Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-26
Bowditch,W ebster&Co.
Pharmacists Of Augusta.

grown to 81. 800, 100000 annually in excess
of our imports and how the internal lines
of communication had been developed
into the most comprehensive in the
world But he insisted that the develop
ment of the country had been one-sided
While prepared to feed and clothe half
of the world outside the United States.
we had our transportation system only
to our own coast line and had allowed
our merchant marine to remain undevel-
oped so that there was actually a greater
tonnage of American vessels built in this
country for the foreign trade in 1907 than
in 1900. Said Depew:
"A general collision which is often pre-
dicted in the European newspapers,
among the great powers of Europe. in
the mad haste of their navies and armies
to outStrip each other in the acquisition
of spheres of influence in Asia and
Africa, would act upon the United States,
conflict. an embargo upon oar coast.
We would be shut up within ourselves as
absolutely as if the navies of the world
We're blockading our ports.
In discussing remedies, the speaker 5
conclusion was that there remained only
the subsidy as practical solution of the
problem. Said he: 'Al nations are agreed
that their merchant marine can be built
up only by bounties The bounties paid
last year by the different maritime ma
tons We're $2600o.000 in round numbers,
against 81 600 600 in round numbers by the
United States
The German government has been in
creasing directly its subsidies. The re-
suit has been that Germany has come to
the fore and taken second rank as a mar
thine power although she has little coast
and few ports. The building up of the
American shipping industry would be the
direct employment of 100000 men in ship
building operations, beside the immense
indirect aid that it would give to all lines
of iron and steel production in this coun-
try.
As to the adequacy of the present meas
h..y nor AZ he
Depew said il was to his mind as fair Il
solution of the problem as could be de-
vised at present
at is estimated" he said. that there
is paid by American producers to foreign
ship ownrs in freight charges at least
$l7500O.0o a year. Four per cent. on TINS
would give us an American merchant ma
rine and the expenditure OF much the
larger part of this money in our coun-
try"
The Indian appropriation bill was then
taken up again When the reading of the
bill had been finished an amendment
offered by Pettigrew of the committee on
Indian affairs, providing tnat lands al
loted in in Severalty TO Indians may ne
condemned under the laws of the states
or territories in which the land is located,
was adopted. In the course of dlscuS
sion by PettiSrew OF a committee afheiu
ment providing for the appointing OF
town Site commissioners, Platt. Conn.
said that the present trouble in ne
Creek ma ton had nothing TO do with the
plating or ulSpoSdI ul TOWN sittS' ms
who were creating the present trouble.
he said were principally wild Indians
who are opposed to the breaking up OF
tribal relations and the allotment Of their
lands in SeVeralty.
ZONES. Ark. confirmed Platts state
ment and expressed the opinion that the
threatened uprising was not serious.
At AS p. NJ. the Indian bill was laid
aside. discussion of the town site amend
ment not having been concluded. Inc
| Senate then passed all unobjectiunal pen
| sion bills on the calendar and at 3.93 T.
| NJ diourned.