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Ship Subsidy Lobby Faces Public Backlash in Congress
The Hanna Frye Payne ship subsidy bill is attacked as a powerful lobby effort by the International Navigation Company and allies. Senators Frye and Hanna are accused of steering the measure to benefit a few, with prominent figures from shipping, rail, and industry pressing for passage despite widespread opposition and cries of favoritism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moat
Petia Mall Scamiale
International Navigation Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Siandard
Compa
Wasmixarox
Hanna
Frye
Washington
Clement A. Griscom
George F. Edmunds
Vermont
United States
Charles H. Cramp
Philadelphia
O. P. Huntington
Congress
William P. Clyde
Thomas Clyde
Clyde Line
Aaron Vanderbilt
American Shipping League
H. P. Booth
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company
Samuel 8. Sewall
Hawin W. Hyde
Bath
Alexander R. Smith
Seaboard
New York Commerce Commission
Theodore
Search
National Association of Manufacturers
Senate
Senate Commercce Committee
New York
House
Edmunds
Thomas
Grosvenor
Third House
Francia
Thurber
Lewis Nixon
B. P. Wilson
Manufacturiia’ Association
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Standard Oil Company
W. H. Barnes
Alexander J. Cassatt
W. 8. Elkins
Standard of Company
Hanna-Frye Payne
Joseph
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Commissioner of Navigation
Griscom
Pacific
Atlantic
Great Britain
Germany
Aroad
St. Paul
Beneft
Hopee Tt