Show AMERICAN SHIPPING A Demand that the Government Shall Encourage It PRESIDENT ELIOT OF HARVARD PRESIENT I Condemns InterCollegiate Leagues Emperor William and the Socialists FIfer Refuses Re-fuses to Pardon a Boodler I WASHINGTON Feb GThere was a good attendance at the meeting of the American shipping committee league this morning The report of the committee on resolutions was adopted The Farquhar bill to promote pro-mote American shipping by government aid was endorsed Additional resolutions urge Congress t make immediate provision provi-sion for seaboard and lake defenses j hail with gratification the acts of Congress for rebuilding the American navy j recommend recom-mend that adequate provision for the improvement im-provement of the harbors and rivers of whole country concurrently with the restoration res-toration and development of our ocean commerce so that all sections and states of the republic shall participate United States mails ought to be carried in American ships under our own flag as soon as practicable and consistent with certainty cer-tainty and celerity of the service and the government should pay just compensation for this service regardless of the nrice at which other nations are willing to provide similar service Irving M Scott of Califorian called the attention of the league t the importance of subsides The United States should follow the example of England France and Germany Ger-many and put our shipping interests on an equality with that of other nations Captain Joshua Slocum commander of the Liberdade said the present was a dark time for Ameridan shipping and complained com-plained that the government of the United States did not secure redress for American seamen illtreated abroad ExGovernor Stevenson of Idaho announced an-nounced that the territory here represented would stand by the league Miller of New Orleans spoke in favor of the subsidy bill Coal sugar coffee and I railroads enjoyed protection from the government gov-ernment but when efforts were made to extend this protection to the merchant marine all Rome howled |