Show THE INMAN LINE americanized ON the 2nd and dinst a bill granting american registry to inman line steamers passed the house of representatives senta tives at washington without op position the bill went to the senate and on the ath senator frye of the committee on commerce presented a unanimous report in favor of In immediate consideration the bill proposes to make the city of paris ly and the i city of new york american shine 0 just as much as aa if they were bulitta this country this means that tile the inman commercial flag is to be transferred from england to america and in future toman inman line steamers will be built on the Di delaware laware and not on the m clyde the bill was passed on the application of the inman company and on condition that two new ships be bulk built immediately lb this country the movement la in causing consider able irritation in england mr me lemay ismay of the white star line rival brought the matter before the royal labor Comm balon in session on the ath 5 in london and stated that in his opinion it was an attempt to recruit american shipping with the help of the inman line sir michael hicksbeach hicks hicke beach said the departure was a daring one on the part of americans americana he confessed eBBed himself unable to see how bow it was possible to americanize ships flying the british flag and enrolled in the british naval reserve BB as armed cruisers in the event of war in his opinion complications must inevitably result and the matter will be brought officially before the board of trade then the admiralty must take action for an american vessel can not also be registered as of the british naval reserve it is no secief on this side that the U 8 navy department endeavored to obtain these vessels during the italian controversy and abd again during the chilean imbroglio imbro the british gov ern ment in view of these facts has withheld the special subsidy tor for mail service for nearly a year amounting to if the paris and key york now hoist the stars stare and stripes and haul baul down the unton union jack this euni gunj will be sacrificed the change will strike john bull in a tender spot when these vessels were being built the british inspectors took sped 4 d pan pains to see that they were constructed after the best models for foe purposes of naval warfare their machinery Is below the waterline water line and their coal bUll bunkers kers are better guarded than is usual in merchant vessels over two years ago in his bis aa alft st annual report the secretary of the navy mr tracy said aid it i difficult to imagine a more effective commerce destroyer than the steamship city of paris armed with a battery of rapid firing guns she can steam over 21 knots an hour and can average knots from land to land across the atlantic no man or of war could overtake her no merchantman could escape her her A fleet beet cruisers would sweep an commerce from the ocean this fact is well understood in europe and states that are with a convertible merchant fleet are meet the possible bleemer emergency emerge genay ngy VY y partly protected cruisers that are substantially ly as fast as the city of paris 11 this th Is perhaps ex plains no why congress was so prompt in accepting the application of the inman company |