The age-herald., 1902-03-13
Shipping Bill Occupies Entire
 Time of the Senate
MR. M'CUMBER ALSO SPOKE
Spooner Introduces Resolution Direct ing Secretary of the Treasury to Show How Much Mail Pay
 Would Increase.

Washington, March 12-Again today the ship subsidy bill occupied practically the entire time of the Senate. MT. Me Cumbor of North Dakota presented carefully prepared argument, in which, as a representative of an agricultural state, he favored the bill on the ground of its protective features.
 MT. Depew of New York, one of the members of the committee on commerce, delivered an elaborate speech, in which he analysed the arguments both for and against the position to pay subsidies to the shipping industry.
 A few bills were passed including one providing for the redemption of Hawaiian silver coins and the substitution thereof of American silver cons
 A resolution by MT. Spooner was adopt ed directing the Secretary of the Treas ury to report to the Senate the extent to which the mail pay provided for by the present sh-p subsidy bill increases the mail pay now authorized by law and also whether they are more or less In effect than the subsidy rates provided by the subsidy Dlll of 1899.
 MT. Depew then addressed the Senate in favor of the bill Senators had criti- cized 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, Ger many or France. We are, he maintained, contributing millions of dollars annually to increase the mail facilities and en- larging the merchant marine of these competing countries.
 Position We Are Entitled to.
 We are looking forward to that posi- tion which We are entitled to as a world power" said MT. Depew, "but as mat ter of fact we are crippled because we cannot open the communications which are necessary to accomplish that com mercial result without the active assist ance of the subsidized ships of our rivals. While our friends, the enemy" he continued, referring to the Democratic senators, "are so sensitive about the ex- penditure of 1000, 900 a year to perfect our mail service to places where we hope to have commerce, they vote for the car rying of mail on profitable mail lines in the domestic service"
 Takes lab at Tammany.
 Referring incidentally to the present
 
 one of the greatest handicaps to the na- tional democracy had been Tammany. He said great hope had been builded upon the fact that a brilliant and cult- vated gentleman recently had been placed at the head of the Tammany organiza- tion. This was Lewis Nixon, the Amer ican shipbuilder.
 MT. Depew then quoted from a paper read recently by MT. Nixon in which I. I. L. |. was in a position to build several hun dred merchant ships every year this country would be able to compete with foreign ship yards.
 Give us the means" said MT. Depew, by which Ameri3an ships may be run under the American fiag>~and then we will build the ships in competition with foreign ship yards
 During the past decade, Mir Depew snid $3,3C0, GOO, 900 had been invested by American capitalists in manufacturing industries. Vast sums had been invested in railroads and mines.
 American Flag Seldom Seen.
 In conclusion MT. Depew said:
 within five years, if the expectations of this bill are realized, then for this com paratively small expenditure of $7,5O0 GOO this reproach that American ships are
  removed. Then again the American flag. floating over American steam and sailing vessels, would be seen in every port of the world; ther with the American flag and American skipper will come the American commercial agent and the American financial exchanges, and We can have the methods for that competi- tion in which we believe we should be more successful than any other nation but which is now only a dream and a hope"
 There bills were passed
 Appropriating $1O0,0OO for a public build ing at Charlottesville, Va; amending the revised statutes so as to allow each Major General of the army to have three aides and each Brigadisr General two aides who may be selected by them from captains or lieutenants. joint res olution was agreed to authorizing army and navy officers who served in the Chin csc campaign in 1900 to wear the dis tinctive badges of the organizations to which they belong on all occasions of ceremony
 At 4:20 o'clock the Senate on motion of Mr. Cockrell went into executive session and at 4:23 p. m. adjourned.