Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-05-24
\, AMERICAN SHIPS.
.u,cu.piScuSSED HANNA.
paYNE-FRYE BILL.
Favor Passage of the Subsidy
.a-Why 1t Is Needed and What
800 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Free
- and Foreign Ship Owners.

viii Aecomplish-opposed by Free
der. and Foreign Ship Owners.
-anont among members of the up
usanch Of Congress so strongly ia
+. ,be shipping bin that its passage
nresent session is assured. 1t is
IN as the Frye shipping bill. hav-
Nan introduced by the President
.ou, of the Senate, Hon. William
rive. Of Maine, who is also chair
| If the Senate Commerce Commit
= which legislation affecting our
.,0a IS always referred. For TWEEN
20 Years Senator Frye has been the
Inc champion of American shipping
Congress. Senator Hanna first in
,rced this bill in the Senate, how
! at the time Senator Frye was a
r,hor Of the Peace Commission in
Ia II was introduced in the House
representatives by Serene f.
Inc of New York. This explains Its
|eral hyphenated titles.
biz bill Is necessary, because our
hninc in the foreign trade is unpro-
fad in competition with the cheaper
N. cheaper-operated, heavily sub
kged and bountied shipping Of other
hans. Our ships now carry less than
4 per cent. of u imports and ex-
h. Foreign vessels annually re-
|re 5000 100000 for carrying 91 per
Il This vast sum is taken out of the
sntry and employs aliens, instead Of
he spent in American shipyards and
|ing employment to our own citizens,
1 thereafter being used over and over
lin in adding to the employment and
HANGING the wealth of the American
bple. This bill extends to American
|pping on the sea precisely the same
Ia Of protection that is given to
berican land industries that are sub
n to foreign competition.
More important than the expenditure
Isl, O00,0 00, 900 during the last thirty
L years in paying foreign ships for
|ng our foreign carrying, is our grow
! national danger because OF our in
kasing weakness upon the sea. For
! support and reinforcement OF our
nv, we need merchant ships and sea-
n. The difficulty now experienced In
turing sailors for our navy would be
hoyed If we possessed a merchant
bpping equal TO the needs of our for
b commerce. Our neglect of our
|pping makes nj foreign commerce a
BANS for building up the auxiliary IA
! strength OF our maritime and COM
Prcial rivals. This commerce. now
hually valued at over $1,000. 600, 900.
rs for the auxiliary naval training of
feign merchant ships and seamen.
This shipping bill is now upon the
|endar In each branch of Congress,
Fing been favorably reported from
/ House Merchant Marine and Fish
|e5 Committee, and from the Senate
|mmeree Committee.
Briefly, the bill provides that all yes
s under American register, making
|oreign voyage distant more than $50
Yes from the United States, shall
paid for the first 1,500 miles not to
eeed IL cents per gross ton per hun
"a miles sailed outward and inward,
4 | cent per ton for each additional
|ndred miles sailed outward and in
|ra, this compensation being limited
NOT to exceed sixteen round voyages
any successive twelve months. In
uition, vessels whose speed exceeds
give knots per hour are paid extra
npensation, graduated proportion
Fy 10 their size and speed. This bare
meets the extra cost involved in
piuing and operating ships Of high
Fed, although these vessels, for auxil-
Y naval and for mail CARRYING pur-
Fes, are most useful TO the govern
Ene The compensation paid to slow
'uus and steam vessels is just equal
the higher cost of their construction
'ne United States. and their opera
z under the American flag; and the
plei ~ true OF all vessels receiving this
npenSation. Owners OF existing
ue.ican vessels for which compensa-
4 Is sought must have % per cent.
uiuohai new tonnage built in the
eeu states before receiving any pay.
% proposed to admit to American
ss'er such foreign vessels as are now
'nea Dy American citizens, on condi-
1 nat these owners have new ton
. quilt in the United States equal to
y so admitted. The compensation
.ne roreign-built vessels is but one
\ una paid to American-buil ships.
w exceed nine million dollars may
sNpenued IN any one year. If the
.n. earned exceeds the amount
aoie' there is a pro rata reduction
payments made to each vessel
Sel contract. All vessels receiving
a~peusation must carry the mails free
aa charge. The bill remains In
/, iof ten years, during which time
M rican citizen a build any
oer OF vessels and put them in our
! eu trade, and receive. according to
speed and cargo carried. the same
Vi compensation that is paid to
vessels. High speed steamships
O' 10 receive more than So, 600, 900
49,, q year, out of the total
. and 30 per cent. Of the latter
served exclusively for Pacific
- shipping under tho Amarican