The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-18
FRYE EXPLAINS MEASURE
Designed to Upbuild the Amer
 ican Maritime Service.
Ship Building VIII Be So Extended as to Transfer the Center of tho Industry from Europe to
 the United States.

Washington. Jan. 1.-The Senate com mitte on commerce today authorized | favorable report on Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill.
 The Democratic members voted against reporting the bill. They also voted solidiy for q motion offered by Senator Mallory to strike out the general sub sidy provision.
 The committee made an amendment to the bill allowing mall carrying vessels to be either iron or steel .instead of steel only. as originally provided. and another reducing to one thousand gross registered tons the vessels receiving bounty.
 The report prepared by Senator Frye says that the purpose of the bill Is to establish the maritime supremacy of the United States with Asia and in the Gulf Of Mexico and the Carribean Sea; to establish thoroughly trade between the United States and South American re- publics, and to give the United States respectable representation on the North Atlantic. The claim is made that all these results will be accomplished within ten years. The report also asserts that the bill will so extend ship building as to transfer in time from abroad to the United States the center of that industry as the centers of other industries recent ly have been transferred, and also that it will give to the United States meas ure of maritime independence corresponds ing to our industrial and agricultural in- dependence.
 Senator Frye furnished the press the following summary of the report:
 The establishment of this complete American ocean mail service. involving much ship building. will require several years. It will render the United States as independent of foreign powers for it's ocean mail service as Is Great Britain. The cost of the American service by American mail steamers will be M70o.- 900: the cost of the British and colonial service by British mall steamers is H.-
 Tho postal subsidy provisions enable the Postmaster General to establish an American ocean system superior to the system of Great Britain, France and Germany.
 "The American ocean mail system as outlined contemplates a Pacific weekly mail service to Hawaii, the Philippines Japan. China and Hong Kong and a for nightly service to Pago-Pago. New Zea- land and Australia. The maximum cost would be $2.ss5.oOo.
 "On the Atlantic, the bill contemplates
 
 Havana and Europe, weekly to Mexico once in ten days to Venezuela. and fort nightly to Brazil, at a maximum cost of $2.365, ,O00
 Tt will give the United States forty- two auxiliary merchant cruisers coua- pared with Great Britain's fifty.
 Dealing with the general subsidy to aIf American vessels, steam and sail. except mail steamers, the report says that if an "A Ch htW. wus1YN A..ka Ea sel in the United States, employing home labor. employing American officers and crews. performing certain services for the American Government and using the vessel to promote American commerce. ne VII be pay subsidy sufficient to put him on an equality with the for- eign ship owner.
 The average cost of, building ocean steamers, mainly for cargo, is $102 per ton in the United States, and S6 in Great Britain. Monthly averages on ocean steamers mainly, for cargo, are: Amer ican $s6; British. $26; German and Scan. $iL The general subsidies pro- posed equalize American and foreign costs on these bases.
 Based on actual navigation of Amer ican vessels in foreign trade in 19oO. the s.a suosldies sn proposed would amount to s,- O12,OOo. Full compliance with all reuuIre- ments of the bill would fix the initial 900. aAN ''uV'-
 Under the general subsidy increase fin expenditure depends on increase Tn shin building. The completion of 900 tons or ocean steamers for foreign trade in one year. involving $1.a0o 900 in subsidies. will place the United States in advancs ns Germany as ship-buiiding nation.
 fhedeep sea fisheries bounty is to en- courage an industry which, from the bat tie Of Lexington to the battle of Sam tiago, has furnished more men propor- uonateiy for the national defense than any other American industry. The an- nual expenditure Is estimated at sI7s nno This amount offsets s1eo0OO paid to pros mote fisheries by Canada, which uses for the purposes the annual interest of RI. OOO'OOO paid by the United States to Can ada under the Halifax award in 1s7S For seventy years the United States paid Rrk.