The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-12
SHIP SUBSIDY
B0LDEST STEAL
Mallory of Florida So Character
ICES the Bill.
OTHER MEASURES LIKE IT
BUT NONE, He SAYS, WERE
QUITE so FLAGRANT.
March 11.-For sew

HTASHINGTON, March I1.-For sew
wv eral hours today the senate had
the ship subsidy bill under con
sideration. Mr.. Mallory Of Florida
made an extended speech in opposi-
ton TO the measure. He analysed the
bill carefully, and held that there was
no good reason for its enactment into
law, saying he believed it would not
accomplish the result hoped for it by
its promoters.
Prior to consideration of the subsid-
larry measure a lively debate occurred
over an effort on the part Of Mr.. Berry
of Arkansas to ascertain when the
committee on privileges and elections
might be expected to report to the
senate the resolution providing for the
election of senators by the direct vote
of the people.
At the conclusion of the debate, which
had been proceeding by unanimous
consent, the senate passed eighty lone
private pension bills. Other bills were
passed as follows: Amending the act
Of Feb. ,, 1901, to increase the efhci-
ency of the permanent military estab-
lishment. so as to provide for the trans
fer of officers from the line to the staff
for four years service.
The senate then, at . o'clock, re-
sumed consideration Of the ship sub
sidy bill, and MIR. Mallory Of Florida,
one of the Democratic members of the
committee on commerce, addressed the
senate in opposition to the measure.
He said in its ultimate analysis the
bill was measure to take the money
of the taxpayers to build up the pri-'
vate business of individuals and cor
porations.
Skaters Frye's Argument.
Referring to Mr.. Frye's argument in
support of the establishment Of an aux
Hilary navy, for which 'the pending bill
provides, he did not believe there was
sufficient justification for the extraor-
binary expenditure proposed by the
bill. In the event Of a war between
the United States and Great Britain,
France, Germany, Russia and other
great maritime powers. this country
/ would find itself in a very difficult sit
uation. The proposed auxiliary cruis-
ers would not be left to scOur the seas,
because It was the policy of all the
nations named now to build vessels
which could easily overtake any one
Of the ships which the pending bin
provides would become a part Of the
naval auxiliary fleet
After analyZlng at length the pro-
visions of the measure. Mr.. Mallory ue-
clared;
Congress. never in its history
passed a measure Of this character. It
has passed many laws 10 provide pri-
vate gains under the pretense of pub
lie policy, but never one so absolutely
bald and bold in its advancement Of
private purposes as this measure
he would 80 as far as any senator
to put the American merchant marine
on a footing Of equality with that OF
other nations, but he could not endorse
a measure so at variance with every
principle of right and justice.
Mr. McCumber f North Dakota and
Mr. Depew Of New York gave notice
that they would address the senate 10
morrow on the ship subsidy bill
Mr.. Proctor gave notice that after
/ the disposition Of the bill TO protect the
president of the United States. he
would move that the OleomargaTine bill
be made the unfinished business.
Frye Offers Amendment.
Mr.. Frye referred to the fact that it
had been claimed that the clause in
section six of the ship subsidy bill.
which directs payment to the owner or
owners Of any vessel of the United
States, duly registered by a citizen Of
the United States, would place under
the provision Of the bill the four ships
that had been admitted to ~ American
register. He therefore submitted an
amendment. which was adopted max
ing the clause read: Hereafter built
and registered in the United States, or
now duly registered
get an Interpretation of provisions that
are a little blind TO me" directed some
questions at Mr. Frye. His desire. he
said, was to ascertain whether proper
safeguards had been thrown around
the bill to protect the government in
the making Of so large an expenditure
: 8 il proposed. The questions asked by
the Iowa senator were largely techni-
/ cal, relating to the classification Of
ships the number of vessels 20 be ben
/ Gifted by the act. the amount of money
paid in the aggregate. etc The col
/ loQuy which ensued developed the fact
B that a CoastWise vessel might register
at any port which it touched and en-
7 ter from that port the ocean carrying
/ trade and receive "a subsidy under this
bill. It developed also that a vessel
/ engaged in trade between the United
/ States and the Philippines would re-
{ ceive the subsidy until the coastWise
navigation laws should be extended BY
/ congress TO the Philippine archipelago.
I Afterward. no vessel engaged in the
/ Philippine trade would receive the sub
sidy.
! Mr. Frye explained that the subsidy
/ being based on the classification ot
/ vessels. would be paid to ships without
I respect TO their age. the worth OF q
/ vessel being dependent entirely upon