The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-19
Transmississippi Congress and
Commercial Club Banquet
Draws Leading Men.
INTERNATIONAL TOPICS TO
BE UNDER DISCUSSION
Trade Relations of the United
States and South America TO
Receive Attention.

KANSAS CITY, No, Nov. 1s.-More
men of public note will be in Kansas
oltY next week than ever before at
tended non partisan gathering in this
CITY. They come 4 : guests 10 the annual
2anqnet on Monday night given by the
commercial club of Kansas City, given
IN commemoratlon of the signing Of the
John lsy commercial treaty. ~ TO at
tend the seventeenth annual convention
OF the Transmississippi Commercial con-
Gress, which Will begin four davs' ses-
sion on Tuesday morning Upon bosh
occasions the principal topics of discus.
sion vii concern plans for trade eYpsn-
sion both ~ this country and between
the United states and the Latin-Ameri-
can republics
The most significant event in the
week s doings is expected on Tuesday
evening. when Elihu Root, Secretary %
state, NIL make his first official utter
ance 90 the trade relations between this
country and the South American repub.
llcs since his return trip from these
countries. Mr.. Root will upon this occa-
sion, ii IS stated, voice President Roose-
Welt s attitude on the Monroe doctrine.
~ the same session representatives OF
Bolivia, Peru, Colombia Brazil and
Chlle, now On route here from Wash
lngton, are to make short talks bearing
npon the same important subiec'
NAdHJ bels5dLe5 Expected.
Among others who have accepted in
vltatlons 10 deliver addresses during
the week is Secretary Of the Treasury
Shaw, i. II. Hartman, president of tho
Union Pacific railway. William j. BrY-
an. an even dozen United States Seua-
tors, fourteen Representatives in Con-
grcss, the Governors Of twenty States,
The Mayors of dozen or more cities
and representatives of various commer-
c'al BODIES from all parts Of the coun-
try Fifteen hundred accredited dele.
gates arc expected
In point OF attendance and the scopo
Of subjects considered, this years Con-
gress VIII be the most important in the
history of tho organization. taking ,Ip,
as II VIII, subjects of m 'nterna tional
character. Among the topics TO ne dis
cussed arc food control, harbor inn
proNements, merchant marine. Oriental
trade, Alaska. the Columbia river, irri-
CATION, forestry, San Francisco, naval
construction on the Pacific coast trusts
and their relation 10 business, Govern
ment ownership of railroads. telegraph
lines and public utilities; levee systems
in Texas and Louisiana, Pan-A meriesn
commercial union, drainage of public
lands. Statehood. and deep water from
the lakes to the gulf
Secretary Root and f. II. Hartman
will speak both al the Commercial cmb
banquet on Monday and at the Com
mercial congress on Tuesday.
Banquet to Notahles
The guests Monday evening at the
banquet Will include, besides those al
ready mentioned. the foreign represen-
tatives in Washington, John Barrett,
Minister TO Colombia: William jaw
Schieffelin, a distant relative Of John
jay; Daniel c. French. the sculptor,
both OF New York; several high rail-
way officials; army officers from Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Riley. and
many prominent delegates TO the con.
gress,
The Commercial congress will con-
veue in Convention hall on Tuesday
morning. David r. Francis of st Louis
viii deliver his annual address at tha
FIRST session, and in the afternoon Mr..
Hartman viii make an informal talk.
Tuesday evening will be gwen up 10
Secretary Root and the foreign dlplo.
mats. 1gnacio Calderon, Minister from
Bolivia; Felipe Pardo, Minister from
Peru; Enrique Cortcs Minister from
Colombia; Mr., Gurgeguclado Armal,
charge d 'affaires OF Brazil, and Alberto
Goacham, charge 'atfaires of the Chile
an legation,
Wednesday forenoon will be given un
70 the discussion of navigation, led by
Representative J. Z. Ransdel Of Lake
lrpNlqcnce. La. On w NeuuceudS dilti~
nooon Minister Barrett will speak on
relations with South America
On Thursday, ut the morning session,
Leslie NJ. Shaw, Secretary OF the Treas
ury. will speak on the commercial pos
sibilities Of the West. aud William J.
BRYAN will address himself to a subject
not vet assigned Thursday afternoon
speeches will be made by L, II, Newell,
chief engineer of the reclamation ser.
vice: Clifford Pincbot. chief forester OF
the Agricultural department; W. n,
Herrou, topographer, Of the geological
survey; Elwood Mead, chief engineer IN
Chicago of the drainage surveys, and
others
The report of the committee on reso,
lutious will he made Friday morning
on which dato the next place
of meeting will he decided
Several big delegations arrived IN the
cry today and others on the way arc
expected to arrive tomorrow.
Julian Portele of the Argentina Legal
ION al Washington, aud John &. Car
Isle. former Secretary of the Treasury,
have wired their inability to attend the
IL,