Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23

marine. they have been worry successful
We scarcely know whore these countries
are located on the may.
A. co "Rectprocity.'
We are told that % We win import more
we Will have no difficulty I'm exporting any
and an possible surplus. Last year we
imported Nl45o pcr capita, but this hherQlitv
in purchasing uneuuallcd I'm amount helped
IN no perceptiblc degree 70 increase our
stance. half she had to sell. while Brazil
sent TO us for II per cent of her imports.
] do not blame Brazil Brazil. like other
countries without ships or International
merchants, hugs that which Is brought TO
her doors. Our ships never enter her ports
She never sees our lag. Our consular re-
ports are iilled with information 20 the
effect that no South American country has
moro than heard of the United states as
We buy of tropical and subtropical pro-
ducts. Sl.WOC0O per day more than VIC sell
sell to Europe q million and half q dav
more than we buy from Europe. These
facts afford a complete answer To the claim
: that II we will but import more Of Whist
we now purchase we will have no difficulty
in selling our surplus however large 1t
present surplus to the United Kingdom but
IN buying we select from what is offered
that which pleases us best, regardless of its
ii this country ever develops iuterna-
tional merchants it will accomplish ii by
granting them announcement, not alone bv
] dredging harbOrs and deepening channels,
! but by insurng them a merchant marine
IN which to carry, under the most ldNOlaple
! terms the products OF our farms, our
3 mines. our forests. and our factories
/ Ike r. Pryor Of Fort Worth spoke on the
/ Live Stock Interests"
! IntercontinentnI Railway.
John W. Noble Of St. Louis. eX-secret0ry
Of the interior, advocated the building Of
4 an interconunental railway TO develop
! closer commercial relations between the
! countries of tho western hemisphere. A
/ resolution favoring the construction of such
a road had been introduced by Richard
| c. Kercns of St. Louis. General Noble sIid
/ that the first movement in this country to
develop closer trade relations with South
! America. the congress of the three Amer
icas, which met in Washington i'm 1889, was
the result of the genius and craftsmanship
| Of James G. Blaine. General Noble advo-
Gated the construction Of a deep waterway
from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
saying that the proposed railroad would
| not conflict with the interests of the water
way. He said that the two methods of
transportation would be of mutual value to
each other.
Congreeman John NJ. Stevens of Texas
discussed the subject of Irrigation" He
gave statistics To show how irrigation had
developed the arid lands OF Texas and the
west. He told of the immense crops of
| alfalfa, sugar beets, onions and other
crops which are now produced on lands
that only a few years ago were practically
useless for agricultural purposes. Congress
man Stevens said that the raising OF peas
TO feed lambs now an important industry,
was unknown until arid lands began to be
| reclaimed
At a session of the resolutions committee
today a proposition 10 indorse Secretary
Roots suggestion for a ship subsidy. par
ticulary for mail steamers TO South Amer
lea, was adopted. There is a strong senti-
ment in the congress favoring Secretary
Roots suggestion.
John Barrett United States minister 70
Colombia and a delegate from Oregon,
submitted a resolution asking congress to
make liberal appropriations for the inn
provement of the Columbia river.