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Show S!f PURCHASE' BILUHDBRSED PROMPT ACTION URGED BY SENATE BODY TO PUT VESSELS, UNDER AMERICAN FLAG. Believed That Measure Would Result in Great Benefit - to. Producers, Business Men and Bankers . of the Whole Country. Washington. Initiating the aggres-v:7e aggres-v:7e fight to be waged in congress for I passage of the government ship purchase pur-chase bill, majority members of the senate commerce cotnmittee on Wednesday Wed-nesday filed a report recommending the measure. The report filed by Senator Fletcher, acting chairman, quoted freely from the report submitted by Secretaries McAdoo and Retlfield on general shipping conditions, showing enorm-.ous enorm-.ous increases -in ocean transportation Vce the European w;ar began. J Unquestionably," said the report, Iw-e had additional ships under the J'rican flag the situation would rap-:mprove rap-:mprove and much of the distress" .lucers, business men and bank-; "inly in the south, but through-untry, through-untry, would be relieved. urgent. There is no tell-the tell-the disturbance abroad tioy long, therefore, we s the requisite action d. in a letter writ-.her writ-.her to accom-Vared accom-Vared that for V es had . ...gone, Mpping in the Vl'like a de-delivery de-delivery Skf'titors |