The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-07
SUBSIDY BILL AMENDED
CHANGES MADE BY SENATE COMMIT.
TEE ON COMMERCE..
All Ships to Be Required to Take Fiji.
ty Fer Cent of Their Cargo Ca.
pacity When Leaving Port.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The Senate COM
| mittee on commerce held its first meeting
of the session to-day. The meeting was de-
| voted mainly to the discussion of the ship
| subsidy bill and to amendments suggested
by Senator Frye. The most important of
these amendments was one providing that
ali ships shall take so per cent. of their
cargo capacity when leaving a port of the
United States for a foreign port. When
presenting this modification Mr.. Frye said
the effect of it's incorporation in the bill
would be to increase the amount of the
cargo that must be taken, but that il would
so distribute it among the various ships
that there would be no inequality or injus-
tice. The clause now reads as follows: INC
vessel shall be entitled to full compensa-
tion unless she shall have cleared from q
port of the United States with cargo to
the amount of so per cent. of her capacity
for carrying commercial cargo"
Another amendment relates to the d.
vision of the annual award of $1,000, 900 be-
tween ships on the Atlantic ocean and those
on the Pacific. AS originally provided 20
per cent. of the amount was to be ex-
pended on the Atlantic and 80 per cent. on
the Pacific. with an additional provision
that in case the entire 80 per cent. should
not be utilized on the Pacific it might be
diverted TO the Atlantic. There was no
reciprocal provision in the interest of the
tdcllC SHIPS. lDdl ID PROVIDED Dy To-Day )
action, the language of the provision being
as follows: I'm case the said Atlantic
ocean trade shall not require the whole
amount OF the said 20 per cent, and the
said Pacific ocean trade shall require, in re-
spect of the vessels engaged in said Pacific
ocean trade the expenditure of more than
the said 80 per cent. of said $1,000, 900 in any
such year, there may be expended, pursu-
ant TO the provisions of this act, any sum
within the said S, ZOO. 0c0 remaining and not
earned. as aforesaid. In respect of the yes
sells on the Atlantic ocean"
The section relating to the granting Of
American registry to foreign-built ships
was amended so as to further guard against
fraud by showing from records. already on
file in the Treasury Department, exactly
what vessels of that description are to be
admitted TO American registry under the
bill. and thus avoid all dispute as TO the
total volume Of the tonnage. 1t is claimed
quire that every foreign-built eamshi
| described in Clause B OF Section 9 should
have been actually contracted for and the
contracts filed with the secretary of the
treasury on or before the first day OF Feb
ruary, 1899. and that such contracts should
nave resulted in the actual construction of
the vessel, or in he- having been under con-
struction In accordance with the contract
| or or before the first day Of January. 1900.
In order to come within the acts provisions.
An amendment TO Section 10 requires that
..all fittings and machinery forming a part
OF the construction of the vessels built In
the United States under the provisions OF
this act shall be of American manufacture.
provided they can be obtained In this coun-
|! try"