The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-15
VIII Pay $3,OOO,OOO Annually
 to Mail Lines
FIVE REPUBLICANS VOTE NO
Naval Reserve of 10000 Officers and Men Is Provided for After the Practice In British
 Navy.

minutes after o'clock today the Senate cast it's final ballot on the subsidy ship ping bill. which was passed by a vote of 9S to 27 All the votes for the bill were by republican senators and five republi- can senators voted with the democrats in pposition-Burkett, Deliver, LaFol- cite, Spooner and Warner.
 The vote on the bill was preceded by action on a number of amendments and this by an entire day of debate.
 Many important amendments were ac- cepted but only in one case was modif- cation agreed to that was not in accord ance with the wishes of managers of the bill. The exception was an amendment offered by MT, Spooner, eliminating the provision giving half pay to members of the naval reserve who have served less than six months.
 Provisions of Measure.
 As passed the bill established thirteen new contract mail lines and increases the subvention to the oceanic line run ming from the Pacific coat to Australasia. Of the new lines three leave Atlantic coast ports, one running to Brazil, one to Uruguay and Argentina, and one to South Africa; six from ports on the Gulf of
 
 Cuba, one to Mexico and three to Central America and to the isthmus of Panama; four from Pacific coast ports, embracing two to Japan, China and the Philippines direct, one to Japan, China and the Phil ippines via Hawaii, and one to Mexico, Central America and Panama. The bill also grants a subvention at the rate of B per gross ton per year to cargo vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the Unit ed States and at the rate of $5.50 per ton to vessels engaged in the Philippine trade, the Philippine coastwise law being post poned until 1909 Another feature of the bill is that creating a naval reserve of 10000 officers and men who are to receive retalners after the British practice. Ves- sels receiving subsidies are required to carry a certain proportion of naval re- serve men among their crews. ne ag- gregate compensation for mail lines Is about S3,O00,OOO annually. No steam vessel of less than 1000 tons is to receive aid under the bill.
 Spooner CritlcIses Details.
 MT. Spooner criticised many of the de- tails of the bill, among others that re- quiring that a part of all crews of sea- going vessels should be members of the naval reserves. MT. Frye said that there was a bill pending before the committee on commerce which was intended to meet many or MT. SpOOnef s cflllClSinSS
 MT. Frye made a general speech in sup port of the bill, saying that the $20O,O0O- O0O paid annually to foreign ships should be used in developing an American mer- chant marine. He said that cost of operat- ing American vessels was almost double foreign vessels. and that the United States should give enough in bounty to equaize the condition. He said:
 "A republic that is paying from $200,O00 GOO to $500, 100000 for building an isthmian canal largely for the benefit of foreign vessels, can certainly afford to do some thing for it's own shipping"
 He called attention to the fact that s, 00O, ,O00 had been spent on the harbor at Galveston and said that only one Ameri- can vessel enters there. MT. Patterson urged the adoption of a substitute for the bill providing for discriminating duties rather than subsidies.
 Mir Clay contended that the effect of the bill would be to make 10000 persons who are employed by the shipowners of the United States members of the naval re- serve, and place them on the national payrolls. For this outlay he said there would be no service to the United States. Mir Clay predicted that the subsidy fea- ture of the bill would prove interminable and declared that the shipping intrests had no more right than any other indus try to come to Congress and ask assist ance because of failure.
 Mir Hale replying attributed the de- struction of the shipping industry to the civil war. He appealed to the southern senators to aid in passing the bill.
 Speeches also were made by Newlands, Fulton, Bacon, Scott, Perkins and Calling CT closed the debate with brief reply to the criticisms made by other sena- tors.
 Promptly at o'clock the Senate began voting on the various amendments.
 Many Amendments Adopted.
 Many important amendments were adopted by the Senate without division. and these included most of those suggest ed yesterday by MT. Allison. The immedi- ate changes were made as follows:
 Including seamen on the great lakes and the coast in the naval reserve; limit Ing the reserve to 10000 men; requiring annual instead of gross appropriations; confining the subsidy to cargo vessels, to steam vessels of more than 1000 tons, sail ing vessels of more than 200 tons and fish ing vessels of more than 20 tons; excluding American vessels engaged exclusively in foreign trade from the benefits of the bill giving authority to the United States to take immediate possession of a sub sidized vessel for it's own use in case of 
 1912, the number of American citizens re- duired in the crews of subsidized ships; increasing the subsidized gulf coast lines from four to six and the Pacific coast lines from three to four, and providing that they shall depart from Puget Sound and the Columbia river
 Mir. Spooner moved to strike out the pro- vision giving half pay to members of the naval reserve who have served for less than six months and the motion prevailed, 34 to 30 This was the amendment made to the bill in opposition to the wishes of it's supporters The vote was then taken on the passage of the bill resulting in 3S ayes and 27 noes.
 Immediately MT. Beveridge moved to proceed with the consideration of the statehood bill. The motion prevailed, thus giving that measure it's place on the calendar as the unfinished business.
 The Senate then at 6:l5 D. m. adjourned until tomorrow
 THE HOUSE.
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