APPENDIX E. GOVERNMENT AID TO SHIPPING. The following reports, laws, documents, etc., concerning the nature and extent of Government contributions to merchant shipping are printed to elucidate and extend statements in the text of the report. UNITED STATES. 1. The following statement, furnished by the honorable the Postmaster-General, shows the payments of the United States for the transportation of ocean mails. Contract payments, in the nature of subsidies, are indicated. Most of the payments, including those to foreign steamships, are at the international rates of postage, and are not to be regarded as subsidies. Statement showing the steamship lines by which mails were dispatched from the United States to foreign countries during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, the terminals of each line, whether the vessels employed were of United States or of foreign register, and the amount of compensation paid to each line for the services of its United States and of its foreign steamers, respectively. (1) Vessels of United States register, not under contract, receive $1.60 per pound for letters and post cards and 8 cents per pound for other articles, unless lower rates have been actually agreed upon. (2) Vessels of foreign register receive 5 francs per kilogram (about 44 cents per pound) for letters and post cards and 50 centimes per kilogram (about 43 cents per pound) for other articles. TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE. Name of line and terminals. Register. Compensa tion. International Navigation Co., New York to Southampton (contract service). International Navigation Co., Philadelphia to Queenstown and Liverpool. Cunard, New York to Queenstown and Liverpool. .do Cunard, Boston to Queenstown and Liverpool .do 183, 597.59 248.61 North German Lloyd, New York to Cherbourg, Southampton, and North German Lloyd, New York to Naples and Genoa.. White Star, New York to Queenstown and Liverpool.. Hamburg-American, New York to Cherbourg, Southampton, and Compensation, $60,000 per annum, less $1,000 per trip for four trips performed by steamers of foreign register, and $80,000 additional authorized by act of Congress. New York to Porto Rico, Venezuela, and Dutch West Indies (contract service). New York to Venezuela and Dutch West Indies (noncontract service) Trinidad Shipping and Trading Co., New York to Venezuela and West Indies. New York and Porto Kico, New York to Porto Rico. New York and Cuba Mail: New York to Mexico (contract service). Clyde, New York to Haiti, Santo Domingo, etc Royal Mail, New Orleans to Central America. Oteri's Pioneer, New Orleans to Republic of Honduras. Morgan, New Orleans to Cuba... Camors, New Orleans to Cuba. American Mail, Boston and Philadelphia to Jamaica (contract service). Snyder Banana, New Orleans to Costa Rica and Republic of Honduras. San Francisco to Mexico.. San Francisco to British Columbia' $43,675. 19 2, 868. 13 42, 902. 00 1,791.66 603.63 3, 164.60 87,670.00 59, 346. 00 7, 010. 67 3, 583. 05 8,901.60 496. 27 14.87 4.72 56, 907.34 255.01 578.37 34.49 109.25 3.48 319, 920. 33 2 Compensation, 2 cents a letter. Puget Sound and Alaska, Port Townsend to British Columbia 2. Pacific Mail (inward), from pursers of United States vessels to San Francisco 2 Total 1 Compensation, 1 cent a letter. Quebec, New York to West Indies and Venezuela Trinidad, New York to West Indies and Venezuela.. Royal Dutch West India Mail, New York to West Indies and Venezuela. Demerara, New York to West Indies Red D, New York to West Indies, Venezuela, and Colombia.. Earn, New York to Cuba.. Camors, New York to Cuba New York and Porto Rico, New York to Porto Rico New York and Central American, New York to Jamaica and Central America Quaker City, New York to Jamaica Buckman's Fruit, New York to Jamaica American Mail, New York to Jamaica Boston Fruit, New York to Jamaica Mobile Fruit, Mobile to Colombia.. $6,815. 11 3,059, 05 997.99 1,969. 49 978. 29 877.04 4,045. 13 888.38 376.48 2,366. 72 430.74 89 7, 134. 19 165. 21 316.66 2, 170.30 626.40 172.87 468.38 1,994. 22 350.48 40.95 13.33 237.42 54.99 13.22 472.21 690. 16 409. 15 122. 31 43.26 65. 19 Panama Railroad Steamship Line, New York to Colon Snyder Banana, New Orleans and Mobile to Colombia, Costa Rica, etc. Central American and Commercial, New Orleans to Costa Rica, etc.. 2. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PACKET SERVICE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1899. a A second service in each direction is provided at the cost of the French post-office. b These contracts are for parcel mails only. c The payments in these cases depend upon the weight of mails conveyed by the packets. 2. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PACKET SERVICE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1899-Cont'd. a These sums represent the Imperial share of the cost of the services. b The payments in these cases depend upon the weight of mails conveyed by the packets. c These contracts are for the parcel mails only. 3. BRITISH NAVAL RESERVE APPROPRIATIONS. ROYAL NAVAL RESERVES. Estimate of the sum which will be required in the year ending March 31, 1900, to defray the expenses of the royal naval reserve and the retired officers and seamen pensioner reserve. Two hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds (£271,000). II. Subheads under which this vote will be accounted for: Numbers. III. DETAILS OF THE FOREGOING ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.1 Pay, allowances, and contingent expenses of Royal Naval Re- A.-Expense of the Royal Naval Reserve. For the year: Lieutenants.....Pay, at 10s. per diem each......\ For maneuvers (estimated at 35 days): Lieutenants ...Pay, at 10s. per diem each.. Sublieutenants ..Pay, at 5s. per diem each.... Messing, at 1s. per diem each serves (estimated at 91 days): For course of instruction in the Home Dockyard Re Senior engi... Pay, at 20s. per diem each. neers. £14, 340 1, 245 6,480 360 546 42 1,106 Estimates. 1899-1900. 1898-99. ance, at 5s. per diem each Messing, at 28. per diem each Pay, at 17s. per diem each... Subsistence and lodging allow- Retaining fees to officers who after 12 months' train- 983 5,550 2,400 £33, 052 £30, 804 1 Provision of £3,280 is made in the civil service estimates under the vote for the "Board of Trade' on account of the charge imposed upon the office of the registrar-general of seamen in respect of work performed exclusively by that department in connection with the Royal Naval Reserve Force. (See page 5 of the Navy Estimates.) |