Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-10
SENATOR FRYE,s SPEECH.

He Explains the Bill to Encourage
 ShiPbuilding-It Applies to the City of New York and the City 1 Of Paris-The Measure Passes the l Senate by a Vote of 40 to lO-It Now Goes to the President for l Approval.
 WASHINGTON, May 9.-After the routine
 business MT. Frye, from the committee on commerce, reported back the house bill to encourage American shipbuilding. He said the report was unanimous and that he had been instructed 70 move its present consideration. He made that motion and 1t was agreed to.
 The bill having been read in full, MT. Frye stated that although it was general in its provisions two ships only were to be admitted to American registry. They were to be excluded from the coastwise trade and might be used by the govern ment (by charter or purchase) in case of war. That, he said, was the full extent of the bill The two ships to be admitted were the City of New York and the City of Paris, the two largest ships to-day in the world since the Great Eastern was broken
 
 and he might say the two fastest, except that the Majestic had crossed the ocean in eighteen minutes less time.
 After MT. Frye had described at great length the two vessels, he said that there were 1ntimations in the newspapers that the British lion was growling somewhat at the prospect of losing those two ships But it had no occasion to growl, because, when these ships were built, proposition was made that they should be subventioned by the British government at the rate of $1O5, 900 year. But the British govern ment had said to the owners that in case of trouble, the United States government was liable to ask for those ships and to admit them to American registry and that there ought to be some penalty in the event that the owners yielded to that de- mand. The owners asked what penalty the British government desired to exact, and the reply was that the s105, ,000 year | should be returned each year, so that there | should be always one years pay behind and | that that $105, ,000 should be the penalty | exacted if those ships ever went under | American registry. So that, MT. Frye | said, the British government had nothing | to say if the bill became a law. The pen alty would be paid and that was the end | of it. IL the bill became law, two ships WOulu Do UullC III tU6 OulCeQ OCaCeB not or | 10, 1000, but of 12.000 tons, and with a speed not of twenty knots but of twenty three knots.
 After some discussion an amendment offered by MT. Mills to strike out of the bill certain words that might allow the two ships to avail themselves of the postal sub sidy was rejected without division and the bill, just as it came from the house, giving American registry to the city of New York and city of Paris was passed-Yeas 40, nays 10.
 Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Allison, Barbour, Bryce, Butler, Call, Cameron, Cockrell, Coke, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph, Du- oois, Frye, Gibson of Maryland, German, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Hill, Kenna, Kyle, McMillan, Morgan, Paddock, Per 1ins, Pettigrew, Platt, Power, Proctor, Pugh, Quay, Ransom, Sanders, Sawyer, 3houp, Stockbridge, Vest, Villas and Vol 
 Nays-Messrs. Bate, Felton, Gorge, liar 'ison, Mitchell, Morrill,, Palmer, Teller, Voorhees, and Walthsll-10.
 The bill now goes to the president for lpprOyal |