I wish to say that both the Committee on Commerce of the Senate and the committee in the House stand committed to 100percent American personnel upon these ships. We have gone further already than ever before and have made exception only as regards passenger ships which come from foreign ports. where it is necessary that the deck stewards and the diningroom stewards should have a knowledge of French or Spanish or some other language in order that they may be efficient servants. But we have determined that the deck officers and all the subordinate officers. that the seamen and. so far as possible. the stewards shall be American citizens. native born or fully naturalized. That has been our aim in the framing of the pending bill. I have already indicated that the bill provides for the establishment of a maritime authority.
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