...a vessel of the United States. The joint resolution of Congress approved April 28, 1904, provides: Vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...no others, shall be employed in the transportation bv sea of coal, provisions, fodder, or supplies of any description, purchased pursuant to law, for...

...the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...by sea of coal, provisions, fodder, or supplies of an}' description, purchased pursuant to law, for the use of the Army or Navy unless the President shall...

...the United States. 412. Employment of vessels of the United States for public purposes. Apr. 2S.1904. Vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...supplies of any description, purchased pursuant to Iaw5 for the use of the Army or Navy unless the President shall find that the rates of freight charges...

...the employment of vessels of the United States for public purposes,'' (Public — No. 198), requiring vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...be employed in the transportation by sea of coal, etc., for use of 'the Army or Navy, unless the President shall tind that the rates of freight charged...

...shipments of coal in foreign bottoms to the Pacific coast. 3. The act of April 28, 1904, provided that " vessels of the United States or belonging to the United...employed in the transportation by sea of coal, provisions * * * for the use of the army and navy, unless the President shall find that rates of freight charged...

...approved April 28, 1904 (33 Stats., 518). The relevant portion of this statute is as follows: " That vessels of the United States, or belonging to the United States, and no other*. shall be employed in the transportation by sea, of coal, provisions, fodder, or supplies of...

...eastern to western ports in American and foreign bottoms, quoted the act of April 28, 1904 : " That vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...the President shall find that the rates of freight charged by said vessels are excessive and unreasonable, in which ease contracts shall be made under...

...a vessel of the United States. The joint resolution of Congress approved April 28, 1904, provides: Vessels of the United States, or belonging to the...no others, shall be employed in the transportation bv sea of coal, provisions, fodder, or supplif s of any description, purchased pursuant to law, for...

...there Is a distinction between these two kinds of vessels, for in the first line It Is stated that "vessels of the United States or belonging to the United States, and no others, shall be employed," and so forth. This Is a congressional Interpretation that differentiates " vessels of the United States,"...

...those of the United States or belonging to the United States in the transportation of supplies, etc., " purchased pursuant to law for the use of the Army or Navy," with certain express exceptions which do not apply in this case. The Attorney General, in construing...