The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-09

of lamp chimney and the tests which
have been conducted here seem to in
dictate that he has completely solved
the problem of smoke consumption
which has bothered every municipality
in the country. 1t is claimed for this
| invention that in addition to a COM
plete consumption of all the carbon,
even in coal slack, he very largely in
creases the heat producing QUANTITIES of
even the dirtiest fuel. AS guarantee
| of his good faith the inventor offers
to establish free of charge the fur
naces which his company manufact-
ures, taking as his compensation
certain percentage of the annual saw
| ing in fuel for a period of years.
Washington is without manufact-
uries, but if this invention will do
what is claimed for it, Washington may
yet become n manufacturing center of
considerable Importance especially for
ordinance supplies and similar require
ments of the federal government.
! When Oliver H. P. Belmont was in
congress he introduced bill which
was designed to aid American ship
/, ping and at the same time to avoid
Il direct subsidy. Mr.. Belmont's plan
pIOFlucu lol ii plelcIcIllldl uUOu
all goods imported in American bot
toms. That is to say he proposed that
a cargo arriving in the port of New
York, for instance, in an American
ship should be admitted at lower
rate of duty than a like cargo reach
ing port in a German, French, English
or any other foreign vessel. OF course
under such circumstances the foreign
1a
American ports at IL lower rate of
duty. He could, therefore, not only
afford to, but would be compelled, to
pay higher rate of freight to the
American ship owner than to the
foreigner. Mr. Belnlont's bill was in
troduced during the last days of his
Congressional term. 1t attracted c0R-
siderable amount of attention at the
time but not enough to insure for it
even perfunctory consideration by the
committee to which it was referred.
Now, however, a number of bills of
similar import, some providing for
lover duties on goods imported in
American bottoms and others propos-
ing certain concessions in the matter
of tonnage taxes for American ships,
| not given to foreign vessels are pend
ing in both houses. 1t is almost uni
versally conceded that something must
be done to encourage American ship
ping and to overcome the disadavant
ages which such shipping has to con-
| tend with in the matter of wages,
! food supplies etc.
The idea of direct subsidy is a
bugbear. Ever since the days when
the Poland committee unearthed SO
much chicanery in connection with
the Pacific mail subsidy mail scheme
some thirty years ago-subsidy bills
have been tabooed and the warmest
| friends of the subsidy plan of aiding
American shipping interests have come
to the conclusion that some other
scheme is necessary. 1t is hardly
| likely now that any legislation of this
character can be enacted during the
present session of congress but there
is growing belief that if anything is
done towards aiding in the rehabilta-
ton of the American Merchant Marine
by congress it will come in the form of
concessions in the way of tariff reduc-
tion or else in the imposition of ton
mage taxes upon foreign ships. from
which American vessels will be free.
About week ago the country was
startled by the publication Of report
made by Assistant Secretary Pierce
which was the result of visit of that
official to the various American con-
sulates in the Orient. In recent
speech at 4 dinner given by Speaker
Cannon the President of the United
States told how he and the Speaker
had, during their boyhood days. read
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress The
president said that the character in
that celebrated work who had stirred
up his animosity more than any other
was THE Man with Muck Rake Mr..
Roosevelt spoke for about an hour and
during that time he paid his respects
in very forcible language to the Modern
Man With The Muck Rake who is
filling the Crimson magazines and the
Yellow Journals with all sorts of at
tacks upon public men. The speech
startled every man who heard it. But
the Pierce report startled Infinitely
more people because the extracts
which were printed were read by
million people whereas the presidents
speech was heard by only about $50
and was not reported. According TO
Pierce there is scarcely Consul in
India. China. japan or Eastern Russia
VINO mas not Deen engaged III cfOOkeu
! work Some of the friends of the
Consuls who were criticised. notably
Mr. Williams formerly at Singapore
and Manila have filed vigorous protests
against Mr.. Pierce's conclusion and the
result has been that that gentleman
has assumed the right to withdraw
his report after it had been received
by the house of representatives and
transmitted to the public printer for
publication. In other words Mr..
| Pierce is said to have gone to the
public printer in person and to have
secured from him the manuscript of
the report before it was put in type.
For the past week members of con-
gress have been calling for copies of
the Pierce report without result
Usually such document is printed
within "a hours after its receipt by the
public printer. 1t was only on Thurs
day that the discovery was made that
the manuscript had been distracted
and it is probable that the official who
| is responsible for this unwarranted
action will be severity scored by the
members who were responsible for
its original transmission to the house.
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