Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-08-06
Call Issued for Seventeenth
Annual Session of Trans
Mississippi Congress To Be
Held at Kansas City,
MOST IMPORTANT IN
HISTORY OF BODY
How to Remedy Damage to
Live Stock Industry Due to
Packing House Scandal One
Of Conventions Problems.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 5.-The Of
fetal call for the seventeenth annual
session of the trans Mississippi COM
mercial congress to meet in Kansas
City, Mo. November 20, 81, 22 and 23
next was issued here today by the eX-
ecutive committee. The congress pro.
misses to be the most important since
its organization, Many great ques-
tions are to be considered. The call
is addresse to the governors of
states and territories, the mayors of
cities, commercial clubs, chambers of
commerce, boards of trade. Industrial
mercantile, and maritime organiza-
tions generally. In issuing this call
the executive committee directs at
tention to necessity for some concert
ed action upon the great question al
fecting navigation upon the rivers Of
the transit Mississippi states
The executive committee is also re-
quested to bring the matter of irriga.
BILE land to the attention of the
trans Mississippi commercial con-
SANSSi lpSCliOl Will lllC ldGl llldl lLN
additional territory thus put under
cultivation adds enormously to the
business of the great cities of the mid
die west out of the irrigated region.
Inasmuch as recent agitation, both
at home and abroad, has had an effect
detrimental to the live stock interests
of the trans mississippi states, the ex-
ecutive committee has placed this
gtth n
that out of a multiplicity of counsel
some right conclusions may be reach
ed beneficial to this most important
branch of western industry, The
marked progress made by President
Roosevelt and the national congress
towards the construction of q canal
across the Isthmus of Panama, has
again brought this project to the att
tention Of the trans Mississippi COM
mercial congress. Requests are made
that the subject "a department of
mines and mining with it's head Il
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 improvement,
merchant HlHflue, OTlellldl lFdue,
Alaska, Columbia river. irrigation,
forestry, rebuilding of San Francisco.
naval construction on the Pacific
coast, trusts and their relation to bus
mess, government ownership Of rail-
ways telegraph lines and public utlli-
ties generally, levees in Texas and
Louisiana, Pam American commercial
union, drainage of public lands, state
hood deep water from the great lakes
to the gulf Of Mexico
1t is the desire of the executive
committee to confine discussion to
matters of general interest, and to ex-
clude subjects OF political nature,
The call for the meeting of the con
gress is signed by:
d. r. Francis, of st. Louis, presi-
dent; Fred w Fleming, Kansas City
Mo-, chairman executive committee;
Tom Richardson, Portland, Oregon,
vice chairman executive committee;
Is. r. Moses, Great Bend, Kas.. chair
man advisory committee; Theo 3.
Wilcox, Portland, Ore, chairman con-
gressional committee; Arthur Il.
Francis, Denver Col, secretary.