Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-12-06
AT WORK IN EARNEST
THE SENATE MAKES MATERIAL
PROGRESS IN ITS BUSINESS.
The Ship Subsidy Bill Made the Tn.
finished Business Instead OF the
spooner Philippine Measure-Ths
D1scussfon Opened by Mr. Frye
He Declares that the World Has
Entered Upon q Fierce CONNER.
cial War.


gramme Of the Senate leaders for a bus
mess session was taken up IN earnest
to-day and material progress was
made. What Is popularity known as
the Ship Subsidy bill was made the
unfinished business Of the Senate Il.
stead Of the Spooner Philippine meAt
urc, and the discussion of it was openei
by Mr. Frye, of Maine, chairman Of TIE
Committee on Commerce, from wsicA
the measure was reported
Mr.. Allison presented the credential.
Of Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, who was
appointed to succeed the late Senator
John Henry Gear. Of Iowa Mr Doll
yer, escorted by Mr.. Allison, presented
himself at the desk, where the oath Of
office was administered to him by Pres
ident pro tenn Frye.
When the unfinished business kncvr
as the Spooner Philippine bill wa. laid
before the Senate at O'clock, MI
Frye, having previously yielded ths
g8vel to Senator Gallinger, moved that
the Senate proceed to the consid era tioz
Of the Ship Subsidy bill
Mr.. Jones, Of Arkansas, demanded ths
yeas and nays upon the notion II pre-
vailed-38 to 20.
Mr.. Frye then addressed the Senats
He said that with a boundless SEA
coast, unparalleled and unapprOaCh2,
ble natural resources. shipbuildeTs, the
equal OF any IN the world, the greatest
exports in the werld and every other
argument In our favor, the Unite
States had permitted its commercial
rivals to seize the pathways of com
merce and hold them pra actically TO the
exclusion Of rh4s country.
Last year 0H all the enormous ex-
ports and inpSv<@ Of the United States
only per cseaS. was carried in Aneri-
can bottoms. Last year, Mr. Frye said,
the United States paid to foreign ma
tfons, principally Great Britain and
Germany, sbos oes day for doing car
r3dng trade wsrb for this country.
The world" Mr.. Frye declared, has
entered upon n fierce commercial war 4
and + 30 to be a long and strenuous
cenfitot- Each nation Is seeking the
advantRGs Of It's rival in this conflict
and 10 pressing forward to gain that
Advantage. Most OF the fereign nations
are hooking for commercial advantage
in the East. Russia, France, Great
Brssain. italy and Germany are paying
an Aggregate Of $1,000 coo per year in
subsidies for the carrying ships of the
E&stssn trade
conditions It costs the United States
from 40 to 90 per cent. more, principally
in wages and food to operate it's ships
than It costs Great Britain and about
80 per cent. more than 1T costs Nor
way, and yet the United States is
forced to compete under such a handf-
cap with the encouraged and protected
ships of foreign countries. He main
tained that export bounties were i'm
mrs and n the ma ~
discriminating duties the United States
would encounter no less than thirty
one different treaties. These would
have 70 be abrOgated if discriminating
duties are enforced The abrogation of
these treaties would be offense to
every nation involved His figures in
afcated that ships of Great Britain had
an advantage Of from $3.50 to IS per
gross ton over American ships in the
expense Of construction and operation.
Mr.. Frye explained how the subsidy
payment was regulated
Mr.. Clay of Georgia, asked If it were
not true that a twenty-One knot ship
would not draw under the bill 1904, 900
a year.
Mr.. Frye replied that the amount
drawn by such a vessel would be about
s22, 600 in excess of her coal cOnsump-
ton and handling. But" persisted
Mr.. Clay, lis not the gross amount Of
the subsidy of the twenty-One knot ship
1904 900 per year under the bill"
Mr. Frye admitted that it was. Il
understand" said Mr.. Clay, that the
ten knot and twelve knot ships which
carry the agricultural products of the
country do not receive more than one
third the subsidy Of the fast passenger
vessels which carry no agricultural
products"
And I was showing" responded Mr..
Frye, that the low speed vessels were
the ones which received the actual ben
efits from the subsidy and not the fast
passenger ships"
The Senate at 1855 p. m. held a brief
executive session, after which it ad-
journed.