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Show URGES PASSAGE OF SHIP PHISE BILL Senator Fletcher Says That America Is Helpless in Face of Opportunity. WASl IIN'fiTi . Pee. ;in. ti kIiir In Ht ronp t ithis p.-fs;ih'e, of the admlnIM ru -t Ion ship pure ha so bill. Senator Hi-tch:r lodn.v, lor tbu m-'ij"iity of the commerce commit tec, present ed a report on the measure to the senate. Inrorpoi ated was a l.tt.-r from riecretury lUdlleld. Mr. l'.cdfbld wrote: i Wo I ut ve paid nine September 1 OUf whole fleet I In1 ehl v I In .-h abroad, In koo.Im. and h o ,ks as if I ceti-h.-r liLui", HCli HUM eoltotl lil"'lllt; slowly, slow-ly, would ehow u fft u balance on no-i hsiidih) t ru nsa'-t loiif of $lno,- (Klll.lUJll, Tlie revolt, after dscribiiiK' hazards and dif.'lctilMi-s of I lansporl t uy Aiuettcau corn-nie' corn-nie' t! Mie'e. tho War bean, deelarefll We have been content hitherto to subserve the InlereHtb of European Moeulii'ldrra (bt hiilpn imdor foreign fl.is. We now Kei- cleariy that tlirt fciuines of war or the naval Interests of a bell i Keren i ma y at any lime slop our ii'iiiif-poi'Uition movement entirely. en-tirely. LiesenhlnK- the abundant crops of the I ' ni ted Slates and th demand from Kurope for American products, tiie report U i i.'H'es: "We am all but helpless in the fare of t h largest i-r; ort unity w o have ever known." In his letter Hecretarv Redfb-M pointed out thai tho Putted Slate-, had been like a store with a delivery system furnished only at ihu will ut Us co.i ip.-i 1 1 ors. With I he en 1 1 a n,-e of A rue i lean prod uct Into harp C"rnp.-tition with tno of Germany d nd l'n.,1 nd abroad, he wrote. It was lo be eipci led that freiut rates on Arner- '' on k Is transported In German or Knj?- i:sh shij.i would K'i up. This already had been the e.iHe. ruteg, in pome instanceb by .'UiK' iloul'led. As to ih present situation of the United Slate, the necrctary said, "It seems hs If we r in the verv transition from being a de!.tir to a creditor nation." and thai the josdh!Iiv of aiding I si t In - A mern-a n rt-puiilb-M nnitnclally was lo-unlr close. The orie urgent need to make that possible, pos-sible, he HiUifd, was mi American-owned and controlled merchant mnnne. |