The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-05
FRYE EXPLAINS The BILL
The House to Consider the Army
Bill Today.
HULL URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION ON 1T
Two Sections Added to the Bill to Cover the
Cases Of the Advancement and Re-
tirement of Generals Shafter,
Lee and Wilson.
Lee and Wilson.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 4-The program of
the Senate leaders for business session
was taken up in earnest today and ma
terial progress was made. What is
popularity known as the Ship Subsidy Bill
was made the unfinished business of the
Senate instead of the Spooner Philippine
measure and the discussion of it was
opened by Mr. Frye, of Maine, Chairman
of the Committee on Commerce, from
which the measure was reported.
Mr.. Allison presented the credentials
OF Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, who was
appointed to succeed the late Senator
John Henry Gear. of Iowa Mr.. Dolliver,
escorted by Mr.. Allison presented himself
at the desk where the oath OF office was
administered to him by President pro
tenn Frye. Among the bills passed were
the following:
To authorize the use of depositions be-
tween Naval Courts in certain cases, with
an amendment restricting its operation
to dispositions taken at the instance Of
the accused; to authorize Captain n. M.
Brooks, Superintendent of Foreign Mails !;
to accept the decoration of the Red Eagle
of, the third class from the Emperor of
Germany; to authorize Hon. George d.
.MefkleJ0hn to accept a decoration of
Cheyalier of the first class from the
Government of Sweden and Norway; to
encor~"~o the holding of an inter- State
and West Indies exposition in Charles
, ton, S. c., in 1901. The measure ap-
Dropriates $780, 900 and admits exhibits
free of duty.
When the unfinished business, known as
the Spooner Philippine Bill was laid be-
fore the Senate at o'clock, Mr.. Frye
having previously yielded the gavel to
Senator Chandler, moved that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of the Ship
Subsidy Bill
Mr.. Jones (Ark). demanded the ays
and nays upon the motion. 1t prevailed
5S to 20-as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Bard
Beveridge, Carter. Clark, Cullom Dolli-
yer, Elkins, Foraker, Foster, Frye. Gal
linser, Hale Hanna, Hansbrough, Hawley
Hoar. Kean, Lodge, McComas, McCumber
Mcmillan, Mason, Nelson. Penrose. Per-
kins. Platt Comm, Platt On. W, Quarles
Scott Sewell. Shoup. Stewart. Thurston
Wetmore, Wolcott-38.
Nays-Bacon. Berry, Butler, Clay,
Jones (Ark.), Kenney, Lindsay. Morgan,
Pettigrew, Pettus. Sullivan. Taliaferro,
Teller, Tillman, Vest, Wellington-20.
FRYE's ARGUMENT FOR THE BILL.
Mr.. Frye then addressed the Senate:
He said that with boundless Seacoast.
unparalleled, and unapproachable naturai
resources, ship builders the equal of any
IN the world, the greatest exports in the
world and every other argument in our
favor, the United States had permitted
It's commercial rivals to sieze the path
ways of commerce and hold them prac-
tically to the exclusion OF this country.
Last year of all, the enormous exports
and imports of the United States only
per cent was carried in American bot
toms. Last year, Mr.. Frye said the Uni
ted States paid to foreign nations, prnci-
pally Great Britain and Germany-$50O.
0OO day for doing carrying trade work
for this country.
The World Mr.. Frye declared. "has
entered upon fierce commercial war ant
1T is to be long and strenuous conflict
each nation is seeking the advantage ct
its rivals in this conflict and is pressing
forward to gain that advantage Most Of
the foreign nations are looking for com
mercial advantages in the East. Russia
France. Great Britain, Italy, and Ger
many are paying an aggregate of IS, 900 900
per rear in subsidies for the carrying
ships of the Eastern trade"
He nointed out that under the present
conditions Il cost the United States from
forty to eighty per cent more. principally
in wages and food to operate it's ships
than It costs Great Britain and about
eighty per cent more than it costs Nor
way and the United States is forced tc
compete under such handicap, with the
encouraged and protected ships of for
eign countries. He maintained that OK
port bounties were impracticable and that
in the matter of discriminating duties. the
United States would encounter no less than
twenty one different treaties These
would have to be abrogsted if discIimi-
mating duties are enforced
The abrogation of these treaties would
be an offense to every nation involved
His figures indicated that ships of Great
Britain had an advantage of from $3.50 to
$500 per gross ton over American ships
in the expense of construction and opera
tion.
Mr. Frye explained how the subsidy
payment was regulated.
Mr. Clay, (GaJ asked if it were not
true that twenty-one knot ship would
draw under the bill $304.00O year.
Mr. Frye replied that the amount drawn