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THE POLICY OF PROTECTION. In hla argument before the Senate the other day Hon. Eugene Hale made several stunning points against the advocates of free ahlpa, who asked the question why America could not permit the free entry of foreign built ships as well at England. He went hack to the time of King Richard .{I, and cited ftotn the navigation laws the fol low(n|£ statute: "No subject of the kjng shall ship any merchandise outward or homeward lave In ships ot the king's alle¬ giance on penalty of the forfeiture"^ the cargo." For three hundred years that pol¬ icy continued. After the wars of the great rebellion In 1040, when England again found her maritime Interests at a very low ebb, on ncaount of the destuctlve internlclne struggles, and she found that the Dutch liad gained supremacy, she enacted another pro¬ tective law, read'ng as follow s: "No goods or oommoditles whatever of the growth, production, or mannlaoture of Asiu, Africa, 'or America,'Including our own plantation (all the colonies) shall be imported into England or Ireland or any of the plantations, except in Eng Ish built ships, owned by Eng¬ lish subjects, navigated by. English com manders, and with three-fourths of the sail¬ ors Englishmen." It Is thus quite evident , that she -did not take to any "Iree-shlp" policy to recuperate her falling maritime service. For years this extreme measure of protection prevailed, and it brought-Eng¬ land's shipbuilding ability up to a point of cheapness that could hot be touched by any other power. It was found In 1850 that these enactments had enabled her to so far 'Surpass In (his respect that she could abollah them and permit free entry for the very beat of reasons^ that no other nation could build and sell ships cheaper, and that the would be a gainer rather than a loser by a tree •hip policy. If our free-ship friends want to Imitate England in the matter of free ships, why do they not propose the course that ahe adopted—protept our shipbuilding Industry until It Is fqlly able to compete with any country—not destroj It by admit¬ ting England's cheaply built ships free of duty. CLEARANCE PAPERS. Some of the tug men, engaged In desultory towing up and down the lakes, appear to be tinbappy over the regulations by which they are governed. They say that in order, to leave- port they mutt takeout aolearanee. If they do not know where they are going, on account.of-their object being the oharioe capture of a tow, they make a random oholce of tome port to whloh to clear and then start out, having been careful to choose a port In a line with the direction they wish to tnke In search of employment. If they get it tow of course they must take it to Its destination, wherever that may be, If it hap¬ pens to he tho port to which the tug cleared the Is all right, but that is one chance in a hundred. In ninety-nine cases the tug Is obliged to go vt Ith her tow to n poi t lor which she, has no clearance, and when sue reaches one there Is trouble. Auothor cause of com¬ plaint It loufld In the regulation that requires a tug to have a olearanee for herself when un accompanied by a tow. She may, however, leave port with a tow- without n olearanee, bnt if she drops her tow for any oauie tho tug oan not entor a port alone without pa¬ pers. These appear to us very loose' regu¬ lations*. They put customs officers on their discretion In regard to tugs comlnglntoports with Improper olearanco or no olearanee at all, and, thero Is no alternative. If a clear¬ ance Is for (ho purpose of keeping a record of the movements of a vessel there It no wisdom In requiring ono whon a vessel has no Objective point, but merely goes out In searoh of a port, at she It In search of a tow. On the other hand It It eminently right that no-vessel should bo exempt on tills account. Somo remedy should be made for cases of this kind, and It strikes us that a sort of a wild¬ cat-clearance might be Issued, with the port ot destination left blank, to be flllod.ln nt the port of .arrival by the oustomt officer re¬ ceiving it, Could be made to serve the pur¬ pose. NEW TONNAGE MEASUREMENT. _ By the adoption of the new tonnage meas¬ urement an eminently proper step has been taken. Formerly no allowance was made fpr space taken up by machinery or boiler, that made unavailable for -stowage a large per centage of the room of all oraft pro¬ pelled by Steam.' tif course the Govern¬ ment no more than any one elso concerned in the matter could have Interest in a vessel outside ol its earning capacity, and mari¬ time men have long wondered why they should be taxed for carrying their own boil¬ ers and. machinery, the same as though the space assigned to their propelling apparatus were occupied by rate-paying cargoes. Now, however, by the law passed by tine last Con¬ gress nil these unavailable spaces are de¬ ducted from Iba gross measurement, which will moko a vast difference with steam oraft of all kinds' It also provides for leavlt.g out of account the quarters,occupied by the crew In salllrfg vessels. It Is a radical reform, certainly, and It would not be strange If, like all other radical changes, it does not go too far the other way. In about a month the government will Issue its annual list of vessels belonging to the merchant marine of the United-States, (the 10th,) and from It the new measurement of all vessels can be learned accurately. DEATH OF SAMUEL LORD Samuel Lord, one of the oldest and we may iay best mechanical engineers, died last Thursday the. 22d Inst, at the age.of, 69 yearn, Mr. Lord was connected for a number of years with the Globe Works when they flraptarted business in this city and was In charge of the engineering and maohlnery department, and together with other mem¬ bers of the Arm was one of the builders and owners of the Old yEiiin mills at Newburg. For a number ot years, iind up to the time of his death, he was associated with Mr. Bowler In the machinery business, during which time he has made many Improvements In steam engines and other machinery. By his death Cleveland Is deprived of one of her most progressive mechanics, a gentleman known throughout the west and southwest. Mr. Lord built the engines for the tugs Rumage, Mary Grundy and others. -------------------*----------------------1^ ^---------------------------------------------- Thkhk Is no marked change In the Iron market slnee our last report. Business gen¬ erally Is dull, but there It an undercurrent of silent activity in Iron that is moving per¬ haps the bulk of the visible supply and re¬ lieving the market sufficiently to preclude a plethoric condition. The 'close of next week will determine the wage Issue between the rolling mill proprietors and their em¬ ployes, and the result of the conference must be a matter of conjeoture limply. Tho ability of tho mills to pay the aoale demand¬ ed Is not considered by the workmen. Their attitude Indicates that the great enterprises they are employed 111 should be run solely for their lucratlvo compensation. Aside from those labor agitations the Iron Indus¬ tries of the country, though confessedly de¬ pressed, are not In a desperate condition nt all, and with good crops assured, and confi¬ dence hi monetury circles restored, a better feeling will prevail, and but tag will bo more liberal, and should the rolling mills continue running the demand for pig Iron wilt necessarily be Increased, at the stocks In the mill yards are very light. literarV'ijotices. • The Junk Ckntjib*.—Though thoro are four profusely illustrated papers In tho June Century, and four full-page pictures, this number of-the magazine Is perhaps even more notable lor lit literary feature! than for Its plotures. 01 spoclal Intorest It Hits Fnnnle Stone't "Diary of an American Girl In Cairo during the War of 1882." Presi¬ dent Eliot, of Harvard, discusses tho ques¬ tion, "What Is a liberal Education1?" In which he claims that the sciences and Eng¬ lish should be given leading -plaoet In the school and alto in the college coune. In "Topics of the Time," an editorial called "Reaping the Whirlwind" It a sequel to the editorial of the April Century entitled "Mob and Magistrate1" In "Open Letters," Dr. Charles S. Robinson continues hit series on church muslo with "What the Choirs Say;" £rqf. Rltter and Mr. Grant White break hincoa-over "Music In America." The Illus¬ trated papers of the June Century In their order, are "A French-American Sea port," And a part ol Mr. S. G. W, Benjamin's series describing hip cruise in the Alice May; a picturesque, anecdotal description, by Franklin H. North, of the seamen's retreat on Btaten Island, or "Sailors'Snug Harbttr," to which paper belongs the frontispiece of the number, an engraving from St. Gauden'a ttatue of Robert Richard Randall, the founder of Snug Harbor. In fiction, Henry Jame's new story, "Lady Barberina, In this number, concerns Itself wltlttho curnpljca- tlons/af marriage settlements;,Mr. table's "Dr. Sevier," Is oontlnued; and Robert Grant's story of "An Aveiage Mun" It con¬ cluded. The short story of the number Is by H. C. Bunner, entitled "The Red Silk Handkerchief." .The poetry It by clever writers. St. Nicholas, for June Is "a bright out-of- door number, nearly everjr article taking the reader out Into the woods and Holds, yet without sacrifice of the variety of subject and interest which Is 60-distinguishing a feature of the magazine. J.T.Trowbridge's serial, "Tbo Scarlet Tanager," showt how much easier tue hero found It-lo gel Into a scrape Hum to get out of It; "ilarvin and his Boy Hunters," Maurice Thompson's serial story, telle of hunting small game on the Indiana prairies. "The Ban ner of Beau- manolr," the'sixth of Miss' AlcottV "Spin¬ ning-wheel Stories," is a vivid boy and girl story of devotion and adventure in the Middle Ages; "Frederick of Hohenstaufen, the Boy Euiperor^US-J\noJhex_(if_E^S^ Brook's "Historic Boys." A live story for boys Is written by W. W. Fink, and called ."Two Boya ofMlgglesvllle." A hlntful paper for girls is "Margaret's 'Favor-Book,'" by Susan Anna Brown. The illustrations are numerous and beautiful.- NAUl'lCAL NOTES. The D. C. West hue again changed hands In Toronto. A project is on foot for a monster drydock at South Chicago. The tug American Eagle passed a satis¬ factory Inspection. It Is Insisted that the Argyle and Sevems struck the same rock. A new boat builder has made hls'ap- pearance on the Montreal road. The steamboat inspectors condemned the steamer Monitor and she Is laid up for re- pulrs.- The new D. and M. ore pier at Marquette will be ready for business by the middle of June. Iron steamers can load to 14 teet 8 indies and wooden vessels to 15 feet In crossing the Lime Kilns. The Injuries to the steamer Wocoken, by going aground are not believed to amount to much. The Bchooner C. K. King went Into the Wolverine drydock to stop u leak made while coming up Lake Erie. The schooner E. Taylor, whloh was ashore on Gull Bur pear the Brothers, has been re¬ leased by the Folger. The total lost of the propeller J. S. Seav- ems and cargo, which sunk on Lake Su¬ perior recently, was 132,034. The Lackawanna railroad will employ the steamers formerly oomprltlngahe Com¬ mercial line. The route Is Buffalo and Chi¬ cago. An expedition to ralse'the propeller Forest Queen, sunk fifteen years ago near the "Dummy," Is being fitted out at Amherst- burg. Jerry Crimmlngs, stroke oiis of the Queen City Rowing club's big crew, has been ap¬ pointed keeper of the lighthouse on Horse- shoo reel, near the Canadian shore. The owners of the schooner Jennie and Laurie and Nellie and Annie each claim $1500 of the schooner Little Georgy tor dam¬ age received lu a collision at Muskegon. May 2. Captain J. 8, Byron, of the tug boat CM. eago, waa fined f 25 by Justice Hawkins for ' stopping a tailing vessel In the draw of the Clark street bridge and compelling the bridge to be open seven minutes longer than was necettary. The defendent filed a bond to appeal the case. A libel was filed In the United States Dit> trfot Court against the barge Mary Stockton - in favor of Ward't Detroit and Lake Su¬ perior line by the propeller Hodge's master ~*' and crew for salvage In savjng the Stockton and her cargo of luinbei, round abandoned t;t sea, and taken to the port of Buffalo. The various steamboat lines have Issued ordcrjs/roahelr agenla it Chicago restricting them Trom accepting grain cargoes lot leu - than 2 cents oh corn and accents on wheat " to Buffalo. The propeller New York was . charterer: for corn and rye, and the Com. modore for corn. The fourth collision on Lake Michigan last' week occurred early Thursday morning off Sheboygan, when the schooner Marengo [ and an unknown vessel came together with a terrific crash. Tho h eather was very thick. TIih Marengo's anchor was carried offby the unknown vessel untlj eighty fathoms of chain were reeled out. when a orash was heard and the anchor (Teed Itself from \ha strange vessel. Some plank of the Marengo's bow were stove In and her staysail yard broken In, two* Captain Roach, of the Marengo, does not know what the other oraft is, but took her for a lumber vessel. Nothing had been heard from her along the shore. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. A petition was filed in the United States District Court, In this district, yesterday, by (Messrs. John W. Moore, Alexander Gilchrist, M. A. Hunna and R P6Hoq, the owners of the steambarge H. B Tuttle, which- is the first case of limitation that has ever come be¬ fore this court, and will attract much atten¬ tion, aa it involves the-steambarge H. B Tuttle, or 8)80,000, the sum the Silver Islet Consolidated Mining and Land Company place their damages at for the non-delivery of -a cargo of coaUo be delivered by the above- named steamer, shipped at Sandusky for Silver Islet, Ont The facta are that, on November 18, 1888, the steambarge H. B. Tuttle left Sandusky with a cargo of coal, bound for Silver Islet, Ont,, on the north shore of Lake Superior The water was low at Sandusky, and the Tuttle ran aground outside of the harbor. The heavy sea parried her rudder away, and a tug had to be)secured to tow her to Detroit At that port the boat was de¬ tained until necessary repairs were 'made -OrNovemberSOth she started on her voy age, but, In going up Lake Huron in a dense fog, she ran aground on North Point After being released she continued on the voyage, but the season of navigation being so far advanced, and gales frequent, the Tut tie waa compelled to teek shelter at Copper Harbor, and finally at L'Ance, where she was laid up for the winter, it being Impossible to continue. ' Sections 4288, 4284, 4285 and 4286 of R S, of tho United States limit the liabll ity of vessel owners to the value of the vessel and freight, and under these sections the peti tloners seek relief, in accordance with which the court has made an order restraining all persona, and the Silver Islet Consolidated Mining Company especially, from bringing suits against the owners of the Tuttle for claims againsj the boat. Messrs, Alva Bradley, George Presley and Thomas Wit son wore appointed by the court to appraise the value of the Interest each of the petitioning owners have In the barge They reported aa follows. John W, Moore 5 12,110,000, M. A. Hanna, 342, $6,000, R D. Pelton, 2-12, $4,000; and Alexander Oil Christ, 212, $4,000; total value of the Tuttlo, |04,0OO. The value of the freight 'in the barge was assessed at $2,681.75. The Silver Islet Consolidated Mining and Land Com pany wero commanded to appear in- court, September 2d, 1884, for the purpose of pre senting and proving their claim against, the barge. Earl Bill waa appointed commissioner to hear the claims brought In by any creditors who may exist_________________ The steamer Business, the first oraft to arrive at Port Arthur with coal this season, entered this port on Monday on return with ore from Marquette. [ Continued from tit Page.] fully understanding the position in which he had placed himself, decided to take Imme¬ diate action and informed the Canadian en¬ gineer that ho must revoke his license. The law in this ense precludes un Inspector from Issuing a license to an engineer who has not dbolnred his Intention of becoming a cltlwn of the United States. " 9-