The sun., 1900-04-02
IRE as follows:
Being total off,. ..s26. 355 ,641
sBesides land transportation aid.

us
against total of similar aid by the
| United States OF only $99S, ,22i, which
latter is below the average by $500 600 or
$400, QUO, due to the ships receiving such
aid being employed by the Government
during our war with Spain.
Statements OF witnesses tefore General
Grosvenors Committee are cited to show
that, proportlonstely to the enormously
increased cost OF operating high speed as
compared with slow ships, the former
are underpald under the provisions Of
the OIL. AN important table is presented
showing to what extent the compensa-
ton provided in the bill exceeds the cost
oi the coal used alone, it being thus made
| very clear that to the extent that any
CLASS OF shlps is favored it is those of a
speed Of between l3 and 10 knots.
special reference is made to our Ameri.
can Line, and It's owners prai sed for their
courage and patriotism in running their
ships under the American flag at eucll q
great loss each year.
Iht Grosvenor report states that tie
cardinal purposes OF the bill are:'
Il. TO aid in a real practical way
ana no doubt, under existing conditions,
the only possible way--in bringing. t3
the greatest extent possible, our own
foreign trade back into our own hands.
ana thus saving to our country certainly
more than Sl00. 100000 transportation
money annually, which now goes to in
crease the wealth OF other nations.
". To greatly incerease the exporta-
tlon and sale of all kinds of our super.
abundant productions, and especially in
the vast regions of Eastern Asia, evil
dAnflu m Ia Al
trade of the world. This is a trade that
the nation best prepared to engage in
will necessarily get the greater proper
ton OF by Its own ships under its own
flag, and with its own postal facilities
and its own commercial establishments
for the disposal OF its productions.
''3. To bring into existence at the
earliest possible time a great American
fleet of merchant vessels, built in our
own country, with our own material and
by our own labor, as a most necessary
means of national aid and national safety
in times of international war, or other
disturbances, the probability of which
is nnhappily not small, even now.
"A. To increase the number of our cti-
zens who will be educated in seafaring
work, and who will thus have the skill
and be better able to defend the honor
and interests Of our country on the seas
however suddenly the occasion may
happen.
"5. The bill, we think, will, if the
proposed compensation is large enough,
accomplish these great and important
purposes.
Gen. Grosvenor report concludes:
1T will, OF course, take consider
able time TO reach the desired end, but
the sooner the policy is entered upon the
sooner and easier will be its accomplish
ment.
The means proposed are open to the
capital, the enterprise and the skill Of all
our citizens alike, and on equal terms.
There is Lo ground for any form of mo-
nopoly. There is absolute safety to the
Treasury in the fact that no payment can
be made until in each and for each voy-
age 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 single voy-
age without a'so having a large COM
mercial business income from the same
voyage, and in doing which commercial
business she is fulfilling one of the great
purposes of the bill.
"We rep rt herewith the Proceedings
of the Committee in the various hearings
we have had,
In view of the foregoing considera-
tions we earnestly recommend the speedy
passage OF the bill with the amendments
reported in connection with it,"