Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-25
NEW SHIPPING BILL,
Roosevelt In Coming Message Will Urge Enactment of One.
OCEAN MAIL LEGISLATION.
Senator Gallinger Asserts That Great Loss Is Inflicted Upon Our Commerce by Present Lack of Communications With South America.

wIIH Soutn HfnerlCa.
 Washington, Nov. 25.-The president
 in his coming message will urge the
 enactment of a new shipping bill. The
 measure, which will have the cordial
 support of the administration, will be
 introduced in the senate by Mir. Gal
 finger, and it will be introduced si-
 simultaneously in the house.
 There will be q determined effort 1 in the new congress to obtain some l positive legislation for the upbuilding 1 of the merchant marine" said Senator ! Gallinger. Tt will be remembered 1 that the enactment of bill designed | to rehabilitate the American merchant
 marine was defeated in the closing
 hours of the last congress only by a 1 partisan filibuster in the senate after
 a shipping bill for the first time in
 many years had received q majority in both houses. A large majority in the ] senate was waiting to be recorded for the bill when it came back from the house. The active flibusters, though
 persistent were few in number, and the leaders of the filibuster have now passed into private life
 Ocean Mail Legislation.
 "It is significant in the movement for encouraging the merchant marine 1 that it is constantly winning new sup porters among public men in both houses of congress and that no man ! who has once upheld the policy has changed his mind and turned against it. This fact points to ultimate vic tory.
 Tt is, however, the part of wisdom to recognize that everything cannot be achieved at once. It is probable that all that will be seriously attempted in the new congress will be the enactment of some substantial ocean mail legisla- tion, particularly for creating new lines to South America and across the friends of the merchant marine desire, but it is commonly recognized that these lines are our first need. The ne cessity for them has been freshly en- phasized by the abandonment of the inadequately paid ocean mail service from San Francisco to Australasia, leaving American manufacturers, mer- chants and farmers absolutely with out direct postal communication of their own with these important and increasing markets.
 Injury to Our Trade.
 Another object lesson, the force of which has not been lost upon the law makers in Washington, is that the postoflice department, since last March, has found it necessary to direct that the United States mails for south Bra gil and Argentina be dispatched by way of Europe, because of the wretch edly inefficient and irregular service furnished by the foreign tramp steam CTS now plying between New York and South America. The United States is as near Brazil and Argentina as its | commercial competitors of Europe, but | because through postal subventions | ''hN pthCi uiNlo NilOf SWlLl anu regular steamship communication with South America we are in effect 5000 1, miles farther away, to the great in 1 jury of our trade and to the lessening of our proper influence with the Latin American republics.
 As an instance of the loss inflicted on us by our present lack of commit nicatiOn with South America, 1t is re- lated that subsidized steamship sail ing recently from South America direct to Europe conveyed party of mer- ,hants going to Europe to place orders Tor S2j,0O0OO0 worth of goods. Most If these orders might have come to his country if the South American merchants could have travelled as quickly and comfortably to our At antic ports