The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-04

Washington, March 3.--The senate today
began consideration Of what is popularity
knowp as the shipping bill-a measure TO
.rrovide for ocean mall service between
. tie United States and foreign ports and
the comon defense; to promote commerce
. and TO encourage deep sen fisheries Mr..
FRYE (NIainel, chairman Of the committee
on commerce. made the opening statement
In supnort OF the bill He occupied the
| door for nearly two hours. The policy Of
protection which has been applied, he said,
| to American industries with such benefcent
results had not been applied to the ship
. ping industry. The result of this short
siehted policy had been the decadence of
The American merchant marine and the
consequent humiliation of Americans en-
gagged in the shipping industry.
Soon after the senate met bills were
passed changing the time aud naming the
places for holding terms Of United States
.circut and district courts in the Eastern
|distlct Of Kentucky; changing the boun-
dafies between the Southern and Central
districts of the district courts of Indian
Territory; providing for minimum punish
ments in certain cases in Indian Territory
where Arkansas laws apply To establish
A marine hospital mt Savannah, Ga, at a
cost not exceeding $2OO0OOi authorizing
captain on the retired list OF the navy as
a rear admiral. 10 pay Flora A. Darling
S5,6S3 for damages on account of her IL
legal arrest and imprisonment at New Or
| leans In January 1864 authorizing the El
Dorado and Bastrop Railroad company TO
cons truct and maintain bridge across the
|Ouchta river in Arkansas; authorizing the
.eommissloner OF internal revenue TO redeem
or make allowance for internal revenue
STAMPS. The bill WAS amended so as to reaH
That no claim for the redemption of or
E.s 1ls.ru~ hail How
led unless presented within two years af-
tier the purchase of said stamps from the
government, excepting unused documentary
and proprietary stamps issued under the
act of June IS, 1898, which stamps may
be Redeemed upon presentation Within two
years after the passage Of this act
40 authorize Captain y. NJ. Brooks. SUI
.perntendent Of foreign mails, postolhce
department, to accept decorations from the
emperor of Germany and from the govern
rnents of Liberia and Venezuela; to extend
|and enlarge the postoffce building at Mem
|phis, Tenn, S25O,00O.
The shipping bill was then taken up.
Ar- Frye CMainel, chairman of the commit
tee On commerce, opened the debate in be-
said, that the policy of protection had
.teen vastly beneficial to the American
people. Only one industry had been with
|cnt protecton-and without protection for
fifty years-and with the logical result. The
shipping interest of the country had been
neglected. in the giving of protection. With
N eeacoast boundless, with enormous de
.posits of iron and coal, with the most
|Bagacious business men in the world; with
the advantage of nearly every natural re-
Eource upon the side of the United States,
.this country had permitted its interiors TO
.Beizc upon the pathways of ocean com.
merce almost without a struggle.
SIT seems 10 me-" said Mr.. Frye, THAT
that picture ought to humilate and NOR.
Nifty beyond expression any patriotic citizen
.of the United States who gloricd in the
power and prosperity of his country. II
IL not alone humiliating-it is absolutely
dangerous"
Mr.. Frye asked who was going to carry
The SsSS000,o0O Of exports in the even Of a
|war between Germany and Great Britain
t'Why.' said he the farmers and manu-
|facturers and the wage earnerS Of tho
limited States would pay penalty equal
TO that paid by either Of the contendng
parties"
Mr.. Frye then sought to show that This
Condition Of things was caused by Amer
.ican wages, which increased the cost OF
Jour ehips for the foreign trade at - per
.cent.b He declared that of all steamships
I'm the world of fourteen knots and ~
ward, so per cent were subsidized nv the
|countries whose flags they float The ma
|tions paying those subsidies, he declared,
Ibid 80 for the purpose of extending their
'trade and for nothing else.
"Trade can not prccede the mails" said
.he rThe mail must precede the trade"
Mr. Frye contended that there is not a
nstiop on this earth that needs markets
.Sor It's surplus products more than the
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