Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-11-21
Nov. Fully Down to Business.
Speech Making. Has Been
Order For Two Days.
SECRETARY ROOT MADE
A VERY ABLE ADDRESS
JUDGE Prince Offers Resolution
That New Mexico Should Be Ad-
mitted to Statehood at Once.

Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 2l.-At the
trans mississippi Commercial con
sress. which is meeting here, this has
been a day of speeches. Many dele
gates delayed in reaching the city
yesterday by reason of the storm ar
rived during the night.
The topics for discussion and con-
sideration today included improve
ment of waterways and trade rela-
tions with South American countries,
reclamation of submerged lands, pub
lie drainage, matters of insurance
control naval construction ana
Alaska.
Among the speakers today were the
l.atinrAmerican diplomats, who were
crowded out of last nights program
W. ID. Van Divore, superintendent OF
insurance for Missouri, spoke on
"Business of Insurance from West
ern Standpoint" Morris Sheppard, OF
Texas. on "The Levee SYSTEM" F. II.
Newell washington, chief of the geo
logical survey, on Public Drainage
and Relations to Reclamation Serv-
ice" and W. II. Heron Washington,
topographer in charge of the middle
west. department of the interior, on
Reclamation of Submerged lands
Speech of Secretary Root.
Secretary Roots subject last night
was The Possibilities of Estab-
fishing Direct Trade Relations Be
tween Mississippi Valley States and
South and Central America. His
topic covered a wide territory, IN
Gliding Ohio and the Missouri valley,
and he dwelt especially on the need
of the development of the great
streams with a view to Transforming
them from idle drainage rivers TO
active channels of commerce through
which, he contended. would flow an
eyergrowing business between the
states and foreign ports. He referred
to the extent to which Great Britain
and Germany dominated the southern
half of the American continent and
gave it as his opinion that this do
mination was entirely due to the fact
that these two great commercial rivals
of the United States have utilized their
harbors and rivers, and thus had re
duced to minimum the cost of trans
porting goods. The United States, he
said, although possessed of the finest
undeveiOped waterways of any great
country in the world had lost its ricn
trade because it had failed to adopt
the policy of bettermect.
Among large number of ques-
riOns discussed were. action TO secure
government aid for the navigable riv-
rs of the Mississippi section
attracting immigration to irrigable
!?c0s of the west; the Panama Canal; (;
good roads, esta ablishment of a nation
a department of mines and mining;
Hood control; harbor improvements; F.;
merchant marine: oriental trade:
Alaska; Columbia river; irrigation and
forestry; naval construction on the
Pacific coast, etc. Senators W. J..
stone and w. Warren, of Missouri.
Governor Hoch, of Kansas: :. W.
Folk, of Missouri; Mayor Beardsley,
ka-Sa6 City, and Congressman Rams
dell, of Louisiana, spoke on the latter
subjects and e. H. Hartman and w.
J. Shifferlin, the great-great grandson
of John Jay, spoke on railway facili-
ties, and how they can be improved.
A1r. Daniel Chester French. the New
York sculptor, who is engaged on the
statue of the late Mr.. Meyer. was a
guest at the annual banquet of the
congress.
Prince for New Mexico.
Among the resolutions introduced
was one by l.. b. Prince, of New Mex
lco, tayoring establishment by con
Sress of a national department of
mines and mining. AnOJner one by
Mr.. Prince provided that the people
OF New Mexico should no longer be
deprived Of self-government and that
he territory should be admitted as a
state whenever it adopts suitable
constitution and applies fer such ad