1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9301 Alton E. Torgrimson, Grand Meadow. VERMONT Delwin B. Clabaugh, Swanville. Jeremiah C. Durick, Fair Haven. MISSISSIPPI Richard Harlie Standish, Montpelier. Frederick J. Fugitt, Booneville. WEST VIRGINIA Mrs. Dewey M. Collins, Boyle. Hugh B. Lynch, Chester. John B. Glenn, Brookville. George C. Sowards, Hurricane. Mr. Ethel W. Still, Clarksdale. Joseph F. Blackman, Parsons. James B. Keeton; Grenada. WISCONSIN Samuel A. Witherspoon, Meridian. Arthur V. Smith, Pascagoula. Joseph Schmidlkofer, Chilton. MONTANA David A. Holmes, Milton. Clarence G. Schultz, Neenah. Hiram B. Cloud, Wolf Point. John P. Snyder, Oconomowoc. NEBRASKA Naomi G. Fackler, Burwell. WITHDRAWAL Harold Hald, Dannebrog. Executive nomination W'ithdrawn from the Senate June 14 J. Melvern West, Herman. <legislative day of May 13), 1935 Fred C. Johnson, Merriman. POSTMASTER Albert H. Bahe, Ohiowa. Ben G. Worthing, Overton. Thomas S. Starodoj to be postmaster at Ware, in the State Effie E. Adams, Ralston. of Massachusetts. NEW MEXICO Laura W. Martinez, Tierra Amarilla. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NEW YORK FRIDAY, JuNE 14, 1935 1 Edward P. McCormack, Albany. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Harold F. Garrison, Fort Montgomery. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., Timothy J. Gibson, Lindenhurst. offered the following prayer: John A. Donahue, Newburgh. Francis J. A. Marlborough, Smithtown Branch. We withdraw again, our Heavenly Father, to the gray and solemn ministry of the cloud. Encircle it with a rain­ NORTH CAROLINA bow; walk again upon the troubled waters and breathe upon George M. Sudderth, Blowing Rock. us the spirit of the world to come. Bless us with the morn­ Patrick H. McDonald, Carthage. ing that shall enable us to look to the fulfillment of tomor­ Wingate A. Lambertson, Rich Square. row. A heavy hand has been laid upon us. Another Mem­ Henry E. Earp, Selma. · ber has been removed from our congressional family. Buoy­ John R. Dildy, Wilson. ant of spirit, schooled by training, and a wise . counselor. NORTH DAKOTA Help the sorrowing hearthstone to feel the sympathy that comes from the rent in Thine own heart. Hide the gloom Catherine Ross, Arthuz. of the present through the gladness of the eternal promise: Herman A. Borcherding, New England. "Though the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, William Stewart, Butte. we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, Dorothy L. Schultz, Carpio. eternal in the heavens." O Thou of infinite love, Thou of Frank M. Mcconn, Fairmount. the burning purity, let the star of Bethlehem light up the Mildred Peck, Glenburn. stairway that leads to the Father's paradise. In our Savior's Loren J. Savage, Litchville. name. Amen. Bland Elsberry, Rocklake. Christian H. Budke, Sherwood. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Howard Miller, Werner. approved. John H. Case, Wishek. PORT CITIES IN OUR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OKLAHOMA Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Blanche Lucas, Ponca City. to extend my remarks in the RECORD and to include therein Robert R. Mccarver, Wister. a speech made by Hon. Cordell Hull; Secretary of State. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the PUERTO RICO gentleman from Mississippi? - George P. DePass, San Juan. Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, SOUTH CAROLINA what is the speech about? · Mr. RANKIN. It is a speech on the port cities and our Philip M. Clement, Charleston. international relations. John R. Rivers, Chesterfield. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the TEXAS gentleman from Mississippi? Ephraim B. Hyer, Buckholts. There was no objection. Ross H. Johnson, Burnet. Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, under permission granted me Otis G. Baker, Jr., Edna. to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I am inserting an ad­ Alva C. Cotney, Follett. dress delivered by the Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of Mildred M. Hardie, Freer. State, before the Conference of Seaport Cities on Interna­ Rosa M. Boucher, Gorman. tional Trade, in New York City on June 12, 1935. Cecil R. Coale, Orange. It is one of the most masterful presentations of our inter­ Mansel R. Coffee, Perryton: national relations, especially from a standpoint of economic Charlie C. Truitt, Pittsburg. recovery, that I have ever read. It shows that we have at Lemuel O. Robbins, Raymondville. the head of our Department of State a real statesman, who Charles B. Morris, Rhome. not only compares most favorably with the leading premiers Frank Clark, Rockwall. of the world but a man who has a thorough grasp of the great Roy C. Owens, Tyler. economic and international problems with which the world Ellis Campbell, Wills Point. is now grappling. LXXIX-587 9302 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .JUNE 14 I hope every Member of the House and every Member of strength for over 3 centuries. ~e Impetus given to commerce by this remarkable association of maritime towns carried trade the Senate reads this address carefully. I wish it could be to all points within the Baltic Basin, west to England and east to read by every citizen and every student throughout the land. Russia, and served as an outpost and connecting point to older For, in my opinion, it points the way to world recovery and trade routes on the Continent and to the Far East. The regional headquarters of the Hanseatic League lived on into modern times to world peace. in Antwerp, Bergen, and London, until finally its influence was Secretary Hull's address follows: swallowed up in the great commercial development of the eight­ I am very happy to have the opportunity to address this great eenth and nineteenth centuries, and in the growth of national convention, called for the purpose of promoting the interests and sentiment and control. development of the ports of the United States. The prosperity of In the New World also port towns played a great role in economic our port cities and the rebuilding of our foreign trade occupy an development. In 1609 Henry Hudson sailed up the great river important place in the larger and broader program of our whole which bears his name and in the next year a beginning was made international economic relations. of the rapidly flourishing Dutch trade in furs with the Indians. We are met in the greatest port of the world, a port which han­ Thus developed the earliest beginning of the great port of New dles more tonnage than any one of its great competitors in Eng­ York, first in the rich trade with Holland, and later in the trade land, on the European Continent, or in the Orient. Boston, with the southern English colonies and with the AntUles. With Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, New Orleans, Galveston, Los the coming of English control the ports of New York, Boston, and Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle rank high in the list of impor­ Philadelphia shared in the rapidly growing and world-wide expan­ tant world ports, along with London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Ant­ sion of British commerce. In addition, there developed the enor­ werp, Liverpool, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. mously important port of New Orleans, which served the great There are, all told, more than 300 ports in the United States inland territory later to be added to our great domain. through which our trade with foreign countries passes. The vol­ These great ports served a vital function in the development of ume of commerce passing through these ports reflects and, in turn, the colonial period and in the early years of the Republic. Trade reacts upon the prosperity of the entire Nation. Between 1929 and was vital to the very life of the New World and synonymous with 1933 the cargo tonnage of water-borne imports and exports declined the economic progress of the new nation. The tonnage of the ves­ from 108,000,000 tons to 59,000,000 tons. A recovery of the tonnage sels engaged in foreign trade in the port of New York a.lone of exports and imports to the predepression level would give tre­ increased from 18,000 tons to 146,000 tons in the 12 years from the mendous stimulus to economic activity throughout the length and formation of the Federal Union to the turn of the century. breadth of the entire land. History is replete with illustrations of nations which have lan­ Railroads and trucking firms which carry the goods from the guished and perished Ip consequence of a hermit policy, and in centers of production to these three-hundred-odd ports and in consequence of restraints and prohibitions placed upon intercourse turn back again to the various centers of consumption would ex­ with the outside world. The building of docks, quays, wharves, perience a tremendous stimulus if we could again recover the warehouses, terminals, and merchant fleets, the development of volume of port traffic, approximating the 52,000,000 or 53,000,000 lines of commercial intercourse reaching out into all parts of the tons handled by the Atlantic ports prior to the depression, the world-these activities form the first stage in the economic de­ 23,000,000 tons handled in the Gulf ports, the 16,000,000 or 17,000,- velopment of new countries, and continue, after industrial matu­ 000 tons in the Pacific ports, and the 16,000,000 or 17,000,000 tons rity has been reached, to furnish the means for expansion and handled in the ports of the Great Lakes region. New activity would progress. be stimulated in the repair plants and shipbuilding yards; the An address on the subject of our foreign trade and our ports business of exporting and importing firms, shipping omces, insur­ would not be complete without some mention of the act approved e.nee houses, brokerage houses, and foreign-exchange institutions, by the President on June 18, 1934, providing for the establishment, and the employment by these firms of hand and brain workers operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of the would be increased.