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Show I Cost a Million Dollars to Carry Coal for Fleet's Voyage. f i 'Washington. Hear Admiral Cowles, f v chief of tho bureau of equipment, np- peared on Wednesday boforo tho houso commtttco on navnl affairs In tho hear. lng Incident to consideration of tho i naval appropriation bill. Admiral I i j Cowles Informed tho commlttco that B I tho cost of transportation of coal for K I tho fleet now sailing to San Francisco ft , will bo $1,000,000. Without making j any corrective recommondntlons, ho I called attention to tho fact that, with ; 8 j ft slnglo exccptlon( tho colllors char- ! torod to accompany tho lleot nro for- I olgn bottoms, Amorlcnn owners hav- ! j Jng declined to glvo charters oven at S , tho CO por cent ndvanco over foreign j i quotations which tho govornmont of- I j fered. Tho reason for their refusal I ; i was that American vessels could mako I i f moro money by plying In tho coast h i wlso trado. |