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Show Sen. Gallinger's Bill to Assess Imports in Foreign Ships A bill has been introduced In tho Senate by Senator Galllnger, of New Hampshire, by whose enactment into law the rehabilitation of the American Ameri-can merchant marine would be ma terlally promoted, assuming of course, that the present administration would enforce It. This may be 'bought a surprising and unnecessary reservation as to enforce the laws Is Iho first duty of any administration, tiut In this connection recent experience experi-ence has shown that It will not dp to take too much for granted. Perhaps the reader has not forgotten forgot-ten that the Wilson Underwood near Free Trade Tariff contains a clause whereby a G per cent reduction is made In customs duties on commodities commodit-ies Imported from abroad in American Americ-an vessels. "Mr. McAdoo tho Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury has been violently violent-ly hostile to this procedure and has managed to convert It Into a dead letter. Professing to entertain doubts as to whether its enforcement would not In some mysterious manner Involve a violation of treaty rights ho rsferred the question to Attorney General Gen-eral Mclleynolds, who obligingly agreed with him that the prolslon was inexpedient and Impractical, n view which the courts hae twice refused re-fused to sustain. Senator Gallinger's bill win accomplish ac-complish the same purpose In a better bet-ter and more cffectlvo manner. It does not provide for a reduction In the duties levied on commodities transported In American bottoms. Instead In-stead of that It directs that a surtax shall be collected on merchandise landed at American ports from foreign for-eign vessels, a process which would serve a double purpose and which is by that much tho more desirable. Indeed, In-deed, it would afford a three fold ben lit. It would confer upon the ship owner own-er an advantage sufllclently considerable consid-erable to enable him to eyjage in competition with his oversea rival. It would yield an additional revenue to tho estimated amount of $165,000,-000 $165,000,-000 a ear an lncreaip which would come in very handy under tho existing exist-ing circumstances, nnd In view ot the unparalleled extravaganco of the party In power; and Anally It woujd afford an added Protection of which our manufacturers will before Very long be In direct need. Unfortunately, from tho Democratic Democrat-ic standpoint this last Is reason enough, were there no other, for lln i ejection. |