The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-23
ROOT SUBSIDY
PLAN IS URGED
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ITS
ADOPTION BY COMMERCE
CONGRESS.
SHAW MAKES A SPEECH
Pointing Out Advantage Of New
Business Relations With South
America Bryan Urges
Peace and Knocks Trusts.

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! Kan as City. Mo, Nov. 23.--Secre-
tary q he Treas ry Shaw and viii
liam j. Bryan had the Hons share of
attention here today among long list
of speakers at the sessions Of tie
Trans.M ssissippi congress. All smoke
on ubjects relating more or less az
lrectly TO the increasing commercial
business OF the country
Bryan was appointed to head a com
mittee of ex-president's OF the con
gress to escort Shaw to the platform
and when the two led the way to the
rostlum there was great applause
Bryan, whose subject principally
concerned the commercial interests Of
the Mississippi valley region. was the
sole speaker at the evening session.
| Bryan gaid he felt very friendly
toward the Commercial congress he.
cause IL was the only body of which
he was ever president. He ma le
strong plea in opening to have The
next annual congress held in his
home town, Lincoln Neb
Bryan Pleads for Peace.
Bryan presented a resolution For
arbitration of all international cues
| tions which he asked to he cons.d-
cred by the resolutions committee a.
The congress tomorrow. He pl led
earnestly for the adoption of the
resolution, hoping, he said that the
cangress would thus place itseif IN
record as favcr,ng peace.
Bryan congratulated the ommercial
congress for having had as their
guests two members of President
Roosevelt's cabinet-Root and Shaw
The two foremost members OF the
presidents family, he said. Referring
Ia tho speeches Of Root and Shaw,
he disagreed with the former that
the possibilities that the trade ex-
tpansien With South America be. ae
compls'la through subsidies nor with
the logic Of Shaw's position on The
same question.
Bryan pre- ented the following roso-
luton which he asked the congress
10 consider tomorrow: "That this
congress is unalternbly opposed TO
private monopoles and believing
them indefensible and intolerable.
favors The enforcement OF the exist
ing laws and enactment OF such new
laws as may be necessary to pr tect
industry from the menace offered by
trusts" He closed his speech with the
denunciation of trusts.
The committee on resolutions at q
meeting tonight considered the shin
subsidy resolution and decide -
recommend to congress resolution
supporting Roots ship
subsidy suggestion.
The resolution will suggest hat the
government gubsidize mail steamship
lines between the United States and
South America The resolution sub
mtted by President Francis declaring
the congress unalterably opposed to
the acquisition Of any more territory
In the western hemisphere by any
European nation and upholding the
Monroe Doctrine was also favorably
reported.
Among other resolutions which the
-ommittee will recommend are:
To build a deep waterway from tho
Great Lakes to the Gulf: sta ehood -
New Mexico: 70 increase the facili
les OF getng American Cattle t. for
3ign markets. and a national depart.
nent OF mines and mining
Some subjects upon which address.
IS and discus ions were made at the
morning and afternoon sessions were
liver and leyee betterment. lowe;
'reight rates. especially in he ives
axes to gulf water transportation:
he necessity Of a national department
" mines ard mining. the needs of
i've stock interests OF the southwest
he necessity Il increased facil' ties a.
he Pacific coast ship yards irrigation
public drainage as il relates % re
.lamaticn service waning forest re-
ources and imaginary evils and IFS
n Colorado products by poll ical I'M
sination.
Among tho who took part in the
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.ouis. ex-secretary Of the intereior.
.eoree J. Kinden. of Denver. Ike +.
'ryor. president Of the Southwest Cat
c Raisers Ass0ciai ion. p r. NewaiL
.dward Mead W II. Heron Eoverc-
len'al department experts; Represen-
alive tSeyens. Of Texas and Ellis. cf
iissouh
lsham Randolph. con l#lfing eaei-
eer e the III nois canal declared that
hicago and the state Of Illinois st011
sady Go give that stream whenever
he government viii compete the
nan1el to the Mississippi river. This
in the interest OF the lakes 70 the
lll water.
Shaw Backs Up Root
The eighteenth century AMI the
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