Now, there is Portland, Brooklyn, New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Norfolk, and Newport News, have a capacity of 48,000,000 —
those ei^t cities. New York alone has a capacity of 15,000,000
bushels; Duluth has a capacity of 32,470,000 bushels; Galveston has
a capacity of 3,100,000 bushels; New Orleans has a capacity of
3,135,000 "bushels; and Philadelphia's capacity is about 19,000,000
bushels, but the president of the board oi trade told me they didn't
really have over about 2,500,000 bushels, and that is the way the
elevator capacity is in the eastern ports; so the national association
appointed a cotomittee this year to interview the Railroad Adminis-
tration; two years ago we expected that the railroad corporations of
the East should build the elevators the same as they do in the middle
West and the West, but this year we had hoped that the Eailroad
Administration should build these elevators. Now, Mr. McAdoo
requested our committee that we would name the cities where the
elevators ought to be built, and the committee did not forget Gal-
veston, and did not forget any other eastern city or the Gulf ports,
because we thoroughly believe that in years to come Europe will have
to come to this country not only for grain but for almost every other
commodity, and the people of the United States are very much
interested in this matter; and if it was possible for this committee to
see their way clear to have in this bill a provision that the Grain
Corporation should build a few terminal elevators at the seaports, it
certainty would help conditions a great deal.
