Show SHIP SUBSIDY BILL ON WAY i i. i TO ITS PAS GE IN SENATE Amendments Offered by Opponents Voted Down and the Final Vote Will WillBe WillBe WillBe Be Taken Today WASHINGTON March 17 The The Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate convened at 11 o'clock today this thia being the day on which the final vote on the ship subsidy bill Is to be taken By agreement voting on the bill and all alI pending amendments Is to begin pY 3 I p p. m m. speeches on the measure to be e limited to fifteen minutes except that Mr Frye Fry in charge of the bill b Was granted thirty minutes In which to re reply reply reply re- re ply to to arguments arguments made against the bill A resolution providing for the appointment appointment appointment ap ap- ap- ap of a board to Investigate the project project o of constructing an canal across the Isthmus of Darlen was reported unfavorably by the Inter- Inter ocean Canas Cana's committee and was indefinitely In Jn-i definitely postponed Senate Doing Business As the last public bill on the calendar was passed Mr Mi Hale remarked that in itt all his experience he be had never before known the last public bill on the calendar calendar calendar calen calen- dar to be reached and disposed of Itis It ItIs Itis is an indication that the Senate enate is doing business he said Subsidy Bill Up The shin subsidy bill then was taken up and Mr Gallinger of New Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire spoke in favor of it He said he was not troubled about the constitutionality of the law or ox- the charging that the subsidy Is a gift to private interests If it shall prove to be a gift said he It will be no worse than other legislation legislation legis legis- lation that had the support of some Senators who seem to be greatly dIstressed distressed dis die over the pending measure H He then referred to the large annual appropriations appropriations appropriations paid Southern railroads for fast mail and the river and harbor ap ap- ap- ap propria The capacious and rapacious maw of the Mississippi river will be opened he said and will take millions of public money Against the Chinese Mr Patterson of Colorado discussed briefly his proposed amendment to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent the employment of Chinese seamen on subsidized vessels lIe He said the amendment had the approval of ot the American Fed Federation of Labor and the International Seamen's union American Amex Amer ican Jean labor lalor had b been en driven from employment employment em era- on the ships on the Pacific coast b by Chinese labor laboi Mr Money of Mississippi l said it had 1 been een claimed that the American people people peo peo- pie were losing a 1 year because because because be be- cause that amount was paid to forel foreign n bottoms for Cor carrying our commerce As a fact the United States had lost nothing as ItS It simply paid a reasonable reasonable reason reason- able abl rate te for services rendered Wants Tree ree Ships Mr Vest spoke in favor of his his free reo ships amendment and in support of the p position to apply the trust anti-trust laws lawsto to whO wh enter into a a conspiracy conspiracy con con- in restraint of trade Mr Frye Fre declared that ten years ago England carried 63 61 per cent of the ocean trade of the world while now nowEn En England land carried only 63 53 per cent of that trade Great Britain he said was losing the worlds world's carrying trade Senator Hanna Speaks In response response to some of the arguments meats ments advanced Mr Hanna spoke He insisted that it was a a. loss to the American people to pay or for the carrying ot of Continued on on Page 6 6 I Ship Subsidy B Bl Bi Bica ca Continued tu from frozia Page 3 f our foreign commerce for wt ule laws perhaps 50 per ier er cent cent j u 4 Amount mount mount would remain in th h k Americans The American US- US marine marin had gone gane down and lf it cu cut t a sorry sar figure among t dons tans of the world j 1 In course of a reply to a st sk 51 made by 11 Mr Hanna Hanna Mr Jr C C. C Georgia Geargia declared that 1 per ct is a gross jaS ton tan was all al that was D neto nf ne to ta equalize the difference cost cast of construction and operas opera ships and and the c cost st e e. 1 and operation of tor lores fon sels yet et the bill bib bi provided pra fo fot a at an I of nearly nearby 3 cents per gross gs tnt ten tn j J Time Limit Accepted jj In his closing speech en cn thed te sidy bill bi Mr Frye Fre said he st m the amendments offered Ofer by bIJ lison hison lson limiting the time of or the theof te ticer w of the measure because baus b le be lethey the they were In the interest of or di diThe The various amendments amendment ci 11 Mr Vest to ta the ship voted down dawn |