The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22
BIG CONGRESS
HAS ADJOURNED
IcCumber's Address on Trans-Pa-
oifc Commerce Ordered Dis
tributed by the Delegates.
How the Government Can Aid in
Building Up Trade and
Holding It.
Statehood for Oklahoma and a Ter
ritory for Alaska Supported
by the Resolutions.

I Seattle, Wash. Aug. 22.--The Trans
Mississippi congress adjourned yesterday
after passing the following resolutions:
Favoring statehood for Oklahoma and
Indian Territory combined; a territorial
government for Alaska; an American
merchant marine; an international fish
hatchery to be established on the Fraser
river; closer relations with Canada;
placing the consular service under civil
service; also resolutions relating to for
estry, irrigation, public lands and the I'M
provement of rivers and harbors; favoring
an appropriation Of 81, 900 for the
Lewis and Clarke exposition at Portland;
for roads and bridges in Alaska; recon-
mending q trans Mississippi man for the
bureau Of manufactures; recommending
q man from the same district for place
on the interstate commerce commission;
approving a plan for a canal connecting
Puget Sound and Lake Washington at
Seattle; favoring more stringent pure
food laws; the ST.. Louis exposition and
the differential Of 4 per cent in favor OF
Pacific coast bidders on battleships; pro-
testing against further extension Of forest
reserves in Washington; recommending
the construction Of an isthnian canal; IA
yoring The Hague tribunal as a court OF
last resort and discountenancing the sale
of large tracts of Philippine lands and the
introduction of coolie labor into those
islands. .. r.. .
J The only fights made in the congress
were on the statehood for Oklahoma and
the resolution dealing with the Philip
pines. The latter resolution, as originally
introduced, was against the raising OF
sugar and tobacco in the islands and dealt
with the tariff question. The congress
tabled the whole matter after heated
debate. Then the resolution was amended
to deal with the land question and the in
PRODUCTION of coolie labor and was passed
Mccumber's Address.
Senator McCumber, who was scheduled
to speak, did not do so, but the congress
directed that his address be printed and
distributed among the delegates and the
press. 1t Is as follows:
United States Senator McCumber Of North
Dakota spofe Of National IS support OF Trans
The twentieth century will be pre-eminently
an age of commerce. In the commercial nelo
as in all others, the great Jaw OF the sur f.
part in determining which OF the great pa,
TORS OF the world shall lead in commercial
prosperity.
any other with opportunities and environ
ments favorable for the commercial con'
quest of the earth. These opportunities how.
ever, are dormant and will avail nothing
unless both foresight and judgment are uset
in searching for and developing new fields
for commercial activity.
lesson of faith, backed by determination
which has characterized the promoters OF oul
great trans continental railways. An ocear
Of waste but few years ago separated the
eastern and middle states from the Pacific
slope. Tho business Judgment and foresight
of cur people saw in the Pacific territory q
wonderful field of opportunity, a great inter.
state commerce to be created But to reach
this territory many hundreds Of miles O
desert and mountain waste had to b.
traversed by the iron rails; many hundreds o
miles of territory which could not In itsel
yield any commercial returns. The grea
states bordering on the western ocean existed
only as dream But the tireless enthusia sn
and faith and energy Of these men of bust
Less made this dream reality, this vision
verify.
Faith as Aid to Commerce.
The enormous lumber. fruit and cerea
industries of the extreme west could neve
have been developed, and these great states
the pride Of the nation, would have re
NAMED a wilderness except for this faith
and the determination to make 1t good.
What can be said of the commerce be
tween the states of the west and the easter
and middle sections of the country, can wit
equal assurance, be said of internationa
trade with Asia and the Orient The bust
ness foresight of the country sees in Chin
and India practically a neld for tn
consumption Of the products of our mill
and our fields. We know that the tidal wav
of commerce Is irrisistibly rolling westward
It requires little though and little study o
world conditions to convince us that but
few years will lapse before the great com