AMERICAN SHIPPING SUBSIDIES –

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 13 March 1936, Page 3

AMERICAN SHIPPING SUBSIDIES -

SENATE ASSERTS ITSELF lUnited Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Illli' March. The Senate struck from tiie Post Office Appropriation Bill the sum of 26,503,000 dollars which the House of Representatives had approved to pay the shipping companies under the ocean mail contracts provided by the JonesWhite, Act of 1920. The sum of 4,850,COO dollars was substituted to' pay for the transportation of foreign mail by water at ordinary poundage rates. ■ The step was taken by the Senate in order to clear the way for an agreement between the shipping companies and tlio Government on a direct subsidy .measure . such as that urged by President, Roosevelt during the past two years.

, Senator Copeland, who objected to the Senate's action, declared that ihc shipping lines holding -Y2 ocean mail contracts "are just running on their shoe-strings now." and most of them would have to cease operation if there were the slightest interruption in Govcrpmegit,,aid .extended to them. Senator Glass, who approved the aclipn. stated that members of Congress “are tired of explaining to the country why h. pays 750,000 dollars? to carry 12j .dollars’ worth of mail to a certain South American republic.”