The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-07
sen TOR HANNA
ON SHIP ING BILL.
Made Notable Speech in Favor
Of the Measure.
AGREE 10 HAVE VOTE MONDAY
Al Extended Debate Oh Measure for Protec,
lection of Presidents Life Developed
Opposition TO Bill in its Present
sbapc-House Uninterestlng.

sbapc-Houss uninterestlng.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 6.-A no.
table speech was made in the Senate to-
day by. Mr.. Hanna, OF Ohio, on the pend-
ing shipping bill, which he discussed from
the standpoint of an American business
man. His arguments were carefully ar
ranged, he was always forceful and ear
nest and at times became eloquent. He
commanded the undivided attention of the
Senate and OF the galleries, and when he
closed he received the congratulations of
many of his colleagues.
Early in the session. Mr.. Frye, in charge
of the pending shipping bill, obtained an
agreement that the Senate should vote
on the measure and all pending amend
ments at 8 r. NJ. Monday, March 18th,
that time being entirely satisfactory to
those opposed to the bill.
Before consideration of the shipping
bill was resumed an extended debate oc-
Cured on the measure providing protec-
ton to the President Oft the United States.
CIR. Bacon, of Georgia, took the ground
that in its present shape the bill was an
invasion Of the Jurisdiction of the States
and that it ought to be amended radically.
| MIR. Patterson, of Colorado. while he
agreed to the general propositions of the
bill, urged that it ought not to pass in
it's present form. No action on the bill
was taken.
TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT.
Senator Bacon said that in view of the
recent calamity which had befailen the
nation in assassination of President Nc
Itinley, the subject of the pending bill
| = To n
| a high tribute to President Mckinley,
saying that he was the Most an1abie.
courteous and pleasant man l have ever
! net in high station and from him he
| nnssibly always had received the kindest
consideration.
~. bacon believed that the proposed
law was unnecessary, and did not provide
4 more certain punishment for the as
ssssin than was provided now in the State
laws. The world he insisted. was not
large enough for the criminal to get be-
-ond the reach Of the law, and there was
no place secret enough in which to hide
himself from avengiTS justice. He urged
that the bill Indicated there was not
| sufficient reliance upon the criminal laws
Of the several States.
Mr.. Depew. of New York. pointed out
that an attempt at assassination was
not punishable with death in any State,
as the pending bill provided.
Mr.. Plat, of Connecticut. suggested.
too, that some States had laws against
capital punishment.
Mr.. Bacon, continuing, said that the bill
involved the right and the. propriety of
tie Federal Government to enforce q law
within a State different from any law
on the statute books .of the State. SO
far as the anarchist was concerned, the
death penalty was not a deterrent against
the crime of assassination, as the anar-
tZ1-<1 70, rrifi HSy-fl
INTERRUPTED GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts, interrupted
t. say that the pending bill was proper
because the assassination or attempted
assassination Of the President was an
interruption of the government, and it was
vitality important to the government that
such interruption should not occur.
Mr.. Bacon urged that the bill at least
ought to be amended in accordance with
his proposition already offered, so that
it should be shown that the crime was
committed against the President, Be
cause OF his official position, or for the
i purpose Of destroying the government or
impairing the execution of its constitu-
tional powers.
Mr.. Bacon said the bill was practi-
cally an enlargement of the law of trea-
son and proposed to make treason of
something that, under the law, was not
treason.
MT Gay, OIL Georgia, resumed MS
speech on the shipping BILL begun yes
terday. He predicted the complete fail
ire of the pending measure. Natural
conditions alone, he contended, could in
| crease the foreign carrying trade of the
United States.
Mr.. Hanna then addressed the Senate,
lis remarks being principally in answer
&c the statements made by Mr.. Clay in
his speech of yesterday. He said that
when Mr.. Clay quoted from Mr.. Frye's
!, marks. that all there was in this qtles-
ton which required legislation was en-
hraced in the one question of labor, he
was correct.
Il stand by that proposition, but I go
further, Ninetyfve per cent. Of the cost
OF a ship built in American shipyards or
in any shipyard is purely labor. The cost
of the construction Of a ship in the United
States as against that in either England.
Germany or France simply measures the
difference of wages and the efficiency of
American labor
The whole argument of Senator Clay,
he said, was based on the fact that il
is costing us more than it ought to, while
al the same time and in the same breath
he gloriedl in the fact that the United
States has but recently Ieaped to the
front and is now a world power
''Wil anybody deny said he "the i'm
ing an auxiliary for our navy in the
shape of the merchant marine, shaped
under the direction of the Navy Depart
nietn, and, in time of war, absolutely
III the hands and under the countroI Of
the President of the United States, to use
it in the most efficient r1anner?''
TILLAIAN INVERTEBRATES.
Mr.. Ti1lman Interrupted to ask for in
formation in regard to the reports that
the Morgan syndicate had bought two or
three of the European lines of steamers.
you must ask somebody who knows
replied Mr.. Hanna. g. do not know any
thing about it. =
It was only reported. you know. sug-
81 sted Mr.. TilIman. .and thought the
Senator, being in touch with that class of
people
.sWhy does the Senator say am in.
touch with them2' INTERCEPTED Mr.. Hanna
Mr. Tiliman: The Senator is a man
engaged in shipping. is he not?
"On the Great Lakes, yes responded
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