Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-08-08
OFFICIALCALLISSUED
TRlEs.nIssIsslPPl CONGRESS TO
MEET In KANSAS CITY.
This Session Of the Transmississippi
Chemical Congress Promises to be
Most Important - The Number Of
Delegates Designated - Important
Subjects-Seeretary Root Present.

lHe OLnclal call LOT tne lltn annual
session Of the Transmississippi Com.
mercial congress, to meet in Kansas
City. Mo-, November 20, 81, % and %
next, has been issued by the executive
committee. The congress promises to
be the most important since its 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.
Each business organization, one
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 Unit
ed States and former presidents of
the Transmississippi Commercial con.
nv-nHnfn NTH a11
the privileges Of delegates except vot-
ing.
Permanent members Of the Trans.
mississippi Commercial congress have
all the privileges Of delegates.
"In 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
to which they are tributary. There
fore. the executive committee places
the subject Of river navigation upon
the program as 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 un.
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 a 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 public
men of prominence are expected.