Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-03-20
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL PASSED
THE SENATE
Nation Will Build Up a Merchant
Marine.

Washington, March 1S.-After pro-
logged debate the senate yesterday
passed the Ship subsidy bill, the
final vote upon the measure being AZ
h 81. Senators Allison and Dolliver,
oi Iowa; Spooner and Quarles, OF
Wisconsin, and Proctor and Diling-
ham, Of Vermont, republicans, voted
against the final passage of the bill,
and Senator McLaurin, of North
Carolina, voted for it. Some amend
msnts to the bill were adopted, but
they were all agreeable to those in
charge Of the measure, the friends
Of tho bill voting down all other
amendments. With the exception OF
amendments offered by Senator Alli-
son, and accepted by Senator Frye,
limiting the time of the operation of
contracts made under the provisions
of the bill to July 1, 1902, and pro.
viding that the amount of the ex-
penditure under the mail subsidy
paragraph should not at any time
exceed $S,O00,OOO annually, none of
the amendments agreed to material
ly affected the bill as it was reported
from the commerce committee.
The voting upon amendments be-
ran at three o'clock. and such flood
of them was offered that final vote
upon the bill, as amended, was not
reached until just before six o'clock.
Amendments offered by Senator Vest,
of Missouri, providing for free
ships and for the application of the
provisions of the antitrust law to
the shipping industry, were rejected,
as was the amendment proposed by
Senator Patterson. of Colorado. pro-
viding that no Chinese person should
be member of the crew of a subsi-
died vessel. Senator Pettus, of Ala
bama. offered an amendment provid-
ing that the total expenditure under
the bill should not exceed $9,00O,00O
in any year, 1t was adopted in com
mittee of the whole, but later in the
senate. was re iected by decisive
vote.
The senate agreed to an amend
ment offered by Senator Spooner pro-
yiding that congress should have
power to amend or repeal the act
without impairing any contract made
under its authority. Senator Hanna,
of Ohio. offered. and the senate
adopted three amendments applying
directly to the acquisition by Mr.. j.
Picrpont Morgan and his associates
of the Leyland line Of British ships.
They provide that no foreign built
ship shall participate in the proposed
subsidy, that nothing in the act shall
be construed to prevent American
citizens or corporations from holding
or operating foreign ships in the
ocean carrying trade, and that no
foreign built ship of any line thus
acauired by American. citizens shall
be admitted hereafter to American
registry.
Senator Gallinger yesterday intro
duced resolution directing the civil
service commission to transmit to
the senate a statement showing the
number of persons examined during
each fiscal year from 1884 to 1901, in
elusive. giving by years the number
who passed, the number rejected,
the number certified as being eligible
fer appointment, the number appoint
ed and the number of eligible now on
the rolls. The resolution also directs
the commission to report the num-
ber placed in the classified service
by executive orders or rules of the
commission without examination
since the date of the enactment of
the civil service law. On objection
BY Senator Hale the resolution went
over for a day.
Senator Morgan introduced reso-
luton directing the secretary OF the
interior to send to the senate state
ment of the legal and traffic rela-
tions between the government of the
United States and the railroads that
connect with the waters Of the Pa
ciA :, and also directing the secretary
of war to furnish similar informa-
ton with respect to the Philippines,
and as to the charters and owners of
such railroads. The resolution went
over on objection by Senator Hale.
The house yesterday began con-
sideration OF the river and harbor
bill. Mr.. Burton, of Ohio, made an
extended speech in explanation of