The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-08-10
0FFICIALCALLISSUED
1RANs.NIsslssIPPI Congress TO
Meet In KANSAS CITY.
This Session of the Transmississippi
Chemical Congress Promises to be
Most important The Number of
DeIeoates Designated - Important
enthusiastically Root Present.


The official call for the 18th annua
session of the Transmississippi Com
mercial congress, to meet in Kansas
CITY Mo-, November 90, 81, % and 2;
next. has been issued by the executive
committee. The congress promises tt
he the most important since it's organ
ization. Many great questions are tc
be considered.
The call, which is addressed to gov
ernors of states and territories, may
ors of cities, commercial clubs, cham
hers of commerce, boards of trade, in
dustrial, mercantile, maritime and i'm
migration organizations generally, is
as follows:
"The governor of each state and
territory may appoint 10 delegates
and one additional delegate for each
5000 inhabitants, provided, however
that no city shall have more than 1C
delegates.
Each county may appoint one dele
gate.
Each business organization, one
delegate and one additional delegate
for every so members. provided, how.
ever, that no such organization shall
have more than 10 delegates.
Governors of states and territories
members of the congress of the Unit
ed States and former presidents OF
the Transmississippi Commercial con
gress are ex-officio members, with all
the privileges of delegates except vot.
ing
Permanent members of the Trans.
mississippi Commercial congress have
all the privileges of delegates.
I'm issuing the call the executive
committee directs attention to the ne
cessity for some concerted action on
the great question affecting the navi.
CATION upon rivers of the Transmits.
sissippi states"
In various sections of the transmits.
sissippi region there are many natural
waterways which only need govern
ment aid to make them commercial
factors in the upbuilding of the states
to which they are tributary. There.
fore, the executive committee places
the subject of river navigation upon
the program as question of great
Importance, trusting that the CONNER.
cial bodies of the entire transmissis-
sippi region send effective delegations
to participate in the discussion and
help the congress to wise conclusion.
Requests are made that the subject,
"A department of mines and mining,
with head a 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 improve.
ments; merchant marine; oriental
trade; Alaska; Columbia river; irri.
cation; forestry; San Francisco; ma.
val construction on the Pacific coast;
trusts and their relation to business
government ownership of railroads,
telegraphs and public utilities gener.
ally; levee systems in Texas and Lou
lsiana; Pan-American Commercial I'm.
ion; drainage of public lands; state.
hood; deep water from the lakes to
the gulf
1t is the desire of the executive
committee to confine discussion to
matters of general interest and to ex-
clude subjects of a political nature.
The following are the officers of the
organization:
d. r. Francis, St. Louis, president;
Tom W. Fleming, Kansas City, Mo-,
chairman of executive board; Tom
Richardson. Portland, Ore, vice chair
man; E. R. Moses, Great Bend, Kan,
chairman advisory board; Theodore
b. Wilcox, Portland, Ore, chairman
congressional committee; Arthur F.
francis, secretary.
Already 1S governors have accepted
invitations to attend and address the
convention. including Governor Cum.
MINIS of Iowa, Davis of Arkansas
franz of Oklahoma, Hoch of Kansas,
FOLK of Missouri, Mcdonald Of Colo
RADIO and Pardee of California.
secretary of State Elihu Root also
nas accepted an invitation to address
the gathering, and many other public
men of prominence are expected.
Americans Lure Americans.
Mayico C;+u rl Ao,;oo,e