The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-06
KANSAS CITY THE PLACE.
ON NOVEMBER 20-23
Need of Careful Investigation of
Many Vital Problems Is
Pointed Out.


its organization.
Many great questions are TO be con
sidered
The call, which is addressed TO Gov
ernors of States and Territories,
Mayors Of cities. Commercial clubs,
Chambers Of Commerce, Boards Of
Trade, industrial, mercantile, maritime
and immigration organizations gener-
ally, follows:
Basis of Delegates.
The Governor of ench State and Terri"
tory may appoint ten delegates and not
more than twenty delegates.
The Mayor Of cnch city one delegate aud
one additional delegate for each 5000 in.
hnbitants provided however, that no city
shall have more than ten delegates.
Each county may appoint ono delegate.
Each business organization one delegate
and one additional delegate for every fifty
members provided, however that no such
organization shall have more than ten dele
Governors of states and Territories. mem
berS OF Congress of the United Slntes and
former presidents Of the Trans Mississippi
Commercial congress are ex.otiicio members
with all the privileges Of delegates except
voting
Permanent members of the Trans Mississip.
pi Commercial congress have all the privi-
lcges Of delegates.
In issuing the call the executive committee
directs attention TO the necessity for some
concerted action on the great question affect
| ing navigation upon the rivers OF the trans
Mississippi States.
Many Natural Waterways
In various sections Of the Trans
Mississippi region there are many nat
ural waterways which only need gov
ernment aid TO make them commercial
factors in the upbuilding of the States
to which they are tributaries. There
fore, the executive committee places
the subject of river navigation upon
the programme AS question OF great
Importance, trusting that the CONNER
cial bodies of the entire trans Mlssis-
sippi region send effective delegations
to participate in the discussion and
hclD the congress to wise conclusion.
Under the reclamation act millions
Of acres of arabic lands in the trans
Mississippi country are in the process
of reclamation, involving the equally
important question of suitable immi-
grafton for these lands. The executive
committee is therefore requested to
bring this matter TO the attention of the
trans. Mississippi Commercial congress,
together with the fact that the addi-
tional territory thus put under cult
walton aids enormously to the business
of the great cities of the middle West
outside the irrigated region.
Inasmuch as recent agitation, both
home and abroad, has had an effect
detrimental to the live stock interests
executive committee has placed this
subject upon the programme with the
hope that out of multiplicity of coun
sci some right conclusions may be
reached beneficial TO this most import
ant branch of Western industry.
The marked progress made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the National Con-
canal across the isthmus of Panama has
again brought this project to the at
tention of the Trans Mississippi Com
mercial congress. The enormous bene-
fits that will accrue to the region west
of the Mississippi river by the con-
struction of this international water
way appeal with peculiar force to the
people OF the trans Mississippi States,
and it is proper that the delegates to
gress be afforded an opportunity to ex-
press their views upon this subject.
Good Roads Movement
Commercial activity is greatly re-
tarded by the lack of transportation
facilities. Chief among the evils in
this respect is bad roads. Any move.
ment that has for its purpose the inn
provement of the public highways
should be encouraged, thereby fostering
a public sentiment in various States
and Territories that will ultimately
create perfect system of good roads
throughout tho Mississippi region,
and enhance materially the bulk and
value of our commerce between the
States.
Requests are made that the subject,
ga department of mines and mining,
with its head a member of the Cabinet
Of the United States be placed upon
the programme.
Other subjects upon which discus
sion and recommendation may be had
are as follows:
Flood control.
Harbor improvements.
Merchant marine.
Oriental trade.
Alaska.
Columbia river.
Irrigation.
Forestry.
San Francisco.
coast.
Trusts and their relation to busi.
ness.
Government ownership of railroads
telegraphs and public utilities gener-
ally.
1evee systems in Texas and Louisi-
ana,
Pan-American commercial union.
Drainage of public lands.
Statehood
Deep water from the lakes to the
gulf
IT is the desire of the executive com
mittee to conine discussion to matters
of general interest and to exclude sub
Jects of political nature.
The call is signed by;
q. r. Francis, St Louis. president,
Fred W. Fleming, Kansas City, Mo-,
chairman executive board.
Tom Richardson, Portland. Or. vice
chairman.
e. r. Moses, Great Bend, Kansas,
chairman advisory board.
B. Wilcox, Portland, Or, chairman
congressional committee,
Arthur F. Francis. Denver, secretary.
Already thirteen Governors have nc