The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-07
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
discussion OF THIS MEASURE BEGUN,
IN THE SENATE.
SENATOR FRYE OPENS DEBATE
With u Two Hours speech In Its Ad-
vocacy-Hi. Address Largely Tech-
ntcaI-His . for supporting
the BfrI-auestfoned by In
oppo.ftfon-The House Takes up
the BflI as to Rural Free Delivery
.a D-t.cu..ex the Question OF Con-
tract or Appointive Service

~ud Dfacusse1 the Question Oh SoH-
tract or Appointfve Service
washington, March 3-The senate
began to-day consideration of what Is
nonuIarIv known az the shipping Dill.
Senator Frye, OF Maine. chairman OIL tne
committee on commerce, MADE the
ooening statement in support OF the
hin He occupied the flood for nearly
TWO hours, reviewing the measure re
nortad by the committee and dealing
with questions which have arisen In
connection with its consideration.
Senator Frye's address was largely
technical. but his argument was MS
tened to with close attention by sena-
tors on both sides OF h chamber. p.
IL seemed to him, Senator Frye SAID
that the policy of protection had been
vastly beneficial to the American peo'
nile. The United States, he asserted
had no peer industrially. Only n m
dustry had been without protection
and without protection fifty years-and
with the logical result. The ippin
interests of the country had been neg
,acted I'm the giving OF protection. This
country had permitted Its interiors to
seize upon the pathways or ocean COM
merce almost without a struggle.
cit seems to me-" said Senator FRYE
that that picture ought TO nunila
and mortify beyond expression any pa
triotic citizen Of the United States VINO
eIories i'm he power and prosperity OF
his country 1t Is not alone humlllat-
ing-it is absolutely dangerous"
Senator Frye asked who was going 10
/. carry the s4ST, OO0, 600 of exports In the
event of a war between Germany ana
Great Britain. why" said he, the
farmers and the manufacturers ana
the wage earners of the United STATES
would pay a penalty. equal to that palo
NV either of the contending parties"
Senator Frye then sought 10 sno"
this condition OF things was caused Dy
American wages. which increased the
cost of our ships for the foreign trace
at least % per cent. He declared thae
.of all the steamships in the Worio ol
fourteen knots and upward 80 per cent.
are subsidized by the countries whose
flags they carry. Of sixteen knots ana
upward, he said, all but six In the
world are heavily subsidized py the
countries whose flags they f1oat.
The nations paying these subsidies,
ne declared. did so for the purpose Oh
their trade and nothing else.
He commended that there is not a ma
ton on this earth that needs markets
for it's surplus products more than the
States. An American snip, nano-
led by intelligent, earnest and In er-
ested officers, he said, is a better IN
strument for the distribution OF our
nroducts abroad than a German snip
I--.4L CtoryoonS GnrmanV DelnR
dangerous rival of the United States.
ne declared that free ships for Whlch
some senators were contending Would
mean an increase in cost of rs per cent.
more than the do now n would close
every shipyard in the United states
against building any ship for foreign
trade.
He said that bountieS had been sus-
gested. but these were repuSnant to the
constitution and a violation or thirty
four commercial treaties with different
nations of the world. Now these ma
lions are today looking jealousy at
MS" said he, land it is said that they
are studying the problem as to how
they can stop us from getting into
these foreign
Senator Frye said that in two years
the enactment OF Il pending bill would
the expenditure in American
rshipyards $40. 003. COO. In addition the
-mail subsidies, amounting now to near
-1v $4,000 600 a year, would act as an off
set to the amount of about s6.OO0.OOO
paid in subsidies to American shlpplns.I
At the conclusion of senator Frye'sI
statement, Senator Bacon, OF Georgia
incurred as to Inc condition OF business
IN American shipyards. Was it true
that they were full of orders?"
at is not true" replied senator
Frye.
Senator Bacon asked IL Senator Frye
had not noted in the newspapers tneI
glowing accounts of the work oelnsI
in American
Senator Frye replied that he had seen,
q to the effect that MIR. Fur-I
Miss. of Great Britain, had made a con-
tract recently Tor the construction OF
eight steamships in American YARDS
rhe fact was tina the contract had
been made for the construction of the
eight steamships in Great Britain,
In response to an Inquiry by SenatorI
Clay, Georgia, Senator Frye salo tnerel
was no law now which required athatl
Americans should be employed uponI
American ships. The pending bill. he
said, provided that during the frsti
wear, one-rourth of the crews of Ameri-'
can vessels should be citizens OF the
United States; the second year, one-
third and the third ear ,one-hah.
Senator Clay and Senator Bacon both
insisted that the crews of the Pacihci
Mail Steamship Company were largely
Chinese and the former read the testl-
of the captain of the steamship
of the Pacific Mail. show1ng
that about two-thirds Of the crews
were Chinese
<The senate Their went into executive
and adjourned. II
House of Representative. -
The house today began the e~onsidera-f
t;on of the bill to classify the rural free
delivery service and place the carriers
Having q Run on Ch~amberlain's
Cough Remedy.
.o, the hours of eleven O'Clock