The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-24
WEST AND SOUTH
ARE UP IN ARMS.
AGAINST BILL WHICH THREAT.
EMS ILLINOIS CEMENT AND
RIVER INTERESTS.
LOT or f" OLD HULKS."
To De Unioaded on Government and
Pennsylvania Cement interests
Severed In Frye BiIi--
Halt Called.

New Orleans. Feb. 23.--The whole
south and Mexican gulf coast arc up
lin arms against the so-called Frye
Ibiii, which, purporting to benefit thu
American merchant marine is alleged
lin reality. to be d well-laid plan 10
unload on the United States goyAra
ment quantity of old hulks belong.
ling to the New England coast, AMI
| 70 place a $T.0O0,O0D cement contract
! for the Panama canal into the hands
iof Pennsylvania interests as agains.
the cement producers or illinois anil
1.-THE middle west. With favorable
report from Senator Frye's committee
ION commerce, the senate was iasf
Thursday on the point Of taking nH
the concurrent resolution. when Sem
iator Foster of Louisiana succeeded In
securing delay. and now letters and
kilograms are pouring into Washing
ton from commercial organizations all
over the south and west, clatnoring
tors scheme to sell Mainebuilt ships
to the government and likewise null
Ify NIL efforts Of Illinois cement In.
terests to get chance I'd bid na the
new 600. 000-ton contract
New Orleans IL at present the storm
center Of the opposition. bnt when 1t
II known that the Frye resolution. If
passed, would have the effect III shut
ting ont the Ohio and Missouri val
lays and central west from comnetI
tion ON all classes OF Panama canal
contracts. the scene HI war will iiktiy
transfer to such cities All Chicago.
minneapolis 81. Paul. Milwaukee,,
Omaha. Kansas city. Des Moinrs.
Leavenworth. st. Louis. Indianapolis.
Cincinnati and other manufacturing
centers which, If deprived of the bene.
fit OF competition via the gulf gate.
way, would be practically completely
cut off from handling canal contracts
which have already turned over mil
lions OF dollars In these localities.
Every one of the leading CONNER.
cial organizations of the south AMI
central states has been asked by the
New Orleans Progressive union to uss
avery effort with their representatives
n congress to kill the measure. AMI
20 far the victory is with them by
'eason Of Senator Fosters success In
holding up the bill President Philip
Nerlein of the New Orleans organi,
alton denounces the resolution as
OBJ to sell venerable ships to the gov
rnment and in a letter to congress.
nen and governors In the south AMI
vest says:
Unless the gulf states and central
rest get together and defeat the
rye resolution. New Orleans and
Their gulf ports and the manufactur
lg interests of the central United
tates will be placed absolutely at the
lercy of New York and the Atlantic
eaboard i'm the matter of competi.
on for canal contracts. The measure
as the two-fold sinister underlying
1rpose of beneftting few scattered
merican ship owners. particularly IN
he New England states and more par
cularly i'm the state Ct Maine; and
sewise the cement interests of
as against the south
III west.
This cement contract is worth
me $4,000 O0, and the bids will be
'ened March II. the specifications
ling for proposals for transporta.
'n in either American or foreign bot
ms. II is a notorious fact that 1t
SITS from % to 30 per cent more IL
I'D and operate American ships than
does foreign vessels. 50 the bug
der the chip is fully apparent. II
? bill became a law the cemea.
'uld be transported either I'm the
ssels owned by the government o.
ships OF American registry. and the
vernment would have to pay 80 per
1T more for the cement than neees-
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