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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1906)
THURSDAY, OKCEMBKR C, . 1909. THE MOJINING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. a SHIP SUBBIDY BILL Important Measure to Come Bo fore Congress. AMERICAN CARRYING TRADE ' No Indueement Offered American . Shipping, Mott of th Amtrloan j Produet Btloo Carried In For lgn Bottom. WASHINGTON D. C, December 5. With the advent of Cngre the Waahjngton "literary bureau" of the Interest behind the ship utdy bill h resumed actlvltlo. The Washing ton end of pi work on this bill In In charge of promlnlent newspa per wrri-apnndent who ha wade a specialty of shaping legislation for a number of year and ha bcn close ly Indentlfled with the ihlpplng Inter ett, ' Pevtral year ago be compiled a btxik on the effect of the propound eight hour law on ihlp building which had much to do with the defeat of that measure, and which I In many libra ries a a tandord work. Being thus familiar with the condition of our mer rhant marine ami th Inalde history of hipping legislation, what he prepare for the preea la well written. attractive y presented and carefully baaed on facta, no It la regarded by many aa the authoritative utteranoea of a special lHt on auch legislation. Incidentally he conduct the only "Publicity Bureau" In the city and ha bla pick of high claaa engagement. He la an old Washington cnrrcpondent and known to everybody of prominence at thenar Hal, and to three fourtha of the eU tore throughout the country. While many will not agree with the premise or conclusion of the "pre agent" on the mibsldy bill, other will feel the ground la well taken and the matter Juet Issued the writer polnta out that while the government ha ben aenloua In fighting rebate and freight discrimination on iand It ha not touched the ca of auch rebatea and discrimination In the over- trade, except aa applM to through freight from Interior points. If the owner of a foreign veel wish to grant a rebate to a ahlpper, or to charge one shipper a higher rate "than another, what t to prevent them f Incidentally, t aa the majority of the veeeela now carrying our commerce fly the British French or Ocrman flag It la reaaonable to up pone that rebate or discrimination would bo In favor of the Kngllsh. Ocr man or French ahlpper rather than the American. But If we hud a merchant marine of our own, built up under the fostering care of the government, It could be regulated aa eaally a the railroad, or more an. Aa It la, the American: shipper aro absolutely at Jhe mercy of foreign Owners. The carrying trade of, the Atlantic may be divided Into three nearly equal part The first la, the International Mercantile Marine Company ' which aome Insist will hog moat of the benefit of the ship aubaldy bill and which la popularly believed to be an Amerloan concern because It wna organised by f. Plerpont Morgan. It la American in the sense that about half It stocks and bond are held In thla country. Otherwlae It la foreign, for of Its 130 vessels, 120 fly the flng of Great Bri tain or Belgium. It President, who live In Liverpool, la a Brltlah subject, It may be like a combination but It le In wo aense a "trust" nor has It any thing like a monopoly, In view of the fact that It Include only one third of the trans-Atlantic shipping. . So far as profiting by the shipping bill Is con cerned, Mr. Mprgan's combination would have a hard time gelling . Us feet" In the trough, for the reason that ( H has bound Itadf by a formal con tract with the British' Admlrallty to keep Its vessels beneath the British flag, and to officer and man then with ilia British subjects. Bven if Con gress should pubs a special act grant ing these ships American registry which Congress Is as likely to do as It Is to distribute thousand dollar , bills Instead of garden seeds they could not come In. Another third of the shipping Is con trolled by the great German lines the North German Lloyd and the , Hamburg-American. These line have a working agreement. The remainder la made up of the Cunard, French and other line. - If these ships were to be transferred to American registry they would' have to abandon the subsides they now receive and give up many ad vantage they now enjoy, . Including cheap labor. Moreover, the American subsides proposed, are not for lines to Europe, but to South America, South Africa, Asia, etc., and thy would have to leave a profitable trade to establish new lln, But supposing the for eign ship would forego all their pres ent advantage to take out American register, what chance would they have? It l distinctly provided that the sub aide shall be reserved to vessel "hereafter built and registered in the United Btatc, or now duly registered by a cltlwn or cltlxen of the United Btate." i Thl provUlon wa Intended to and doe absolutely debar foreign tonnage from enjoying at any time any ahare of the protection and encourage ment afforded by the government It I therefore apparent that the mis named ihlpplng "trust" or th "hip ping trust," if the German are In cluded, bave nothing to gain and every thing to lose, by the creutlon of a n-w, up-to-date American merchant, marine and tony know It! Other countrle !hav built up their merchnnt marine by aubaMet and they regard the pro ' bablllty that America will follow suit. I with Ul-concealed dlafayor and appre of the desirability of a merchant ma- rtne, tnr countries tiiiiing 6vsr nerve ti' build up their, and are more than wtUing to carry our good a well aa their Wn a long a we will permit them. Many countrle have grown rich by tarrying the product of. other nation. 1 Notable example are Tyre, Phoenicia, and Venice and Holland. No country ever grew wealthy by al lowing another country to handle It commerce, for the toll I too heavy. In twenty year w pay to foreign ship owner more money than there la In circulation In thl country. That mo ney we buy back with our wheat, corn, cotton and other product, only to hand It back again for our freight It eom to be generally understood that Speaker Cannon will permit the subsidy bill to go through the House. There I a clear majority for It In the Committee and In the House If he give the word. The President fovora It, a also doe Vice President Fairbanks, Secretary 81m w, Becretary Root, Sec retary Mtcalf and Postmaster Gen era! Cortelyou. The Senate passed the bill last session, the election are out of the way, and the bill la endorsed by nearly all the leading commercial or gnnltntlona of the country. It advo- cato can, therefore, aee no cloud on the horlj!Oh.;s,"Bon voyager to the ihlp ping bill thl winter. - v Despite report denying the amalga mation of the Marconi and Do Forreat wireless telegraph system the stock of the1 new United Wlrele Telegraph Company fuelling on the New Tork "curb" at 1-8 on a par value of. the Wireless Trust' certain officer of the Marconi company denied that the United would control their company. From private advice received here It, appear that those who control from fifty one to fifty three per cent of the Marconl-stock are favorable to and In cluded In the new concern. The de nials came from those who have small holding of stock, while the Brokers who marketed the Marconi stock have not denied the amalgamation of the two companies. Marconi own less than three per cent, of the English Mar con! Company and Profesor De For est has no connection with the latter company, and denials from them there fore do not affect the situation. Hoa t llltle between the (De Forest and Mar coni Companies ceased some month ago, lnce which time the amalgama tion of the two ha been In progress. The capitalisation of the United "Wire less Company ha been, announced as 120,000,000, half of which 1 seven per cent preferred and half common. The combined capital stock of the De For est and Marconi Companies is $21,190. 000 with $500,000 gold flrat mortgage bond of the De Forest Company. Ab the stock of the two companies docs not sell at par In the open market, It Is easy tq see that the stock of the new combination Is sufficient to obtain a controlling Interest lii both concern, The Board of Directors of the Wire less Trust consists of H. H. McClure, of the American Magaslne, at prent director In the Marconi company: Prince del Drago, of Itnly; C. C. Wll eon, of Denver, Colorado, President of the International Loan and Banking Company! 1 C. O. Gallbralth, formerly Armour & Company's eastern mana ger; I Charles A. Lleb, of New Tork, consulting" engineer; Greenleaf Whlt tier Packard, of Boston, formerly en gineer of the Bell Telephone company nnd Ex-Commissioner Seymour, of the Patent Office, Washington. Abraham White, the financier of New Tork, St. Louis and Texas is the President of the United Wireless Company, George p. Knabe, of Knabe & Bede, New Tork Stock Exchange, 1 Treasurer and Ar thur English, a lawyer of New Tork la the secretary. ANNOUNCEMENT ft tif.& .''; t.. . v,;;v; ?! Ufa 1 VsrJir'W , v' , tetitf ti .i . . ti ) l-t9i : '8 13s 1 if '0 Having just assumed charge of this store I take this means of announcing to the peo ple in and around Astoria that everything will be just as it has been here in the past We will have exclusive agency for the SALEM AND I BROWNSVILLE I WOOLEN MILLS ? , GOODS will hold the price to the lowest notch possi ble, as has been the custom heretofore, will handle only reliable merehanuse and stand back of every article sold in this store. We will continue advertising and will make no statements that we cannot back up with the goods, therefore, when you see it in our ads. its so. , . Our stocks of clothing for men and boys, woolen underwear for men and women, woolen socks, blankets, cravenenette raincoats, in fact everything kept in a first class woolen mill store, will contain none but the best goods on the market and will always be complete. ; We are ambitious to make this the biggest and best clothing store in Astoria, and know there is but one way to do it to sell only reliable merchandise at reasonable prices. Your continued patronage is earnestly solicited. Mail orders carefully and promptly filled. nn f7 I E. C. JUDD, Proprietor. 634 Commercial St., , DONE B7 SEED. William William and wife to' . George Williams, NW 1-4 Sec tion 36, T. 4 N R. 9 W; and Iota 1 and 2, block 1, West Warrenton ... $1,150 Christina Heckensteln to Henry Heckenetcln, lot 21, block 1, Inglenook 200 W. C. Bishop to O. L. Colwell, land In Section 16, T. 7 N R. ' 9 W... 496 Newton McCoy, administrator to ' Viola Thayer, part lot 21, block 11, in Gearhart Park.... 200 H. D. Campbell and wife to Ilaak Lumber Co., SW. 1-4 Section 82. T. 4 N., R. 6 W.. . . . 2,500 Angus McGregor to M. McFar lane, SE. 1-4 Sec 35, T. 8 N., R. 6 W ... 1 UNTOLD TRUTHS. May Garliok Sues to Recover One , Hundred Thousand Dollar. NEW TORK, Dec. 5. May Garllck, widow of Marquis de Fo, an Italian nobleman, and who a decade ago was a grand opera singer In European cap itals, ! appeared In the Supreme Court before Justice Andrew as complain- Lant In a suit to recover $100,000 dam age from the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. She testified that she fell from a Broadway car on the night of October 13, 1905. She claims that her leg was broken and her head cut. The complainant told the jury that at the time of the accident she had just signed a contract to appear In grand opera. The accident, she as serted, was of such a painful nature, that for two years thereafter she was compelled to go about on crutches. The case will be resumed today. : Foley" Honey and Tar Cure the most obstinate coughs and expel the cold from- the system, as It 1 mildly laxative. It Is guaranteed.4 1 Do hot risk taking any but the genuine In the taking any but the genuine In the yellow package. " Rev. Crapsey, Deposed Miniate r, to Deliver Address. NEW TORK, Doc. 8. The Rev. Al gernon 2, Crapsey, of Rochester, re cently depoosed from the . Episcopal ministry, has accepted the invitation of the Society f f)mi tn snoflk at Its dinner In honor of Speaker James W. "Wadaworth, Jr., at the Waldorf-Astoria on Saturday even ing, February 2. Dr. Crapsey's sub jeot will be "Some Untdld Truths That the World Should Know." This will be his first public address following the severance of his rela tions with the church. 8PENCER VACANCY, NEW TORK, Dec. 5. Stuyvesant Fish, formerly president of the Illi nois Central Ha'lroad Company, yes terday declined to make any comment on the rumor which reached this city from various southern points that he might be chosen successor of the late Samuel Spencer in the presidency of the Southern Railway Company, In well Informed quarters It Is regarded as likely that the post will be offer ed him and that he would accept the offer If made. LEGS COME HIGH. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. WASHINGTON, Deo. 4. At a cau cus . of the Democrats held tonight, Paul B. Porter of Mississippi , was elected the successor of the late Col. Isaao Hill, sergeant-at-arms of the caucus and special employ of the House. Resolutions to HlU'e memory were passed. GIVEN UP TO DIE. . B. Spiegel, 1204, N. Virginia St., Evansvillo, Ind., writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and bladder affections which caused me much trouble and worry. I .lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entire ly. 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