Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-20
ROW OVER PINCHOT
METHODS EXPECTED
Opposition to Endorsement oi
Forest Service VIII Probably
Develop Before ReSo-
lullonS Are Pre-
Sented.

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Joe" Cannon to whom Ic referred
a. a political ear, Judge j. b. Bel
ford. of Colorado, this morning liken-
eG the Trans Mississippi Commercial
congress to the national body and
said that the delegates to the com
mercial congress are herded into q
convention hall and made to support
the action on public measures as
planned by a few leaders
What's the use he said. "of mill
lions of people west of the Mississip-
pi being represented here if we have
to sit still and be injected with a few
spoOnfuls of prepared rhetoric?"
Belford gained his point by tn,
adoption of motion providing thai
the rules be $ amended as to give an
hour day for free discussion.
1t is PROBABLE that there will be a
fight in the resolutions committee
ever the ersolution presented by w.
G.. stone. of Colorado. commencing
the work OF the national forestry bu
roau under Pinchot.
Further railroad rate resolutions
were presented today and will be
threshed OUT in committee. John w
Milliken as the chief speaker of the
morning, his subject dealing with
improved conditions in the northwest
should Aid shipping.
George w. DicKey, naval architect
of san Francisco was one of the
principal speakers before the congress
and devoted his remarks to "the res
toration Of the foreign shipping trade
of the United states"
OF the two methods proposed for
the restoration of American shipping
in the foreign carrying trade, one the
levying of discriminating charges
against foreign ships and their cargo
and entering American ports, the
other government aid to the ship
owner in the foreign trade. Mr..
Dickey said the distinction is simply
one of method. with no difference in
the result or the final settlement of
the cost Of obtaining it, In either
case the people would have to pay.
Nevertheless" he said, 81 believe
il is being more and more convincing
every day that a large foreign COM
merce carried in our own ships with
all that means must be made possible
by such aid as the government can
give and liberal enough to insure sue
cess.
There is a time coming when our
increasing population will be more
largely urban than now, when fac
tories Will multiply more rapidly than
farms, when the United states will
need new and important markets.
The world may come to us i'm its own
special ships for the products OF our
farms and raw materials from our
mines, hut vii not come in it's own
ships for the finished products of our
factories When that time comes
and il is nearer than most of US think,
we will need, and must have inter-
national merchants 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 product
to those who need them.
This people will pay without a
murmur for a big navy. But no one
seems to think that the business Of
such ships is to fight, and to fight ef-
fectually there must be auxiliary to il
"A great merchant fleet of ocean gO-
ing steamships to keep il in fuel, men
and supplies If this fleet of ours
should be unfortunately called upon
some day To do the thing il was built
for, how would we keep il supplied
with the needrul? No one cares to
answer that.
81 believe that the first duty of the
United States to establish permanent
lines OF communication between our
ports and principal ports Of the world
and particularly those where our
products would be most likely To ind
a market. Such service should be
by American vessels, wholly
owned by citizens Of the United
states. They should be Differed by
citizens Of the United States and
reasonable proportion of their
crews should be citizens OF the Uni
ted States. such a service would not
be cheap. But the result would be a
steady growth of foreign commerce,
new markets for our products and a
feet of merchant steamships ready
for government service when requir-
ed"
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