Show i hut The Engineering Ne News hal hij sent out dace sheets of nn an Inlet aMIci treating on OD ts Ip y bill peD lq bI Con ColI The 1 II I according to Jova josna to grat to 10 American rebut In the for lor 11 trade p ot of 1 to U 35 cents iv Irose ton for tor ah ab nautIcal miles Ig when wilen carryIng cargo to or troll frog the he United TIM The seW to woId at Ma t rat rate be to e a 0 j per p cent La pr t IUD from Iii tn of JaIl Ia ft Is 18 VIttI that 1 I h f t he States are I tS Iii freight at our the ester I moUI Incus lum ium of et a yar far This the luke up for consideration with the remark that It If It were wert Ind d true that such sucha a um sum II es this I by the Unit United ed ad to 10 foreign nations nation or that It Itis is II feasible to cause thee who receive this lar large irn to upend pend It lm in tile the Juliet States Instead ot of In Core foreign countries the hl measure mIght welt ell find flad great mt popular support nut hut that paper doe not 1101 admit that the Uti Millet ment of the proposed bill Into law would materiallY chin change maU matters In the lInt JIm place I a large Irp part Of Of the freight mon money received by Iy i Is spent for tor coal COllI and nd and tb these will always be bought no matter what bat n tb the vessel I is under where tb they can bt be hid had ch Nt or the condition of oC the ra mike the purchase necessary In other words worda there theft would be no larger market American an coal eoal and Ind American ito litO duets thin than now lOW exists in for eln elm and the would effect nothing this part ot of the ocean money from III It present channel Alother lIt large item Ii l wa wages Vessels receiving Ii a subsIdy under the law would be required to hive at least of their er crew Amer mer I Icen But this proviSion tb be Engineering News New doubts would result In any increased demand or higher w for tor American seamen Those ThoM that supply crews crewl for ships are not lIot II way by I a surplus ot of and If a sailor llor IIII he was 1111 born In America who shut hll hi word 1 To attract American laborers to the ships wages and nd the conditions 0 of life lit must t be made mad attract lye lve but this be lion done by laws which art are almost Impossible ot of enforce on tb tIti high seas question is II the tite profit on the which hl b It I assumed the noW py pay to foreigners would be kept kepi at home by the government tM the shippIng Will the prot prof nt Site now DOW to go 0 to 10 British Ocr mans man etc tc be transferred to Amen Ameri ran cans In pl ply to title thili the paper points out that Is II no longer restricted to national bounds bound Over tons of oC shipping sellIng under foreign flags Is I owned b by American capitalists Any American can ean toda today share It h he desires In British or German n or French steamship companies and on the flItter hand any foreigner can onn pur purchase eha chase interests In American shIpping companies just II as he can bu buy AmerIcan This very r subsidy bill now before Congress contains noth nothIng Ing InA whatever to prevent foreigners from 01 any amount of share thy they please In the transportation companies which would receive the that the tbt Wit provides In fart fact should hould the bill pass pall It would be possible for p promoter to 10 go 0 to Ingland or Or many miTt and raise capital there for tor whip hIp whipping ping pine com companies pan 11 to operate under and the Ibe benefit ot of the proposed bill Prom Fron th these tact the conclusion Is drawn that the proposed bull bill will not greatly change the final di J position of the mon money now paid for tor ocean freights freight on our and ex cx export port ports It i Ii out that tM the United SIlt with lIh ht her r enormous of OC coil coal and Iron with her capital will forge lorge ahead among the ship nations without ut such uch special aid Id as Is 18 am and which is II looked looke upon with disfavor by nearly all calf of citizens The News New concludes Its article titus thus That Malt there ther are sound reA for d de desiring siring In an In the American Amerlean mar mer marchant chant marin we Ire are fir far from Crom denying nor can It be denied that government aPt airS In some om form would act I as a 11 sUm ohms ulua to its Ita growth Th The carriage ot of the mall mails the maintenance of regular communication between time the States and ports port the training of American seamen amen who can canI III I 0 drawn uon ulon to replenish our naval forces fortel In I time me of oC war the vt of Ye lII In such trUeh a I manner that they mil may be most readilY made use UIt of a as auxiliary and trans OltI tl la in tI time of nt thie are in which the government may reasonably expend nd the public funds fund ant may do It In such a manner Ie as to lOat r at the same me time Ume the of th merchant marine Such measures coupled It IC possible with IUa a reform In the laws ws which with some of the that ow ham hampers r the shill hlll and th the of nC that thai In industry frent all State and local taxi tan lion I b to attract to It as aa of American capital TIle The matter II I logically throughout The subject Ct Is III one of pee prea Int ent Inter interest and Intelligent aford to Ignore the alleged tact facts w th the discussion of tb the m men seure laure claims claim tb the right to national at m |