Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-09

QOfSeu tine banna-Hayne shipping Dill, |
which is now before Congress; adj |
mitted that the proposed City Charter
bill had thus far met with frosty |
reception from councilmen and legis-
lators, although still proposing to do |
whatever may seem advisable towards |
pressing for its passage, and declined |
to endorse a recommendation of the |
Legislature to permit the Street and |
Sewer Department to issue bonds for |
improvements.
1t was the monthly meetingt OF the |
board and President William Lawton |
was In the chair, with Daniel W. |
Taylor as secretary. About 80 mem.
bers were present. The attention of |
the board was called to the Hanna
Payne bill by Alfred ID. Warner, who |
said it had been presented by the COM
mittee on commerce and is now before |
the Senate. 1t will affect coast cities, |
mainly through their shipyards for the
building of vessels to fly the American
flag, but its effects will be more wide
spread than that. He thought it well
for the board to endorse the bill, and
offered resolution to that effect,
which was seconded by George W.
Bush. The resolution was as follows:
Whereas, But 10 per cent of the i'm
ports and exports of theUnitedStates are
carried on American ships, rs against its
former high position of So per cent of
the country's foreign trade, and it is
estimated in consequence that the sum
OF 500, 600, 600 in gold, or its equiva-
lent, is annually taken out of the coun-
try and paid to aliens abroad, ut the
same time depriving our own people
of the employment that sum would give
il it were retained in the United
States, and as the vessels of the coun-
try under its flag and carrying its
mails are an advertising medium for
sale of the products of that country in
the markets of the world. and the de-
mand for its surplus products, farms,
workshops and mines are thereby in
creased, and that it is essential to the
country to have ship-building plants,
artisans, engineers and sailors for its
defence and safety in time of war, and
that a merchant marine as naval re
serve has been clearly demonstrated in
the last year, and
Whereas, A bill has been intro
duced in the Senate of the United
States, No. 1924. and in the House of
Representatives, 1l,3l2, the purpose of
which is to increase the sale of Ameri-
can products and manufacturers, and
restore to the American ships a fair
share of our foreign carrying trade, to
the end that the money so expended
may be retained in the United States,
giving employment upon our farms,
our mines, our forests, our factories. in
our shipyards. and on board the ships,
and to our own people; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Wilmington
Board of Trade favors the adoption of
Senate bill No. 5,024, and House of
Representatives bill 11,312, which are
identical, in the present session of Con-
gress. and respectfully requests that
our Senators and Representative do
their utmost to secure the passage of
these bills in the interests of all the
industries in the city of Wilmington,
and that copy of this resolution be
forwarded to said Senators and Repre-
sentative. Be it further
Resolved, That copies Of these reso-
lntions be forwarded to the Honorable
Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Delaware, now assembled,
and that they are hereby respectfully
petitioned to pass a similar resolution,
showing that the sympathy of the in.
dustries in the State of Delaware favor
the passage of the above bill.''
Secretary Taylor read letters from
the Remington Machine Co., the Lob
dell Gar Wheel Co. and the president
OF the Harlan AZ Hollingsworth Co. d,
endorsing the bill in question. The
I,obdell company said that it would
have the effect of reviving American
commerce and would be advantageous
to those making foreign shipments who
now have to relyson foreign vessels.
In endorsing the subsidy bill, Presi-
dent ii. Il. Cause of the Harlan & Hol-
liDgsworth Co., said that the company,
in common with all the other indus.
tries of the city was interested in the
passage of the measure. SIT is the
first one of its kind,r he continued
i (which has ever united in its support
the various interests affected, ant
which has finally come to be an adj
ministration measure; and therefor,
there is every encouragement for tht
friends of American shipping to MAKE
a strong and determined effort in it.
behalf. Its provisions are in line witt
the settled and successful polio,
adopted by the principal foreign gov
! ernments for the fostering of their com
mercial marines, and it embodies i'm
portant features long recognized by al
parties as essential to our nationa
safety and our supremacy on the sea
namely the extension of our fisheries a
training school for American seamen
the instruction of American bows il
the practice of navigation and the con
struction OF our ships in readiness 70
their quick conversion into auxiliar
vessels of war. As for its scale O
bouuties, this bill equitably provide
for both steam and sail. 1t adapts il
self also to the business necessities c
existing steamship lines by the admis
sion of their foreign built tonnage o
fair basis of domestic construction
The. compensation it gives to ocea
mail carriage is carefully graded upo
the service performed in speed an
efficiency. It is framed for the NJ
building Of our foreign trade, leavin
our coast-wise shipping under the wis
protection of our time-honored nayip;
tion laws. think you will agree thu
the citizens of Wilmington are yitho,
regard to party affiliations, deeply col
cerned commercially in the outcome {
an act of legislation which means |
much to their business interests. .
Secretary Taylor also read resoll
ton adopted by the National Board
Trade in favor of legislation for Amer
can shipping. Charles S. Robb, Il
the jackson & Sharp Co., e
pressed the company's endorsemel
of the bill, and said that it W,
shame the quantity Of cor
MERGE that was carried in foreign We
sells. Clarence Sutherland, representa-
the Pussy q Jones Co, announced the
approval of the measure. George Y
Bush spoke in favor of the bill and
the boards endorsing it. As 9th
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