port of call instead of two on the Southern Atlantic coast;
guarded against "discrimination detrimental to the public interest," in
other words "combines," by a provision that no contract be awarded to
any bidder engaged in any competitive transportation business by rail,
or in the business of exporting or importing on his own account, or
bidding for or in the interest of any person or corporation engaged in
such business, or having control thereof through stock ownership or
otherwise; and fixed the limit of the total expenditure for foreign mail
service in any one year at four million dollars. This substitute was
finally passed on February 12, 1911, by a vote of 39 to 39, the chairman
casting his vote in the affirmative. In the House the measure went to
the committee on post office and post roads; and there rested.

Various other subsidy bills and measures for the revival of the ocean
merchant marine without subsidies, were put into this Congress, as in
previous ones, but few escaped from the committees; and these few fell
short of passage.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote FS: Wells, chaps. 4 and 5, pp. 58-94. Also Rept. of
commissioner of navigation for 1909.]

[Footnote FT: U.S. Statutes at Large. Also Rept. of commission of
navigation, 1909.]

[Footnote FU: Marvin, pp. 240-241.]

[Footnote FV: U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. V, p. 748.]

[Footnote FW: This contract in Executive Document, 30th Cong., 1st sess,
no. 50.]

[Footnote FX: U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. IX, p. 152.]

[Footnote FY: Meeker.]

[Footnote FZ: U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. IX, p. 187.]

[Footnote GA: Meeker.]

[Footnote GB: For the Sloo contract see Exec. Does., 32nd Congr., 1st
sess., no. 91.]

[Footnote GC: For this contract see Exec. Docs., 32nd Cong., 1st sess.,
no. 91.]

[Footnote GD: Meeker. This contract in Exec. Docs., 32nd Cong., 1st
sess., no. 91, pp. 71-74.]

[Footnote GE: Navy appropriation bills, Aug. 3, 1848, March 3, 1849.]

[Footnote GF: U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. IX, p. 188.]

[Footnote GG: Exec. Docs., 30th Cong., 1st sess., no. 51.]

[Footnote GH: Exec. Docs., 30th Cong., 1st sess., no. 51.]

[Footnote GI: Marvin, p. 243.]

[Footnote GJ: Meeker.]

[Footnote GK: Report in the Senate Sept. 18, 1850, in Exec. Docs., 32nd
Cong., 1st sess., no. 91, pp. 14-15.]

[Footnote GL: Meeker.]

[Footnote GM: For contract see Exec. Docs., 32nd Cong., 1st sess., no.
91, pp. 154-157.]

[Footnote GN: Exec. Docs., 32nd Cong.,