The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-23


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a tonnage foreign vessels entering United
e o" OF laval volunteer service and the announcement OF ap
re= ss foreign trade provided for bill
The bill The first makes
vice in time OF provides Navy
Secretary Of Commerce Labor
Officers and
deep fisheries Of the United States shall receive
a the 0 year
Of registered which
foreign BIS sea or the deem sea fisheries for ped Of twelve
binary Pa @ the Of registered
engaged the foreign trade H sea the deep sea fisher
les period months including
time necessarily consumed in making extraordinary
engaged
the foreign
but less than including necessarily
making extraordinary repairs.
Provision receiving
ton be taken by the United
sn " any PUBIC purpose provides also that when the Postmaster
General the vessels shall mails charge; that onesixth
the shall possible
repairs e n nted
The provides provided
three shall be
lime bug 30 'esse shall receive subnon under the provisions OF this
act for longer period than years"
Sections six authorize Postmaster
INTO contracts Tor not less than five nor more than tie" years for the car
Hz mails steamships built and registered the United States
tween ports OF the United States and foreign ports
affecting
Hawaii Philippines, speed
n9btI szoo. psgc co ot to Meo Central Aico and the
The enrolment made
steamships obtaining such mail contracts as xacted of
tanning subventon.
tonnage foreign ports
vded for in section eight follows
That in the
year. hereby imposed
all which shall entered of the United States from
North America Central America the West In
South
America bordering the Caribbean Sea or Newfoundland and duty
exceed the S6o ton in
hereby which
shall be entered in port OF the United States from any other foreign
include the in distress engaged
in
Section relates apprentices and provides the fOOwing
That satisfaction Of the Commissioners of Navigation that
carried
boys citizen citizens OF the United States under II years age SUIT
ably eamanhp engineering in the
portion addition for each thousand tons
OF her net registered tonnage there shall paid to the owner or owners
otherwise appropriated
spec entry in
of
in accordance with law.
section 10 repeats all conflicting acts July
the time the proposed legislation shall take effect.
An adequate American fleet the commission would mean the
which to build
the power and Asia
strongly emphasized ubVentns
offered in the proposed bill are not bounes outright or mere
distinctly public services be given
by the ships and ship-Owners that receive them
proposed expenditures for
established mail lines The
mail amended certain specific routes to be es-
tabshed and the new requirement to naval volunteers
large fOreignbut vessels trans
ports this Government is directly and
powerfully contributing to the decline OF American merchant shipping on
Pacific Ocean Issue taken with the War Department on the que
whether the Government has resulted from the
fOregnbu craft In this connection the
commission who visited
procedure Of the War Department absolutely indenb
his the
compared
which
profit matter Of fact altogether due radical difference in book
department
transport economy
American trade and navigation
Inc Pacific is urged by the commission.
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