Powerful Appeal by Col. Stimson That U.S. Laws Should Not be Applied Washington, Oct. 24.
Col. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee and voiced opposition to. the Vandenberg resolution which would seek to extend American coastwise shipping laws to, the Philippines.
The former Philippines Governor-General said that American shipping in the Philipp is insufficient and that the American fies over only 10 per cent. of to the fact that United States relations in the Orient were built up on the "open "if we should continued Colonet would remark upon ould be inealeatable, ion in the entire Orient:
our actions in the ment. I bog you not to do anything which might mar our great Press. fature in the Orient."—United
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