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A Modified Measure is Ready for
Presentation to Nations
LaNmlkerS
FAIRBANKS is FOR HEMENWAY.
Knox and Crane Great Friends In The
Senate and trusted Advisers Of
The President Gossip,

Special Correspondence
Washington. . c., Dec 2C-The ship
subsidy bllI should 1t be- recommended
by the Joint merchant marine commits
sion win very likely occupy some time
In Congress i Is doubtful whether
such bin viii pass, as the house has
been decidedly autagonistlc 10 the sub
sidy plan during the past few years
when It has been proposed. Il is
claimed that the new measure VIII not
be the Hanna-Payne bill, which has
been introduced IN every Congress since
1897, but that It IS a modified subsidy
plan. Granting OF direct subsidies like
bounties is not popular The Fifty-nrst
Congress tried 90 encourage sugar
growing by providing a bounty, but Il
was not successful, The people We're
dissatisfied. and go We're the benefcl.
aries. OF course shlpbulldcrs and ship.
owners have advocated subsidy, be-
lieylng that IL was the best method
OF rehabilItating the deCeying merchant
marine OF the country and it may be
the only way possible 10 bring about
that result.
DISCRIMINATING DUTIES M
PRACTICABLE.
Members OF The commission who
have given months to the inquiry and
who ought TO be Ia a position to know
say that discriminating duties are Inn
practicable. because thirty commercial
treaties with az many different ma
lions would have 20 be abrogated be-
fore the discrimination would be eff
fectlye and that such discrimination
would be Immediately put IN force
against American products which
would prove disastrous TO the farm
Ing interests, as II Is the surplus from
the farms that finds O market abroad.
II Is certainly a vexed problem, and
just how "a meet the advantages given
foreign ships by foreign governments
without a subsidy Is one OF the Ques-
lions that no one can answer II was
hoped by the Republican members OF
the commission that their Democratic
associates would Join with them IN
making q report, but II II is 20 be a
subsidy plan this is not probable.
FAVoRs HEMENwAY,
In deciding to resign TO take effect
March and allowing his successor to
be elected before that date Senator
Fairbanks has made It possible for
James A, HemenW0y 20 secure the
same rights as 10 seniority az other
senators who will be sworn IN on that
date. II Hemenway should have
been elected after that date he would
have been junior 70 all the new sena-
tors, and It would have been counted
against him In making pp the commit
tees Of the next senate. Seniority Is a
senatorial tradition rlgldly followed,
and a few days make the same diff
ference that few months would in
fixing the status Of senator,
KNOX AND CRANE
Comment has been made upon the
fact that Senators Knox and Crane, the
new senators who were sworn In the
second day OF the session, were seen In
each others company a great deal from
the day they became senators. II Is not
strange, as they were seated near each
other IN the senate and naturally they
would grayItate toward each other.
But these senator's were friends before
AAANa 'lANNANM AAN NflANAtF W Atl hIlNA
was In the cabinet and Crane was am
ex-governor Of Massachusetts, they met
frequently Crane was one Of the men
IN private life who were frequently con-
suited by President Roosevelt Crane.
Knox and some other members Of the
cabinet were present az the meeting IN
the temporary White House on Lafay-
cite square when II was decided that
the president should make an effort TO
settle the coal strike IN 1902 by bring
ing the operators and the miners to-
gether They have advised with the
president on other matters OF lmpor-
lance, and II is not at all strange that
they should be close friends In their
early days IN the senate.
FOSTER REMAINED JOLLY.
II any one suspected that Senator