The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-22
TO IMPROVE HIGHWAYS
Recommendation OF THE GOOD
ROADS CONVENTION.
Three Hundred Million Dollars
Worth of AduIterated Foods Sold
Each Year i'm This County.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2l.--Several important
lative committee at to-day's session of the
National Good Roads convention. Follow
ing are the recommendations: First. that
highway commissioner be appointed by
each State to have general charge of all
roads; second. that the poll tax be abol-
ished and all taxes for road maintenance
be paid in cash this includes the repeal
OF the statute labor laws; third, that a
State road plan be adopted in all States.
including the employment of contract labor
In preparation Of material for roads.
President Moore. speaking in support of
the last recommendation. said the farmers
oil this country, though owning less than
one-fifth of the property in the country,
have Up to this time paid all the expenses
of roads for all the people, except in three
or four States. I'VE believe" said Presi-
dent Moore, that these expenses should
be equalized and the people in the cities
should give their JUST share"
a committee was appointed by President
Moore to draft bill outlining the sug-
gestions of the legislative committee This.
after open debate by the convention, will
be completed and sent to the thirty-slx
legislatures of the United States, which
meet in January. special committee Will
also be appointed which will visit Wash
ington Immediately and confer with Sec
rotary Wilson in regard to the recon-
mendations of the committee.
Among the papers read a to-days ses-
sion was one by E. q. Harrison, of Wash
ington. d. c., read by his son, and speech
by Andrew Pattulle, NJ. p, of Canada.
An amendment to the legislative commit
tee report offered by III. NJ. Wilson, of the
government geological survey, was adopted
by the convention, providing that wide
tires be specified for vehicles to be used
for traffic upon public roads
The following were named as officers of
the association: President. William HI.
Moore. Missouri; secretary, r. w. Richard
son, Nebraska; treasurer, Edwin A. Potter,
Illinois.
Buffalo was recommended to the execu-
tive committee as the place for holding
the next annual convention, but place and
date were left to the committee TO deter
mine st. Louis and Charleston, S. c., also
rendered invitations. In the adopted re-
port of the committee on permanent or
ganization Chicago was made the headquar-
tiers of the association Offices will be
maintained here. The same report declared
the territory embraced in the scope of the
organization to be the States. Territories
and possessions of the United States" This
course was taken In order TO include the
Philippines, as it was thought advisable
to make the constitution broad enough
for all future time.
The convention took a stand in favor
of the employment of convict labor in
the Improvement of highways
oiled roads,, was the subject of pa
per read by Mrs. Mary Lynde Craig, of
Redlands, Cal Mrs Craig told of the ex-
periments carried at Redlands and Pas
adena in the use of oil for the prevention
OF both dust and mud. Success has re-
suited from experiment. she said
I'VE have some of the best roads in the
country. We use the crude petroleum, be-
tween $50 and 200 barrels a mile for first
application. The road requires two appli-
cations, the first and one application a year
thereafter. The oil is applied during the
hot weather, at Temperature of over zoo
degrees, and is cheaper than sprinking.
The cost is less than $50 mile"