THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921.
PAGE THREE
MARINE ACT SHOULD
BE IN OPERATION
marine act
delay causes nation to lose
benefits in
trade:
(Chronicle's Washington Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, May 13. Members
of the senate committee on commerce
and of the house committee on mer
chant marine and fisheries have start
ed rumblings In their committees that
portend trouble for the administra
tion. It is over the merchant marine act,
which went into effect last June
theoretically, but which actually has
never been put completely into effect,
The bill was the crystallization of the
best thought in congress as to means
for rehabilitating the sea trade of the
United States.
One of its most Important provi
sions was that which required the
president within 90 days of the ap
proval of the act, to take the neces
sary steps to abrogate commercial
treaties with other nations which pre
vent the United States from imposing
discriminatory customs duties on
goods carried on foreign vessels and
entering American ports.
President Wilson refused to carrj
out this mandate on the plea that it
was offensive to other governments.
In so doing, he disregarded his own
action, taken several years before, in
abrogating those' provisions of treat
ies which interfere with the operation
of the LaFollette seamen's law, a
measure enacted 'at the behest of or
ganized labor.
Existing law, carried in the Under
wood tariff act of 1913, provides for
the levying of discriminatory duties
on imports in foreign bottoms wher
ever treaty provisions do not inter
vene. This provision gives imports
carried in American bottoms a duty
of about 10 percent les3 than applied
to similar goods Imported in foreign
bottoms. But, inasmuch as the United
States has commercial treaties with
some 26 maritime nations providing
that no such discriminations shall be
practiced against those nations, this
part of the Underwood act has never
become effective. Were the treaties to
be abrogated as directed by congress,
this discrimination provision automat
ically would be applied.
It is the judgment of many mari
time authorities that nothing could
bo. done that would have a more
wholesome effect on the rehabilita
tion of American water-borne com
merce than the application of this dis
criminatory provision. The merchant
marines of America's chief rivals of
the seas operate under certain favor
ing conditions which are denied the
American merchant marines under
laws enacted by congress for the safe
guarding of seamen and for the main
tenance of a high standard of work
ing conditions.
in addition, the government autsoi
ized combinations and discriminatory
practices of foreign merchant marines
placed the American ships at a disad
vantage in other respects.
It was expected that the Harding ad
ministration, soon after taking office,
would proceed to carry out all of the
provisions of the Jones shipping act,
including the abrogation of treaties
and the appointment of an enlarged
shipping board with increased powers
and duties.
President .Harding has been in of
fice some eight weeks and not yet has
moved. Although he. was a member of
the senate committee on commerce
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which wrote the larger portion of the
Jones act, and hence has a personal
familiarity with it, he has not yet
found time to do any of the things the
act required of the president.
' All that remains of a splendid be-
I ginning in the sea trade Is a gigantic
'obligation on the public treasury, a
tale of government inefficiency and
(waste Jn management and the founda-
tion of a series of scandals,
j The application of the Jones act
cannot cure all the ills and cannot"
over night put the merchant marine
on its feet. It can, however, do a great
' deal in that direction, and '.ho delay
j In applying it causes the situation to
become worse every day.
If President Harding' belle, eg, as
President Wilson did, tin the tils
criminatory provisions in the net are
unwise and, unwholesome, he should,
his former colleagues hold, say so aDd
give congress an opportunity to offer
something else. No member of olthei'
committee will permit himself to be
quoted at this time, but pdvalel a
number of them urge a public: agita
tion of the subject as a me ins of get
ting the matter to the presidents at
tention. What the senators and representa
tives want is an early appointment of
the shipping board and an earl appli
cation of the provisions of the Jones
act; failing that, they want 4 defini
tion from the White Houso of objec
tions, if any there be, to this legisla
tion. ,
. A movement is now on foot in con
gress for the adoption of a joint reso
lution calling on the proaidenr. for his
reasons for not acting, unless he indi
cates very soon that ho is to do some
thing. He has taken pains in his public ut
terances to commit himself to the
principle of upbuilding the merchant
marine, but his own friends in con
gress complain bitterly of his non-nc-ticto.
There is a disposition among the
president's former colleagues oa the
senate committee on commerce, which
disposition is reflected in the house
committee, to be patient with him, in
the realization that he lms . imiltliude
of things to do. Nevertheless, thu teel
ing grows that patience is ceasing to
be a virtue
The American, merchant marine is
in an exceedingly bad way. The skel
eton shipping board organization, car
ried over from the previous adminis
tration, is functioning only nominal
ly. Private ships and shipping board
ships are being driven imo retirement
and hundreds of young Americans
who had hopefully begun maritime
careers, are 1jack on shore hunting
land jobs.
NAVAL OFFICERS- ACCUSED
OF TRANSPORTING WOMAN
By United News
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11!. Charg
ed with "scandalous conduct tending
to 'corrupt good morals," Lieutenant
'Frederick Sans Soucl, a naval officer
with a record covering a period of 20
years, is today held in the naval pris
on nt Mare Island navy yard awaiting
trial by general court martial.
'He is accused of having transported
a woman, whose name is being with
held, from here to the Philippines
while on an official mission. It is al
leged that the woman posed as his
wife and was known as such by every
one who came in contact with the cou
ple. While his real wife stayed in San
Diego, Sans Souci had a "good time"
with the other woman, according to
the charges. j
Department of justice agents who !
are working on the case said that a
thorough search was being made for j
the woman companion who is now 1
supposed to be In the northwest.
Additional charges that ho lived
with the woman at a fashionabte
apartment hero are being investigat
ed, it is said.
Lieutenant Sans Soucl is well
known in naval circles here and on
the eastern coast, where ho was sta
tioned for a numbefof years.
pis wife, who is still at Snn Diego,
has not made any announcement as
to knowledge of the case as yet.
k By United News
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13. Lieu
tennnt Frederick Sans Soucl, naval of
ficer accused of Immoral conduct with
a woman not his wife, has confessed,
according to word received here from
the Mare Island navy yard today. The
accused man is being held In the na
val prison there, ponding a general
courtmartlal on tho charges preferred
by fellow naval officers.
According to the. charges, Lieuten
ant iSans Souci is alleged to have
transported Miss Hetty Atbret, pretty
young San Francisco girl, to Manila,
P. I., while on an official mission. It
is said that the young woman poseil
as his wife. After the return from tho
Philippines the couple lived together
in an apartment house here, accord
ing to the charges.
Curing the time Sans Souci was as
sociating with Miss Atbret, his wife
was living in San Diego, awaiting his
return. She Is now here, preparing to
file a petition for divorce, based upon
the charges preferred by the navy.
According to naval intelligence of
ficers, Sans Souci has confessed to
all of tho things he was accused of
and his trial will begin within a few
days.
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At the Lowest Price Level
In Tire History
New Prices Effective May 2, 1921
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