Arizona republican., 1905-01-14

f or the United States Standard Own CTS, Builders and Underwriters asso- 1 ciatiOn, or equivalent of at least equal merit.
 That all ordinary repair or over i hauling of said vessel shall be made in the United States, except in cases where drydocking is necessary and no drydock of sufficient capacity shall be within a distance of five hundred miles i of the location of the ship when the repairs shall be desired"
 To obtain the subvention provided, proportions of the crew must be en- rolled as naval volunteers, as follows: After July 1, 1907. one-eighth; after July 1, 1911, one-sixth; after July l. 1916, one-fourth.''
 The fourth section provides that l the contracts provided for in section three shall be for a period of one year and shall be renewed from time to time | but no vessel shall receive a subven- lion under the provisions of this act ! for longer period than ten years.'' Sections five and six authorize and direct the postmaster general to en- 1 ter into contracts, for not less than five nor more than ten years, for the ! carrying of mails in steamships built and registered in the United States, | between ports of the United States and l foreign ports, on the routes, at the rates of speed and for the amounts i following: From port Of the Atlantic ! coast to Brazil, on steamships of not 1 less than fourteen knots speed, for a monthly service at a maximum com pensatiOn not exceeding $15O,OO0 a year; for a fortnightly service at a compensation not exceeding $300, ,OOO a year.
 Atlantic coast port to Uruguay and Argentina, fourteen knots speed, monthly service. $1S7.50 fortnightly, ! S375.OO0.
 Atlantic coast port to South Africa, twelve knots speed monthly service, $1S7. 800; fortnightly. s375.O00.
 Cuff of Mexico ports to Brazil twelve knots speed, monthly service, $137, ,506; fortnightly, $275,OOO
 Gulf ports. to Cuba, fourteen knots speed, semi-weel1ly service. 5000.
 Gulf ports to Central America, twelve knots speed, weekly service. $75.OOO.
 Gulf port to Mexico, twelve knots speed, weekly service. $50,000. Pacific coast port, via Hawaii. to
 Japan, China and the Philippines, Is knots speed. monthly service. $500. .OOO:
 fortnightly, $6OO,OOO
 1 Philippines, thirteen knots speed.
 monthly service, $21O.OOO; fortnightly, $42O.0
 Pacific coast port to Mexico. Central America and the Isthmus of Panama. twelve knots speed, fortnightly service. s12O,O0O.
 The same requirement, as to the en- rOllment of naval volunteers. is made of steamships obtaining such mail con tracts, as is exacted of vessels obtain ing such mail.
 1 The tonnage tax on foreign vessels entered in United States ports is pro vided for in section 8. as follows: That a duty of 8 cents per net ton. not to exceed in the aggregate so cents per net ton in any one year, is hereby imposed at each entry by sea on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in North Amer ica, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands. the Der muda Islands. the coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or Newfoundland; and a duty of Is cents per net ton, not to exceed in the aggregate $1.60 per net ton in any one year, is hereby imposed at each entry by sea on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any other foreign port or place, not, however to include vessels in distress or not engaged in trade"
 Section relates to apprentices and provides the following: "That on proof to the satisfaction of the commissioner of navigation that a vessel of the Unit ed States has on any foreign voyage carried a boy or boys, a citizen or cit l of a . ty-one years of age, suitably trained during that voyage in seamanship or engineering, in the proportion of one for such vessel, and in addition one for each one thousand tons of her net registered tonnage, there shall be paid to the owner or owners of the vessel, out of any money in the treasury not l otherwise appropriated, an allowance equivalent to so per centum of the ton mage duties paid in respect of the en- try in the United States of that yes sel from that voyage. Such payment l shall not be made after July l, 1907 except in respect of any boy who is enrolled in the naval volunteers, or is an apprentice indentured in accordance with law"
 l Section 10 repeals all conflicting acts and section Il fixes July 1, 1905, as the time the proposed legislation shall take effect.
 Leading up to the new legislation proposed for the development of the merchant marine the commission has ! reviewed extensively the character of i its investigation. Its deduction is that ! immediate action by congress is nec- 1 essary to prevent complete paralysis of American shipping interests. An adequate American ocean fleet the commission says, would mean the sav- ing to this country of $10O. .O0O, ,0O0 a year which now goes to build up the commercial power and naval strength of Europe and Asia. Attention is call ed to the fact that we have deepened our harbors at an expense or many millions of dallars, almost exclusively for the benefit of foreign steamships.