The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-07-21
SHIPPING DISPUTE Unsettled
GOETIIAI.S AND DENMAN RE.
MAIN At ODDS.
Dcnman Explains Boards Position
and Urges General To Attend Spc-
cial Meeting Soon TO he Held.

Washington, July 17.-Differencos
between Chairman Denman of the
shipping board and Mai. Gen. Goeth-
ais. manager Of the boards fleet cor
poration. which have halted the gov
ernment's shipbuilding programme,
apparently were far from q settlement
tonight.
Gen. Goethals. who yesterday post
poned his plans for constructing two.
great government shipbuilding plants
and for requisitioning ships now
building. made no move today towatd
going ahead with his programme.
Chairman Denman put the whole
responsibility for the delay OH Gen
Goethals. who. he charged, was slow
In furnishing information asked OF
him yesterday concerning his plan
At the same time he made it clear
that the shipping board, as holder of
the stock in the feet corporation, will
study the generals programme care
fully before giving it approval.
Part Of the information asked of
&c Goethals has been given to Mr..
Denman. but more. which shipping
rboard officials declare is just as i'm
portant. has not been forthcoming.
As soon as complete information is
at hand, perhaps tomorrow, 1t was
said at the offices Of the board-a
meeting of the board members and
Gen. Goethals will be called to go
over the situation. Reports. that Gen.
Goethals had been refused an immeJ
date conference he requested with
Mr.. Denman to go over the questions
involved. were not confirmed.
Information sought by Mr.. Denman
had to do with the nature of contracts
for the proposed government owned
ship building plants and with esti-
mates of their costs and the OF of
communicating shipping on stouhs.
In statement tonight. Mr.. Denman
had this to say Of Gen. Goethals' pro-
posal to go ahead with his programme
before the, board hal acted on it:
I'VE have not received copies OF the
contracts for building the fabricating
plants. which means the expenditure
of $1,000. 900 Of public money on the
plants and on ship construction, nor
INN tA Of h~ 80
Cocktails plan to commander ships
on the stocks. As soon as we get the
ocntractS md tss estimates aalked for
at o'clock a. m. yesterday we will
call a meeting and we trust Gen.
Goethals will attend II. There we will
discuss tho programme.
1--WE desire to have in hand definite
contracts to which Gen. Goethals
referred I'm his statement of Friday
and an estimate of the cost of COM
Wandering. The total amount of
public moneys involved in the two
projects is 5000. 900. 900 and as yet we
have not seen tre contracts or the
general outline ot the fubricating
scheme.
I'VE have every hope they will
reach us in tho near future, as their
failure to reach US is seriously inter
fering with the plan for rapid con-
struction Of ships.
The meeting will be n meeting Of
the shipping board. which owns all
the Emergency Fleet corporations S
stock. The consultation will he made
with the general manager Of the cor
poration and the plans finally matured
will then receive the approval of the
corporations directors. The question
rs to whether the shipping board or
the corporations directors sit is
matter of Indifference So long as
the deliberations are participated in
by Gen. Cocktails
We are and have been very anxious
fC. conference with Gen. Goethals
as soon as the contracts and esti-
mates are in hand SO we can examine
them"
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