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DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST: CONNECTED OR ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ' ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Sale haves aiuestag by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. BOSTON | "2 NEW YORK... DULUTH PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO PITTSBURG ; CINCINNATI oo on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. $3.00 per annum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can' have 'addresses changed at will. Subscription, Clahie of advertising copy' must reach this office on Thursday preceding | date of : La eke The Cleveland News Co. will supply the 'Gade with the Marine Review through the © regular channels of the American News Co. . Buropean' Agents, The International Company, Breams Building, Chancery - Lane, London, Ee ee aeelead, Entefed at the' Post Office at Cleveland, 'Ohio, [as Hecond Class. Matter. ) Retry 2 : 28, 1907. THE SHIPPING BILL. le "18" - gratifying to report that: there is reasonable hope, for the passage of the shipping bill during the present session of congress. The splendid measure drawn by Senator Gallinger and which was passed by the senate, will not be passed by the house, but in its place will be substituted a measure which, while not giving all that is desired, will onen the way to prove the'case of Amierican ship- The .Littauéer . bill provides for the establishment of a ping before the world. number of ocean mail lines to be carried on by steamers of:designated speeds. It so happens that there are no vessels in commission that meet. the requirements of the contemplated' service. have to be built, ship yards and collateral industries in a hundred different directions. They will thus stimulating the The pres- News: vate TAE MarRINE. REVIEW ent plan is to bring the issue to a vote on Friday afternoon of the present week at 4) oclock. It has : known that if the measure could actually be brought to the test of a vote in the Such now, indeed, appears to be the case. Fri- house that it would be passed. day, therefore, it is hoped will be a red letter day in the history of the American merchant marine. a For over fifty years the assistance of 'the general government has been with- drawn from shipping on the high seas, with the result that the American flag has well nigh disappeared . from - the The decline 'of the has oceans of the world,' American merchant marine been swift, because in conjunction with the withdrawal of governmental support, a general policy of protection to all other industries has been adopted. put a double handicap upon the Ameri- can ship, bécause it has been burdened with high cost of construction and high cost of operafion. It is unfortunate that this question, which should be a national one, is: made a party question. However, it is gratifying to realize that there are sufficient republican votes to pass the measure. When ocean fines are once established, when trade is flowing, when American branch houses are established in foreign parts, when regularity in sail- ing dates can be observed, the American ship will not ° need protection. it should be protected,:and therefore congress will do that time comes, however, wise to pass the Littauer bill. DREDGE OWNERS' TROUBLES. The dredge owners on the great lakes have their' troubles. More than ordinary In the first place, though dredging is as legiti- vicissitude attends their business. mate and exclusively a private enterprise as a dry goods store or a grocery shop is, the government enters into it as.a competitor. Government dredges have found their way to the great lakes and have entered directly into competition with private concerns that have expend- ed thousands upon thousands upon equipp:ng plants. Comparisons per cubic yard of material dredged between. pri- dredges and government dredges are unfair, because the government al- lows nothing for maintenance or. depre- ciation. Latterly another element has en- all along been | This has - Uatil tered' into the situation and that is the eight-hour day. The workmen desire an eight-hour day because the government regulations call for a day of that length; but only a portion of the work that pri- vate dredges do is for the government. The dredge owners have declined to Three years ago a similar attempt was made to sign upon an eight-hour basis. compel shipyards engaged on government work to conform to the eight- -hour, day, but it was represented. to congress by the ship builders that this meant ruin to Ship builders believed that as long as the' men 'wanted to labor ten them: : hours for ten hours' wages, they should be permitted to do SO. The dredge own- ers will be auite as emphatic in their stand as the shin builders were. wy IMPORTANT WEEK FOR THE : LAKES. . The past week has been an important one to lake interests. By the passage of in the river and harbor bill, work unon the third lock at the Sault can' proceed regardless of liti- the Frye amendment gation pending between private interests seeking to use the power of the rapids. All permits heretofore granted by the secretary of war or any other authority to. erect any power plant or: any structure in the rapids, are revoked. The govern- ment will acquire immediately sufficient land upon which to build the third lock and has made clear its intention to event- ually take over all the lands up to the international boundary line under con- Work, Marie, halted for over a year owing to private demnation proceedings. fore, at' Sault Ste. there- which has squabbles, will row go on. ie: erty of Chicago has been told that it cannot. use the waters of Lake Michi- gan to reverse the flow of the Calumet river. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie, chief of engineers, has declined to issue a per- mit for this purpose on the ground that it . would. seriously interfere with lake levels. Chicago must attack its sanitary problem in some other way. The argut- ment in rebuttal put' forth by Chicago that laké levels have been lowered by improvements at the Sault is the engineers. not sub- oS as the level at the head of the rapids has not been lowered, the outflow from Lake stantiated by long