White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-01-07

cDAcIFlc Coast shippers who for
i ward cargoes through New York
harbor and Western jobbers and
manufacturers who ship westbound by
Water from the East are interested
in the move of former Senator Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey for
further development of port facilities
at<Newark and Camden.
Attention has been drawn from
time to time by Western as well as
shippers from other sections of the
delay caused by congestion in New
York terminals and the cost of hand
ling by lighterage cargo from docks
on Manhattan Island and in Brooklyn
to rail terminals in New Jersey.
Former Senator Frelinghuysen de-
clares that this delay and expense can
be avoided by aiding port develop
ment in New Jersey in his statement
sent in reply to a request from Sena-
tor Wesley L. Jones of Washington,
chairman Of the committee on COM
meree of the United States Senate,
requesting his opinion on the subject
of an adequate and permanent mer-
chant marine.
In his statement he emphatically
opposed the plan of permanent gov
ernmental operation and urged the
enactment of legislation during the
present congressional session to pro-
vide Federal aid in the form of trade
benefits, encouragement and sympa-
thy or in word, preferential treat
ment, for American shipping under
private ownership to establish our
maritime position among the nations
of the world.
In this statement outlining his
views for merchant marine, owned
and operateds privately, as the most
efficient and most economical system,
Mr.. Frelinghuysen said that New Jer-
sey, through it's port developments in
Newark and Camden, can help solve
this national problem and save more
than fifty millions of dollars annually
to the railroads, steamship lines and
consignees by the location Of ade-
quate terminal and storage facilities
on the Jersey side, which in turn will
substantially lower cost prices for the
consuming public by eliminating the
present slow and expensive method of
moving cargo through the ports of
New York and Philadelphia.
"The great battle for an effective
American Merchant Marine is now on
and will be continued until we estab-
lish our position on basis consistent
with the Importance of the volume of
our exports and imports between the
United States and foreign countries"
Mr.. Frelinghuysen said.
GAS result of the thirty-three hear
ings held recently throughout the
United States by the United States
Shipping Board, much valuable infor-
nation and data has been developed
on this subject, which should enable
the presentation to Congress-, in the
very near future, of a comprehensive
plan as basis for the enactment of
legislation during the next Congress
sional session to provide for the de-
velopment and maintenance of an
American Merchant Marine under pri-
vate ownership.
ITO my mind, some Of the most
important points developed during
these hearings are as follows:
"First, the universal demand for
the establishment and maintenance of
an American Merchant Marine under
private ownership.
Second, the universal demand that
the government should retire from
ownership and operation of steam
ships at the earliest possible moment.
Third, that the present Shipping
Board should be continued for the
purpose of making an exhaustive
study of the shipping problem and
further, to definitely establish the
actual disadvantages that have pre-
vented up to the present time the sue
cessful development and operation of
steamships under the American flag
in foreign trade in competition with
the merchant marine of foreign ma
lions; also to lay down a program for
the eQuauzaIlOn OF IneSe ulSauYdn-
tages.
Fourth, it is apparently recognized
and is. the spirit of the country that
some branch of the government
should be permanently established to
form the medium of contact with the
government and insure the fullest pos
sible protection, under what ever form
or plan of government aid that may