The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-01
The TRANSkISSSPP| CONGRESS
The Great Commercial Body Is Now in Ses.
sion at Wichita, Kan.
HE TEXAS DELEGATION is HARD AT wo
Outlook Is Bright for Bayou Ship
Channel and Houston Has Very Good Chance
of Getting the Next Congress.

essary appropriations to complete the
project by continuous contract.
The members of the Texas delegation
have been working hard since they left
Houston and did some good work on the
| train Nearly every delegate is wearing
Houston badge and The West Demands
Deep Water at Houston" is the slogan
here
Hot Springs, Los Angeles and Cripple
Creek are hot after the next meeting but
prospects for Houston are bright and from
all appearances the congress Viii meet y
the Bayou city.
The paper read by Colonel w O. Slos-
| son was one OF the best 90 far given 20
! me congress. Il was well received and ehe
| was complimented for his euort The
! Texans were hreaktasted at Calwell this
morning through tho courtesy Of Hovey
! and Sloat Of the Rock Island These gen
! tlemen have royalty treated the Texas
| delegation aud a vote OF thanks was given
them on the train. Galveston is against
/ the Hanna Payne maritime subsidy bill
| believing that It Will do the South no good
! IN its present form. The Texas delegation
VIII vote against the resolution iudorsing
] IT,
| Vice President Prince OF New Mexico
| called the congress- to order Governor
/ Stanley OF Kansas delivered the address,
OF Welcome.
After this Mrs Rosine Ryan, Mrs Bet
TIE bryan OF Houston and Mrs r. A.,
Greer Of Beaumont Texas presented all
! the speakers with bouquets OF magnolia
blossoms
a sharp contest came m over the cleo
ton Of committee on resolutions 1t
tasu= al
Arkansas; Governor o Murphy. Arl-
IONA Julius Kahn, Kansas r c. Henry,
Colorado, r j, Haus. Commercial TraN-
eers' Associations J r, Humphrey, In
dian Territory; c. F. Savior, Iowa, J.
] Frost Kansas f G Fitkn, Louis
lana John Caullheid Minnesota; D,
, q nonneu Montana. ! NJ Lowe Mis-
sourl Henry Meyer, Nebraska NJ, S.
Gce-he, New MeNico n p MaXon, Ne
brsska + II Greer, Oklahoma. NJ.
Irwin Oregon, Wesley Stewart South IA
kofa; Presley Il Ewing and Walter
Gresham Texas, II Smith Utah, Colo
mel Constant, Wyoming
President G E. Morrow Of the oklahoma
Agricultural coMage spoke about tho eN-
uortation OF Indian corn 20 Europe for
human food He said in part IT is
sometimes objected that increasing the use
of corn as food for man VIII decrease the
demand for whea' Were Sis true, IT
would stll he a question whether we had
, not better suffer some decline o. exports
OF the crop in regard 10 which we have
such close competition II we could thereby
increase the demand for the crop which wC
! can produce more cheaply than any other
nation But 1t is no, probable that this
result viii follow More probably corn OF
corn and wheat hours mixed would take
the place OF rye and 'barley-the blacl
q bread grains OF Europe. The creates
r,f-a a Iva ha ma q
seem to be in keeping mp exports TO sup
4 ply any large demand when we had shor
Q crops Nothing probably would more Ger
tainly and quickly bring good results thar
/, giving Europeans opportunity to see ant
- eat American corn dishes at great expo
= sitions.'
$ F. r. Thurber the chairman OF tn
Exporters association, spoke on wide
Markets and How to Get Them.
c kansas and the Deep Water Ports
d was the subject of ". b. Slosson OF Hous
+: ton. /: was as follows
"Ad astra per aspera." To the STAR
through difficulties is the heroic motif
d times, note the contrast Says the West
n ern poet
b Papers had lot 10 say snerrin' lik
a O Kansas
Welt it 10 EN- every day chuckin' fun a
Kansas,
y Air jus. full o. SANDER darts.
From the busy Eastern marts,
10 Nun 10 break he peoples hearts, owe
- there in Kansas.
e Now 1t comes their time 70 laugh, then
= folks out in Kansas,
,. Givin' E3sterners the gaff bout affairs il
Kansas
1t Fields bulgin' out with wheat,
le earn for AL the world TO eat
+ Other crops hat can't be beat, over Their
in Kansas
Is Trains a.aaulln out the stun trem tn
plains OF Ksnsas
: Railroads can't gef cars enough for t
empty Kansas
l. ort 20 see The farmers grin,
Stroke The lilacs on their chin,
IS As the cash comes rolhn in, over tner
in Kansas"
ID hardly caro TO quote hgures In n
or home OF Americas best staiistclan, Score
, tary OF Agriculture r D Cohurn OF Kan
sas. but please carry these home wit
you:
IN Kansas products for twenty years wer
A. SO. 500 goo 600 $500 COO 900 more than A
~ the gold produced In the United states 70
thirty-one years after fhe discovery {
C. g-ld in California Kansas products f.
- 1898 were ever sl0Z pVu'ooV' fsf Que cEol
corn for 1889 w,uld have loaded a soil
freight train reaching from Nav York I
California. and enough more LEFT 20 los
a solid train from Wiohka TO Houston, A
Texas Is now using Ksnsas salt. Kanss
is marvellous In her splendid school sy'
TEN, showing lower average OF lliiterac
than any State. net excepting Massacht
sets some States boast % massive coul
houses and jslls, Kansas OF her bsantifl
churches and elegant school building
Kansas IA fulfilling her motto, To n
stars through difficulties and already 2
ghmmering stars shining even 20 ht
western border brings 10 light none
he dreaded evils OF drcuth or blizzard
grssshoppers or MORTGAGES. gone forefe
and Kansas rs free. Kansas farmers pal
of over $50 600, 00o Of mortgages in 1895,
But what shsll say OF the Queen "a
OF the Plains wichita our generous moi
tess OF today We remember the time fu'
long ago) when her pioneers drove bar