Show OPPONENTS OF SHIPWAY PLAN FORCE BATTLE BA TILE Bombard Senate Body With Objections to Tre ty Approval I By OJ United Press I WASHINGTON Nov 17 17 of the St St. Lawrence waterway continued today to bombard a senate foreign relations subcommittee with which one treaty advocate described a. a as demanding an answer The eastern seaboard all aU class 1 railways practically every ton of American shipping on Lakes and nd various various' graIn elevator and md other interests are aligned against the ship ship- Va way vay This testimony is challenging and andis ands is s demanding an answer Senator It Ri Mich an advocate of f the shipway told the United Press U Ii cant can't be answered merely by waiving the red red white and blue evidently was rete refer refer- ring ing to ta the implication of L. L LC C. C Sabin representing the Great Lakes Carriers Carriers' Carriers Carriers' Car- Car association and other witnesses other witnesses that there had been much misleading and nd thoughtless behind the he St. St Lawrence project Sabin described de de- scribed it as Hurrah He contended there here had been no actual economic survey urvey of the project and its ble effect on on American busi business ess There was in 1927 an economic survey survey sur sur- VC vey by a commission headed by President dent Hoover then secretary of commerce commerce com com- merce said Senator Walsh D. D Mont lont S I dont don't think it Yes was sufficient Sabin replied Adam Cornelius a Buffalo shi operator with an intense pride in the achievements of Great Lakes ships told the committee that tha lake ake shippers were were were the most efficient in n th the world He estimated American sailors on the lakes are arc paid third one more than any other sailors any any- I where I We from carry to tons annually in a seven and one month season compared with tons through the Panama Canal he said This great movement is at rates V so o low as to to gain the admiration of the he world At notime no time has there been more than 5 per cent of all this tr traffic Wc that has wanted a St. St Lawrence water way The rate ranges from 3 12 2 to 5 cents a bushel now Tho Those who say the he shipway would save 10 cents a bushel on grain either are unfamiliar with the fads facts or are misrepresenting them hem I dont don't see how the rate ever again will be over 5 or 6 cents |