The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-06
SUBSIDY BILL
Is NOT HONEST
JuggIes With Words to Deceive
the People.
STRONG MINORITY REPORT
RETURN TO THE OLD SYSTEM
ADVOCATED.

tAI AsHINGToN, Jan. 5s-The views
w OF the minority of the merchant
marine commission have been
prepared in the form of a report which
tomorrow will be made in the senate
by Senator Mallory of Florida and IN
the house of represent atives by Repre-
sentative Spight of Mississippi The
report is signed also by Representa-
tive McDermOtt of New Jersey. Sen
Democratic member Of the commission
who has not subscribed to the minor
ity views.
Representative Spight is the author
of the minority report. the principal
feature of which is advocacy of the
discriminating duty policy as sub
stitute for direct government aid for
American ship-ownerS as proposed by
the bill presented by the commission
In this bill. the minority says, we
cannot help but see the trail OF the
serpent that has beeh over all other
bills on this subject"
Discriminating Duty.
Pointing to the fact that the discrim-
! mating duty system had been the pol
icy of the fathers of the republic, the
minority declares that Shipping inter
ests were ncarvelously developed in our
early history and that the same sys-
TEN would bring like results in this
( age. 1t is said that the fear of Tetalia-
ton, consequent on the necessity of
( abTosatiug treaties with maritime
countries in order TO carry this sys-
tenn into operation. is lot we'll founded.
On this subject the minority says:
In our infancy as nation we not
only faced this danger coura geously,
but successfully and our shipping in
dustry prospered far beyond anything
we have witnessed since we bound our
4 no
der our business on the high seas
Tariff to Blame.
Commenting on the material differ
| ence between the cost of construction
/ IN American ard foreign ship yards the
minority declares that the hearings
| conducted by the commission show
! that the greater cost of labor in the
! American yards is largely overcome by
/ the greater efficiency OF the American
! artisans and the use Of improved tools
! The greatest impeachment 10 cheaper
| ships in American yards is declared by
! the minority to be the necessary and
| cXorbitant tariff imposed upon steel
/ and iron products" The minority says
| further:
| 1T has been cOnclusively shown by
| testimony before this commission that
materials which enter into the COLI
struction OF ships are sold by our fac
tories and laid down in foreign ship
yards for a price far below that
charged at the mills to our own pe0-
plea condition that would not exist
but for the unjust provisions OF Our
| tariff laws.
Boosted by Dingley Law.
The minority declares the testimony
| indicates that the cost of construction
of ships in American yards had, be-
fore the advent of DingleyiSm and its
brood of fo1.fr1oronf trusts gotten down
TO about the cost of constructing ships
| in foreign yards"
While the minority says there are
| objections 10 the entire bill agreed on
by the commission. opposition is with
held by the minority except as to sec
dies The report says these are so OBJ
nOXious to Democratic principles and
to the economic sense of the country
that we are compelled to enter our
earnest protest against their enact
nent into law"
Subsidy Bill Not Honest.
The subsidy bill introduced by The
committee is declared by the minority
to be not as honest as former direct
subsidy measures
The minority says the bill ''displac7s
the word subsidy with the word sub
ventlor': and through the explanation
with which il is launched seeks to
create the impression that it only
gives back to the shipping industry
what is taken from it, or rather that
il gives back TO American ships what
is taken in increased tonnage taxes
! from ships OF all nations But, on the
contrary. il places IN the treasury the
! amounts to be received under II
through tonnage taxes and takes out
OF the treasury the appropriations pro-
| Vided for without any reference what
| ever 10 the relative amounts taken out
and put in-withOUt any intimatiOn OF
the subsidy OF amount of the tonnage
| taxes-without any sort of intimatiOT
| of the total to be paid out of the treas
ury now or hereafter for the benefit
| of the merchant marine" The subject
/ of suoVention in section 2 of the bill
/ says the minority, is 'ingeniouSly in
! troduced by the 'sugar-coated' express
| sion IN the interest Of the national de-
Tense and for the performance of pub
lie services. VIII the congress of the
! United States and the American peo-
pie suffer themselves to be deceived by
/ this transparent disguise? Public sen
timent and the sober judgment of the
Peoples representatives have united Il
: condemn every previous effort to en-
act such legislation, and surely this eff
fort must meet the fate of its prede-
!