Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...PEABODY and W. L. VAN KLEECK.Best general references: D. A. Wells, Decay of our Merchant Marine; J. Codman, Free Ships; Report of Committee on Merchant Marine, House Report No. 966, 52nd Cong., 1st Session; Speech of Mr. Fithian, Cong. Record, 51st Cong., 2nd Session...
...change in our present navigation laws is necessary.-(a) Under their restrictions American shipping has suffered.-(1) Through heavy duties on ships.-(b) Though heavily protected shipbuilding industry has not thrived.- (1) Cost of labor too great.-(c) American capital forced abroad: House Report, as above.-(d) Present provision for limited admission of foreign ships inadequate.-(e) Prevents development of inventive genius...
...Subsidizing schemes impracticable and inefficient.-(a) Subsidies large enough to be efficient would be too great tax on the people.-(1) Cost of building ships one-third greater than in England: Codman, as above.-(b) They must be permanent: House Report, as above.- (c) They have already been unsuccessfully tried in U. S.-(d) They have failed in France.-(1) Shipbuilding not built up in ten years' trial.-(e) England's supremacy not due to subsidizing: D. A. Wells, as above.-(1) No payments made to sailing vessels.-(2) Compensations only for carrying mails, and for building according to admiralty...
...BOAT CLUB.-All persons having boats or canoes stored in the Weld Boat House are requested to send their names with a description of their boats to the secretary. After April 1st the club will not be responsible for the safe-keeping of any boat whose owner does not report...
...BOAT CLUB. - All persons having boats or canoes stored in the Weld Boat House are requested to send their names with a description of their boats to the secretary. After April 1st the club will not be responsible for the safe-keeping of any boat whose owner does not report...