Show hoesr washington jan 7 the senate bill increasing ncr easing from fifty to seventy the number ot of army officers who may be detailed to military colleges lapsed the house went into committee of the whole on the shipping ehi bill and herbert ol 01 alabama opposed the tile measure because it proposed indi indiscriminate a subsidy to vessels of every character in the loreign trade it was a a natural result of the mckinley 4 bill Is dinley Dingley of maine reviewing ng the decadence of the american shipping interests said in in a condition as the country now found itself with only 12 per cent of foreign carry ing in trade tra le with great britain en tre ache on every ocean route it was obvious that it was atte utterly r y out of the power of private individuals without assistance io ia some direction to diel olge the shipping ot of great britain it was stid the bill would not do for our merchant marine w h hat at wae was c claimed for it we j idtse ol 01 that ry by what a t policy had done lr for france W ith les maritime people than lose hose of the be states within five years from the establishment ol 01 a subsidy system ss tein the steam 8 conage of france had doubled with ill the widest extent of coast known to any nation the united states could reap a benefit from subsidies far greater than any other nation dockery dackery of missouri said t three ahre e causes constitute an effectual barrier barrie r against any attempt to restore the ho american carrying trado trade the fiest was a ae the difference of cost between american and foreign vessels vee aela second the greater running expenses which american vessels were under thud third the harsh and restrictive features of our navigation law laws a exacting heavy tonnage dues consular fees and other dues does furthermore the republican policy of exclusion of imports was at war with the interest of the american carrying trade he ile opposed subsidies and anti all other protection to special industries and asked farquhar Farqu bar chairman of the committee how much the tile pacific mail hall steamship company which at one session eee sion be he said cor ranted the employees of the house would get farquhar replied that it would get the tile same as other steamship companies dockery said that was no answer and asked if pacific mail stock bal bad no not t risen on the probability of the par sage of the bill farquhar Faiq warmly replied that it if it were 0 o he was glad of it and hoped the stock of every american company won would id incura e in ili value dockery Joc kery said he anted wanted to tale take the fact home to the farmers of the west that was as being from the treasury irea eury to support new england ship owners georga george guld G auld he noder understood der dere stood tood was on one of the laboring labori cR men to bd be benefited dockery then invited attention to the restrictive po of 0 f reciprocity advocated by secretary blaine so far as the farmer was concerned the defect that as fatal to was alike fatal fat alto to reciprocity the tile farmer could derive no bent fit from froin reciprocity because b cause 8 th ill american countries bad had almost every urcille necessary fw their own consumption let retain to the policy under which it explored every aea and cast anchor in harbor divested Dive sied of artill ial ref restrictions our commercial marine could renew aud and aserett lie its importance upon tha the deep pending r anding further debate the committee rote and the bouse house adjourned |