Merchant marine and Navy. Bill proposed Free registry and subsidies not alternative or conflicting propositions. Extension of the act admitting to registry the New York and Paris. Special conditions of that act.. Special privilege should be made general. Essential conditions of that act.. Difference in cost of construction reduced. Postal subsidy act.. Proposed bill. Admission of certain vessels.. Discriminating duties on foreign ships. Not a practical measure.. Treaty obligations. Export bounties and treaties.. Reports of shipping commissioners. Plan for improving condition of American seamen. Shipment of seamen.. Theoretical method of shipment.. Government provision for shipping commissioners. Actual method of shipment.. The crimping system.... British shipowners' report on effects of advance or allotment note. Page. 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 24 24 25 26 26 26 27 27 27 27 28 28 30 30 31 31 31 32 33 33 34 34 34 36 40 Regulation of sail vessels and officers.. Recommendation of Washington Marine Conference. License of masters and mates of sail vessels over 700 tons after July 1, 1898.. American citizens residing abroad prohibited from owning registered American vessels sold foreign may not be again registered if purchased by Present status of proposed international rules of 1890. Inland rules to prevent collisions... Suspension of lights on revenue cutters. Display of torch to approaching steamer General precautionary rule..... Fog signals of steam vessels engaged in towing. Concentration of marine bureaus. Derelicts.......... Objections to use of gross tonnage as basis of taxation. New measurement law Compilation of the navigation laws Proposed legislation . List of merchant vessels A. Free-ship bill.. B. Bill extending application of the act under which the New York and E. Bill to abolish compulsory pilotage on coasting vessels.. of the hulls of such vessels after that date. G. Bill to prohibit advances and regulate allotment of wages to seamen.. I. Bill for free raw materials for shipbuilding. K. Bill to promote repair work in American shipyards.. L. General amendments to navigation laws... Sec. 3. Abolition of crew bonds. Sec. 8. Abolition of entry and clearance fees on the Great Lakes.... 95 Sec. 9. Return of American vessels to the American flag. 95 Sec. 10. Report of wrecks... 95 Sec. 11. Amendments to inland rules to prevent collisions. Sec. 12. The same.. Sec. 13. Stamps on foreign-made boilers.. Sec. 14. Repeal of obsolete statute.... Sec. 15. Repeal of eighteen sections of the Revised Statutes appar- Sec. 16. Transfer of sea stores M. Joint resolution for printing a compilation of the navigation laws.. Statistics for the year. Work of the Bureau Estimates for maintenance of shipping commissioners' offices. Commissioners' statements concerning effect of abolition of allotments Views of shipping commissioners concerning act of February 18, 1895.. H. Wages of seamen (American and foreign): Tables showing monthly wages paid at American ports on American 2. Wages on British vessels Table 1, showing maximum, minimum, and ordinary wages for 99 100 100 101 102 105 108 109 110 111 116 117 B. Wages of seamen (American and foreign)-Continued. Page. 2. Wages on British vessels-Continued. Table 2, showing wages, as in Table 1, of first and second engineers, 118 Table 3, showing wages paid to British able seamen on steam and 119 Table 4, showing British wages, as in Table 3, of first and second C. American communication with foreign ports.. Showing the name, rig, tonnage, material, year built, port from which Southampton Liverpool London.. Bristol Queenstown Glasgow Copenhagen Hamburg.. Bremen. Antwerp Rotterdam 120 121 121 121 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 D. Opportunities for American shipping. 135 Reports of United States consuls on shipping facilities at leading foreign 135 Annual tonnage taxes since 1885 Collections for 1894-95 by flag, steam or sail, and 6 cent or 3-cent rates.. Operations of reciprocity section showing entry of American vessels and Germany The Netherlands. Dutch East Indies. United States of Colombia. Nicaragua.. Puerto Rico Quebec, Ontario, aud Manitoba. Marine hospital funds..... Tonnage receipts and expenditures at lake ports. Tonnage receipts and expenditures at lake ports during 1884 and 1894.. F. French subsidy law... Report of French Commission on operations of French subsidy law of 1881, with recommendations upon which present French subsidy law is based (translation). Recent statistics of French merchant marine. G. British laws to protect seamen.. Laws to suppress crimping. Law abolishing imprisonment for desertion in ports of Great Britain.... Page. 152 152 153 153 154 155 156 157 157 157 157 158 158 158 159 159 159 180 181 181 185 185 State pilot laws discriminating against sailing vessels with rates of Opinion of the Solicitor of the Treasury as to unconstitutionality of an Synoptical table giving the international rules of 1885; rules of the Harbor lines designated by the Secretary of the Treasury dividing the 204 205 210 212 240 |