Evening star., 1902-03-12

including In the invitation the family Of
the Marquis de Lafayette. He paid a
tribute to Lafayette and urged that his
amendment was peculiarly pertinent.
The amendment was agreed to and, as
amended. the bill was passed.
Mr.. McCumber for Shipping Bill.
At the conclusion OF routine business the
Senate resumed consideration Of the ship
subsidy bill, Mr.. McCumber IN. d. speak
ing in support of the measure. He said he
represented an agricultural state, inter-
ested only indirectly in the shipping in
dustry, but he favored the passage OF the
bill. because he believed the results OF Its
operation would be beneficial not only to
his constituents, but to the people OF the
entire country.
He maintained 1t would be Just as proper
to remove the protective tariff duties from
products produced in this country as II
would be to refuse to offer to the sn1pping
industry the protection afforded by this
bill. With the subsidy provided by the
bill he thought that in the course OF M
teen years the United States would be able
to compete with the world in the ship
building industry. What the agriculturists
of the west and northwest most desired to-
day was an opening to the Pac1hc the
oriental-trade. He believed that the OPP
GRAFTON of the pending bill would afford
them that opening.
In conclusion Mr. McCumber character
lied the bill as a right step toward rein
bill was passed appropriating s125,OO0
for the erection of a public building at
Hastings. Neb
A resolution by Mr.. Spooner was adopted
report to the Senate the extent to which
the mail pay provided for by the present
ship subsidy bill increases the mail pay now
authorized by law, and also whether they
rates provided by the subsidy bill of 1899.
MI. Depew Favors the Bill.
Mr.. Depew then addressed the Senate in
favor of the bill. Senators had criticised
the bill, he said, but none of them had sub
mitted any plan by which we could have
a mail service which would be equal to that
of Great Britain, Germany or France. We
are he maintained, contributing millions
of dollars annually to still further Increase
the mail facilities and enlarge the mer-
chant marine of these competing countries,
thus placing farther off the distance which
the American merchant marine must trav-
erse before 1T can be equal to that of the
countries named. He spoke of the fact that
the expenditures by England, Germany and
France annually exceeded the receipts in
the matter of ocean mail pay. Mr.. Depew
presented figures to show that the aSSer-
ton that American shipyards were pros
porous was not well founded
Mr.. Depew said that one of the greatest
handicaps to the democracy was Tam
iudHy bul great 4lOpeS IOr II ndO peeu
builded upon placing Lewis Nixon, ship
builder. at its head. He quoted from a
paper read by Mr.. Nixon. in which he said
that when the United States could build
several hundred merchant ships every year
it would be able to compete with foreign
shipyards, but not until then.
Mr.. Depew said he did not know whether
]. Pierpont Morgan had purchased the Ley
land line or not, but If so it was because 1t
could be operated at a profit, but there
was no intention of bringing the ships
under the American flag.