Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
APPEAL TO CONGRESS
ADvocATEs,oF GOOD ROADS Be
FORE THE COMMITTEES.
Brief Session Of Organization Held
This Morning-Address by Mr..
George II. Maxwell.

| the committee representing the good roads
| advocates of 1.-The country adjourned Tor the
| day, in order to have time to present ITS
| cause to the committee on agriculture of
the Senate and the same committee of the
| House of Representatives. Before adjourn
| ing for this purpose however. short ad-
| dress was made to the delegates by George
H. Maxwell of Chicago. executive chair
man Of the National Irrigation Association
Mr.. Maxwell stated that he was heartily
in favor of the present movement TO secure
national control of the roads OF the oniteo
| States through bureau proposed to be es-
| tablished in connection with the Depart
ment of Agriculture. or In some other ado
Quate manner.
/ An invitation was extended for the meet
ing Of the Good Roads Association In PORT
land, Ore, in 1893.
| No business was transacted at the ses-
| sion In fact, aside from the organiza-
| ton and election of officers. there Is
| little to be done but to call upon the mem-
| bers of Congress and the President to urge
| the carrying out of the plan. The nrst
part of this program was carried out yes
! terday afternoon, and the calls are being
made today or were made last nignt., ms
| will leave little business for the final ses,
| sion, which will be held tomorrow az ~
o'clock in the banquet hall OF the faieish'
Subcommittee at White House.
! subcommittee called at the White
| House this morning to arrange for the re-
ception of the entire committee later IN the
day. The President will receive all the
members at. o'clock. The delegates went
before the Senate committee on agriculture
and forestry at 1O:30 o'clock this morning.
| At 2 o'clock they called upon the House
| committee on agriculture
| This morning every state but twelve mad
| a representative here. and there were also
/ men representing large commercial ana IN
| dustrial interests
Addresses Yesterday Afternoon.
Senator Latimer of South Carolina and
Representative Brownlow of Tennessee
| who introduced good roads bills In Con-
| gress, addressed the delegates yesterday
| afternoon, and each urged them not TO
| favor, any special bill. but to stand solid
| for government aid to the good roads move
ment, and to strive for law whereby the
government would defray at least third
| if not One-half, of the total cost OF better
ment of the public highways. Senator Latf-
| mer said he and Representative Brownlow
| were of different politics, and that politics
should be eliminated from the question.
| He urged the delegates to say to Congress
this was the first time the farmer had
come seeking government aid, and If con-
! gressmen opposed the good roads move
| ment he urged the delegates to defeat them
| at the polls. ..
| Secretary Wilson made brief address, in
which he. told what the Agricultural De-
| partment had done in the way of gathering
| and disseminating information as to road
building, He said the time had come when
| Congress should enact laws for the better
! ment of the public highways. and he prom
Used that the department would execute
energetically and efficiently any law on the
subject that Congress passed
The committee. after quite a discussion,
decided to stand on the St. Louis resolu-
tons in the hearing today. 1881
Is Delegates Present.
The foliowingis a list of the delegates to
the convention who had registered today:
Alabama. w. NJ. Drenned. mayor of Bir-
ningham: Arkansas, H. L. Rommel, Little
Rock; Arizona. B. A Fowler, Phoenix;
| California. C. B. Booth. Los Angeles; w. M.
Bunker San Francisco; Colonel John p
Irish. Oakland; Colorado, l. W. Abbott;
Connecticut. James II. Mcdonald, president
state highway commission, Hartford; Dis
trfct of Columbia; w. W. MILAN; Illinois, W.
T. Beatty, Chicago: Dewitt w. Smith, chair
man of the Illinois state highway commits
sion: George Parsons. Cairo; Iowa, T. G.
| Harper. Burlington; Kansas. C. F. Heisler
! Kansas City; Kentucky. J. C. Van Pelt Sec
rotary Kentucky Good Roads Association
Louisville; New Jersey, Robert J. Muker
assistant state engineer. Trenton: New
4 York. Frank T. Wilcox. Syracuse; HaIbert
P. Gillette. assistant editor Engineering
News; John c. Wright, Rochester: North
| CGTOHH6y I1IItSSs, pEeSfUtnt 5tdt6 SiOOO
Roads Association. Winston-Salem Nebras-
ka. j. L. Minor. Red Cloud: r. w. Richard
son and H. Il. Clark of Omaha; Minnesota
George W. Cooley. Minneapolis, president
State Good Roads Association; w. M. Hays
of st. Paul. president Minnesota Agrieul-
tural College; Ohio, Martin Dodge. director
office of public roads inquiries, and j. F.
Brown of Cleveland Oregon, J. H Scott
president State Good Roads Association
Salem; Jefferson Meyers. president of Lewis
and Clark Exposition Company OF
Oregon; Pennsylvania, Frank Bower
president Pennsylvania Road Drivers AS
ISOLATION Philadelphia; M. d. Swisher
Philadelphia; L. M. Haupt. Philadelphia,
appointed by Governor Pennypacker; John
8. Scully, Pittsburg: Rhode Island, Robert
dence: South Carolina, F. H. Hight, Column
bia; Tennessee, ]. B. Tillibrew, Nashville
S. C. Lancaster, Jackson; Texas j. H
Bright. Beaumont; Washington Samuel
Hill. president Good Roads Association
| Seattle: West Virginia. j. H Stewart, Sec
rotary Goods Roads Association. Morgan
| town; Wisconsin. w. A. Walker Racine
| Maryland, John P. Jones' 8. M. Shoemaker
| Baltimore. chairman of Maryland Road
League: Dr. William Bullock Clark, DR.
H F. Reid, chief division of highways: A
N Johnson. state highway engineer; H. H
| Klinefelter. Queen Anne County Road
League; w. P. Pickford, Baltimore county
| r. K Rawlings, Cecil county; E. P. Gibbs
Baltimore county. president Maryland
Farmers League; WV. Crosby. general su-
perintendent Baltimore city parks: r. w
Sylvester. president Maryland Agricultural
College; w. Irving Walker. Queen Anne
county. vice president National Road
| League: John T. Jones of the Maryland
! Road League Charles H. Stanley. Mary
land Road League; Franklin Weems of the
| Maryland Road League: De Courcey w
Thompson of the Maryland Road League.