Show SHIP SUBSIDY I Bill REPORTED 1 Senator Bailey Pointed Out the Violation of an Agreement I RECORD ECORD PROVED ASSERTION TV A BILL I TA TAKEN r U UP UPS t tt t S L A Jan V V ly ater after the senat senate convened to today day Mr G IU er from the on commerce reported back bRCk merchant ship subsidy bi bill Ud aud ald said that the committe ommittee would fe file the tae report of the commission as Its own Mr Ir Berr Berry stated that a minority of port the committee opposed a favorable re re report In making his report repart to the sete senate Mr use used the majority re report port submitted by the merchant m ma rine commission A report wi Ill be made b by Senator Mallory in inthe the form of the minority of the commission which It i is sid said wi will be signed by al all o of the Democratic I Il l ember of the committee except comit Senator Senator Martin who was a Debe member ot or 11 the commission Marin i in Doubt I In Iii the discussions of Ute the committee r 1 today Senator Martin said Hid b he W I ready to subscribe absolutely to the views of oC the majority nor dd did he wish I to commit himself lf to the minority r re port No roM calL An ws was bd had i in tl te I committee on th subject ot of the bi bill and therefore the trend oC 01 I te the discussion is i the only record of 01 the attitude of the Republican main mem bern of the committee I It 18 s under stood tood however that no 1 senator took so positive a std stanc I against reporting the bl bIll as would I cause vIews him to support the minority One Important The bi bill an reported by th the aba sion was only onh amended in one Im Important Important particular by the commission An increased mall sub subvention venton wa was authorized b by th the pro proposed proS posed new route from a port on the thu S pr thuI Pacific coat coast to Hawai Hawaii Japan and am I China mind and the Philippines For a m t monthly service the subvention was we S Increased from to and anI I for a fortnightly service sence from 60 to Members of the the commis commission sion feare feared that the subvention pro proposed posed by the commIssion was gs tract to attract bidders for the cn con contract Mr r Bai BaIley asked If the bl bill propose ci a dIrect sUbsidy and Mr lr Gallinger re plied that I it provided for tor cerin certain sub to ships when their owner S meet the requirements Mi prescribed MiS 11 Bailey state stated that this provision wa a S contrary to the understanding when waa a the t he resolution provIding for the ap appointment r p of the merchant maria ape e commission c was adopted I When unanimous consent fo for Ui e cO c of that measure was Wa 5 asked a ai lIe he si said UI I objected and wa S a iee i t to wi w m my on 0 n the he t pr promise ie that the commission would woul d recommend r rn discrIminating an d n t R a Proclaimed His Inocen Innocence Mr 11 sid said he ha had n no know L ege e dge of such an agreement I If I had kown known of such a an u under der s he sid said I 1 should houk not have ha accepted a a place on the U because b I would not have undertake a the he t work with m my hands te tied No ao o hearings h hw would have have been V wih w hb ith that pledge out i It would have hai been b een most extraordinary not to s as y preposterous p There would have bave been no 5 lon sion s Mr rr Bale Bailey comm it If U me meI promise romise p had not been made the rec record re I ord o rd wiil show wi that the colloquy o C c as I have hae indicated curre The consideration of the merchant at maline marine bi bill was as dropped and the leg her i i exe executive and judicial 0 bi bill takers taken up Bailey Read te the Record Mr Baie Bailey interrupted consider a ton t ion of the appropriation bi bill to read td from f the rom Congressional Record a col cc i between himself and Mr Ir Frye Fr at tle the time the resolution providing for fora f fa a merchant marine omission was w a passed I It showed that tha t Mr Ir Bailey had hi t withdrawn his objection to the bi b ill because Mr Frye expressed the opi a aon i on that the work of the commission commissi would resul result in a provision for dis dl Is dutes duties Mr lIr Lodge said the statement b br by byon Mr r Fre Frye was merely the expression on ot of a pe personal onal opinion and In no sea se binding Mr Foraker expressed the opinion on that there would be as much r for lor retaliation under i tonnage tonna ge gein tax tax system such as had ben been reco in mende mended as under a system of dis d is dutes duties I The legislative appropriation 1 I bi was then taken up In 1 I wih with a paragraph addIng to the clas classified elm La service a number of laborer laborers em e n plo ed as clerks a discussion of the 1 he civi civil service was participated in by Gorman Alison on Stewart and others Mr German Grma com complained co n of such legislation as unfair to persons who hae have taken the choU ci service examination He asserted that tI at this was the most expensive gover gove rn meat ment In the world whIch he sid as Ltd was due to the appropriation of mon monIn mi fl ey In lump Jump sums to be expended at atthe atthe the discretion or of the executive depart departments depa rt ments He traced the treasury dot to this source Mr r Gorman Goninan also criticised the theto amendment appropriating 30 to permit the nt of comma ree to send gents agents abroad to tade trade conditions saying the depart depa department country meat ment had more than i it could doln do in ti this The provision was amended so as to limit the pay or of aget agents t to 10 0 per day and actual expenses Mr bi bill requiring the la ha beling of carriages occupied by gov government officials other tha than officers was stricker stricken out Mr Berry made a point of order against the amendment increasing te the salaries of the member members ot of the styli service comission commission from 1600 to 4 but pending Is us decision the se sea ate 4 l p m adjourned |