New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Munson Sees
Senate Victory
OraSI,ippir,gBill
Expects 5 or 10 Majority
and Inaimates His Fleet
VIII Change Its Registry
If Measure Meets Defeat
Calls Dry Rule Handicap
Plenty of Drinking in the
Staterooms on the Soutl,
American Rum, He Says

Frank G. Munson, president OF The
Munson Steamship Lines. inforned
upon his arrival here last night from
South America on the Pan America
that the ship subsidy bill had passed
the House, said he was confident that
the measure would pass the Senate
by about FIVE or ten votes. and strongly
intimated that IL it were defeated the
majority Of his vessels wculd be trans-
ferred from American registry.
Although he has been away for six
weeks Mr.. Munsop has kept in touch
with affairs in this country by radio
and cable. He said he had heard CT
the transfer OF two United American
liners to Panamen registry and pre-
dicted a dismal f1lture for vessels un-
der the American flag If the bill did
not go through. Asked If he would
transfer his ships In that event he an
s@ered that they would go along as
usual for time, anyway. When
pressed for further explanation he only
smiled, but admitted thst he could not
apply for a change of registry to yes
ping Board and operated by the Mun-
son Lines In the New York -Buenos
Ayres service.
Calls Dry Rule Big Handicap
Mr.. Munson saio that dry vessels
were handicap and cited cancella-
tion of twenty-five passages on the
Pan American when she sailed from
here last October. On the next sail
ing of another weasel in the same serv-
ice the number of passengers carried
was 80 per cent less than expected.
He declared that many of the passen-
gers on his vessel boarded the liner
IN South American ports we'll stocked
for the trip here, but the drinking was
confined mostly to staterooms. There
is no objection to a passenger hav-
ing liquor with meals, but stewards
and others employed on the vessel
are absolutely forbidden to handle it
III any way, he said
While in Urugay, Brazil and Ar
gentina, Mr.. Munson and his wife we're
entertained by the presidents of the
respective nations. He said that these
countries offered spendid investment
opportunities in cattle raising and the
the investor could obtain them at
very low prices and in the course Of
year or SO reap huge profits as the
countries improve industrially and eco
nomically. Mr., Munson also visited
the Brazilian centennial exposition.
Banker Taken Off on Sfretcher
w. irving Bullard, vice president of
the Merchants National Bank of Bos-
ton, was taken on q stretcher from the
liner when she docked in Hoboken and
WAS hurried to his home on special
train last night accompanied by DR.. z.
G. Brackett. enc of the leading ortho-
pedie surgeons of the country, who
met the ship down the bay. MIR. Bull
LARD, who visited Brazil to study the
financial and business conditions and
as representative of the State De
partment, attended an international
cotton conference and was injured in
an accident near Rio de Janiero when
cable car dropped 400 feet down an
incline. His eleven year old son, Ed
ward, jumped from the side of the
car and was only slightly injured. Mrs.
Billiard, their son and their daughter
arrived on the ship.
Others on the ship included Jose
Vasconeelos, Minister of Education in
Mexico, who went to Brazil as Minis
ter Pienipotentiary to attend the CEN
tennIal, and was accompanied by Gem
eral Manuel Trevina, chief Of staff to
president Obregon, and six attaches;
and Norman Armour, American Charge
d,Afaires in Urugay, on his way to
Washington with HIS wife and son.