The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-05
FRYE TALKS FOR
SUBSIDY GRAB
Maine Senator UphOlds the
Syndicate Measure.
REPUBLICANS BEGIN
TO PUSH THINGS
Clay of Georgia Has an Amend
ment.

Washington. Dec. 4.-The programme
of the senate leaders for a business ses-
sion was taken up in earnest today and
material progress was made. What is
popularity known as the ship subsidy
bill was made the unfinished business
or the senate instead of the SpOOner
Philippine measure and the discussion
of il was opened by Mr.. Frye of Maine
chairman Of the committee on com
merce. from which the measure was
reported. He addre~sc the senate to-
day for more than an hour and a half.
He had not concluded when the SEN
ate adjourned.
As soon as the session opened, the
credentials of Senator-elect Dolliver of
Iowa were presented and he was sworn
in
The following bills on the calendar
were passed:
To authorize Captain n. NJ. Brooks,
superintendent of foreign mails. to ac-
cept the decoration of the Red Eagle
of the third class from the emperor of
Germany, to authorize George D. Mel
kleJOhn to accept a decoration of Chew
alier Of the first class from the gov
ernment of Sweden and Norway; to
encourage the holding of an interstate
and West Indian exposition in Charles
propriates $250.00 and admits exhibits
free of duty
The resolution offered by Mr.. Chand-
| Ter on Nay % last, to refer the Gre
dentials of William A Clark and Mar
tin MaginniS, appointed senators from
Montana, to the committee on priv
ileges and elections, was called UP by
Mr.. Carter Of Montana, but went over
until tomorrow.
Frye Makes a Speech.
Mr. Frye. the sponsor of the subsidy
bill. in his speech said that this great
maritime nation was placed in a posi-
ton humiliating beyond expression by
the present condition of our merchant
marine. With bOundleSs sea coast,
unparalleled and unapproachabIe ma
tural resources, ship-builders the equal
of any in the world, the greatest ex-
ports in the world and every other ar
gUment in its favor the United States
had permitted its commercial rivals to
seize the pathways of commerce and
hold them practically to the exclusion
/ of this country.
Last year, of all the enormous exports
/ and imports of the United States, only
/ 9 per cent was carried in American
I bottoms, and the United States paid
I to foreign nations principally Great
I Britain and Germany $500. 600 a, day
+ for doing carrying trade work for this
! country He pointed cut that during
] the war with Spain the United States
7 was forced to search the seas over for
7 auxiliary cruisers and transports be
+ cause the country had sacrificed its
+ carrying ships.
I THE world has entered upon a fierce
Z commercial war" Mr. FRYE declared
! and il is to be a long and strenuous
conflict. France, Great Britain, Italy
J and Germany are paying an aggregate
! Of $1,000. 900 per year in subsidies for
I the carrying ships of the eastern trade. -
He pictured that under present con-
ditiOnS it costs the United States from
/ 30 to so per cent more, principally in
wages and food, TO operate its ships
/ than il costs Great Britain and about
! so per cent more than it costs Norway.
! He cited an array of figures to prove
/ that it cost not only more to construct
/ American ships. but it cost more TO
/ operate them after they were baiit than
/ foreign ships.
/ Mr.. Clay of Georgia asked if it were
/ true that q twenty One-knOt ship would
/ draw under the bill 100000 a year. Mr..
/ Frye replied that the amount drawn by
I such a vessel would be about $22.O
! in excess of Ter coal consumption and
/ handling
But, persisted Mr.. Clay. ''is not the
! gross amount of the subsidy of the
/ twenty-one-knot ship 100000 per year
| under this bill2'
| Mr.. FRYE admitted that it was.
/ 4 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-thiUd the subsidy of the fast
I passenger vessels which carry no agri-
/ cultural products
And ] was showing" responded Mr..
Frye. that the slow-speed vessels We're
the cnes which received the actual ben
efits from the subsidy, and not the fast
! passenger ships
At this point Mr.. Frye yielded the
/ floor for the day and the senate, at $3.50
D. m, held a brief executive session,
| after which it adjourned.
Vest Has an Amendment.
Just before the adjournment of the
| senate today Senator Vest gave notice
I of an amendment that he viii offer 10
| the ship subsidy bill The amendment
provides for the repeal of such exist
/ ing laws las either prohibit or restrict
( citizens of the United States from pur-
/ chasing ships built in other countries
| to be used in the f0Teign-carrying
! trade of the United States. or which
impose taxes, burdens or restrictions
| on such ships when owned by Ameri-
| can citizens which are not imposed on
I ships built in the United States"
In addition to the repeating provision,
! the amendment makes it lawful ''for
| all citizens of the United States to buy
ships built in whole or in part in any
( foreign country and have them regis
/ tered as ships of the United States. -
When SO registered, the foreign built
1 vessels are under the terms of the
! amendment, to be entitled to all the
rights and subjected to the same reg
ulations as those governing ships built
in the United States and owned by cit
! izents of this country.
! Senator Clay Of Georgia today intro
/ duced bills providing for the admis-
/ sion free of duty of articles controlled
/ by the trusts and for the funding OF
tax collected on raw cotton in the event
that the supreme court holds to be I'M
| constitutional the law under which the
tax was collected.
! Senator Stewart introduced a bin
icraating a supreme court for the Phil
! ippine islands, with I'VE judges, who
are TO be appointed for life and each
of whom is 10 draw 3 salary of $20, 600
per annunl-
MILITARY BILL REPORTED.
House VIII Take up It's Discussion