The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-19
MEET To CONSIDER
FOREIGN TRADE
Men of Note Gather at Kan
sas City to Attend the
Transmississippi Congress
SESSION Is IMPORTANT

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KANSAS CITY, Nov. is.-More men
of public note will be in Kansas CITY
next week than ever before attended
nonpartisan gathering in this city.
They come either as guests to the an
maui banquet to be given on Monday
night by the Commercial Club of Kan.
sas City in commemoration of the sign
ing of the John Day commercial treaty.
or to attend the seventeenth annual
convention of the Transmississipnf
Commercial Congress, which will be-
gin four-days. session on Tuesday
morning.
Upon both occa sions the principal
topics of discussion will concern plans
for trade expansion, both in this coun-
try and between the United States and
the Latin-American republics
The most significant event in the
weeks doings is expected on Tuesday
evening, when Elihu Root Secretary Of
State, will make his first official Mt
terance on the trade relations between
this country and the South American
republics since his return trip from
those countries. Root, upon this occa-
sion. 1T is stated, will voice Presid ent
Roosevelts attitude on the Monroe
Doctrine. At the same session repre-
sentatives of Bolivia. Peru, Colombia.
Brazil and Chile, now en- route here
from Washington. will make short
talks bearing upon the same important
subject.
LARGE ATTENDANCE ASSURED.
Among others who have accepted in
vitations to deliver addresses during
the week are Secretary of the Treas
To
of the Union Pacific Railway: William
j. Bryan, an even dozen United States
Senators, fourteen Representatives in
Congress, the Governors of twenty
States, the Mayors of a dozen or more
cities and representatives of various
commercial bodies from all sections
of the country. Fifteen hundred ac-
credited delegates are expected
In point of attendance and the scope
of subjects considered the Transmits
sissippi Congress will be the most i'm
portant in the history of the organiza-
ton, taking up. as it will, subjects of
an International character. Among the
topics to be discussed are flood control
harbor improvements, merchant ma
rine, Oriental trade, Alaska, the Col
umbia River, irrigation, forestry, San
Francisco, naval construction on the
Pacific Coast, trusts and their relation
railroads, telegraph lines and public
utilities; levee systems in Texas and
Louisiana, Pan American commercial
union, drainage of public lands, State
hood and deep water from the lakes TO
the Gulf.
ROOT WILL GIVE TALK
Secretary Root and E. H Hartman
will speak at the Commercial Club
banquet on Monday, and again at the
Commercial Congress on Tuesday. The
guests Monday evening at the banquet
will include, besides those already
mentioned. the foreign representatives
from Washington; John Barrett. Min
lister to Colombia; William Jay Schef-
fin. a distant relative of John Jay:
Daniel c. French, the sculptor, both of
New York; several high railway Off
Gals. army officers from Fort Leaven-
worth and Fort Riley and many prom
inent delegates to the congress.
The Commercial Congress will con-
vene in Convention Hall on Tuesday
morning. David r. Francis of ST.
Louis will deliver his annual address
at the first session, and in the after
formal talk Tuesday evening will be
given up to Secretary Root and the
foreign acknowledgement Calderon,
Minister from Bolivia; Felipe Pardo,
Minister from Peru; Enrique Cortez,
Minister from Colombia, and Alberto
Yoacham, Charge d'Affaires of the
Chilean Legation.
Wednesday forenoon will be given
UP to the discussion of navigation, led
by Representative J. E. Ransdell of
Lake Providence, La. On Wednesday
afternoon Minister Barrett will speak
on relations with South America.
BRYAN ON PROGRAMME
On Thursday, at the morning ses-
sion, Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the
Treasury, will speak on the CONNER
cial possibilities of the West, and Will
liam ]. Bryan will address himself to
a subject not yet assigned. Thursday
afternoon speeches will be made by F.
H. Newell, chief engineer of the Recla-
nation Service; Clifford Pinchot, chief
forester of the Agricultural Depart
ment; W. H. Heron, topographer of
the Geological Survey; Elwood Mead,
chief engineer in Chicago of the drain
age surveys, and others.
The report of the committee on res
olutions will be made Wednesday
morning, probably, on which date the
next place of meeting will be declared
Several big delegations arrived in
this city today, and others are expected
to arrive tomorrow.
Julian Portele of the Argentine Le-
cation at Washington and John G. Car
Isle, former Secretary of the Treasury,
the congress because of indisposition.