New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-08
RECIPROCITY AND SHIPPING.
From an interview with senator Frye in The Lewiston
/ Inlrual.

Cam, an intervicy with senator Frye in The Lewiston
(Me) Journal.
Successful reciprocity with any couhu{ 0t1 rn'
Canada and the restoration OF our ncN nam i,i'
are as inseparaby connected as were the aiainse ~ &
Two bills intended 70 accont i1 CIoerce al the
tast session Of Congress and passed the s,hat
consideration. one known a. the tonnage Dlii ~,
t,srded 10 encourage the Maintaining Oh iIelthtIhs
iiuc. the other "a, postal SUBSIDY blli' IT Wv
Enlistment of mail cOmmuulcatlois WIN I1cI- ~
- will certain and direct. Neither 81 these DIS
proposes any bounty FOR building none bcius i
f. be- American built remains unrepedlcd, lof ulGet
that whatever demand is created must 1e ie1 poiu
visions Of the Mckinley bill. all materials for the
building Of vessels TO BE- enFasH III I ig rnyrscn;
istanoe is required for the maintenance Of fielehhng
lines, because in 'hs bgShe3, r vtfoni s,y pro
,ectiou whatsoever. Every other grcdt Hiuu9HN 81
ICY c,,ntrv IL projected this alone being left at tA9
our Co1 ~ ,t France spain or Italy to-day
drive any such line from the ocean MiR % 80
the pay Of Officers and sailors uaaer Ihe m@SI " Han
uuder ours they keep on board ship from 40 10 ~
per cent less, while the ana reiuela 1 dvantapc
Take two steamships TO-DAY, one SpS,S, w. 1917, Ud.,
New York and Hncnos Ay1c, and the dihecnce IN favor
Of the spanish from these causes, IS $1,000 a hohlh
She carry freight for - Ton "a ana IolNN' '''
FGnaily ncccssarv Is The strong arm Of the Govern
ncnf f,r the establishments and maintenance Of mall
Steamship lines Every maritime nation a., In , the
world except ours recoggizes GlI fact GI ,g ai
against our own flag and carry mails chiefly under
a foreign We pay about S4OOOOo a year IW oui
foreign mail service S:}JO.OO0 OF 1t 10 foieiSh NSiH
and make out OF the business about HhHIon uOl,lI
annually while England pays from tlIce aHI nan i
10 four millions OF dollars year iOr io'
foreign mails. AT animal cost 10 h"f OF a mInlOl
and half Of dollar, beyond her receipts from postage
All the nations follow the example get by Ehtdno.
Tie result is the United states has 10 last HAL INV
on the ocean Oday and 10 l. reduced 10 the huhliid
ton Of Transporting it, mails under foreign nhgs w
have mails and helpless to provide Tor theh III
slups We have enormous foreign COM
mercc a billion and a half Of dollars year. ana
cannot ourselves carry more than ~ per cent or H.
Now for the building up Of "A trade with any iOrcIe!
country really open h the attempt these sNfl ana
certain mall hncs absolutely necessary. The hlcI
chant must know when the letter the order or the
draft can leave. will arrive and the return be name
lie cannot in these days. bs RENTED to the SO"
frelchter for his mails his light and costly irelghts
and certainly will trade with that country when
affords the requisite facilities.
Rut the restoration Of flag on the ocean re
aures the enactment into law of both these hHs
he steamer Of Dve thousand tons capable OF
maintaining at twenty knots an hour, consuming
from two To three hundred tons Of coal day, en-
blowing I'm Us handling from hundred 10 hundr
and ffty men. has room for coarse ana huIhy
cargoes and could afford to carry them II shc
had She must be the mail carrier and the pilot for
commerce. The Chicago Limited IS necessity
now but the freight train cannot DE dispensed WIN
The same condition attaches 10 the ocean ana us
The bounty in the Tonnage bill IS adequate FOR both
rlasss of vessels Thirty cents q TON for ca,h
thousand miles sailed is ample, and II 1t was certain