New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-08-06
PLANS FOR BIG JuNkET.
JOURNEY WILL COVER 5000
MILES AND WILL BE MADE
IN SPECIAL TRAIN.

Congressman Robert f. Broussard
of Louisiana, and John Sharp vii.
liams of Mississippi, will soon assist
in $50, 900 5000 mile, congressional
educational and junketing tOur-the
two Congressman being on commit
tee to act as hosts to $50 parliament
tarians. who represent every delibera-
tive governmental body in the world
and speak every civilized and num-
Der of semi civilized tongues
More definitely, Congressman Brous-
sard is secretary of the congressional
committee of ten, of which Congress
man Bartholt of st. Louis is chairman,
which was appointed by Speaker Can
non last winter to disburse $50, 600
appropriation in the entertainment of
| the visiting delegates to the Worlds
Fair Congress of the Interparliment-
airy Union for the Promotion of Inter-
national Arbitration.
Last night Mr.. Broussard sketched
the tentative plan of entertainment,
which is very likely to be followed
with little variation when the visit
ing notables strike American soil
The plan covers eighteen days,
stretches from New York to Yellow
stone Park and back again, including
many stops by the way, and will cost
very near the 500, 600 available. The
plan is given to the press for the first
| time.
Mr. Broussard received yesterday
afternoon the following telegram:
Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 2, '04.
Robert f. Broussard, New Orleans,
La:
For the purpose of awarding the
details of entertainment Of the Inter
Parliamentary Union for the Promo
tion of International Arbitration,
you are invited to meet me at the
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Friday,
Aug. 5, at 8 80 a. m.
L. M. SHAW.
When the resolution passed Congress
last session providing for the appro.
priation of $50, 600 for the entertain
ment of the congress, the money was
placed in the hands of Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw to be held such
time as the committee should have
prepared its plans and details. Sec
rotary Shaw was to advise with the |
committee, and was to have the APP |
pointment of the dishursing agent. |
The matter did not arise on the spur
of the monument. For months and |
even years Mr. Broussard and Con
gresham Bartholdt had been in cor
respondence with the European mem
bers of the Union, and these two knew
just where to find the men in Congress
who would be best fitted of the task
of entertaining the delegates to the
congress. The two men chose eight
others, selecting them for their lin
guistic and their interest in interna-
tional arbitration. The ten members
Of the committee speak every language
that is spoken in Congress, and nearly
every European language, as we'll as
few from other lands On the CON-
nittee there are: Messrs Slayton of
Texas, who talks Omitted States
'Greaser, and few from other dia- |
ects; Hepburn. of Iowa, who is I
equally proficient in English and i
ome several European tongues; Dins- /
more Of Arkansas, who matches the
ough and tumble debater from above
Missouri; Rodenburg of Illinois, and G
HIT of the same State, who have q
mixed constituencies and are able to h
ak over front gate in the language
t the owner thereof; Lind of Mine i
ota who speaks Portuguese and Nor d
Tegian the skill; and Williams of +
who omits only Russian |,
rom his list of European linguistic
ri
Congressman Bartholdt intends to u
evote his attention to the Germanic i,
elegates, while Mr.. Broussard will u
,ok after the Gallo visitors.
This committee, said Mr. Brous- .,
lrd last night, placed in the hands W
Mr.. Bartholdt and myself the work
arranging plans for the entertain q
ent -subject, of course, to the APP
,oval of the committee and the views r.
Secretary Shaw. During the ST. :.
ouis convention, which / attended,
found time to confer with Mr.. Bart
,ldt, and during my stay there we pr
apped out together the details for al
e trip, which we believed would
operly entertain the visiting foreig- -
RS and at the same serve useful an
lrpose to this country The meet FL
gsFriday will be to ratify our ac-
IN, or to make such changes therein OF
shall be deemed necessary. Secre- mi
~ Shaw will oppoint discussing
emit to handle funds for us. ha
Now this is the trip we have to
aimed. The committee is to meet
New York. Sept Z, although Mr. an
rtholdt and myself will be there to
en- headquarters about Sept. /. Pc