Show MARINE MATTERS vests free rree ships dips amendment is discussed in the U US B senate by KY western asad prem to the washington may 2 the shipping bill was then taken up in ate vest made a formal offer of his amendment permitting hie the adnois 8 sion ion to american registry of ships bought bough t abroad and admission free of duty of shipbuilding materials offered an amendment to it excluding ships bought abroad from the coastwise coast wise trade vest continued his remarks in sup artof his amendment what is deeded lie eaid was wai absolute free dom from all burdens in order to buy ships upon any terms for years wo we have been told that next year we nye should sa s1 see improvement ti would be thought of a physician ci an ulio should daily promise prot nipe ain in lua lilt catle patient dt while his patient was rapidly dying free ships would build up american blimp th winch aich the policy heretofore pursued had not done for a proof h he e bil owed that american shipbuilding in alls decreasing ve we were build in iiii L very few iron shila 11 plumb inquired how the burchai c olsin of sill I a abroad would build up amer ican shipyard vest relied replied there would come to to pass liere here what had como come to pass in germany no matter where r ships ilias came from their pre bence cence would d stimulate interest in iii sill shipping in g and cause capital to flow into ing until a few icare ago germany had just such a system as w wo c had to 1 day but buthod biad aba abandoned it and the interest 1 in and activity of shipbuilding in that country were greatly stimuli ulai ted frye said many had tried the pl plan an of buying bi i ing sli ships ipe s in other countries tr i s but had a d ier become 0 m disgusted with ifandy d the government had bad gone into the business of shipbuilding france franc e a also iso had tried the purchase of ships abroad and gave it up and now pays a bounty for every ship built and every mile sailed vest said a german subject could buy his ills ships wherever he lie pleased tho the mechanics of the country were employed on the repairing repa ius of no matter where baught and thus tile ship were built up on ohp ideation relative to wages paid pai dips b crais country and abroad vest bossed his conviction that notwithstanding the higher wages paid in america the higher intelligence intelli geace and superior skill of american workmen would enable them to compete with tho tile labor of any puy european country conn trl notwithstanding the fact that Lu Eti glanda glands wages were higher than in germany gormany england could compete with germany anywhere iio ile did lid not believe any act of congress would bringan bring an in immediate return of prosperity to american shipping but when an attempt was made antho in the right direction wo we were met with tho the cry no matter what happened tho the facret protective system itei lt 1 1 c 1 ei 4 1 billit an narty must not be his a amendment to pass tho the 97 senate nate and he lie had only spoken on it as long as lie had in the hope that public opinion might be brought to bear on the odious and barbarous barbaro us system which in hig opinion it was of so much importance to destroy hale spoke kein in support of the bill and in opposition Oll to tho the amendment of vest I 1 pending debate the senate well went t in into to executive session and when the doors deop reopened ebed adjourned to monday I 1 Is |