The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-29
CALL IS ISSUED.
Transmississippi Congress to Meet at
Musl1ogee in November.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 29.-The Of
fetal call for the eighteenth annual
session of the Transmississippi Com
mercial congress to be held at Mus
kogee, in the new state of Oklahoma,
November 10, 20, 81 and % next, has
been issued. Representation is pro-
vided for as follows:
The governor of each state and ter
ritory may appoint ten and not more
than twenty delegates; the mayor or
each city one delegate and one addf-
tional delegate for each nve thousand
nhabitants, provided, however, that
no city shall have more than ten del
egates; each county may appoint one
delegate through its executive Off
delegate and one additional delegate
for every fifty members, provided,
however, that no such organization
shall have more than ten delegates.
Governors of states and territories,
members of congress of the United
States and former presidents of the
Transmississippi Commercial congress
are exofficio members with all the
privileges of delegates except voting.
The call says:
aThe executive committee respect
fully directs attention 10 the fact
that the Transmississippi Commercial
congress. in holding it's eighteenth an
nal session co-incident with the ad-
mission into the federal union of the
new state of Oklahoma, follows a pre-
cedent long established of maintain
ing foremost position in all matters
affecting the material advancement
of the region west of the Mississippi
river. Then admission OF Oklahoma
and Indian Territory is therefore sug-
gested as a fitting occasion for the
assembling of the commercial inter-
ests of the Transmississippi states.
1.-The message of the president of the
United States to the national congress,
January 23 1907, indorsing the recon-
mendations from the Transmississippt
ed at the Kansas City session, urging
a closer commercial union with the
Latin republics, again brings forclply
to the attention of the commercial
bodies of the Transmlssisslppl secton
the necessity for further agitation along
this line, to the end that the commerce
of the country may be so. enlarged as
to obtain unrestricted and speedy IN
tercourse with the republics OF Cehtrai
and Southern America.
Attention is also directed to the
prompt action of President Roosevelt In
appointing an inland waterways COM
mission, whose duties 1t is 70 prepare
and report a comprehensive plan for the
Improvement for the river systems or
the United States. Inasmuch as tne
Trausmississippi states and the terri
tories are especially Interested IN TINS
commission, thu commercial OrBanlld-
lions of this section are urged to give
this, matter attention When delegates
90 saIected 70 attend the congress"
other subjects mentioned in the call
for. discussion are forest reserves, the
creation of a department of mines and
mining, coordinate with the depart
nnent Of agriculture; rivers and harbors,
federal supervision and the right of the
Government to secure the cost of oper-
alton by a leasing system upon water,
land or timber; operation of the ma
tional reclamation act; drainage Of
submerged public lands; scientific farm
ing as q means of retaining the public
grazing lands in the semiarid states;
state and federal owner
ship; statehood for New Mexico; pri-
vate monopoly; Panama and the ca
nal; merchant marines; irrigation; beet
culture and the sugar industry and inn
migration.