Carbon County News | 1909-07-09 | Page 2 | Advocates Ship Subsidy

ADVOCATES SHIP SUBSIDY senator bikini elkins will introduce a bill to aid american ship owner owners washington declaring that while great on land the united states was impotent at sea senator elkins ot of west virginia on tuesday declared that at the next session of congress he would exert himself to tho the utmost to improve this situation speaking to the senate amendments to the tariff bill 11 he quoted his own amendment recommending a 5 per cent reduction in the tariff on nil all merchandise imported in vessels of american register he ile said he would introduce an independent hill bill along tho the tame same lines which he would press to passage it por possible sible mr 1 alkins asserted tha that t tho people of 0 the united states were paying a to foreign for hauling their own goods lie ile called attention to the act fact that whereas fiat yeara years ago we were transporting 92 91 per cent of our own merchandise american merican vessels aro are now carrying carryl nR only 7 per cent