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Show SUBSIDY BILL I ON ROUGH TRIP j Opponents Hope to Wreck! ' Measure Or Prevent It $ Reaching Port & By j. BART CAMPBELL 1 International News Servloo I WASHINGTON Dec. 0 The ship 4 subsidy bill was headed tonight on a rough voyage In the senate with ad- ministration spokesman determined to 4 guide it past the legislative break- ers and parliamentary rocks with ihlch Its opponents plan to prevent A It reaching port, even if they fail to wreck it. The administration won a victory X today, when Senator Jones, Itepubllc- an, of Washington, chairman of the I j senate committee on commerce, re- j Jl ported the bill favorably to the senate Tonight ho denounced as a "mass of 18 contradictions" the minority report J presented ty Senator Fletcher, of P Florida the ranking Demoi r tic com- VM mitti eman. i Increased taxation and "dlstrlbu- ' tion of governmental favors among 'j privileged private interests" would re- J suit from passage of the bill, Demo- crate charged in launching their anti- m cipatcd onslaught upon It. TRIES TO FORCE VOTE "If we are to be a nation worthy of our opportunities and advantages we 1 must have an American mi r han! ma- 4 rlne. ' said Si nator Jones in reply. A "ainl in order to have an American l merchant marine we must bo alive to ; I., our needs and our opportunities r-..-. pur commercial rivals and no class of our peopli will gain 5. greater proportionate benefit from an M adequate merchant marine than the 'n farmers of the country. ' N Jones predicted, as debate on the P bin proceeded, Its advantage to the -P farmers would be clearly demonstrat- B ed as the opposition of senators from r western and mldwcstcrn agricultural wfi states developed. Jones admitted he way not hopeful I 4p that the senate would act finally on the bill before the new year, but he said he was ready to fight hard to J force a vole on it before tho end or the session, despite the announced In- i tentlon of its opponents to so tic up r the senate with money supply bills Q as to block its passage. X SUBSTITUTION M DE As reported from the senate com- I jE m,( r. e i ommltti e ly a vote of 11 to S s., Qator Ransdoll of Louisiana be- ; ing the only Democrat to join tho 10 j 7 Republican members who voted so solidly for it the bill differed ma-terlally ma-terlally from the form in which the jflj house passed it. Tho Madden amend-j JB meut was eliminated, as requested by j President Harding and the Lenroot J A McNary-Willis proposal to require congrei lonal authorisation for sub- SB sidy Increases substituted. Ji' The Democrats ln their minority Jj report declare the administration's j j proposed shipping policy Involving launching the government upon a sea tr of trouble and will e.mse enormous ex- j pi nse In the form ol a direct cash con- JK tributlon from the treasury to special I j private enterprise and must be met with resistance and defeat. J EFFECT ON SHIP BOARD "The minority report states," Jones JJ retorted, "that it is argued in behalf 1 S of the bill that the United Slates ship- A ping board v. ..uld go out or busin- ss Ja and that If thi measure is passed and jt results in the elimin;ite p. ... Hie ship- , ping board, as its friends Intend and expect, American commerce will bo at J the mercy oi tlie lines, running and op- crating the ships, even though tb : fly our flag. As a matter of fact we ' . do not argue that the passage of thw CJ bill will put out of business the ship- 1 ping board. We need the thlppinn board as a permanent agency to con- 1 trol and regulate our shipping, to in- J vestlgate and study lbs problems an.: V recommend to congress from time to time what Is needed to maintain our merchant marine. ' OO N |