Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-08-11
OFFICIALCALLISSUED
TRiNS.MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS TO
MEET In KANSAS CITY.
This Session of the Transmississippl
Chemical Congress Promises TO be
Most Important - The Number of
Delegates Designated important
Subjects-Secretary Root Present.

The official call for the 18th annual
session of the Transmississippi Com
mercial congress, to meet in Kansas
City, Mo, November 20, 81, % and 90
next, has been issued by the executive
committee. The congress promises to
be the most important since it's organ.
ization. Many great questions are to
be considered.
The call, which is addressed to gov.
ernors of states and territories, may
ors of cities, commercial clubs. cham.
bers of commerce, boards of trade, in.
dustriaL mercantile, maritime and i'm
migration organizations generally, is
as follows:
THE governor of each state and
territory may appoint 10 delegates
and one additional delegate for each
5000 inhabitants, provided, however,
that no city shall have more than 10
delegates
Each county may appoint one dele
gate.
delegate and one additional delegate
for every so members, provided, how
ever, that no such organization shall
have more than 10 delegates.
Governors of states and territories,
members of the congress of the UnlC-
ed States and former presidents of
the Transmississippi Commercial con
gress are ex-officio members, with all
tic privileges of delegates except vot.
ing.
Permanent members of the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress have
all the privileges of delegates.
I'm issuing the call the executive
committee directs attention to the ne
cessity for some concerted action on
the great question affecting the navi-
cation upon rivers of the Transmits
sissippi states"
In various sections of the transmits
sissippi region there are many natural
waterways which only need govern
ment aid to make them commercial
factors in the upbuilding of the states
fore, the executive committee places
the subject of river navigation upon
the program as a question of great
importance, trusting that the CONNER
cial bodies of the entire transmissis-
| sippi region send effective delegations
to participate in the discussion and
help the congress to wise conclusion.
| Requests are made that the subject,
"a department of mines and mining,
with head member of the cabinet
of the United States" be placed upon
the program.
Other subjects upon which discus
sion and recommendation may be had
are as follows:
Flood control; harbor improve
ments; merchant marine; oriental
trade; Alaska; Columbia river: irri-
cation; forestry; San Francisco; ma
val construction on the Pacific coast;
trusts and their relation to business;
government ownership of railroads,
telegraphs and public utilities gener-
ally; levee systems in Texas and Lou
isiana; Pan-American Commercial I'M
ion; drainage of public lands; state
hood; deep water from the lakes to
the gulf.
1t is the desire of the executive
committee to confine discussion to
matters of general interest and to ex-
clude subjects of political nature.
The following are the officers of the
organization:
d. r. Francis, st. Louis, president;
Tom w. Fleming, Kansas City, Mo-,
chairman of executive board; Tom
Richardson, Portland, Ore, vice chair
man; E. R. Moses, Great Bend, Kan,
chairman advisory board; Theodore
B. Wilcox, Portland. Ore, chairman
congressional committee; Arthur F
Francis. secretary.
Already 13 governors have accepted
invitations to attend and address the
convention, including Governor Cum
minis of Iowa, Davis OF Arkansas,
Franz of Oklahoma, Hoch of Kansas,
Folk of Missouri, Mcdonald OF Colo
RADIO and Pardee of California.
Secretary of State Elihu Root also
has accepted an invitation to address
the gathering, and many other pubic
men of prominence are expected.