The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-02
Report Made By GrOsvenOr to
the House.
HE URGES ITS PASSAGE
SAYS THERE Is NO DANGER OF
A MONOPOLY.
Refers to Competition By Foreign
Nations Particularly For Trade
In China, and Gives Warning
That the First In the Field Will
Secure the Advantage.

Washington, April Representative
Grosvenor of Ohio, chairman of the
house committee on merchant marine and
fisheries, presented to the house yester-
day the amended shipping bill and the
report in its support by the majority Of
the committee constituting all the Repub-
lican members. The report says, in part:
"Our abundant natural resources and
our industries and increasing population
make IL of great value to increase the
means of proftably disposing of our sur
plus productions, and as our export trade
is increased. so viii be home consumption
and emDlOymer
long time been deNoting themselves to in
creasing their export trade and getting
possession of the markets. Africa is an
example of the methods pursued in parti-
tioning territory or recognizing spheres
of influence possibly to eastern Asia, be-
ing eventually destined to receive similar
treatment"
China" the report continues, may be
left open to fair and equal competition
with respect Of trade with the United
States. in which event, the committee
believes, lone of the largest, if not the
largest. field for trade and commerce of
other nations will be open to those pos
sesSing the facilities of taking advantage
of opportunity"
First In the Field.
The nation first in the field. with its
own productions and its own means OF
transportation" win achieve the largest
success, for which reason China must re-
move the barriers which now almost en-
tirely exclude foreign Intercourse. Other
parts of the world iii which our COM
merce holds so small a snare would re-
pay particular study.
THE need of establishments for the
construction, docking and repairing of
ships, and adequate navy and great fleet
e - -
any exigencV. is asserted by the report
TO be a self-evident proposition. On these
grounds other nations have fortified them
selves by increasing their sea power IN all
OF the WAYS referred TO. with the doubt
less object of Strengthening their facil-
tiles and power for carrying On their for
eign commerce"
After giving the statistics on the extent
of tonnage the world over, the cost of
subsequent building, wages, etc, Mr..
GrOsVenors report sums up the cardinal
purposes, of the bill. as follows:
The Bill Summed Up.
Ito aid in a practical way-and no
49, .-i--.~r ,LlIstIng conditions, the only
possible way-in bringing to the greatest
extent possible our own foreign trade
back into our own hands, end thus saving
to our country annually what now goes to
increase the wealth of other nations, more
than S100, 100000
2.-To greatly increase the expectation
productions and especially in the vast re-
gions of Asia, evidently very soon TO be
opened to the trade of the world This
is trade that the nation best prepared
to engage in will necessarily get the
greater proportion of by its own ships,
under its own flag and with its own facil-
tiles and its disposal of its own produc-
tions.
$40 bring into existence at the earli-
est possible time a great american fleet
Of American vessels. built in our own
country. with our own material, by our
own labor as most necessary means of
national aid and national safety in times
of international war or other disturb
ances. the probability of which is unhap-
PLY not small, even now.
Increase Number Of Seamen.
ITO increase the number of citizens
who viii b. educated in seafaring work,
and who viii thus have the skill ana be
better able to defend the honor and in
tegrity of our country on the seas how
ever suddenly the occupation may hap
men,
5.-The bin We think will, if the pro-
posed compensation is large enough, &C
complish these great and important pur-
poses.
General Grosvenor's report concludes:
1t VIII. or course, take considerable
time TO reach the desired end, but the
sooner the policy is entered upon the bet
ter and easier will be its accomplishment
The means proposed are open TO the
SopAle.i, the enterprise anu allS sh4h VI
our citizens alike. and on equal terms.
There is no ground for the form OF mo-
nopoly.
Safety to Treasury.
There is absolute safety to the treas
ury In the fact that no payment can be
made until in each and for each voyage
the work is actually performed. As We
have before stated. it is certain that no
vessel, great or small. fast or slow, in the
| list can afford TO make a single voyage
without also having a large commercial
business income from the same voyage,
and in doing which commercial business
she is fulfilling the great purpose OF the
bill.
In view of the foregoing considera-
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