Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-09-12
BORDER PORTS.
REQUEST u. S.
REPRESENTATIVE j. N. GARNER IS
BOMBARDED BY CITIZENS or LA
REDO AND EAGLE PASS, AND
Brownsville MAY COME IN.
Ell Paso Has Already Been Taken Care
of and Now Other Border Points Are
Asking that License Agents
Be Established.

The following article from Washington
by W. :. Gard. the Houston Pos; Staff
correspondent. will be Of interest 10 local
exporting houScs:
Exporters along the Texas border are
bombardlng the export administrator
with requests Tor the establishment Of
agents at these points To facilitate the
transaction of the routine commercial
business which links Texas and Mexico
cities. An agency nj RI Paso, il j. point
ell out. j. a necessity. and on" Of the FIRST
place, To receive attention IN order not
to interfere with current business will be
that city.
Representative Garner has been asked
by Laredo and Eagle Pass 10 have liccn~-
ing agents designated for those places.
and it l. his understanding that Browns
vile j. preparing Ia make the same re-
quest.
Since nearly every article of commerce
which enters into the Texas Mexican
trade i on the embargo list il i the be
lief of Garner that these requests will he
complied with.
Al the offices If the export admins
traiion board. it was stated ihat there
ha~ been Such a rush of work Il has been
found impossible to work ont all 81 the
necessary details looking to the cniorre-
mcnt and administration ~ the president \
hast embargo proclamation.
Chairman Mccormick will BE- absent,
from hi office tor two or three DAYS. and
IL was said nothing world W. done look
ing Ia the appointment ~ licensing agent
AZ points where there y no ~upoiiIce 81
the department 81 commerce until h. re
turns.
The Information WAS given that ~"
board j. disposed IT, extend every accom-
mediation possible which will ont weaken
the efficiency of the embargo. and The
belief i entertained that the necessary
licensing agents will soon be appointed #
Iit can he home without weakening govern
ment supervision of exports.
There have been a number OF requests
from Texas cotton exporters AND the m,r-
chants who export goods to Mexico tor q
temporary suspension al the embargo an
til some plan for it, enforcement and exc
cution can 81 blocked out.
To all such requests the reply y made
that the board has no power 70 suspend
The president order. and th,t 4 must b.
enforced 10 the. letter.
Under these conditions the original pro
visions. which call for the application III
he agent at New Orleans for export
license ON shipments 10 the allies and ~
he board nj Washington on shipments u
III ncutral~. especially a. To cotton. will
be enforced for the present. a rcpr"-,n-
l%tativc of the Galveston Cotton exchange
4, On route "a Washington al M" instance
n senator Sheppard Ia take ~ with tn
board the matter Of locating 4 licensing
agent ~ Galveston and "a obtain clear ia.
structions regarding the method - pro.
curing the necessary license and what 1
Expected 10 comply with the law.
The Houston exchange has also beer
Invited 10 send q representative here.
The export administrator board ~
pears 10 be better able To- get the cmbare'
regulations under way than the food ad
mini~tration board.
The Womcn'~ National Farm and Gar