Show I I II FAVORS SUBSIDY BILL Report Mad Made By Grosvenor to tc I tIle House Honse I HE URGES ITS I SAYS IS NO DANGER D GER OF OFA OFA O OA A MONOPOLY I Refers to Competition By Foreign nations Particularly For Trade In China and Gives Warning That the First t In the Field Will Secure the Advantage 4 I Washington April L Representative Grosvenor of Ohio lo chairman of the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries resented presented to the house house yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day the amended shipping bill and the report In its support sup ort by the majority of the committee constituting all the Republican limit lican members member The report says in part Our abundant natural resources and our oar industries and am increasing population make It of great value to increase the means of or profitably disposing of our sur surplus surplus surplus plus productions and as our export trade Is increased so will be home consumption and Our have for a along alon along long lon time bees been devoting d themselves to in increasing Increasing Increasing creasing their export trade and getting possession of the markets Africa is an example of the methods pursued in parti partitioning partitioning territory or recognizing spheres of influence possibly to eastern Asia be being beIng ing lug eventually destined to receive similar treatment China the report continues may be left open to fair and equal competition with respect of trade with the United States in which event the committee believes one of the largest if It not the largest larest field for tor trade and commerce of other nations wilt be open to those pos the facilities of taking advantage of opportunity First In the Field The nation first in the field with its own productions and its own means of transportation will achieve the largest success for tor which reason China must re remove remove remove move the barriers which h now almost en entirely entirely entirely exclude foreign intercourse Other parts of the th world In which our commerce com corn commerce merce holds so 50 small a share would re repay repay repay pay particular study The need of establishments for the construction docking d and repairing of ships and adequate navy and a great fleet of merchant vessels all in readiness for foran any an Is asserted by the report to be a proposition On these grounds rounds other nations have fortified themselves them themselves selves by increasing their sea power in n all of the ways referred to with the doubt doubtless doubtless doubtless less object of strengthening their facil facU facilities facUlties and power for carrying on their for foreign foreign eign eI commerce After giving the statistics on the extent of tonnage the world over the cost of subsequent building bull wages etc Mr report sums up the cardinal purposes of the bill as follows The Th Bill Summed Up I L To aid ald Inja lna in practical way and no noc c i i conditions the only POh vay in bringing to the greatest extent possible our own foreign trade back into our own hands and nd thus saving to our country annually what now goes to increase the wealth of other oth r nations more than 2 To greatly Increase the exportation and sale of all kinds of our superabundant productIons and especially in the vast re regions dons gions of Asia evidently very soon to be opened to the trade of the world This is a trade that the nation best prepared to engage in will necessarily get the greater proportion of by its own ships under its own flag nag and with its own facilities facil facilIties and its disposal of its own productions productions S To bring into existence at the earliest earli earlIest est possible time a great American fleet of American vessels built in our own countrY with our own material by our own labor as a most necessary n means of national aid and national safety safet in times of international war or other disturb disturbances disturbances disturbances ances the probability of ot which is unhappily not small smaIl even now Increase Number of Seamen 4 To increase the number of citizens who will b educated In seafaring work and who will thus have hae the skill and be better able to defend the honor and In Integrity integrity Integrity of our country on the seas how over oyer suddenly the occupation may hap happen pen nen 5 The bill we think will If the pro Dosed nosed compensation is large enough ac accomplish these great and important pur purposes purposes purposes poses General report concludes It will of course take a 3 considerable time to reach the desired end but the sooner the policy polley Is entered upon the bet better better better ter and easier will be Its accomplishment The means proposed are open to the capital the enterprise and the skill of our citizens alike and on equal terms There Is no ground for the form fonn of mo me monopoly monopoly Safety to Treasury There Is absolute safety to the treas troas treasury ury In the fact that no payment can be made until In each cach and for tor each voyage vo age the work Is actually performed As we have before stated It is certain that no vessel great or small fast or slow in the list can eRn afford to make snake a single voyage vo age without also having a large commercial business income from the same voyage vo age and in dome which commercial business she M Is fulfilling the great purpose of the theIn thein bill billIn In in view Yiew of the foregoing considerations considerations considerations we wc earnestly recommend the speedy passage Dass uc of the bill bUl The bill and amendments have been made public DubUc heretofore The antitrust amendment is slightly changed so that In case of a 3 combination those participating ing in It are excluded from the benefits of the bill instead of the previous us plan which would have operated alike against those in and out of the combination |