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Show 1 IK I11CE MEKIE IS SIGNED Bureau Will Open Today With W. C. Delaney of New York in Charge. WASHINGTON". :-'ppt. C- -I'ih-'c S.i ni's niai'Hif-- war ri - k i i i n r;i n f burea u, J(" figiiC'i to inspire rnnfifjoin-1 in American snir.ptM-s aii'l to aid A morioa n t rado c-panrfinti, c-panrfinti, will he oj.ru for buinr:- tnmor-low tnmor-low at the treasury dopa rt rnent. President. Wilson signed t ho a't creat-ing creat-ing the bureau today and tonight Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo amiowiirt-il the. appointment of V. ' '. Df-lanev of New York, an underwriting un-derwriting insurance e:;pc;l, as director i if the burea u. Mr. Delaney will open an offi.-n tomm-i tomm-i ow ready to insure America n ship and American rnrvs in American ship?. His bureau will bo under Assistant Se re-iry re-iry IV tors. No renuests for insurance reached the bureau loniglu. Administration plans as to the merman mer-man t marine also moli definite form ii! Hi her directions today. A t a onferenre between the president. Secretary Iianiels and members of the naval affairs and merchant marine committees of the house, differences between the two committees com-mittees were smoothed out and It was decided to press one measure for the obtaining, ob-taining, of a government-owned fleet of 5 hips. t'liairman Alexander of the merchant marine committee reported favorably to ibe house, the bill providing for the or-ca or-ca nidation of a 510.000 company controlled con-trolled bv the government. v.hUh will buy or build freight-eai r Ing vessels. A S30,ooo,OOi.i iss;ie of Panama cana I bonds would be used to buy the ships, the government gov-ernment accepting; bonds of the company as reimbursement. It wat- derided at the conference to Amend tbis bill to allow the ships built ' or purchased by the company' to be util-i-.d hv the navy if necessary. The amendment is a compromise accepted by t lie na al commit ice members for their proposal that a fleet of naval auxiliary vessels be purchased to meet the emergencies emer-gencies of trade, the ships being used as cargo carriers as long as desirable. I resident Wilson made it clear at t he conference thai be believed no violation of 'neutrality was to be feared in the pur- hase even of some of the German steamers steam-ers now marooned in American ports. He agreed entirely wiih the position laken hv Secretary McAdoo yesterday be-foi be-foi e the merchant marine committee in urcing a favorable report on the Alexander Alex-ander bill. An executive order suspending certain sections of the navigation laws, as is au-Hiorized au-Hiorized under the registry bill passed last week, will be Issued tomorrow. .This and ths signing of the war risk bill remove re-move objections of various big shipping companies to placing their fleets under the American flag and such concerns as i he Tinted Fruit company, the Standard Oil companv. the United States Steel corporation cor-poration and the Dollar Steamship companv com-panv are exoected to make immediate applications. ap-plications. These companies alone would add 200 steamers to the American mer-cf.ant mer-cf.ant marine. |