TABLE OF CONTENTS. Prefatory Restrictive nature of our navigation laws.. Effects of registry law Number of deep-sea voyages. Free registry and subsidies not alternative or conflicting propositions.. Bill proposed Extension of the act admitting to registry the New York and Paris. Special conditions of that act.. Special privilege should be made general. Difference in cost of construction reduced. French shipping-bounty report.. Total shipments and discharges. Plan for improving condition of American seamen. Shipment of seamen. Theoretical method of shipment. Actual method of shipment. The crimping system.. Government provision for shipping commissioners. Results Allotment notes. Abolition of advance wages.. British shipowners' report on effects of advance or allotment note. Operation of present laws. A measure to protect seamen's wages Imprisonment for desertion after survey of ship for seaworthiness. Objections to certain provisions.. Abolition of compulsory pilotage of coastwise sail vessels. Discrimination against sail vessels.......... Number of sail vessels in foreign trade. Such pilotage unnecessary. A tax on Americans for foreign benefit. Pilot's license for master or mate of sail vessel. 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.. Marine Hospital expenditures and tonnage receipts at Great Lake ports.. Treaty considerations. American vessels sold foreign may not be again registered if purchased by Special entry and clearance laws which are outgrown. Concentration of marine bureaus. Derelicts.......... New measurement law Objections to use of gross tonnage as basis of taxation. Proposed legislation 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. 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. 1. Shipping commissioners' offices.. Sec. 3. Abolition of crew bonds.. Sec. 4. Correction of verbal error. Sec. 5. Wages of deceased seamen. Sec. 6. Sale of effects of deceased seamen. Sec. 7. Good conduct on coasting vessels.. Sec. 8. Abolition of entry and clearance fees on the Great Lakes. Sec. 10. Report of wrecks.. Sec. 11. Amendments to inland rules to prevent collisions. 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.. APPENDIXES. A. Shipping commissioners' reports.. Shipments, discharges, and expenses. Nativity of seamen.. 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.. 1. Wages on American vessels.. Tables showing monthly wages paid at American ports on American 2. Wages on British vessels Table 1, showing maximum, minimum, and ordinary wages for B. Wages of seamen (American and foreign)-Continued. 2. Wages on British vessels-Continued. Table 2, showing wages, as in Table 1, of first and second engineers, Table 3, showing wages paid to British able seamen on steam and 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 D. Opportunities for American shipping. Reports of United States consuls on shipping facilities at leading foreign Page. 118 119 120 121 121 121 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 124 125 125 125 126 126 126 127 127 127 127 127 128 128 128 128 129 129 129 130 130 139 131 131 132 132 132 132 132 133 133 133 133 135 135 E. Tonnage taxes.. Text of present law 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, and Manitoba. Marine hospital funds... Tonnage receipts and expenditures at lake ports.. Tonnage receipts and expenditures at lake ports during 1884 and 1894. Report of French Commission on operations of French subsidy law of G. British laws to protect seamen.. Laws to suppress crimping. Law abolishing imprisonment for desertion in ports of Great Britain.. Queenstown Southampton. Liverpool London Swansea. Plymouth Bristol Regulation of sailors' boarding houses. H. Pilotage... State pilot laws discriminating against sailing vessels with rates of I. Foreign measurement laws.. Austria Belgium France. Germany. Italy. K. State taxation of shipping. Minnesota law, 1895. Opinion of the Solicitor of the Treasury as to unconstitutionality of an Excerpt from Report of Commissioner of Navigation, 1894, concerning Synoptical table giving the international rules of 1885; rules of the Harbor lines designated by the Secretary of the Treasury dividing the Page. 152 152 153 153 154 155 156 157 157 157 157 158 158 158 159 159 159 180 181 181 185 185 185 186 186 187 188 189 189 189 190 193 193 197 198 199 199 200 201 201 201 202 202 202 202 203 204 205 210 212 240 |