The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-07
HAN MA SPEAKS FOR SUBSIDY
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Continued from First Page.) | know anything about it., | Tt was only reported, you knew, suggested Nil. Tillman and l thought | that the senator being in touch with that class of people --
 1 Why does the senator say l am In touch With them?' interjected MT. | Hanna,
 MT Tillman--"rhe senator is a man engaged ill shipping, is he not"
 "On the great lakes, yes,' responded Nil. Hanna, but why does the senator assume that | know what MT. Morgan has done?"
 T thought the senator and MT, Nor | gan were friends" replied MT. Tillman
 T know nothing about the purchase cs the Leyland line by J, F. Morgan & l Co., said Nh. Hanna, any more than l the senator does That is simply the l investment of American capital. Un- der the provisions of this bill, not a sin gle one of those vessels ever will come under an American charter or an Amer ican flag"
 Mr. Hanna said capital seeks only in vestment from which it can get re- l turns.
 If that be true,' inquired MT. Till man, why did the German emperor not go to England to get his yacht built instead of coming to this country?' | MT. Hanna said there were some things he could not answer, but he thought Prince Henry was glad the em- peror did not do it,
 Perhaps the senator has not heard l of the success and prestige ot America | in the yachting line suggested MT. | Hanna amid laughter The German emperor he said wanted the best yacht 1 and therefore he came here.
 MT. Tillman wanted to know what | kind of yacht it was, and MT, DepeW described 1t as a sailing racing machine | of the same type as beat the two Sham- rocks.
 MT. Hanna declared that not an. American shipyard had a contract Tor another merchant vessel after the nine or ten vessels now under contract were l finished. Everybody knows, continued | MT Hanna, that the United states IS now engaged in a hand -to-hand contest with foreign nations to secure the com merce of the Orient, and that the Unit ed States had been foremost and stead l fast in it's policy to secure the markets of China and hold them as an open door. The Philippine archipelago was tbe key to the Orient, said he and when it had become a naval station, sur rounded by all the protection that maritime fleet would need it would be- come a factor in our commercial condi- tions in the Orient
 MT. Hanna then said it was the pur- pose of the bill, under the postal sys- tenn, to establish line on the Atlantic coast to South America England had gained her supremacy in the markets of the world by pursuing the policy of establishing direct communications
 Personal contact" he said, ''is what brings results, and England, Germany | and France are now energetcally at work to put in the connecting link be- | tween the Pacific and the Orient"
 MT. Hanna spoke of the benefit the passage of the bill would bring as re- suit of increased trade with South American countries, saying that the trade now went by way of Liverpool and Hamburg in foreign ships, and thence was transshipped to South American ports. By earring American goods in American ships there would be an increase of American trade.
 In closing Mir. Hanna again adverted to the question of the cost of labor maintaining that wages in this country | averaged 90 per cent. higher than i'll European countries. The cost of ships from OS to 30 per cent higher than those built in Great Britain, the difference m price of labor making the difference m cost The difference between cost of operat- ing American and foreign ships was about 27 per cent, the higher rate ne- ing paid on American vessels. He urg~ ed that the pending measure be enact ed into law as the one way to demon- strate, to the sa tisfaction of all that it would be heneficent in its opera ton The senate adjourned at 4:15 D. m.
 Early in the session MT Frye, in charge of the pending shipping bill, ob- tained an agreement that the senate should vote on the measure and all the pending amendments at ?. m, Mon day, March r. that time being entire ly satisfactory to those opposed to the bill.
 Before consideration of the shipping bill was resumed an extended debate | occurred on the measure providing for the protection of the president of the | United States. MT Bacon, of Georgia, 1 took the ground that in it's present shape the bill was an invasion of the jurisdiction of the states, and that it ought to be amended radically. MT. | Patterson, of Colorado, while he agreed to the general propositions of the bill, | urged that it ought not to pass in it's present form. No action on the bill was | taken.
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