Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-23
Commercial Meeting at Kansas
City Refuses to Endorse
Pet Schemes
MERCHANT MARINE ENDORSED
Resolutions Adopted Approve CT Ex-
tension of Trade With South Amer
ica, Approve Monroe Doctrine, Fav-
or Currency Reform and Many Other
Measures-Genera News.

Kansas City, Nov. 23.-Delegates to
the seventeenth annual convention of
the Trans Mississippi Commercial
congress, today placed the finishing
touches upon the work at this gather
Ing. The program for the morning ses-
sion included the following addresses:
zone Phase of Instance" by Sydney A.
Foster, of Iowa; Beet Sugar Indus
try by T. G. Palmer, of Los Angeles;
Statehood" by L. B. Prince, of Santa
Fe N. NJ; Good Roads" by f d CO.
burn, of Topeka, secretary of the Kan
sas board of agriculture Officers are
to be elected, and the resolutions COM
mittee will report this afternoon.
The committee has had hard strug-
gle to reach an agreement upon the
platform treating with the ship subsidy
suggestions made before the conven-
tlon by Elihu Root, who is believed to
have spoken for Roosevelt. Two other
important resolutions, presented to the
congress personally last night by VIII
liam Bryan, and considered this
morning by the committee, asked the
congress to endorse the resolution
adopted by the parliamentary
union at it's London session last July,
in favor of the submission of all
international questions to an impartial
court for investigation before a dec
laration of war, and another one
sought to commit congress as being ops
posed to private monopolies as inde-
fensible, intolerable, and favoring the
Of existing laws and the
enactment Of such new ones as may be
necessary to protect industry from
the menace offered by trusts.
The following nominations for Off
GERS of the congress for the ensuing
year will be presented to the conven-
ton, and, as there are no contests,
they unquestionably will be ratified:
President-Col. H. D. Loveland, Of
San Francisco.
First Vice President-L. Bradford
Prince, of Santa Fe NJ NJ.
Second Vice President-N. G. Lari-
more, of Larimore, N. D.
Third Vice President-F. A. Fellows,
of Topeka, Kas.
Fourth Vice President-A. Colbraith.
of Denver, Col. l.
Secretary-Arthur F. Francis, Of
Cripple Greek, Col.
Vote Down Resolutions.
The resolutions committee voted
down two resolutions submitted to the
congress last night by William ]. Bry.
an.
The Resolutions.
The resolutions submitted by the
committee in part, follow:
We endorse the propositions sub
mitted by Secretary Root for encourage
ing our merchant marine, and for in
creasing our intercourse with South
America by adequate mail facilities.
I'VE renew and emphasize our ap-
proval of and devotion to the Monroe
doctrine as enunciated by it's author.
Interpretation of the doctrine by this
congress is that the people Of the United
States are unalterably opposed to any
European government acquiring any
additional territory or jurisdiction Ia
the western hemisphere
I'VE affirm our previous action fav-
oring the upbuilding of the American
merchant marine and advise the two
parties in congress to consider the
creation of an American merchant ma
rine as non-partisan issue.
s'We again earnestly urge such thor
ough organization of our consular sys-
tenn as to secure the most efficient SER
vice to our business interests; and re-
quest the congress Of the United States
to enact into law the executive order on
this subject.
I'VE favor the construction of an in
ter-continental railway between North
and South America
"We emphatically approve and en-
dorse the earnest effort now being
made to obtain necessary aid and sup
port from the national government for
canals, rivers, and farbors and COM
mend to our members the movement
represented by the national rivers and
harbors congress and adopt as ours it's
annual appropriation Of at
least fifty million, to be expended in
the furtherance Of this highly impor-
tant work. We also favor the i'm
provement and development of the
principal rivers of the trans Mississ-
ippi region SO that such natural chan-l
nels of trade may be made adequate
and economical channels of transport
tation for the products of the people.
1--WE earnestly urge upon the con-
gress of the United States an early
and favorable consideration of these
vital questions.
I'VE heartily endorse the proposed
nter-coastal canal. nine feet in depth,
about 500 miles In length, from the
river to the Rio .Grande.
We request the members Of this con-