Speech #850083196

Industry sees the Administrator of General Services research and development as the key to convey to the board of the West Palm factor to such an expansion. Beach District certain real property. Industry can finance its vast research including a customhouse and immigraprogram. The 6 million farms of Amer- tion station. together with certain easeica. as I have said before. do not have ment rights. the facilities to conduct the research and According to the committee report. the development program required to solve Corps of Engineers acquired title to fif tytheir problems. two onehundredths acre of land by doIt is up to the Congress to do so and to omh e Por of lm Beach the time to do the job is now. nation from the Port of West Palm Beach Mr. President. I hope the chairman District. In 1950 the Corps of Engiof the Committee on Agriculture and neers considered the property to be in Forestry will hold hearings on the bill excess of its needs. I have introduced. and also on another The Immigration Service was interbill. introduced by the Senator from ested in acquiring property in the area Nebraska . for an immigration station and customThe headline of the advertisement I house. however. it was not found hold in my hand is: "Multibillion Dollar suitable. The Immigration Service enResearch Spending Key to United States tered an arrangement whereby the Industrial Growth." original fiftytwo onehundredths acre The only reason why business con- was returned to the port of West Palm tinues to go up. up. and up is that it Beach in exchange for eightysix one conducts research. It finds new mar- hundredths acre of unimproved property kets and new uses for products. it finds which was more suitable. This exchange new things to manufacture. it develops took place in 1950 without any cash connew materials. sideration. The plans of the ImmigraBut the poor farmers6 million of tion Service did not materialize. and in themhave no one to do research for 1956 the property was declared in excess them. They have nobody to find new of its needs. as well as the needs of other uses for their products. they have no Federal agencies. one to develop new products. they have The appraised fair market value is no one to find new markets for their $18.750. products. Because the property was given to the But Congress and the administration. Federal Government without considerawith some $8 billion or $9 billion in- tion by the Palm Beach District for the vested in surplus commodities. sit around purpose of a customhouse and immigraand do hardly anything. We spend a tion station. and plans did not materialmillion dollars a day to store the sur- ize. this bill would not violate the sopluses. We passed a bill the other day called Morse formula. and. therefore. providing $4 billion for agriculture.