The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-13
QUOTES NIXON
To DEMOCRATS
DepeW Tries to DiSarm 0ppO-
nents of Ship Subsidy Bill.
TAMMAHY CAUSE OF DEFEAT
sENAT r SORES ORGANIZATION
WHILE COMMENCING LEADER.

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Washington, March 12.-Soon :
= after the senate convened today, =
? Dir. Rawlins of Utah introduced a =
= resolution, which was passed, di- >
= recting the secretary of war to =
= send 10 the senate the reports Of =
Inspectors Carpenter and Maus =
= and any other information he may :
> have in relation to the transports =
= between the United States and the =
Philippines, especially regarding =
> free transportation for individu- :
= ais. :
Mr.. Cullom, chairman of the ,
= committee on foreign relations, re- :
= ported favOTably a bill authOriZ- =
: ing the president to extend TO the =
government Of France an invita- =
= ton to join the government and >
= people Of the United States in the =
dedication of the monument of =
= Count de Rochambeau, to be IN =
? yelled IN this city on May "A next =
Mr.. Hoar Of Massachusetts Of :
= Tered an amendment including in ,
? the invitation the family of the :
Marquis de Lafayette. He paid a =
2 tribute to Lafayette and urged =
? that his amendment was peculiar =
ly pertinent. The amendment was >
agreed to, and, as amended, the =
: bill was passed. :
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III ASHINGTON, March 12.-Again
w today the shin subsidy bill Occu-
pied practically the entire time
OF the senate. Mr.. McCumber Of North
Dakota presented q carefully prepared
argument, in which, as a Republican
Of an agricultural state, he favored
the bill on the ground of its protective
features.
Mr.. Depew Of New York, one Of the
members Of the committee on COM
merce, delivered an elaborate speech,
IN which he analysed the arguments
both for and against the position to pay
subsidies to the shipping industry. His
peroration, in which he pictured in
glowing language the results of the
operation of the bill, elected hearty
applause from the galleries.
Senators had criticised the bill. he
said, but none Of them had submitted
any plan by which we could have a
mail service which would be equal to
that of Great Britain, Germany or
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tributing millions Of dollars annually
to increase still further the mail ia
cilities and enlarge the merchant ma
rine of these competing countries, thus
placing farther off the distance which
the American merchant marine must
traverse before il can be equal to
that Of the countries named.
We are looking forward TO that
position which we are entitled to as a
world power said Mr.. Depew. but as
a matter of fact we are crippled be-
cause we cannot open the communica-
tons which are necessary to accom-
plish that commercial result without
the active assistance Of the subsidized
ships of our rivals in business"
Quotes Nixon to Democrats.
He presented figures to show that
he arguments of the opponents of the
bill as to the prosperity Of American
snip yards were not well founded. He
declared that vessels aggregating S.
900 tons had been constructed in Amer
lean ship yards for the foreign trade
during the past ten years, while in
Great Britain during one year, the last
year available in statistics, $500, 600
tons of ships had been constructed He
suggested that the difference between
these figures was so extraordinary that
the opposition senators ought to post
them up in their committee rooms as a
pleasant reflection on the return of
American merchant marine.
Mr.. Bacon of Georgia suggested that
in order to be fair and accurate, the
figures of the American construction
ought to include the vessels built there
for the United States for coastwise
trade. These figures Mr.. Depew did
not give but he said they would add
not very materially TO the total.
Referring incidentally to the present
situation in New York. Mr.. Depew said
one of the greatest handicaps to the
national Democracy had been Tam
many He said great nope had been
builded upon the fact that a brilliant
and cultivated gentleman recently had
been placed at the head of the Tam
many organization. This was Lewis
Nixon, an American shipbuilder.
AIr. Depew then quoted from d paper
read by Mr.. Nixon before a recent
annual meeting of an association of
naval architects, in the course of
which he had said that when the
United States was in d position to
build several hundred merchant ships
every year, THIS country Npu4G Dt dDlc
TO compete with foreign ship yards.
A resolution by Mr. SpOOner was
adopted. directing the secretary OF the
treasury TO report 10 the senate the
extent 10 which the mail pay was now
authorized by law, and also whether
the payments are more or less in eff
feet than the subsidy rates provided
by the subsidy bill of 1893. Mr.. DepeW
then addressed the senate in favor of
the bill.
VERBAL DUELS IN THE HOUSE.
Endeavor to Show Census Bill is a