The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-31
PUTS PILOTS
INTO FEDERAL
SERVICE
NEW BILL INTRODUCED IN CON.
GRESS WHICH WILL MAKE THE
PROFESSION OF A PILOT A Po-
LlTicAL JOkE-CAPT. j. ED.
O'BRIEN JUST RECEIVES TEXT
OF MEASURE.

Capt. j. Ed. OBrien, president OF
the National Bar Pilots Association,
who came home from Washington in
order to vote in today's primary cleo
ton, yesterday received the text of
bill introduced January 9th, since
he LETT Washington, and designed to
put the bar pilots into the federal SER
vice. The bill was introduced in the
house by Representative Swasey
OF Maine and it reads as follows:
A Bill, To provide for the further
Federal regulation of pilotage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the Unit
ed States Of America in Congress as
semblej, That on and after January
first, nineteen hundred and twelve.
all pilots serving on vessels entering
cific coasts Of the United States SHAH
be examined as to their fitness for
such service, classified, appointed, and
licensed by the Steamboat Inspection
Service of the United States, under
such regulations as the board Of sup
cruising inspectors, with the appro-
val OF the Secretary Of Commerce
and Labor, may establish, and only
such licensed pilots shall be permit
ted to engage in such service.
Sec. 2. That all pilots appointed
and licensed as above provided shall
be divided into four classes, and
shall be compensated as follows:
Pilots serving in ports where the to-
total tonnage engaged in the foreign
trade is five million or more tons
annually shall be known as pilots of
the first class, and shall receive a
salary of three thousand dollars each
per year; pilots serving in ports
where the total of tonnage engaged in
the foreign trade is from two to five
million tons per year shall be known
as pilots of the second class, and
shall receive a salary Of two thousand
four hundred dollars each per year;
pilots serving in ports where the
total tonnoge engaged in the foreign
trade is from five hundred thousand
to two million tons per year shall be
known as pilots Of the third class,
and shall receive a salary of two
thousand one hundred dollars each
per year; all other licensed pilots
serving in ports which now have an
established pilot service, or where
such service may hereafter he estab.
lished under this Act, shall be known
as pilots of the fourth class, and
shall receive a salary of one thou.
sand eight hundred dollars each per
year. The number of pilots to be Ii
censed Ut any one port shall be de-
termiped By said acknowledgements
Service. =
Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Com
merce and Labor is hereby authorized
to purchase and pay for, on behalf
of the Government, for the use of said
pilots, all the pilot boats, with their
apparel, equipment, and supplies OF
all kinds, on such terms as may
be agreed upon by said Secretary and
the owner of such pilot boats; and in
the event Of failure of said Secretary
and owners to agree upon price for
said property, the price at which said
property may be taken over for the
Government shall be determined up:
on as follows: Said Secretary of Com.
merce and Labor shall name, one ap-
praiser, the owners of said property
shall name another appraiser, and
these two shall name a third. all OF
said appraisers being persons well
acquainted with the value OF vessel
property, and these three shall de.
termine the price to be paid by the
Government for said property.
Sec. 4. That the rates of pilotage
on vessels in the foreign trade enter.
ing or leaving ports on the Atlantic
Gulf, and Pacific coasts Of the United
States shall be as follows: On all
vessels drawing eighteen feet Of wa,
ter or less, three dollars per foot; on
all vessels drawing from eighteen to
twenty-four feet Of water, three dol
lars and fifty cents per foot; on all
vessels drawing twenty-four feet and
upward, four dollars per foot.
Sec. 5. That pilotage as above pre-
scribed shall be collected by the prin.
cipal officers of the customs and shall
be a lien on the vessel. The pro
eceds Of pilotage shall be turned into
tn Treasury in the manner now pre-
stribed for miscellaneous receipts