Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-19

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Third Day Of TranS-MiSSiS-
Sippi Congress.
CANNON ON BEET SUGAR
Committee Report For the Admission
of TerritOries-AddresS by Sprin-
ger--Populating the West.

Houston, Texas, April 19.-When the
trans Mississippi congress convened to-
day number of new resolutions We're
introduced.
George q. Cannon of Utah delivered a
brief address on beet sugar, and John
w. Springer read an address.
The committee on resolutions reported
for the Improvement Of consular service;
for admission of territories and states;
for laws prohibiting the adulteration of
food: favoring a governmental depart
ment of mines and minerals; favorlng a
governmental department OF commerce
and industry; favoring the Improvement
of Galveston harbor of the Brazos river;
extending the system of jetties at the
mouth of the Mississippi; favoring an
establishment for deep Wat1: at Hous-
ton; the building of a Pacific cable by
congressional assistance; a school of
mines; an appropriation for the st.
Louis exposition, and schools and asy-
lums for the Indian territory. All the
sections We're adopted
Mr.. Courtney De kalb of New York de-
livered an address on "A Free Nicaragua
Canal" He said in part:
sour increasing interests in the Pacific
only intensity our need of a canal across
the isthmus. We are Gripping our own
industries retarding our own growth,
the longer we delay action. We have
played the dog in the manager over this
canal question for decades, and no one
has been so severely injured by it as our
selves. We have discouraged private en-
terprise in the building of the waterway
by feintS at government aid, which capl-
talists feared might amount to virtual
cQndsca tion We would do well to let 60
our own theories on this matter; to cease
regarding ii as commercial under
taking, carried out with view to profit
on the investment: to abandon the con-
| ception of the canal as part of our mill
tary and naval programme Rather let
us consider 1t as a vital necessity of our
economic life, and for the sake of the inn
mense augmentation of our activities at
home and abroad, with all the possibili-
ties of increased production and larger
demands for labor which would inevita-
bly, follow. build it by the general gov
ernment and maintain it free of tolls for
ALL"
Mr.. e. B. Perkins of Dallas. Texas,
spoke about Statehood and the Respon-
siblities of Citizenship. He said in part:
"If you gentlemen here assembled de-
sire to accomplish the purposes of this
congress, you must do more than adopt
resolutions and compile information and
statistics. You must go as missionaries
to the commercial clubs. bankers and
manufacturers associations, and to the
business men generally, to induce them
to assume the responsibilities that rest
upon them as citizens of their several
states. Persuade them to give more
time and study to the theory and prac-
j tices of their government, and of the po-
litical parties which control it. Persuade
them to get more in touch with the great
throbbing heart of the people. You and
they can and may arouse and give new
life to the latent pride in local institu-
tions that is in the heart of every true
American
Mr.. J. M. Lowe of Kansas spoke about
the Nicaragua Canal" He said:
LET us go forward and enter at once
, upon this great American enterprise, un-
hampered and unfettered by diplomatic
restrictions and entanglements; and ded-
icate this great work to the peaceful uses
of the worlds commerce. And when our
own merchant marine is, by wise legis-
lation, restored to the commanding posi-
ton it occupied prior to 1915, by laws
which did not subsidize. but wisely dis
criminated in favor of the commerce car
ried in American ships, then. and not
until then. shall we see the flag Of our
country kissing the sunshine on every
sea and proudly floating In every harbor
where trade beckons or duty calls
Colonel John B. Weber, Of Buffalo, N
Y. the commissioner general of the Pan
American Exposition. to be held in that