Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-28

The resolution of the TranslMissis-
sippi Commercial congress adopted
yesterday after the most interesting
debate that has been heard in the 16
years the congress has been in ex-
istence were as follows: -....~..
ITO the Trans-Mississippi CONNER
cial Congress: We, your committee
on resolutions, having fully and care
fully considered all resolutions re-
ferred to it, respectfully submit the
following report: " H.
"Be it resolved by the Trans-Missis-
sippi Commercial Congress, composed
of representative from the several
states and territories between the
Mississippi river and the Pacific coast,
at it's sixteenth annual session, as
sembled in the city OF Portland,
Oregon, as follows: .
immigration Laws.
Our foreign trade with China is at
present suspended and unable to dis
charge it's cargoes at Chinese ports
and Hongkong because of the refusal
of the Chinese to handle American
products. This unsatisfactory state of
affairs is understood to have been
produced by the improper treatment to
which the privileged classes of China
have been subjected in the administra-
ton of our laws prohibiting the ad-
mission of Chinese laborers to the
United States.
There are now seeking admission
to our country large numbers of per-
sons from Europe, Asia and Africa,
many of whom are undesirable and
cannot be admitted without endanger-
ing the high standards of American
citizenship. Therefore, we respect
fully petition the president of the
United States to, if deemed expedient,
reiterate his instructions for proper
treatment of the privileged classes of
China, to ascertain through the proper
channels the reasons for the present
boycott, and to appoint a commission
to investigate and report to congress,
with recommendations for a compre-
hensive immigration law framed to re-
move all unreasonable restrictions,
but to exclude from the United States
and our insular possessions, all IN
desirable persons from every country"
Rivers and Harbors.
1--WE earnestly recommend liberal
appropriations under continuing con-
tracts by the federal government for
the improvement of the harbors on the
Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast:
The largely increasing trade with
Central and South America and the
orient renders more liberal policy
toward these ports on the part of the
national government, imperatively
''The deep draft of the vessels in
which the commerce of the world is
now most economically carried makes
it important that the Galveston harbor
should have a uniform depth of not
less than IS feet of water at mean low
tide, with width and extension COM
with its growing import
ance. The same recommendation is
made with reference to the improve
ment of the harbors on the Pacific
coast.
"The jetty at the mouth of the
Columbia river ought to be completed
to the plans of the govern
ment engineers in order that the
products of the northwestern country
may find a convenient highway to the
markets of the world.
I'm harmony with past declarations
of this body, we declare that it is the
plain duty of the national government
to take hold of the important question
of river Improvement and food con-
troll in an earnest and broad-guage
manner. The cost of necessary i'm
provements to prevent the continued
of interstate commerce
and an appalling loss Of life and prop
erty should be met by the national
government and the localities affected
upon an equitable basis. The perma-
nent Improvement Of the great Missis-
sippi and Missouri rivers and their
navigable tributaries ought to be an
object of national concern. The condi-
tions at and in the vicinity OF menaced
by devastating river foods, Kansas
City and East st. Louis. where com
merciai and transportation interests
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