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22 THE. MarRINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Company CLEVELAND. CHICAGO: MONADNOCK BUILDING. PITTSBURG: PARK BUILDING. NEW YORK: 150 NASSAU STREET. ne on Marine Engineering, Ship Butlding.and Shipping Subjects Solicited. - Subscription, $3.00 per annum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preced- ing date of paolo _ The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the MARINE REVIEW | through the ee channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. : _. FEBRUARY 15, 1906. PRINTED IN AN OPEN, SOP. SENATOR GALLINGER'S GREAT WORK. A bill which passes the senate so early and so suc- cessfully as has the bill of the merchant marine com- mission--a bill, moreover, which has the approval of the administration behind it--cannot easily be denied 'consideration and passage by the house of representa- tives. It is, therefore, a great parliamentary victory which has been won by Senator Gallinger, chairman of the merchant marine commission, in bringing his bill out of the senate, first of the important measures in the present congress. This is a great personal tri- umph for the skill and energy of the New Hampshire senator, the selection of whom as the head of the commission was a stroke of rare good fortune for the maritime interests of America. Senator Gallinger was farniliar beyond most public men, with the needs of the merchant marine and present maritime condi- tions in this country. Though his state has but a short seacoast, twenty miles or more, this holds one of the historic seaports of this continent and maritime traditions are about as strong in central and southern New Hampshire as in any other New England state. Senator Gallinger has been a member of the committee on cominerce, which has to deal with maritime affairs, ¢ so that when under his direction the merchant marine commission undertook its inquiry, the chairman had firmly in mind the main principles of the subject which the commission has been considering. Besides his knowledge of the subject, his long ex- perience as a public man and. his skill as a parlia- mentary leader, Senator Gallinger has the important equipment of tact, courtesy and liberality to a degree notable in the public service. The question of our shipping, and especially the question of subsidy has aroused such fierce antag- onism in this country that these personal character- istics of the chairman of the merchant marine com- mission ,were sure to prove of very great importance. from the very beginning, Senator Gallinger has held the work of the commission thoroughly in hand. It is well known in Cleveland 'that he and his col- leagues have made a most industrious inquiry, travel- ing all over the United States and giving months of the most devoted kind of labor to their under- taking. Then there came the task of framing a bill based on complex technical details which should se- cure substantial agreement from the commission and win the approval of a majority of congress. Here again Senator Gallinger's rare tact and patience proved most fortunate and indispensable. Through- out the nearly two years of the life of the commission there was not the slightest friction among its member- ship, though the commission was made up almost ev- enly of senators andrepresentativesof the two rival political parties. Indeed, so harmoni- ously did the commission proceed that the entire series of hearings at the Gulf and South Atlantic ports was conducted by democratic commissioners. And in the framing of the bill it was found that the commission was unanimous on the maiority of the features of the proposed legis- lation--all approving the naval reserve idea, the ocean mail lines, and the increased tonnage taxation, and three of the four democratic members signing a minority report against only the subventions to cargo vessels. No such close approach to absolute unanimity had ever before been reached in the stormy history of attempted shipping legislation in America. This was. due very largely to the frank and kindly management of Chairman Gallinger, whose skill has now brought the shipping bill smoothly out of the deliberations of the senate.. .It has been an arduous work for the New Hamp- shire senator, who was one of the busiest men in Washington with his important committee assign- ments before this new and formidable responsibility was laid upon his shoulders. But he has proved: nobly equal to the test. He has done all that. man could do to press the shipping legislation on to an He has won a victory in the guarantees prompt vic- The ship own- accomplished fact. senate which of itself almost tory in the house of representatives.