Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-15
THE SHIP
SUBSIDY BILL
The Minority in Opposition to the Bill Today
Presented Its Report Through
Senator Berry.
IT is WRONG IN PRINCIPLE
Teller Begins Speech In Opposition to the BlIl-l
VIII Be Taken Up on Monday Again But Speeches
Wilt Be Limited TO Fifteen
Minutes
HOUSE.

Washington, March 15.-Parker. Nev
Jersey, reported back from the com
mittee on military affairs the resolu
ton introduced by Richardson, tn
Democratic leader, few days ago
calling upon the secretary of war fo
reports of certain army officers wht
examined into the transport servic,
between San Francisco and Manila
with the recommendation that sub
stitute be adopted which calls for the
facts relative to this transport service
instead of reports.
SENATE.
Washington, March 15-The senate
agreed, at the suggestion OF
Berry, Arkansas, to take up the ship
subsidy bill Immediately after routine
business on Monday, and that speeches
be limited to fifteen minutes, except as
to Senator Frye, who was accorded
80 minutes.
Teller then began speech in oppo-
stion to the ship subsidy bill. He
maintained that under the law the
American flag could be raised over any
ship owned in whole, or more than
half, by American citizens. and thus
gain whatever benefit that might
mean. While he always had been in
favor of the upbuilding of the mer-
chant marine he could not believe the
pending bill could realize the hopes Of
it's advocates. If he believed such re-
suits would be achieved, as Frye be-
leved, he would support it. To his
mind it was infinitely preferable to
the subsidy measure presented last
year
Personally, he was of the opinion
that 1t would be better to adopt the old
policy of discriminating duties for up
building the merchant marine.
The serious objection to the pending
bill was that it did not provide for
new lines. Money paid in subsidies,
therefore, would be paid to established
lines In the event of a European war.
Teller declared, the United States
government would have to do what it
now declined to do--allow its citizens
to go to Europe to buy ships and place
them under the American flag. The
Colorado senator believed the end OF
railroad building, to a great extent,
was at hand in this country, and the
surplus money which heretofore had
gone into railroads, from now on would
go into shipping. If the government
would deal fairly with ship owners, he
said the United States would have
soon the greatest ship building plants
in the world. He contended that the
government ought to permit it's citi-
zens to buy ships where they could
buy them the cheapest and then give
them an American register.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
washington, March 15.-The presi-
dent sent the following nominations to
the senate:
Navy = Captain Aren't Schuyler
Crowinshield, rear admiral; Lieuten-
ant Commander Robert M. G. Brown,
retired, commander on the retired list.
WILL REPORT THE CRUMPACKER
RESOLUTION
washington, March Is. = Speaker
Henderson and his lieutenants in the
house decided to report the Crum-
packer resolution for the appointment
by the speaker Of a committee OF lS TO
Investigate the election laws III the
southern states and determine Wnetn-
er the right Of suffrage Is abridged
contrary to the provisions of the con-
stitution.
AGAINST SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
washington, March 10. - senator
Rerry. representing the minority of the
senate committee on commerce, today
nresented a report in opposition to the
nending ship subsidy bill. Most of the
no,nts' nave been covered in speeches
in the senate. The minority deny the
accuracy of both the predictions and
the facts in the majority report. They
urge that the bill is wrong in principle
and declare that 1t utterly fails in the
accomplishment of it's professed OBJ
iects. They also say that while it is
not so complicated as the subsidy bill
of the 56th congress, 1t is in some re-
spects even more Objectionable.
Richardson said that while he would
have preferred the reports called for in
his original resolution, he would be
satisfied with the substitute If it elic-
tied the facts as he was assured 1T
would. The resolution was adopted
without division. The house, in COM
mitttee Of the whole, entered upon the
,ns,doro fion Of nrivate pension bills
Court Martial Takes Place Of Civil
Court.
Durham, March 15.-The civil treason
court has been disbanded. Hereafter
persons charged with treason will be
tried by court martial.
Death Of r. W. Pslton.
Cleveland, o., March 15.-F. w. Pei
ton, president of the Citizens Savings