Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-01-26 | Page 1 | Ocean Mail Bill Opposed by Shively

OCEAN MAlL MAIL BILL OPPOSED BY SHIVELY Indiana Senator Says Measure Mea flea sure Is Based on False Diagnosis DECLARES S NAVIGATION LAWS THE TROUBLE Are Antiquated and Under Them Merchant Marine Steadily Declines WASHINGTON Jan 26 OpposIng 26 Opposing the ocean mail man bounty bill Se Senator r Shively of at Indi Indiana na took the position in inthe inthe the senate today that the supremacy of or American shipping snipping was wa incapable of restoration by subsidy or bounty He advanced the opinion that the only means of accomplishing n that end was through the be repeal of the shipping laws VS the abolition of medieval ordinances nances nane-es known as our navigation code It was wall asserted that a 3 vast majority of these laws Jaws bad had been im Ira- imported ported bodily from front the British code Explaining their adoption a a. hundred years ears a ago o.- o. the Indiana senator said New En England land was pursuing navigation navigation navi gation and desired le legislation isla on that should enable her to en engross roS the deep sea and coastwise trade of the young republic Be Besides des she lon long had hail been and then was vas profitably employed in impo importing tin mola molasses from the West Vest Indies In In- n dies distilling it into rum runt for darkies on eu the C of Africa a and selling them themas as slav slaves s in southern ports How How- Slave Trade Figured The situation i inthe the convention became be be- became came ripe for fot negotiations compromise and bargain Molasses rum ship building the time slave C trade and slavery coalesced toe tile finished products of bf of the coalition were the extension of the sl slave ve trade for twenty years and the wide open door for the future navigation tion code Finding especial v fault with the de ae de f etie n tO- tO built ships ip though o 1 b owned bv by American citizens s. s Mr fr Shively ly said that in iri 1845 Great Grent ha had repealed the code that wo had bad copied whereas we retained it with the result that the American merchant marine was was destroyed The senator denounced these thee l laws we as asan asan asan an artificial obstruction in the way of the American merchant marine marino an and I said paid little could be done for tor its re re- so lon long as they were on the books As going to show that the condition condition condition con con- of American shipping would not bo hc improved 1 proved by a subsidy Mr Shively Shirely Shire Shive ly IT said Bald that under the law of bf 1891 the U United States had been paying percent per percent percent cent more for tho the mails in American than foreign vessels and discrimination discrimination dis dis- dis- dis crimination had been of no avail Steady Decline in Shipping For the tho fiscal year ear ended June 30 1870 ho said the the proportion of our foreign commerce carried in American bottoms was 35 35 5 per cent For or the fiscal year ended Juno June 30 1910 this proportion had fallen to S 3 7 10 per cent Whatever or occasional slight Ji bt reaction appears the general course has bas been persistently and swiftly downward U Nor Nor is there persuasive evidence that these disbursements from the tho federal fed fed- eral treasury over and arid above e the open market price ba have bard bae e even een en retarded the de de- de- de cline dine The Tho evidence e is far more convincing convincing con con- that this persistent reliance on ona ona a false remedy based on on ona a a. false diagnosis diagnosis diagnosis to the exclusion of the true one has bas hastened the tho disease