The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
M'ADOO WANTS
U. s. TO BUILD
TRADE FLEET
Government Owned Marine
could BE Used as Navy
Auxiliary.
ASKS FEDERAL BOARD
TO MANAGE SHIPPING

INplANAPoLis, Oct. 13.--In a speech
here tonight before the business men OF
this city Secretary Of the Treasury Nc
Adoo disclosed his new plan for ship
ping legislation.
lie had Just started out from WASH
Inston on a trip across the continent,
CHIEFLY for the purpose of stirring up
sentiment for a revival OF the erort by
the Wilson Administration to push ship
ping legislation through Congress. Mr..
NcAdoos speech was regarded AZ re-
, fcctius the stand tnat President Wilson
viii take on this question.
Mr. McAdoo presented in a new dress
the old Government ownership plan
which was defeated in the last session
OF Congress after a long fight. He pro-
poses that Congress shall appropriate
Sso.oUO, 900 instead of the 340,000.000
provided in the original bill. Instead Of
buying ships already plying the seas, he
now advocates the building of new ves-
sells. designed as auxiliaries to the United
states navy.
Federal Sn1pptnR uOofu.
The Secretary suggests the creation
Of a Federal shipping board to manage
the Government ownership plan lie
proposes too that power be lodged with
some agency OF the Federal Government
to regulate the merchant marine COM
panios, and suggests that the shipping
board lie empowered to act in conjunc-
tion with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in arranging for through bills
OF ladins and special rates between the
railroads and the steamship lines.
Mr.. McAdoo emphasized the naval
auxiliary feature of the proposed Gov
,rnment ownership plan, and many here
gained the impression that the Wilson
Administration was about to seize upon
the Preparedness issue as means OF
promoting the Government ownership
leS' station in the next Congress.
The most remarkable feature OF Mr..
A.. NcAdoos speech, however. WAS an at
tack by him upon the officials of the
Pacific Mail steamship Company
Secretary McAdoo charges that II was
not the seamans law which forced the
Pacific Mall people to discontinue busi-
ness. but the opportunity to reap big
profit through the sale of their ships on
the Atlantic seaboard. where abnormal
cargo rates were being charged.
VIII start Controversy.
This charge, Il is understood VIII
probably mark the beginning of bitter
controversy between the Administration
and the Pacitic Mail steamship Com
pLuy people over this issue. Washington
officials have been conducting an in
Nr>'lsauon into the conduct ot THIS COM
pany.
. secretary McAdOo said that he had
written 10 Secretary of the Navy Dan
els asking him what number Of mer-
chant vessels would bt reqeared to have
t., American navy .is il is to-day. at
It's snaNimum usefulness and efficiency
ll time OF war, Adinlrai Benson re-
pied for secretary Daniels that 1t would
Ieluire 400 merchant vessels Tor auxil-
aries, with total OF l,l72'ooo gross
tonnage.
secretary Mc-Auoo sdid that these j.
small vessels for mine sweeping could
, he supplied IRON the coastwise shipping
out that OF the l'l' -,ooo gross tonnage
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