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Show ILK ISIS mmm sks Congress for Huge Sum to Wind Up Ship- ! ping Program. ' S i ; '. iV ". J u :u v - - Chairman : V o! V.-.f rW b-Vud h.is : vcd Cl-vs jM- . ll .U'lVV:,;,,;;,,, llf H to l'-O'O ih.'.M VV'.V: A .'., lo Wind up -:T.iicn;'.s j.Iii;.hu:M.g oivra- . s-.i".t. lie s.is, wVch w!' ;mnK't, vwr o: imlmul; United St.! to.- : t';'lw;Mi: nation to i'iit p;..o t hv 0:1 !:.( Vmeriean nuiv.umlo r:i;e tVel tivm a r.t'.;iu:i!!o uu.mMlv j-ccond plc. Hv-tu.ii'v us J di,0 ''i.Oi'ii i v:::;:'.s :i:iv.ul h.is ;uii ho'-l .-.ed. proont n,v.!, of the hlpbulMing .-.-.im. .is riia:i na:i Hurley on . hues tv. laUo into e,r.-uder.i'.Mri tho an-ii: an-ii: iom or s.iM'.'iisin of co-;t i ris ur ,".p-, w'-. :ci a. ore vi!l ( a sav or trove t :an l.t'iM.tVi. T,;o ad- iSl-a-.wri of t.:0 whole bpst- s w.i: bo oalv i.';' por cent of I ho fh-.al t'word.'.uro, "l-en all is tnv, Chairman llurlov u-t out in a letter To Chairman ilood the house :Vp:-e"ruttor..s ommtttee. il.7." "O.M will li.ivo boon epcmUl in country's treat effort, which will bo W!l 111 l.'.'. Oil deadweight terns O- s on the s.ms. Although n cost of a deadweight ton is ind!c.itd. tho t:il oos: to the goverrurei-.t w ,11 bo for the reasons ho outlined, n fol- "v.o sVpivai! Icrs have paid into the ted States tro.t.-';; income ami ev-oroiV.s ev-oroiV.s taes auciec.uing ?pi a do.nl-:ht do.nl-:ht Ton on tho vessels !hoy hav emoted. em-oted. Others have paid iho Ovpiiva-of Ovpiiva-of 5.0 a ton. It is estimated that at t :; a dead weht ion ha; boon rr-ed rr-ed to t1' treasury m this manner by . . -luphmlviers. This J oos ni't in- t any taxos p.'.id by the hnndreds of ;;r.:io oocrao:os who maMiraoturooJ s;oo!, tho boilors. tlio maohinory a:ul 'many otbor t:..r.-s whi.-h i;o into tho h'a: when i-raii iolioi.1 by 1 :1. .".. 10 vo!i; ; tor's, i: mo.ioatos a robato of !J7' which. ih.n suhtraot--(t f-om t !7.".:-:. !oavos S'.SO a doa.! wcrr.u is the a.-tu.i', oost ;o th.e .to ornim-nt ho root w hie a rlayecl an cssom tial m the winT.rc oi :ho war. r.nd wliioh I uv a pe:-:rane:it conrnuTo!:.! asset of Vr.-.er'.oan people. |