The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-21
INTERNAL QUESTION
INSURANCE OF MORE THAN LoCAL
 IMPORTANCE, SAYS KINGSLEY.
Made Unasual Statement Before rran.. Mtssissippi Congress--Other Per- tinent Topics Discussed at
 Musk0gee,

mushogee, T T.. Nov. 20.-Praising Oklahoma as being the only State in the Union that holds insurance at it's proper importance. and the only State that made the Insurance Commissioners one of It's executive officers, Darwin P. Kingsley, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, today de- clared at the convention of the Trans mississippi Congress. that insurance IS not local. but a national, question. even an international question. and should be treated as such. President Kingsley argued as the property of life insurance companies, represented by the assets is taxed where located life insurance premious in the public interest. should be exempt for the public property is exempt from taxa tion.
 s. H. Cowan of Fort Worth. Tex, at- torney and representative of the American National Live Stock Assoefa- tion and Cattle Raisers of Texas, de- livered an address on the Western Live Stock Industry. On raising cat- tie, he declared, depended the pros- perity of the West. He explained and advocated meat Inspection and defend ed the beef trust as being necessary in the handling in great volumes of the trade.
 J. F. Barstow of Barstow, Tex, Pres. ident of the Society of Draining of Submerged Lands, declared that if the swamp lands of the country were re- claimed. enough Q land would be af- forded for 100000 farm homes, and the value of the nations crops annu- ally would be increased s2,0O0 .0O0. .O00.
 Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado clU advocated of t, la construction of good roads.
 D. R. Francis of Missouri. introduced resolution commenting the action of President Roosevelt in issuing bonds. Resolutions were introduced tonight providing for the sale of surface coal lands of Oklahoma to legitimate farm CTS.
 E. H. Newell. a member Of the Inland Waterways Commission. spoke on the work of the commission.
 He said in part:
 "A decided impetus has been given to the development of the West by the operation of the reclamation service, which began in 1902 to subjugate vast ereas of the great American desert
 ''In this brief space of time, nearly t40, ,000, ,000 have -been expended on twenty-six great irrigation works in sixteen States and Territories, in the Construction of huge masonry dams in broad canals and reservoirs of enor- nous capacities. Several of these works are completed and are supply ing today water to thousands of acres of land. In the spring of 1908, more than a million acres of land will be watered by the Government works, and 1000 families will be living on farms in regions which only a short time ago were covered with sage brush.
 'The present plans of tho bureau provide for the expenditure of nearly S1Od, ,00O, 900, and the reclamation of more than 3,o00,oo0 acres of land. an area larger than the combined culti- vated acreage of Massachusetts, Con- necticut, New Hampshire and Florida. Land values all over the West have greatly increased since the beginning of the Federal work of reclamation. "The expenditure of millions of dol lars for irrigation by the Government Is proceeding under law wholly un- like any other law governing national work. Under the reclamation law, every dollar invested is to be returned' to the treasury hy the settlers who take up the lands reclaimed. While the terms are easy. the entire burden of cost falls upon the people directly benefited.
 Under the wise provision of the law, the reclaimed regions are quickly turned over to bona fide settlers whose farms are restricted in area from forty to 60 acres incuring cdm- pact farming communities and inten- sive cultivation. The land specula- tor has small chance under this law which compels actual and continuous settlement and cultivation. There Is no class of farmers who. as rule. are more prosperous or receive a larger share of profits from the soil than the successful irrigator
 ''The creation of thousands of homes out of what was otherwise q desert, In the midst of broad grazing acreas, pr near the great mining camps of the West insures a stability to the com which cannot be obtained In any other way. These homes serve as an offset to the rowing population on the grazing lands and to the teFt- less miners who make no permanent 
 A sweeping resolution favoring i'm. of the deep waterways of he country and their trimutaries was oa assed at tonight's session. A reso- ution recommending the establish nent of a department of mining by he Government was also passed.
 James F. Crimson of Colorado spoke on the need of a department of min- Ing.
 ". A Conant, who was a deIecate