The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-10
Several Material Changes i'm Regard
sEons Made by the Senator.
AN ISLAND FOR ANARCHISTS
SENATOR HOAR's PROPOSITION PRE-
sENTED IN UPPER HOUSE.
other Important Measures Providing
for New Laws or Amendment
of Present Statutes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Frye
to-day introduced the new ship subsidy bill.
1t differs in form from the subsidy bill of
the past two sessions. 1t is divided into four
titles and fifteen sections
The sections under the title ocean Mail
Steamships are devoted 70 amendments
10 the ocean mail act OF 1891. The postmast-
er general is required to consider the ma
tionaI defense and the maritime interests
OF the United States. as well as postal in
terests fn providing for the transportation
of American ocean malls. The present limit
of ocean mail contracts. ten years, is in
creased TO fifteen years. The Frye bill pro-
vides seven distinct classes, with a rate
of So to twenty-knot steamers, increasing
from 5000 70 10000 tons the minimum size;
- for sixteen-knot steamers, provided the
size is increased from 500 TONS the present
minimum TO 5000 tons. The proposed maxi
mum mail rates per gross ton per hundred
nautical miles are: over 10000 tons. 20
knots, 81 cents; 10 knots. 20 cents. Over
5000 tons. IS knots. % cents; II knots. 81
cents; 10 knots. 19 cents; Is knots, II cents.
over 1900 tons, IA knots. 1.5 cents Rates for
mail steamers to the West Indies Central
America and Mexico cannot exceed 20 per
cent. OF the maximum rates.
second y,
tains the general subsidy for all vessels,
steam or sail. which are not under mail
contracts. This general subsidy is uniform,
] cent per gross ton per 100 nautical miles
from not exceeding sixteen entries In one
year. To promote the building of new ocean
vessels an additional allowance of one
fourth OF cent per gross ton Is made for
five years. ANY vessel TO receive the gem
eral subsidy must carry mails, IL required.
and must train in Steamship or engineering
one American youth for each 1900 tons, the
81 h., he Of he
ment If required for defense.
Any vessel TO receive subsidy must be
Glass A 1. and at least one-fourth Of the
must be American.
The bill provides an annual bounty of &
a ton for deep-sea fishing vessels. and of
81 a month for American citizens when en-
gagged in deep-Sea fisheries, that a vessel
shall receive only one form of subsidy and
that vessel which has received a subsidy
shall not be sold TO a foreigner, except by
consent of the secretary of the treasury.
The bill does not provide American regis
try for foreign ships owned by Americans
The last subsidy bill provided for IL cents
per gross ton for each one hundred nautical
miles not exceeding 1.5O0 miles sailed, and
one cent per gross ton for each additional
one hundred miles sailed, vessels to carry
from United States ports at least 50 per
able for carrying the mails over 1900 gross
tons were 10 have the following cOmpensa-
ton i'm addition TO the above rates: Twelve
knots, fve-tenths of 1 cent per ton; four
teen knots. l cent per ton: fifteen knots,
] lilo cents per ton; sixteen knots and over,
! 2-10 cents per gross ton. Vessels of over
1000 tons, seventeen knots, 4-10 cents per
ton: eighteen knots. l 6-10 cents per ton;
nineteen knots, l $40 cents per ton. YES
sells over 10000 tons, twenty knots, cents
per ton; twenty-One knots, 2 $40 cents per
ton Foreign built vessels admitted to
American registry entitled to 80 per cent. of
the above rates. The total compensation
paid out in any one year should not ex-
coed &c. 10000, deductions TO be made pro
rata Provision was made for certain
number OF foreign vessels TO secure Ameri-
can registry. Contracts could be entered
into for the building OF vessels in the
United States OF Class Al type to receive
the subsidy. Provisions for use of vessels
by the United States in case of war and
that a portion of the crews should be
American were similar to the provisions of
the new bill.