The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-04
commercial treaties with different nations

commercial treaties with different NATIONS
of the world.
..Now, these nations are today looking
jealousl " at u.s. said Mr.. Frye. and 1T
is said that they are studying the PROB
lem as to how they can stop us from
getting into these foreign markets.
To abrogate these treaties, ho SAD,
would only serve as an excuse 1or re-
ata1iation. He said that the only way to
accomplish anything in the direction IN
dicated by him would be to pay from
the Treasury of the United States an
n.lally a sum of money which shall be
equal to the difference between the oper-
ating and carrying on of the trade IN
foreign ships and that carried in our
own. The Republican party had STOOD
by that t idea of protection and encourage
l1le1lt ever since it had been a party IN
power. and that party, he insisted, could
not excuse itself from leaving an industry
as important as this entirely unprotected
Mr.. Frye said that in two years the en-
actment of the pending bill would in
crease the expenditure in American ship
yards s4o,O0o0oo. In addition, the mail
subsidies. amounting now to nearly S3.-,
Ct0.000 a year, would act as an offset to
the amount of about s6.ooo.000 paid in
subsidies to American shipping.
In th. House.
tBy Associated Press.)
WASH1NGION, u. T., March S.-The
House to-day began the considerations Of
the bill to CLASSIFY the rural free delivery
service and place the carriers under the
contract system. Only two speeches were
delivered to-day. Mr.. Loud, of California,
chairman of the Committee on Post
offices and Post-roads, made the opening
argument in favor of the bill, speaking
for two and a half hours Air. Swanson,
of Virginia, led the opposition. The de-
bate was interrupted before the close tof
the session 10y the presentation OF the
conference report upon the philippine tariff
bill. MIR. Payne, the jority leader, de-.
clined to allow the minority more than
thirty minutes in which to discuss the
report, and this offer was rejected by
MIR. Richardson, the minority leader. \
tilibuster followed, and the House ad
journed, after the previous question upon
the adoption of the report had been or
dered
RURAL DELIVERY.
Mr.. Loud, of California, began the de-
bate upon the rural free delivery bill.
He declared that upon the solution of this
question would depend whether the rural
free delivery service would cost ultimate
ly sixty or twenty million dollars per an
mum. The rural free delivery service up
to this time, he said, had been a political
one, and it had given many members OF
Congress their first taste of the sweets
of public patronage. He traced the his
tory and the rapid growth of the service
aild it's cost, declaring that it was the
most eXtravagant in the public service.
At the inception the carriers received 5000
per annunl. They now received $500 If
the salary system was continued they
would eventually receive $500 or $500. At
the present time $4,000 was being spent
for the supervisory force.
Mr.. Loud charged that a promise had
gone forth that if the present system was
continued. the members of Congress
would control the appointment of the
carriers in the future, as they had in the
past. -5S5s -
NIR. SWANSON HEARD.
Mr.. Swanson. of Virginia, argued that
the present system would be more adj
vantageous to the rural communities
than the contract system. FTe contended
that if the service We're made effective it
would eventually become sclf-supportinS.
Mr.. Swanson contended that the con
tract system. under the terms of the bill,
would allow the building up of a political
machine by permitting the department
to pass upon the trustworthiness Of the
bidders. He said that the present sys-
tenn by which Democratic Congressman
were allowed to name half the carriers
in their districts. should be continued
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