OCR Text |
Show To Use Idle Transports. WASHINGTON, March 28. Representative Represen-tative McLaehlan of California today took up with Secretary of War Dickinson the question of utilizing army transports on tho Pacific coast to establish a government govern-ment steamer line to be connected by the Panama railroad with the government-owned government-owned lino on the eastern coast. Mr McLachdan has discovered that five of the eighteen government transports ari now idle In the ports of Now York am1 San Francisco, and might be avallabl! for that use. |