The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-04
SANE SHIP BEGGARS
How the Millionaire FauperS
Asked Aid Before.
SUBSIDY GRAB EXPOSED
STANDARD OIL AND OTHER IN
TERFsTs ALREADY FAVORED.
Especial Correspondence

n -
Especial Correspondence
New York. Jan. 3I.-Iu view of rhe fact
that a few shipOwners. headed by the In
ternational company. would receive tbe
lions share of the subsidy asked Cor. and
the patriotic claims under which they ere
reaching for it. the origin. effect. ana in
tent of sundry clauses of the peudina hin
become interesting.
As appears from Senator Fr-e-s ..,-
plantations. peruSal of the mail s,bsf.4,-
act Of 1881, and the 'frtar7,,.i.,-..1,.
registry act of lS92, the pending .,,b.i.s,-
scheme is but the latest mov, In =, ..zr--
paisu To bleed the treasury. I'm which
nearly all the interests now r1nrsr,,.5
ny. Deen sngased io- the last ten wears
allu N connection with one Slru!rf- D.,
Which the racine Aalt has been 'r.,,
Gus Tor thirty wears ''e-''i-
Inns particular measure was con .1-rr5
~ d tonmltlee. OF when tIr.-a.4..~
Win SuuGry pOIucianS ana 0rr.-r...-
llo present stuniulS IRA lon led a. g-
taahha), clement a. 1IrisCOm, Of fHr In
terndJ-onaI Ma, lsauOa coIupdnv -I....-
ara OH and Pennsylvania Iautuag ,..i
1t sSItohl' me late c. p ltuuI 1s,uu
newport .\eWs steamship company. Mr
ramp tramp onIpOul-dIng complain.
ar. booth tNew lOrk * tuba Si.llf
Steamship company: Mr. CIv0e 49,
StranlSl4p Cul.i5atsT. AZ. TRACE f.,..,-.
york Chile. etc Trade); were he
iedue's' ana nave since been champions.
Old Mail Subsidy Lobby.
This committee was the successor. and
5isetS composed OF the same interests.
tidt IN 1891 LaG successfully loDBIad Tor
the mail SUBSIDY act OF that wear ana
one OF tnem-the inter naUOnal-na1 urn-
, - 1i.e act OF 49, unaer when JUS
L,oIeIsIl-DutiL steamers have since been
draw'g United states mani SUBSIDY.
ne act O. March 8, 1871. was entitled
All act 10 provide Tor ocean mali eaVg--
Ice between the united States and Tor
eiSh pOfJ Is etc, since known DIS tle
Mail subsidy ACT OF 1891 ufsr ms
50 lar as American vessels have been
aEaliaDle, our mails are now carried
May 10, 1892, there was enacted An
acc TO encourage American hiDbWtdiu..
sthCt hLoWh as the L ans ana new York
registry Act OF 1852 II was under TINS
act that the International i0reI-n-
Quit steamers. the Ea4IS, and New lIik.
We're aumtJJcu TO American registry Iu
view OF lhe ttlln) TuJure BuIiuIng OF Cna
/ -; Paul ana the 81 LOUIS
Inc international contract for ten
years. made Under the mail subsidy act
urst quoted, Went Into operation DcJO-
Der, 1850, and terminates OCTOBER lyJ5-
Slower Than Competing Lines.
The International has four 20-knot YES
ceis; which, however, II expects to
qualify as H-knOt ships. At The time
rs contract was made these ships were
fairly up TO the then standard Tor trans
Atlantic mails In great measure the
case was similar with other American
/ lines then employed. Since then, now
ever. the enterprise of foreign lines mas
80 bettered their facilities for trans
Atlantic mail service from New York
that, on that route OTBy about One-Iittu
OF our sealed mail and OUe-IhiTd of other
mail is now carried by American ships
indeed II Is oniy by GehDeTateiy Eetdtu-
ing the malls 10 favor American vesseIs
that even this small proportion is now
AS matters now stand for transatlantic
mail service, the international re-
ceives Nearly two-thirds CT the total
fourth OF tho mails-the CUnard line
alone, for a little over One-fOurth of the
amount which the American received,
carrying about as much bulk mail and
80 per cent more of sealed or letter mail
Moreover. the foreign lines rival each
other in fast steamships. while the In
ternatiOnal has contracted Tor 30 new
vessels. except those of even lower speed
than those she now has Long before 1913
therefore, the service for which she
would last year have received some st7o-
U90-had the Paris been in cOmmlSSl IN
/ and, in fact, did receive some '6l'.l95.
will be worthless to the United states
and no contract therefor probable or
proper
Carefully Drawn to Favor Few
As Senator. Frye and Mr.. Chamberlain
have been careful to explain, the snip
owners who would get most OF subsidy
+ under the proposed ball are precisely those
who are now getting the cream OF the
mail subsidy under the acts Just noted
This bill was carefully drafted TO beueRt
their case, and especially to favor the
international
The three highest rates of subsidy pro-
posed are 80 adjusted as to fit no SHIPS
on earth except four owned by the Inter
national and to offer no premium for
speed above twenty-one knots.
Experiences With Other Lines.
On Mr.. Frye's authority, the Interna-
I tional has now added its failure to earn
dividends to those of the Collins line,
bankrupt alter eight years of subsidy; toe
Brazilian line, a failure after ten years
of pauDeTiSm; the Pacific Nails Japan
line, d failure until after subsidy was
Withdrawn, and the Pacific Mail whose
reputation and whose money We're alike
lost in the attempt to dead-beat the gov
ernHent- Succeeding, as Mr. Frye eE-
plains, in securing The postal subsidy of
1871 at 81 instead OF S. per statute mile.
and in 1882 in having its two foreign liners
admitted to registry for subsidy purposes.
Z it mas been persistent lobbyist IN season
and out of season for increased govern
ment favor.
Meanwhile, as the record sows, its
promise. that if literally aided by the
government il would esta blish "A line of
which America might be proud. is 50 far
unpeTfOrmed that Except for now calling
tWenty-One knot steamers the very ones
that tor more than ten years it had con-
SideTed dS tWFuty-EDOt veSSeiSl. IT has
shown no sign, eItaer of intent or ability
I to rival the German ana BRITISH lines
whose tW enty-three-EnOt steamers are
now and whose tWeIsty-IOur or twenty
five-knOt steamers soon will be, the stand
ard; and with no plans for new steamers
other than slower ones. stands hat In
hand at the doors OF congress. urging the
fact that il has been "a failure and that
/ Tor years II has not paid a dividend as a
plea for the charity of sOvernms ut.
Spirit of Greed Shown.
The World sums up the case as follows:
Senator Frye's deter miuatiOD to force
through the ship subsidy bill at all costs
and to b Ock the cons dera ton of the reg
ulaT appropriation bills until it is done,
shows the nerCe spirit of greed and graf
behind this measure
ITO fix in the public mind the true
character of this raid on the national
treasury it is necessary to iterate and
reiterate a few hard facts
"First-The Frye-Hanna bill calls for
subsidy payments aggr5 eating $500. ~ } "a
year for twenty years a total grab Cs
SlSe,Ose,C-2 DeductiIg payments for mail
service and aUXilta y war service the
actual total paymeE.s for ship subsidies
of all the other ma IONS of the world put
together is under S4.3C 90 a year.
'-SecOnd-Of this grand grab of S19S.099-
0ol one company q One-the American
Steam hip line-wil pocket $500
Coz And this company is a prosperous
concern and Is now building six new
steamsh ps out of its profits without any
subSid--