Speech #660288652

I know that so far as I am concerned personally. and I think it applies to a great number of the Members of the House. that we had no intention when we passed the act of spending countless millions to build docks and coal bins up and down the Mississippi River where there is not now or never wilt be any commerce. I think also we must take into consideration and decide whether a separate terminal as shown in the testimony before the commaittee. on page 1114 of the hearings. is also a terminal for the interchange of freight. I also doubt very much whether you could legitimately consider under terminal facilities for the interchange as shown on pager 75 of the bill an immigration station. and on this immigration station and the moorings connected with it I hang my principal point of order: It seems to me that it far exceeds the limits of the law and certainly is beyond the intention of the framers of the law and can not be considered as a part of or be included under terminal facilities for the interchange of traffic.