Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-17
FRYE'S SHIPPING REPORT
Points OFT Necessity for Granting
American Subsidy.
Influences That Have Reduced Our Ships
Should Carry Our Own Products -
FIGURING Up The Expense.


prepared by Senator Frye upon the
bill reported by the Commit
lee on Commerce of the Senate was
made public today. The report begins
by asserting the self-evident value Of
a national merchant marine" explains
and deplores our almost entire depen-
dence upon foreign shipping for our
ocean carrying, suggests the danger of
reliance upon the merchant ships of
other nations, which may become in
volved ID war, the possible complete
exclusion Of American exports from
their regular foreign markets in such
contingency, and points out that the
wholesale transfer of the tonnage of
a belligerent nation to a neutral flag
would unquestionably involve such
shipping IL difficulties, seizures and
detentions. The British-Boer war has
materially reduced our means of trans
portation and embarrassed our ocean
mail service. The humiliation of our
reliance upon foreign vessels bought
and chartered during our war with
Spain is referred to. Three prime rea-
sons are given for the decline of the
American shipping in the foreign trade,
namely: The greater cost of build
ing ships in the United States than
elsewhere; the greater cost of oper-
ating American ships, compared with
foreign ships; causes based on foreign
legislative encouragement.
The suggestion that this situation
1,a I,,t T,A- 4 t.,
sion of foreign-built ships to Ameri-
can register is met by pointing out that
II such admission were unconditional
1t would result in destroying the
existing American shipyards on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
All competen. authorities, the report
states, agree that this bill, IL enacted,
will involve large increase in the
American merchant marine. The
passage of this bill, 1t is claimed,
would probably effect reduction of
$25,000,000 year in ocean rates on
American commerce, through the ad-
ditional shipping and the competition
that would be created.
Foreign opposition" the report
says, sis being concentrated upon the
bill, because foreign shipping inter-
ests clearly see that they will be Sc
riously injured by the replacing of
American for the foreign vessels now
in our foreign trade.
"The maximum annual expenditures
are fixed at 100000 in the bill
About s1,5OO.oO is now being paid to
American ships under normal condi-
tons for carrying our mails, a sum
which should be deducted from the ad-
ditional expense of the operations of
this bill About 400, 900 additional tons
OF new shipping, approximately Si0,-
100000, and occupying several years in
its construction, would have to be
built in the United States II this bill
Is passed, before the maximum expen-
diture Of 100000 could be reached.
1T is expected that 100000 tons OF
foreign-built vessels now owned or
building for American citizens will be
admitted to American register under
the terms of this bill, their owners
being required to build equal tonnage
In the United States before receiving
any compensation.
"The provisions of the bill from
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