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Show IIFFflllLiy f JEDED UP IENATE DEM0CRAT8 LETTING UP IN DEBATE AND MEASURE MAY PA88 IN JULY. CONFERENCE WILL BE LONG preildent Harding Still Urging Ship Subildy Loglatation, Which Many Republican Leaders Think It Would Be Good Policy to Enact By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington. The senate Is still laboring la-boring with the tariff bill. Within a few days the Republican leaders eeera-. eeera-. - Ingly have found some cheer In the lltuatlon which has been gloomy, for they are predicting that the bill will become a law In July. It is true that the Democrats of the senate are showing some Inclination to let up a little In debate, thus giving the opposition party the feeling that the Fordney-McCumber bill may become be-come ft law pnHlpr than a nroolr r turn been abandoned at sea and which are a menace to navigation. The great war and Its disasters have not swept from the memory of the government officials the sinking ten' years ago of tiie Titanic, an accident of the sea which was accompanied by, such a terrible loss of lite. Means are taken toduy to guard thQj, oceua liners against the dangers of Icebergs and the derelicts. Within a circle of flowering bushes near the White Huse there is a fountain foun-tain which Is a reminder of the Titanic disaster. It was erected In memory of Maj. Archibald W. Butt, President Taft's aide, and to that of Francis D. Millet, the artist, Butt's friend and companion on the voyage. The two men whose lives and deuths are thus commemorated went to their fate he-rolcully he-rolcully after, like nearly every other man on the Ill-fated vessel, having helped ne women and children Into life boats to see them off to safety. After the close of the war certain parts of the seas were swept to pick up floating njn?s. In ' one or two places tills work is still going on, for some little danger remains to navigation naviga-tion from these black explosives of the depths. So ftr as the matter of derelicts Is concerned. It Is known that the reports show that scores of them are floating about the seas in the various vari-ous parts of the world. Government ago it was thought possible. There are obstacles, however, in the way of even a fairly quick passage of . . the customs measure, obstacles which have nothing to do with Democratic! , opposition to the schedules as they are written. It may be an old story now, but again let it be said that the majority ma-jority in the senate has proposed more than 2.000 amendments to the tariff bill as the majority in the house gave It Its sanction. Even with the possibility of cloture proceedings, which will limit debute In the senate, there necessarily will he some difficulty in straightening out the differences of opinion between the two bouses of congress. . When the bill passes the senate a conference committee to meet a like committer of the house will be appointed. The deliberations of this Joint committee are likely to be long drawn out. President Urges Ship Subsidy. President Harding desires that certain cer-tain legislation other than the tariff shall be enacted by the present congress. con-gress. He has been urging the leaders of bis party to press the so-culled hlp subsidy bill to passage. It definitely de-finitely Is known that a good many of the administration leaders think that subsidy legislation is as Important to party success as tariff legislation. They say: "Something must be done for the ehtps or nothing can be done with the ships." President , Harding seemingly Is heart-bound to subsidy legislation. His Interest In the subject through the years has been set forth In the press from time to time. Seemingly the President saw an opportunity In the present merchant marine circumstances circum-stances to strike for something In which he has believed. Therefore he urged congress and still Is urging It to care for the merchant murine' through legislation, and there Is a feeling that the Republican leaders may conclude to put the bill through the house this summer ami to proni'sc that the senate will care for H next vessels virtually an me time are seeding seed-ing derelicts for the purpose of destroying de-stroying them, but It seems that as fast us one Is destroyed another takes Its place. . Derelict Worse Than Iceberg. Vessels always ure being deserted at seu by their crews when It seems that sinking Is imminent. There la never much of an Increase In the number num-ber of derelicts. It stays about the same year In and year out The derelict Is as much of a danger dan-ger to navigation as an iceberg, and perhaps more so, because It Is apt to get In the way of ships at every season sea-son of the year, while Icebergs are a I'nng t. ordinarily, only for ubout six weeks. The usual time of the lce-! lce-! berg menace is In late May .nd June, but occasionally they break loose from their "moorings" much earlier than usual. This wus the case in the year when the Titanic went to Its doom southeast of Capo Race. Transatlantic passengers are not always al-ways told how close they pass to danger. dan-ger. Sometimes, however, they dls cover their escapes for themselves. A letter received a few days ago by the writer from a friend abroad says hat the ship upon which the voyager took passage to Europe passed within 200 feet of un Iceberg which was discovered discov-ered only when the fog suddenly lifted. Narrow Escape for Big Liner. Not long ugo one great steamship eastward bound passed a derelict In the night, and escaped hitting It by a margin of less than 300 feet The der-ellct der-ellct was seen by a man on the bridge In the darkness of the night. The voyagers learned of their narrow nar-row escape only by an oversight of 'the captain of the ship. As i ion as the derelict had been passed he ordered or-dered wireless messages to be sent to warn other steamships in t.ie s me line of commerce that a derelict was In their path. It Is the custom of piiKsenger steamers to have wlre.ess messages of greeting sent by passing steamers posted on the bulletin board ut the head of 'he main companion-way. companion-way. The day after tbe derelict hud been passed one of these messuges ,wai posted, the oiHcers of the ship overlooking the fact that after the usual greetings the captain of the passing vessel thanked his fellow captain cap-tain for warning him of the derelict which his ship had passed the night previous. In the United States navy s good many years ago there was a vtssel culled the Vesuvius. It carried dynamite dyna-mite guns, it is now out of commission. commis-sion. The rii-st opportunity .vhlch tbe Vesuvius had to test Its guns while on an actual voyage and to learn Just what could be done with ordnance which fired dynamite under methods now dead and gone came when a derelict was encountered on the high seas. The abandoned vessel, which was of course a mcaacc t navgptlw. wns a lumber-laden schooner. The government gov-ernment ship blew It up, but lumber will not sink, and following the "attack" "at-tack" on the derelict the surface of the seu for a considerable distance looked like the "doorway" of a lumber yard. However, the scattered fragments frag-ments were no longer a menace to the ships that passed In the night. If the subsidV bill is to be given consideration by the house of representatives repre-sentatives It will cot nieun necessarily that congress will have to sit long after the tariff Is passed, unless of course tbe senate determines also to give consideration to the merchant marine measure. -Tbe house soon will adjourn lor three days at a time, waiting on senate action on the tariff bill. Of course, if the bouse is so Inclined In-clined It need not take these three-Jay three-Jay adjournments, but can, under the direction of the majority, go to work at ship subsidy. Why Democrats Are Cheerful. The Democrats are cheerful today over the November prospect. They say that the country seems to like President Harding, but that the coun-'try coun-'try does not like the Republican congress. con-gress. It is true, apparently, if one way jucige by wUI hcih Demra's and Republicans here say, that the 'President stands better with the country coun-try than his party's majority In con-ress con-ress stands. Therefore. It may be that the Republican majority In congress, con-gress, recognizing the fact, may yield to tbe President desire that leglsla-'tlon leglsla-'tlon other than the tariff shall be enacted en-acted at the present session, at least 'by the house of representatives, i Bonus legislation still is In abeyance. iThe country knows, of course, that 'the President has desired one thing 'and that the party leaders In house and j senate have desired another thing. Recently there have been Indications !that there may be In the senate a combination of Democrats and Republicans Repub-licans to put through bonus legislation ;of a kind to which a large body of the 'Republican senators are opposed. What !the President will do with this legislation legisla-tion when It reaches him for signature I depends lurgely, of course, upon the iform which It takes. Some of the Democrats ar as anxious anx-ious for an early adjournment an .ire 'the Republicans. For the main part, however, tbe Democrats who wish to get awny are those whose seats are concerted to be In dancer next November. Novem-ber. It would appear ns If tb majority of the Democrats would like i keep 'congress In Mssioii as Jong as possible. pos-sible. beeailM' " l"lig ses-;'..) will I'l ' ! t" the nppeaiiiiice .of "ilni' mi i tbe pari of tbe lletuibllcun Iceberg and Derelicts Abcuod. j Reports come I" Vusl.ini..ii nf Ibej appearance of Iceber-'s In flu uirthern seas, ami with these ivporis are others eomceinln derelicts, bips vvblih luive |