Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-20
FORMER SENATOR
PATTERSON HITS
CHIEF FORESTER
COLORADO S0L0N BRINGS UP
OLD CONTROVERSY
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PRE-,
VENT LONG TALK
Western Delegates at Convention in
Denver Won Over East, When
Appeal for coastwise
Traffic Was Made
rBy Associated Press.l

4 EN- Elk, COlO., aug. l5.-I0e west
had its inning in the Transmissis-
- sippi commercial congress today,
when congress was appealed to in aid
! of movement to regulate the coast
wise traffic as we'll as to enlarge the
present scope of gulf coast shipping.
After much discussion the friends of
| beet sugar had adopted Il resolution
favoring the development of the beet
sugar industry and opposing further
concession to sugar coming from pres
ent and future possessions of the
| United States
The beet sugar men for the last two
days have been urging the aid of the
| congress in commencing opposition to
concessions to imported sugar.
Arthur r. Briggs Of San Francisco
presented a petition on the merchant
| marine, which had been prepared
| Jointly by himself and Edward w
| DicHie also of San Francisco. John
| D. Milliken of Denver spoke of the
needs of the northwest.
| San Antonio. Tex, was selected for
! the next years place of meeting, and
! Col. Ike r. Pryor of San Antonio was
| chosen by the executive committee as
| the only candidate for president.
Speaks on Shipping
Mr.. Dickie spoke on "The Restora-
ton of the Foreign Shipping Trade of
| the United States"
| OF the two methods proposed for the
restoration of the American shipping
| in the foreign carrying trade, one, the
| levying of discriminating charges
against foreign ships and their cargoes
| entering American ports, the other
government aid to the ship owner in
the foreign trade, Mr.. Dickie said the
distinction was simply one of the
method with no difference in the re-
suit or the final settlement of the cost
! Of obtaining it. In either case the
people would have to pay.
Nevertheless he said, "I believe
it is becoming more and more convinc-
ing every day that a large foreign COM
merce carried in our ships with all that
means must be made possible by such
aid as government can give and lib
eral enough to insure success.
''There is time coming when our
increasing population will be more
largely urban than now, when
tories will multiply more rapidly -aaa
farms, when the United States viii
need new and important markets The
world may come to us in it's own ships
for the products of our farms and raw
materials from our mines, but will not
come in it's own ships for the finished
products of our factories.
When that time comes-and it is
nearer than most of us think-we will
need and must have international mer-
chants to sell for us in foreign lands,
international bankers to arrange our
| credits with those who buy from us,
and an international merchant marine
to carry our products to those who
need them.
Will Pay for Big Navy
"This people will pay without a mur-
mur for big navy. But no one seems
-
ships is to fight, and to fight effec-
tually there must be auxiliary to it u
great merchant fleet of ocean-going
| steamships to keep 1t in fuel and sup
1 plies. If this fleet of ours should be
unfortunately called upon some day
to do the thing it was built for how
would we keep it supplied with the
needful. No one cares to answer that.
81 believe the first duty of the United
States is to establish permanent lines
! of communication between our ports
of the world, especially those where
our products would be most likely to
find market. The character of the
service of these lines should be clearly
| stated and bid for such service received
| from responsible ship owners, and the
service should be for fifteen years
that such service should be by Ameri-
can-built vessels, wholly owned by Il
citizen or citizens of the United States
zens of the United States and a rea-
sonable proportion of their crews
| should also be citizens of the United
| States. Such a service would not be
| cheap. But the result would be Il
steady growth of foreign commerce.
new markets for our products and
fleet of merchant steamships ready for
government service when required"
Patterson Jumps Pinchot
Despite the efforts of leaders in the
Transmissssippi commercial congress
to prevent the introduction of the
! Pinchot- Ballinger controversy, former
United States Senator Thomas NJ. Pat
terson of Denver prepared an attack on
Clifford Pinchot this morning, which
was curtailed in part by the action of
the congress in declining to give addt-
tional time to Mr.. Patterson, wha
wished to present resolution in full en-
form than allowed by the rules OF the
| congress.
Senator Patterson's resolution cited
board of inquiry, composed of Mr
| Pinchot and four other Scientis
some time ago reported the boundaries
of the forest reserves are not defin
! and many places include grazing alid
agricultural lands. He declared addi-
tional laws are not necessary, but that
the president now has the authority to
| declare these boundaries in q moro
definite way, thereby dividing the for
ests from the arabic lands and sowing
to the people many thousand acres OF
land now held in reserve as forest
lands.
Mr. Patterson declared inasmuch as
! Mr.. Pinchot has himself cOncurred in a
report which says the boundaries are
untrue. it will be no Illegal act for the
president to give back to the people the
lands to which they are entitled.
Believes Lands Are withdrawn
This, he said, is the contention of the
people of Colorado, who believe they
are being deprived of lands to which
they are entitled under the homestead
act.
Mr. Patterson asked that he be given
! twenty minutes in which to present his
resolution, but the delegates declined
to take this view and his remarks were
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