Show ruo HILLS BY FITI1IJX Tiiertzuorcreat1crrst tie Sbp pins Ieoplr Washington Dec 3Two bills of Interest In-terest to shipping people were introduced intro-duced in the House today by Representative Repre-sentative Flthian of Illinois The legislation leg-islation incorporated Tn them was recommended by Commissioner Chamberlain Cham-berlain of the navigation bureau of the treasury department in his last repor The first bill provides that gross tan sage instead of net tonnage shall be he bash of computing tonnage taxes and what is known as the three cIa rate ocr ton is reduced to two cents and tile six cent rate to five cents These changes will not affect the decreased revenues but will diminish the taxes on sailing vessels which are now said to be too high and will transfer a pot jon of those charges to steam vessels The second bill changes the measurement measure-ment law also to make it conform u those of Great Britain Norway and other nations and the object sought by the proposed legislation is to diminish the amount cf taxes which vessels of the United States have to pay in foreign ports |