The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-22
Of the Days Proceedings at the
Commercial Congress.
SELECTION OF A CITY
For Next Years Convention Also
Comes Up.
Denver, Lincoln, MuskOgee and
Tulsa in the Race.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov 22-At the
Transmississipp commercial congress
today the especial drawing cards were
Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary of the treas
uIy; Isham- Bancroft, consulting engin-
eer of the sanitary canal commission
and William J. Bryan, who were on tne
programme to make speeches. Mr. Ban
croft was to speak at the morning ses-
sion on the subjeet Deep waterways
from the lakes to the gulf" Secretary
Shaw at the afternoon session on
American finance" and Mr. Bryan in
the evening on The DEVELOPMENT of the
Transmississippf region along CONNER
cial lines" The day promised to be one
of the most important of the entire
gathering
Other speakers on the days pro
Morning = Representative Edgar c.
Ellis, Kansas City, subject The Mis-
souri, river"
F. H. Newell. Washington, D c.,
chief engineer reclamation service on
Public drainage and its relation to the
reclamation service
Discussion to be participated in by
Edward Mead of the agricultural de-
partment. Edward Heron, topograph-
er in charge of the middle west, depart
ment Of the interior and other repre-
sentatives of the national government.
Address by Representative John N.
Stevens, Vernon, Texas, on Irrigation
in Texas
Addresses on Department of Mines
by Victor c. Anderson. president of tn e
Colorado School of Mines, and by Ike
T. Pryor, Fort Worth Texas, president
of the Southwest Cattle Raisers' asso-
citation on "The Live Stock Interests. =
The selection of a city for next years
convention probably will be decided
late today. Among the cities making
bid for the gathering are Denver, Lin
coin, Neb., and Muskogee and. Tulsa.
L t Tht election of officers will take
place tomorrow.
II. D. LoveIard of San Francisco,
one of the vice presidents of the con-
gress, is mentioned for president.
At the opening Of the congress this
tary, read a pavser by George w. Diclkie,
who was unable TO be present, on
Naval Construction on the Pacific
Coast Mr.. Dfekie advocated in
the Pacific coast and enough work to
keep them in condition to render the
government efficient service in case OF
war
charge of the sanitary and ship canal
of Chicago, speaking on the deep wa
terway from the lakes to the gulf,
said:
There is a living menace to the full
efficiency of the waterway. The more
water sent through its channel drawn
from Lake Michigan the better will be
the stage of water in the channel which
we have been considering. This menace
comes from an International waterways
commission called for by the same act
of June IS, 1902, which appropriated
$500 900 for the survey and estimate for
a waterway from Eockport to St. Louis.
This act was all right in providing for
international control of international
waters but when it also included wa
ters tributary thereto it was all wrong.
for that was an invitation to an alien
power to take a hand in the control of
our domestic affairs.
This international waterways COM
mission if report be true, recommends
a treaty which will limit the water to
be drawn by Chicago for sanitary pur-
poses to 10000 cubic feet per second.
We need no less than $4,000 cubic feet
per second. VIII you protect US against
any treaty which limits the uses of any
waters wholly within or rightfully be-
longing to the United States? We need
this water for health. We need it for
commerce.