Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-15 | Page 8 | Proposes Government Steamship Service

Proposes Government I Steamship ip 1 Service Washington lon March 14 Represent H. Represent Representative o aU Stevens of ot California announced toda today that lint If It the free treo passage provision of the Panama canal act were werA repealed b by Congress Cong he hc would Introduce and press at the extra session a bill to provide a a. line Une of owned government steamships from the Atlantic to tho the Pacific to carry carr both passengers and freight Ho lie believes the Uw ownership and operation of ot a n. fleet of vessels by bythe bythe bythe the government o would act net as a regulator regulator reg rog of ot freight rates both b by water and rail ran