulars relating to fishing
the substance of which has been already pub.
llshed. As an amendment to the bill the
Senate without debate added the full text of
the bill recently introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Frye and favorably reported from the
committee on commerce, providing for the
restriction of commercial privileges of YES
sells of foreign countries in United States
ports to such purposes as are accorded to
American vessels in ports of such foreign
countries. That provision authorizes the
President when satisfactorily informed of the
denial of commercial privileges to American
vessels IN foreign ports to issue a proclama-
ton excluding from the exercise of such
commercial privileges in ports of the United
States like vessels of foreign country %
discriminating. The penalty prescribed for
the violation of the Presidents proclamation
Is the liability to forfeiture of vessel and
contents. Opposition to an officer OF the
United States in the enfor cement of the pro-
visions of the proclamation is made a INSIDE
meanor punishable by imprisonment for not
less than two years and forfeiture of $500.
The bill now goes to the House of Represe
tatives for concurrence in the Senate amend
ments.
Location of Frontier Line Between Alas.
ka and British Columbia.
The President has transmitted to Congress
the report of the Secretary of State, with ac
companying papers, in respect to the ldca-
ton of frontier line between Alaska and
British Columbia MIR. Bayard says the
British government is prepared to take part
in preliminary investigation of the boun-
| dairy question, and that nothing now delays
action but the want of an appropriation BY
Congress to enable this government to take
part in the survey. ''In view Of the fact"
he says, THAT important and grave interna
tiOnsl questions of jurisdiction may at any
time arise owing to the circumstance that
great mineral wealth exists in the territory
traversed by the boundary line" The sec
retarv recommends that Congress be requested
| to enact law to authorize the survey, and to
appropriate the sum of 100000 therefor.
The President endorses the recommendations
of the Secretary of State, and suggests early
action on the subject
Approved by the President.
| The President has approved large num-
ber of bills during the past few DAYS. Among
them are the Indian appropriation bill act OF
making Mount Desert Ferry, Me-, port Of
entry act regulating the promotion of grad
yates oi the United States military academy
and act extending the public building at Bel
fast, Me.
Confirmed.
The Senate in executive session today con-
frmed the nomination of Mrs. Thompson to
be postmaster at Louisville, KY.