Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
MANY NOTABLEs
WILL. Be PRESENT
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS TO
MEET IN NOVEMBER
Gathering of Prominent Men at kan=
sas City, Mo-, viii Be an
Event of NatioEai
Interest
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 22.-The
meeting Of the transmisSiSSippi COM
mercial congress, which will hold it's
seventeenth annual session in Kansas
City's great convention hall for the
four days beginning November 20, will
be the most important gathering OF
business men in the United States this
year. Former Gov. David r. Francis
of st. Louis, president of the congress,
wired Col Fred w. Fleming, chairman
of the executive committee, yesterday
of the unqualified acceptance of Secre-
tary of State Elihu Root of the invita-
tion that had been extended to him to
deliver an address before the CONNER
cial congress. Secretary Root has des-
ignated the subject Of his address as
1.-THE Possibilities of Esta blishing Di-
rect Trade Relations Between the
Mississippi Valley States and South
and Central American Countries"
The recent tour of the Southern and
Central American republics by the sec
retary of state has furnished him a
mass of up-to-date Information con-
cerning those countries which can not
fail to be of great interest not only to
the people of the tranSmiSSissippi re-
gion, but also to the country at large.
The list of speakers who will deliver
formal addresses before the CONNER
II
of national prominence, as follows:
Hon. Elihu Root, secretary of state.
Hon. Jas. J. Hill, St. Paul, MINI.
Hon. e. II. Hartman, New York
City
Hon. N. c. Blanchard, governor of
Louisiana.
Hon. George C. Pardee, governor OF
California
Hon. VIM. ]. Bryan, Lincoln Neb.
Hon. Joseph L. Ransdell, president
National River and Harbor association.
Hon. H. D. Loveand, president Pa
cific Coast Jobbers' association, San
Francisco.
Hon John Ct. Carlisle. New York
City.
congressman Will Attend
In addition, acceptances have been
received from twelve United States
senators and twenty-one representa-
tives in congress to invitations extend :
ed by the executive committee inviting
them to attend this years session and
participate in its deliberations.
The transmississippi commercial con-
gress Is unique among the commercial
organizations of the country in having
had successful experience of sixteen
years, with an increasing interest dur
ing that period In its annual meetings.
1t has been an important factor in de-
Veloping great projects for the benefit
of the western country In general, and
among its most notable achievements
may be mentioned the national irriga-
tion act, under the provisions Of which
a fund of forty million dollars has been
accumulated from the sale of public
lands in the arid and semi-arid inter-
mountain region, which is being util-
ized in great projects of irrigation, thus
reclaiming for the use of agriculture
land that has heretofore been regarded
as valueless except for grazing pur-
poses.
The congress was instrumental in Sc
curing an appropriation of seven mill
lion dollars for deepening the harbor at
Galveston, and also a government ap-
propriation for removing the bar at the
mouth of the Columbia river, thus fa-
ciitating the country's export business
with Asia. The representatives OF the