Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-04

Soon after the Senate met bills were
passed changing the time and naming
the places for holding terms of United
States circuit and district courts in the
eastern district of Kentucky; providing
for minimum punishment in certain
cases in Indian territory; authorizing
the appointment of Allen V. Reed as
rear admiral on retired list, instead of
captain: to establish marine hospital
at Savannah, Ga, at cost not exceed
ing s2OO,O0 to pay Flora A. Darlin
S56S3 for damages on account of her
illegal arrest and Imprisonment at New
Orleans in January, 1864; to amend the
act of May II, 1900, authorizing the
commissioner of internal revenue to re-
deem or make allowances for internal
revenue stamps. The bill was so amend
ed as to read: THAT no claim for the
redemption of or allowance for such
stamps shall be allowed unless present.
ed within 90 years after the purchase of
said stamps from the government, ex-
cepting unused documentary and pro-
prietary stamps issued under the act
of June 49, 1898, which stamps may be
years after the passage of the act; to
restore James G. Field, assistant sur
geor, to the active list of the navy.
At 2o'clock the shipping bill was laid
before the Senate as the unfinished
business. The bill was read for amend
ment. The committee amendments, ex-
cluslvely amendments of phraseOlogy,
were agreed to.
In the section defining such craft as
shall not be allowed compensation un-
der the bill, Paragraph ''E" was
changed to read as follows: "A barge,
canal boat or vessel proceeding from
port to port in tow, or tugboat or
vessel engaged in wrecking."
Frye. Me-, chairman of the committee
on commerce, opened the debate on be
half of the bill. 1t seemed to him, he
said, that the policy of protection had
been vastly beneficial to the American
people. Only one industry has been
without protection, and without protec-
ton for so years, and with logical
result. The shipping interests of the
country had been neglected in the CIV
ing of protection. With boundless
SeacOaSt, with enormous deposits of
iron and coal, with the most sagacious
business men in the world, with the
advantage of every natural resource
upon the side of the United States, this
country had permitted it's interiors to
seize upon the pathways of ocean COM
merce almost without a struggle.
at seems to me-" said Frye, that
that picture ought to humiliate and
mnrtifv hpVnnd tri-
otto citizen of the United States of
glories in the power and prosperity of
this country. 1t is not alone humiliat-
ing. it is absolutely dangerous"
Frye asked who was going to carry
the carry the $4S7, 100000 of export in
the event of war between Germany
and the Great Britain. why" said
he, 1.-The farmers and the manufactur-
erS and the wage earners of the United
States would pay a penalty equal to
that paid by either of the contending
parties"
Frye then sought to show that this
condition of things was caused by
American wages, which increased the
cost of our ships. for these foreign
trade at least &c per cent. He declared
that of all the steamships in the world
of IA knots and upwards, so per cent.
were subsidized by the countries whose
flags they carried. OF vessels of Is
knots and up wards, he said, all but six
in the world were heavily subsidized
by the countries whose flags they float.
The nations paying these subsidies, he
declared, did SO for the purpose of ex-
tending their trade and for nothing
else.
Trade cannot precede the mall. he
said 1.-THE mail must precede the
trade"
Frye contended that there is not
nation on this earth that needs mar
kets for it's surplus products more than
the United States. An American ship,
handled by intelligent. active. earnest
and interested American officers, he
said, is better instrument for the dis
tribution, of our products abroad than
a German ship. Differed with Germans,
Germany being a dangerous rival of
the United States. Frye declared that
free ships. for which some senators
were contending, would mean an in
crease in cost of ships of % per cent.
more than they now cost, and would