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20 THE MarINeE. 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 ve CLEVELAND. MONADNOCK BUILDING. CHICAGO: -- . PITTSBURG: PARK BUILDING. NEW YORK: 150 NASSAU STREET. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Butlding and : Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $8.00 perannum. 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 publication. : The Cleveland News Co. willsupply the trade with the MARINE REVIEW through the regular 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. MAY 10, 1906. : SHIPPING BILL INDORSED. When resolutions are adopted both by employer and employed urging a common policy it may be reason- ably assumed that that policy meets with the, consent of.the whole people. Such an endorsement has been given to the shipping question during the past week, one by the United Boilermakers and Iron Ship Build- ers of North America, an organization embracing thousands of workmen, and the other by the Builders' Exchange of 'Cleveland, an organization employing thousands of workmen, It is reasonable to stippose that if everyone else in the country had studied the shipping question as thoroughly as these two bodies have they would have a like opinion. The great trouble with the shipping question in the past has been that.a considerable portion of the country has con- sidered it remote to their business. As a matter of _ fact, it is intimately associated with every business in the United States. 'Thanks to the Merchant Marine Commission, which made an exhaustive tour of the country two years ago, the truth of this assertion is being brought home to the people. More endorse- ments have been'secured for shipping during the past year than ever before. It has been earnestly recom- mended by merchants, manufacturers, bankers and - farmers. It has received the unequivocal support of the manufacturing and agricultural interests of the country. The resolutions adopted by the Builders' Exchange and by the United Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders are herewith printed in parallel columns to prove that both capital and labor are reaching the same goal, though they approach it from different directions. BY CAPITAL. Whereas, With the phenomenal growth of our great national in- dustries, for forty-five years there has been a steady decline in Our shipping in the foreign trade, the subject having been thoroughly in- vestigated during the past | two years by a commission appointed by congress for that purpose. : pur- suant to the president's suggestion, the commission rendering a report, accompanied by a bill to carry into effect the recommendations con- tained in said report, the enact: ment of which bill, which passed the United States senate on' Feb- ruary 14, 1906, we believe will cause a great and permanent up- building of our deep sea shipping; therefore be it Resolved, That the Builders' Ex- change, of Cleveland, Ohio, solic- itous for the upbuilding of our for- eign-going shipping, for its expan sion and prosperity, and believing that a marine of our own will re. lieve us of an unstable depeni- ence upon foreign shipping for tlie marketing of. our exports, will keep in our own channels ol trade many millions annually now paid to foreigners for doing our foreign carrying, and will prove a necessary and invaluable resource for the army and navy in time of war, heartily approves of the Mer- chant Marine Commission shipping bill and strongly urges its adoption by the house of representatives; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to each senator and representative in congress from the state of Ohio. BY LABOR. Whereas, The revival of Amer: ican ship building for the foreizn trade, provision for which is made in the Merchant Marine Con mis- sion shipping bill, which passed the United States senate on i eb- ruary 14, 1906, and is now in the hands of the House Merchant Ma- rine and_ Fisheries Committee, would be of immediate and _per- manent benefit to American labor, especially that employed in_~ ship building, in which industry it has been truthfully said that "all trades are united,' and Whereas, If American ship yards should be employed in replacing with American vessels the five millions of tons of foreign - ship- ping now employed in the foreign trade of the United States, there would be better hours, better pay and continuous employment for all of those engaged in ship. building or its allied industries, for a great many years to come, assuring such a permanency in the ship building business in the United States as to eventually give this country front rank in this great industry, there- fore be it Resolved, That the United Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders of North America in convention as- sembled most heartily indorse the Merchant Marine Commission ship- ping bill, and most earnestly urge upon every representative in con- gress his active and patriotic sup- port of that measure, as in the in- terest of the national defense, for the greater stability of our foreign carrying, and as in the intérest of American labor; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, over the. seal of this association and the attestation of the' secre- tary. The shipping bill drafted by the Merchant Marine Commission has passed the senate. It ought to pass the house and be made a law before the present con- gress adjourns. The bill affords one of the most con- venient remedies for a situation which, if permitted to continue, must inevitably destroy the over-sea marine of the United States. It is one thing to determine that a patient is ill; it is another thing to devise a remedy for his ailment. The present bill, however, outlines a distinct remedy by the diversion of tonnage taxes to American ships for services outlined in the bill and directly rendered. The American ship, of course, would pay its own tonnage tax the same as the for- eign ship, but as only 9 per cent of our commerce is at present carried in American ships, it follows that QI per cent of the tonnage taxes would be paid by foreign ships. The bill proposes to divert the tonnage tax fund to the American ship for services rendered in carrying the mails, in opening up new trade routes and in developing a naval reserve. Of course, as the American. marine developed in the foreign field, it would pay a greater proportion of the total tonnage tax, but it is hoped that by the time it is paying half of the total tonnage tax it will have so strengthened itself. as to meet the foreigner in open competition.