Excerpt from To Prohibit the Payment of Gratuities to the Masters of Vessels: Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second Session on H. R. 9572; Thursday, January 15, 1920 I know, from my own Oxperience, very little about this. Although I have lived in a seaport town all of my mature life, I know very little about the facts the bill is supposed to remedy, but there are gentlemen here who can state them, and I would also like to intro duce a number of letters I have received. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.