The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-07
HANNA ON ALABAMA
OHIO SENATOR TALKS OF THE
 STATES FUTURE.
Thinks the Ship Subsidy Bill Will Prove of Vast Benefit in the Upbuilding of the
 South.
Lucien Julian Walkers Special to The Birmingham Age-Herald

mlngham mineral region or Alabama, with the mineral district of Tennessee, contains the iron and coal reserves, Is the mineral reservoir, so to speak, of America, and must be the center of fu-
 ture American mineral and general ma terial development" declared Senator
 tracted interview which he granted The Age-Herald through me today.
 Regardless of the building of Br- miugham and the comparative immense material development in that district during recent years, there has been a mere scratching of the surface. We have just begun to realize what the nation has got in the vast and unequalled mineral riches of the Birmingham region and the immense natural riches of the South at large. From your iron and coal mines, your furnaces and your steel plants, turn to the unprecedented growth in Southern cotton mills and other industries! All Of 1t Is pleasing from national viewpoint, all is of great national import.
 Now I want to say to you for The Age-Herald, in the columns of which l have heretofore had the pleasure or speaking on public questions, and through The Age-Herald to the Southern people that I am not only desirous but eager to do whatever is in my power for the advancement and upbuilding of the South. I would have you give sincere assurance of this desire and purpose on my part. Ship Subsidy Bill. @ "As to the pending ship subsidy bill, l am convinced that it's enactment will re-
 suit in greater good to the South than to any other part of our country. Tt will result in making Alabama the source of coal surplies for the West ln- dies and Central and South America, the Mediterranean and other ports or conti- mental Europe. "It will mean the establishment and profitable maintenance of great steamship lines from Mobile and Pensacola to va rious parts of the world. "President Smith of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company assured me when last saw him that upon the pas, sage of the bill his great company would begin at once to provide for regular inc of powerful ships to trade out or Pensa- cold, and that he would put on sucn ships as rapidly as possible, perhaps Saa one
 Such lines pf mod Tn tEteamsnnlls from Pensacola and Mobile--and they are certain to be established-wili, as anybody may discern, result in an enor-
 mous inpetus to the coal, iron, steel cotton and other industries of Aiapama and the South. It would be the reai 1e- ginning of that splendid southern 9e- velopment of which the Birmingham ois- trict is such great promise ana "ni'" we all so clearly foresee.
 A. th,s point Senator Hanna was asked
 the direct question, what would a ten ,,
 thousand ton .2-knot ship, sainhs ou of Savannah or Mobile. for example ea. sa in subsidy on voyage to Liverpoott .hat S return. His reply was that ship or that low speed--and such ship would scarce iv be built to steam so slow-wouio coHhs under the general subsidy provislons a oa the bill, that Is, 1t would earn ana pc for each 100 nautical miles sailed A nau- tical mile is one mile and one-nfteentn Geographical mile.) Hence, assuming TOT sake of argument that Mobile IS ,aOSO aoSO nautical miles from Liverpool, rvvvo ,O.s ton ship steaming twelve knots. an hour would receive from the government TOT the round voyage 5000. provided that not
 more than sixteen such voyages were made in any one fiscal year Thus 1T such ship from Mobile should make say, ten voyages in a year. 1t would receive sS0. .O00 in subsidy from the government.
 But if this ship should sail fourteen knots an hour it would receive x26l Tor
 each statute mile outward salieqj or pool. If 1t sailed twenty knots 1t would receive $4.70 for each tbtute mile out
 ward sailed, 1t would receive about $lS.OcO.
 The earnings of any other vessel. sail
 or steam, may be estimated upon the basis of this example. except that one fourth of cent Is added to each gross ton for each 100 nautical miles sailed by any American-built vessel Of over 1000 tons completed and registered after the '"'' For Fast Ships.
 "Senator. The Age-Herald desires es- pecially a statement from you as to the reasons for discriminating in favor of fast fast ships as against si9" 0nes' was
 we must have above all things fast ships to carry our malls, to give us an equal sh sEing with other countries for ocean commerce and trade, and to strengthen our naval reserve, for every fast ship earning the higher rates of ,bafd an constructed . to he able to carry a specified number Of certain class of guns, and be subject con- stantly to be called into the naval ser vice of the country" Senator Hanna re-
 'Tn these direct contentious and par ticulars," continued the Senator, T would have reference te the introductory language of the report on the ship sub Frye. which is to the effect that the pur- pose of this bill is and its reasonable cer- tain results will be within ten years to establish the maritime supremacy of the United States in the trade Of the Gulf Of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea; to es- tabllsh on a secure basis the trade be- tween the United States and the republics of South America, and to give the Uni- ted States a respectable representauon in the trade of the North Atlantic. In- cidentally 1t will give to the United States an auxiliary navy second only to Great BIitain's; an ocean mall service superior to that of Great Britain, France or Germany in all respects-except for few years North Sea ports. It will So extend shipbuilding as to transfer in time certainly from Germany, and possibly from Great Britain, to the United States the center of that indust~y as the centers of other industries recently have been transferred. Finally. 1t will give to the United States a measure of maritime in- dependence corresponding to our indus trial and agricultural Independence. This object and these results are perfectly well understood abroad and afford the reason why the measure Is regarded with undis- guised apprehension and hostility by the shipping interest of Europe.
 Joe Cannon's Work.
 'Joe Cannon. with his usualLhis usual usualness. succeeded in the House in hav- irg the former subsidy bill so amended in the closing hours of the session as to defeat it, in that he had the allowance for the postal ships cut down to A for each mile outward sailed, which with other amendments made it impossible of acceptance by the Senate. and there being no time for a conference of the two houses the bill failed.
 ''The present bill is an amendment of the act of Congress of 1891. TO provide for ocean mail service between the Unit ed States and foreign ports. and to pro- mote commerce. The amendments of sections 3, 3, 4, 5 and 8 are very slight, and then we come to our own section already related to you in part with ref erence to hte hypothetical case of steamship sailing from Savannah or Mo bile. This section provides the rate of compensation and how 1t may be earned, and in the machinery of the proposed law.
 "The provision for deep-sea fisheries Is that the owner of any vessel engaged in