Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-11-22
SHAW SPEAKS
At CONVENTION
DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANT
SUBJECT or AMERICAN
FINANCE
BRYAN ON PROGRAM
Development Of Trans -Mlssissipps
Region Along comme eTctai Lines
10 Taken UP

Kansas City. No, - - Al The
Trans Mississippi Commercial con
gress today tae special drawing cart
were lshAnl Bancroft, consulting IN
giaeer Of the sanitary commission
who spoke ou Deep WATERWAYS
from the Lakes to the Gulf" al the
morning session. Secretary Leslie
NJ. Shaw at the afternoon session on
American Finance" and William ]
Bryan In the evening on The De
velopment of the Trans Mississippi
Region Along Commercial Lines"
Among other addresses today arr
irrigation In Texas" by John NJ
Stevens OF Vernon. Texas: The De
partment of Mines by Victor c. Al
derson Of the Colorado School ol
Mines, and Livestock Interests" by
Ike T. Pricer Of Fort Worth. Texas
president of the Southwest Cattle
Raisers' association The selection
of the next meeting place will prOba
bly, be decided late today. Among
the cities making a bid are Denver
Lincoln. Muscogee and Tulsa, Indian
Territory The election of officers
is tomorrow.
Thieman's Speech.
Paul Thieman. editor OF the
Denver Post made rather sensa
tinnal speech on The Excessive Pn,
Utical Imagination Thieman said
in part:
Travelling from Denver to Kansas
CITY the other day. | sal watching
oceans of uncultured land as far as
the eye could reach. There are mil
lions Of persons elsewhere willing t.
better their condition. and all that Is
needed to make the gigantic waste
blossom as the rose is the organiZa
ton to bring the people and soil to
cether. The world has heard much
of the terrible troubles of Colorado
These terrible troubles have result
ed from excessive political imaginA-
tion. Finally Colorado has realized
this truth and is well again. Color
ado could have had twice the popu
lation she now has II it had not de-
veloped such excessive power to i'm
agine evil"
Geoge J. Kindel, who Tuesday re-
rlied in heated manner to E. II. Har'
riman's statements to the congress
regarding railroad matters. again to-
dav took occasion to deny the truth
Of Harrimans claim that freight
rates go down rather than up, and
to critcisc caustically his statement
that the government should give the
railroads more power. Then Kinder
created a stir by introducing reSo-
lution that because Of certain ruling"
which Kindnl declared to he dis
criminativC." Hon. JudsOn c. Glenn
ems Of the Interstate commerce
commission he requested to resign
from the commission on account oil
incompetency, and in the event "l
his refusal, the president of the Uni;
cd States order an investigation ami
on satisfactory proof of charges h"
demand the resignation. The reso
lrtion was referred to the commit,
tee without debate
To Send immigrants South.
Among the important matters be
ing considered by the congress IS
that of turning the tide Of immigra
tion now cOngesting in New YORK.
and tlher North Atlantic seabnard
cities. to the south and southwest
1t is likely that definite line of ac
tiun will he agreed upon and the mat
ter brought forcihly before the ncx'
congress The settlement of the
n"Wly reclaimed public lands in the
southwest and west. as we'll as iii"