The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11
FAYORS SUBSIDY BILL.
PRESIDENT HILL TURNS HIS IN
FLUENCE FOR THE MEASURE.

william e. Curtis, the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Record. wired
the following to his paper yesterday:
James j. Hill. of the Great Northern
railway, told me In New York the other
DAY That he had withdrawn his ODnosi
tlon TO the ship subsidy bill because
II mad been amended TO meet bis oh
lection and he thought its chances Of
passage during the present session were
very good He had held satisfactory
conferences with Senator Frye, Senator
hahha and other members Of the COM
mlttees in charge of the measure he said.
ana mad talked with the representatives
from the Northwestern states, who were
also satisfied with the bill as amended
and would support it. Mr. Stevens the
representative from st. Paul, has intro
duced several amendments which. if
adopted, Will defeat the bill One of
them, which obtains more favor than the
rest, provides that no subsidy shall be
paid to any ship that belongs to trust
nor to any ship that Is built in a ship
yard that belongs to a trust, and that if
sh!pyard goes into a trust the sub
sides paid to ships built in it shall
cease.
Mr.. Hill expects to establish a ship
yard of his own at New London, Conn,
where he proposes to build the four big
cargo steamers that We're designed for
him in England and will run between
the terminus of the Great Northern rail
way on Puget sound and the ports Of
China, Japan and the Philippine islands.
These ships will be the largest in the
world, with the exception of the new
ones recently built for the Atlantic trade
by the Hamburg American and White
Star lines. They will be over 600 feet
long, 10 feet broad. and have five decks.
capable of carrying 10000 tons of cargo
moi l.
for speed, although they are expected to
average twelve knots an hour under or
binary pressure and fifteen or sixteen
knots in an emergency. The engines will
develop S,000-horse power. Mr.. Hill ex-
poets to commence two of the ships this
spring and have them completed within
eighteen months. AS the Lucania, the
Campania and the other Cunarders car
ry only $500 tons of cargo, the magnitude
of these new ships will be appreciate
THE two new Pacific mail steamers
now being built at Newport News will
compete directly with the Great North
ern vessels l have just described in the
Asiatic trade One will be completed In
December $780, and the other early next
year. They are the largest steam ves-
sells ever contracted for in the United
States, being considerably larger than
the st. Louis and ST. Paul of the Ameri-
can line, which are the largest now float
ing our flag. They will cost s., 800, 90 each.
The length Is 575 feet the beam 63 feet,
depth 40 feet, tonnage 1900 tons. speed
Is knots (Which is faster than the Great
Northern steamers), and there will be
Accommodations for $50 cabin and 200
Storage passengers The actual cargo
capacity will be about 1900 tons. The
Spreckels Sugar Company of San Fran
cisco has contracted with the Cramps of
Philadelphia, to build two steamships
very nearly as large, of 10000 tons and a
speed of eighteen knots. which they will
use on the Oceanic line between San
Francisco. Honolulu and Australia. These
three companies, with their eight great
ships, will furnish transportation facili-
ties for an enormous amount of COM
merce upon the Pacific and will be re-
inforced by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line
of Japan, which is also building several
fine new steamers for It's fleet.
at is proposed to amend the Hay
Pauncefote treaty so that it shall con-
form to the Monroe doctrine and justify
the United States in controlling and de-
Tending the Nicaragua canal by any
methods it may deem necessary and max
ing this government solely responsible
for it's naturalization. They viii be ac-
ceptable to the president and Secretary
Hay. The right to fortify will be In
Guided. although 1t Is the unanimous
opinion among military experts that
battleships are much better than forts
for the protection of the canal"