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DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY , INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ' ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. _ Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. BOSTON: <....:.-.+...01053" Exchange Bldg. BUPEALO 605555 ci ccssceeee a <90e Hilicott Sd. CHICAGO?) .. ones 1328 Monadnock Blk. CINCINNATI .......First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK .........-1005 West Street Bldg. Mt er es gadis ew e556 510 Park Bld~-. DULUTH ...............411 Providence Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited, Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per annum. Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach _ this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co._will supply the trade with the MAring 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 Gleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. May 28, 1908. DEFEAT OF OCEAN MAIL ACT. Every man in the middle west who desires to see his country's flag ad- vanced on the ocean and his coun- trys trade expanded to _ foreign lands, will note with pride and grati- tude that not one vote from Michigan and only one vote from Ohio was cast on May 23 against the ocean mail bill of President Roosevelt and But it is with very keen regret and disappoint- Secretaries Taft and Root. ment that we observe that the oppo- sition to this measure was led and the principal speech against it deliv- ered by one of the Cleveland repre- Hon. Theo- national: ad- sentatives of 'congress, "ore FE. Burton, The ministration and the Republican lead- ets in congress believe that Mr. Bur- 'ton defeated this bill by siding with the Democrats and leading about 30 middle western Republicans who voted against it, thus striking the legislation be _ representatives, the THe Marine Review ocean mail provision out of the post- office appropriation bill by the close' vote of 145 to 153. Roosevelt has recom- President mended this measure again and again to congress, and Secretary Root has advocated it in public addresses since his return from South America. Sec- - retary Taft has again and again in speeches at Chicago and_ elsewhere urged that this specific ocean mail The middle west, like the rest of the manufac- enacted. turing and commercial sections of the . country, approves this legislation, and Mr. Burton in: takine. his' stand. of implacable hostility to this and ap- parently every measure for the exten- sion of our ocean mail service and the upbuilding of an auxiliary navy has gone flatly against the desires and the interests of a very great ma- jority of his constituents. Yet, though halted by this adverse vote of last week-in the house of national move- ment for swift and. regular postal communication with South America and the Pacific ocean, is absolutely certain to great countries across the succeed. It wifl be a great deal stronger at the next session of con- gress than it has been at this one. It will command the support of many middle western representatives who though favoring the legislation them- selves, hesitated now to support it because they believed it was not un- derstood. by their people, and could not be adequately explained to them before next autumn's critical election. The Gallinger passed on March 20 by the senate, ocean mail bill, as has not been considered by the house committee on postoffice§ and post roads. The parliamentary course is clear to have this bill taken up in the committee, reported to the house and passed at .the next or shorter session of the present congress, open- December. by the bill retains its vitality and can be en- acted at any time before March 3; 1909, The real and great progress which ing next Having been passed senate the Gallinger the merchant marine is making in constituents & eonsres is indicated by the fact that even at this unfavorable time and in the face of the bitter attack on Mr. Burton, not only all of the Ohio rep- resentatives and all of the Michigan men, but all of two of the Indiana Republicatis; half of those of Ilinois, half of those> of Kansas, half those of Nebraska, dod nearly half those of Minnesota voted in favor of this bill on May 23. strength and influence, Mr. Hobson, of Alabama, and Mr. Jones, of Vir- ginia, voted for the bill, thus bring- And two Democrats of ing measurably near the time when this issue of the merchant marine shall be regarded as a national and not a party question. Therefore, the regret must be all the greater that Mr. Burton saw fit to throw his power in the house though his party in both nation and state has against this legislation, repeatedly resolved in favor of it, and it is generally believed in by his own regardless . of. political affiliations. 'The ocean mail bill at © this enactment of the time would have had a most. beneficent effect upon our important steel and other industries. It would have led to the manufacturing building of large steamships of high power and _ speed, valuable for commerce in peace and for auxiliary naval service in war. It would have helped to bring the coun- of the from which it is emerging. try. out business depression It would have increased the country's trade and given work and wages to thousands of toilers who may now be idle be- cause this measure did not pass. Yet President Roosevelt and Secretaries Taft and Root are intent upon the success of this legislation, and we have no doubt that even in spite of Mr. Burton's opposition they will succeed in the next session of con- egress. LAKE SITUATION. The' ore trade is as deep in the dumps as it has been at any time dur- ing the year and it requires a most optimistic and sanguine temperament to see any immediate change. The movement of ore to: June 1 will be nil, probably not over 250,000 tons, and even this would not have been