Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-03
RECOMMENDATIONS.
TrdnSmiSSiSSippi Congress
Adopts Resolutions and
AdjOurnS.

St. Louis, Oct. 3l.-The principal
business before the transmississippi
congress on the last day of the present
session was a discussion of resolutions.
Thirty recommendations. embracing
many subjects, were presented.
The report of the committee on reso-
buttons was unanimously adopted. 1t
says:
We recommend liberal expenditures
for the improvement of rivers and har-
bors by the federal government as one
of the wisest and best methods of ap.
propriating public funds. We recon-
mend that congress make sufficient ap.
preparation to complete the improve.
ment of the mouth of the Columbia
river and the harbors of San Pedro and
Oakland, Cal. We recommend the i'm
provement and adequate protection of
all Pacific coast ports from British Co.
lumbia to the Mexican border. 1t is
the sense of this congress that there
should be immediate construction of a
naval station at some point on the
Southwestern Pacific coast.
VC AdNOA UuC pooSdkO COuSA coS VI
law amending the interstate COM
MERGE act SO that it shall definitely
prohibit common carriers from limit.
ing or restricting their common law
liability by any general or special no.
tice. We petition the congress of the
United States to enact legislation en-
towering the interstate commerce COM
mission when rate OF practice COM
planned of is found to be discriminative
or unreasonable to determine what
change shall be made, which determi-
nation shall be operative within thirty
days and so continue until overruled or
suspended under judicial proceedings.
We recommend that all the principal
big tree groves in California be secured
by the United States government and
held for park purposes.
We favor statehood for Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, and in joining
these two territories we urge upon con-
gress the Importance of spirit of fair
ness.
As an act of justice to Alaska and
to those desiring to 60 there we favor
a sectional survey of said region. And
we favor the amending of the home.
stead laws pertaining to the lands Of
Alaska SO that any citizen of the Uni
ted States may acquire 800 acres by
settlement, residence or Communication,
providing that the applicant is not the
owner of 100 acres OF land and wishes
said 800 acres for home purposes.
We favor the union of labor and the
combination of capital rs the proper
means to advance the public good.
We condemn any act of either combin-
ed labor or capital that in any way
abridges the national rights of man.
We recommend the enforcement of the
Sherman act of 1890, and to that end
urge congress to pass an amendment
to the act making it the duty of all
United States districrt attorneys to
prosecute all unions of labor or capital
whenever evidence making a prima
facie case of the breach of the terms
of the act is presented. And we rec
ommend the appointment of special
commission by congress to investigate
the arbitration laws of New Zealand
and other countries which may have
such laws. We recommend to the sew
eral states and territories the adoption
of such legislation as will place the
subject of permanent public road i'm
provement under an intelligent and
uniform state and county supervision.
The resolutions also urge thorough
organization of the consular service
and favor department of mines and
mining in the cabinet
The congress adjourned sine die.