Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — AMERICA TO MEET RATE CUT [ARTICLE]

AMERICA TO MEET RATE CUT

U. S. Shipping Board Prepared to Fight Britain’s Effort to Seize <• Markets. Washington, Jan. 31. —America will meet and, if necessary, more than meet any cut in shipping rates the British may see fit to make in their effort to seize control of the markets and 'ocean transportation. That was the flat assertion at the shipping board headquarters. While th* chiefs of the division of operations were in conference preparing to slash rates still further, especially rates to South’America, the first rumblings-of belligerency came from the direction of congress. Sharp criticism of England's embargo against American products was voiced on the floor of the senate, and talk of reprisals came from both sides of the chamber.