The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-20

gent support of COM
mercial organizations |
generally the Hanna Payne shipping |
subsidy bill, which failed to get |
through the last congress will be in |
troduced in the next and there is rea-
son to believe that it will soon after
ward become a law. The purpose OF |
it, briefly stated, is to offer not over |
S9,000,00O year to ship-owners in the |
hope of securing an American mer-
chant marine capable of earning n |
large part of the 5000 0O0,00 now paid |
by American exporters to foreign ship
owners for ocean freights The boun-
ty is necessary in order to enable
American vessel masters to pay the
higher wages and the higher prices
prevalent among American sailors
and ship builders and yet compete
with the carrying vessels of foreign
| lines.
The bill provides for bringing under
| the American flag and the protection
| of olr laws the foreign built ships
now actually owned and contracted
| for by American citizens, and in
WHICH anu III lHtlT lTdue american
| capital has been and is actually in
vested. The American registry of
| these foreign built ships is conditioned
upon their owners building here and
putting into our own trade at the ear
liest practicable time new vessels of a
| tonnage fairly proportionate to that
of the admitted ships. None of these
foreign-built ships, or the new ships
soon to be built here, are permitted to
engage in trade with such ports be-
longing to the United States as ships
under foreign flags are permitted to
trade with. All the owners of Ameri-
can trading ships now existing, before
they can get the benefits of the act,
must undertake the construction of
new tonnage fairly proportioned to
that Of the ships claiming the benefit
of the act All these ships are re-
quired to carry the mail of the United
States free of charge. All the new
ships must be so built so as to be
readily converted into cruisers or other
auxiliary aids to the military power
of the United States whenever needed
for such purposes. All these ships are
bound Gn addition to the training of
their crews) to constantly educate and
train American boys for the various
necessities of naval operations.
The subsidy provided for in the bill
is allotted as follows: (a) On each en-
try of a sail or steam vessel not ex-
ceeding sixteen entries in any twelve
consecutive months one and One-haif
cents per gross ton for each 100 nauti-
cal miles not exceeding 1,5OO nautical
miles sailed outward bound and one
and one-half cents per gross ton for
each one hundred nautical miles not
exceeding 1900 nautical miles sailed
homeward bound, and one cent per
gross ton for each additional 100 nau-
tical miles sailed (b) Steam vessels
which may be suitable for carrying
the mails of the United States or as
auxiliaries to the forces of the United
States in time o. war or other need,
If of the following tonnages and cap
able of maintaining the following rates
of speed under the conditions herein
after provided, shall, in addition to
the compensation provided in para
graph (a) Of this section, receive COM
pensation per gross ton. for each 100
nautical miles sailed, at the following
rates, viz: Vessels over 1900 gross
: tons: Fourteen knots and less than
fifteen knots, one cent per gross ton.
! Fifteen knots and less than sixteen
I knots, one and one-tenth cent per gross
l ton. Sixteen knots or over, one and
two-tenth cents per gross ton, YES
sells over 5000 gross tons: Seventeen
knots and less than eighteen knots
( one and fourteenth cents per gross ton.
= Eighteen knots and less than nineteen
r knots, one and sixteenth cents per
=, gross ton. Nineteen knots or over
e one and eigth-tenths cents per gross
= ton. Vessels over 5000 gross tons:
4 Twenty knots and less than twenty.
$ one knots, two cents per gross ton
c Twenty-one knots or over, two and
: three tenth cents per gross ton. Nc
e tion under any more than one of the
= tonnage and speed classifcations In
|, this clause specified"
The question raised in this bill Is
n the most important practical question
s now before the people. Our foreign
e trade has made us world power o.
r. the first class; destiny has forced ter
Is ritorial expansion upon us; there Il
= no drawing back from a larger anC
J. larger participation in the CONNER
h cial activities of civilization. But shal
l. we. as Americans, remain content t,
,r do our travelling and our shipping o
lie ocean freight in foreign vessels? Ar
n the other nations to monopolize tn
l. profit growing out of the transporta
lie tion of our increasing foreign trade
3 They have practically a monopol
is now, because they have encourage
Ig their ship-owners while we have dis
rs couraged ours. Let us reverse thi
% policy which has produced only disas
r ter to our shipping and show to ou
n trade rivals that we can match ther
es at sailing as well as in manufacturing
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Another victim of Initiation ordea
m has been reported The prison r,
,e ferred to was man fifty years OF al