The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-21
SHIP SUBSIDY
BILL PASSED
! BY THE SENATE
Plea for Auxiliary Navy Made
by Mr.. Hale OF
Maine.
SENATOR NEWLANDS
OFFERS AMENDMENT
CLAY OF GEORGIA TRIES TO
RING IN QUESTION OF STATE
CONTROL OVER LIQUORS.

Washington, March 20.-The ship sub
sidy bill was passed by the senate today
IL pays to sixteen-knOt vessels plying be
tween this country and South America,
the Philippines, Japan. China and Aus
tra!ia 81 per mile, the amount awarded by
the act of 1891 to vessels of twenty knots
only
The bill was amended in the senate so
that twelve-knot vessels will receive 3
per mile which is the allowance under
the existing law to siXteen-knOt vessels
Amendments were also adopted providing
that if two or more lines of steamships
ply from Atlantic ports to South Amer
lea under the provisions of the bill, one
line shall stop at two ports south OF cape
Charles, and stipulating that no more
shall be paid for subsidies than is received
from such service by the government
During the consideration of the meas
ure Mr.. Hale made a spirited plea for an
auxiliary navy, declaring that without
auxiliaries our navy is dependent upon
foreign countries and that in case of war
we would be helpless.
Amendments Proposed.
When the bill was laid before the SEN
ate today Senator Bacon proposed an
amendment providing that one of the
subsidized mail lines on the Atlantic coast
should touch at two ports south of Cape
Charles, in order to promote the trade in
cotton goods, lumber and naval stores,
now supplied by tramp. ships, which DO
not bring a return cargo
An amendment was proposed by Mr..
Newlands for the creation of a commits
sion consisting of the secretary Of the
navy, the postmaster general and the
secretary of commerce and labor. % pro
vide for the construction of twenty-seven
vessels at a cost of as many millions OF
dollars. available auxiliary vessels for
sthe navy and TO be useful TO let out on
new lines OF transportation on terms sat
1sfactOry To the government.
cz..oL ~ A. L,Ea
Mr.. Newlands' amendment served TO
elicit notable speech from Senator Hale
,kssirman of the committee on naval af-
Mrs He spoke OF the great need for ad-
dfti0nal auxiliary ships for the navy, but
said they should be provided for IN the
naval appropriation bill.
Mr.. Hale said there were with the
American fleet now going around the
world only nine Golfers of our own. while
there were tWenty-eight foreign -Olliers.
IF there should be war, no government
would allow US 10 use one of these col
lieTs. and without them our magnificent
fleet would be as useless as a painted ship
on a. DaiDted ocean," he asserted in meas
ured but emphatic phrase.
Mr. Hale declared that the American
fleet was the most magnificent md for
midable squadron Of ships any nation mad
ever put on the ocean.
Helpless Without Golfers.
But" Senator Hale declared. "the peo-
pie do not realize how helpless this fleet
is <&vithOut Golfers that are not liable to
- called away III TOment of need by
iE'reign governments.
B"lf there should be, he said. even
every neutral power represented in these
ships would be compelled to withdraw
them from the fleet and We would he
hung up Something must be done" he
added. in this entirely neglected field,
that We have in a foolhardy way rashly
abandoned in the past.
He spoke of the voyage of che fiCet ''9S
a spectacular exhibition intended to af-
feet our status at home and in the ORR
emit
mpressIng the Orient.
Certainly not with England. nor Ger
many. although Cor four or five years the
fear Of danger with Germany VAS ~
plotted as a reason why we wanted more
ships" he said. but | take il the reason
IS to impress the east, the Orient. with
our power EVen England never sends
such an enormous fleet about the world
kence conclude the voy age has been
ndertaken for the benefit of the east
Impress everybody with il as the fleet
goes along. But without auxiliaTies, he
said, the fleet could not impress the ma
tons.
rs there any doubt" asked Mr.. Teller.
that every nation knows our naval
strength as well as us?''
THE senator must ask the president. Pc
responded Mr.. Hale
MIR. Teller Suspicious.
4 do not believe il is necessary" said
Mr. Teller. THE exhibition is possibly
nos so much for influence upon Asiatics
as upon the American congress
Senator Burkett said the condition eX-
listed now as il did in the Spanish war
when there were many auxliari-s that
could have been secured if the government
had cared to pay the necessary price.
THE war with SPAIN" Mr. Hale sug-
gested. was a war with a weak country
on our own coast. II was a very different
thing from a war with Japan"
Mr. Hale declared that all he had said
was bVell known by every foreign power
m motion of Senator Galinger. an
am5ndment Ia the bill was adopted pro-