11-9-34 Kansportation Library PREFATORY NOTE TO THIRD EDITION This edition is a reprint from the plates of the second edition, with certain additions, as follows: Pages 31-37 contain a supplementary list of books. Pages 59-60 contain Congressional documents of 1904-5. Page 70 contains a list. of speeches in Congress in 1906, printed in the Congressional Record. Pages 82-83 give articles in United States Consular Reports from 1903 to 1906. Pages 98-107 contain articles in periodicals from 1903 to 1906. Pages 115-116 contain articles in the Board of Trade journal from 1903 to 1906. Pages 117-119 contain articles in the diplomatic and consular reports of Great Britain from 1887 to 1906. A general survey of the history of subsidies and of the systems abroad and a discussion of the economic status of subsidies with conclusions hostile to the scheme is Meeker's History of shipping subsidies, forming a volume of the publications of the American economic association. For French subsidies Lagaillarde's Les primes à la marine marchande is to be noted, and for Germany, Schweiger's Schiffahrtssubventionen und ihr Einfluss auf Post, Admiralität, Schiffbau und Volkswirtschaft. The investigations of a special commission appointed by the United States Senate are set forth in the Report of the Merchant marine commission, together with the Testimony taken at the Hearings, published as Senate report no. 2755, Fifty-eighth Congress, third session. A general survey of the subsidy régimes in Great Britain, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, Russia and Japan is given in Verneaux's L'industrie des transports maritimes au XIX Siècle et au Commencement du xx° Siècle. The author index has been extended to cover new titles. The subject index is a feature of the present edition. HERBERT PUTNAM Librarian of Congress A. P. C. GRIFFIN Washington, D. C., June 21, 1906 3 INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION. This edition contains the following new material: Titles of works on navigation laws, including some of the principal Parliamentary reports; United States documents on the subject of mail subsidies, together with speeches found in the Congressional Globe, and the Congressional Record on the same subject. The list of books has been strengthened by the addition of newly discovered material in the library, and of works issued since the publication of the first edition. One of the most important documents noted is the report of the Parliamentary Commission on marine subsidies, which contains minutes of evidence, giving the opinion of shipmasters and officials of various ocean and steamship companies, together with statements of the system of bounties prevailing in the principal countries of the world. 66 The legislative history of the French law of 1901 is contained in the Annales de la Chambre des députés, Documents parlementaires," volume 57, pages 32-56, which includes a report of the Commission appointed to examine into means of encouragement to the merchant marine. The report by M. Thierry on the "Projet de loi sur la marine marchande" is also printed in the same publication, volume 59, pages 4-22. Two works of comprehensive character published within the year are to be noticed: Marvin's The "American merchant marine; its history and romance from 1620 to 1902," New York, 1902, which is favorable to subsidies; and "Bates's American navigation; the political history of its rise and ruin and the proper means of its encouragement," Boston and New York, 1902, the aim of which is to show that the advancement of the merchant marine is to be brought about by protective duties instead of by subsidies. The following periodicals devoted to shipping and allied interests contain editorials and incidental articles on subsidies: Marine journal, New York, weekly; Marine review, Cleveland, weekly; The Nautical gazette, New York, weekly; The American syren and shipping, New York, weekly; and The Shipping world and Herald of commerce, London, weekly; The Steamship, Leith, monthly. The various sections of the list have been brought up to date. HERBERT PUTNAM, Librarian of Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27, 1903. |