Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-07-29
Session Coincident with Admission of
State of Oklahoma.
DEVELOPING TRADE TO SOUTH
Closer Commercial Union with Latin
America Advocated.
DEVELOPMENT OF WATERWAYS
OromPt Action of President In Nam
Ing of Commission to Investi-
gate the Subject f.
Commended.
APPoRT1oNMENT OF DELEGATES

KANSAS CITY. July 8.-The official call
for the eighteenth annual session of the
Transmississippi Commercial congress, to
be held at Muskogee, Okl.. November 49,
%, q and p next, was issued TODAY. Rep
resentation is provided for as follows:
The governor OF each state and territory
may appoint ten and not more than twenty
delegates; the mayor OF each city one dele
gate and one additional delegate for each
300 inhabitants, provided, however, that
no city shall have more than ten delegates;
each county may appoint one delegate
through its executive office: each business
organization one delegate and one addi-
tional delegate for every fifty members,
provided, however, that no such organiza-
tion shall have more than ten delegates.
Governors of states and territories, MEM
bers of congress of the United States and
former presidents of the Transmissssippi
Commercial congress are ex-officic mem
bers, with all the privileges of delegates
except voting. The call says
The executive committee respectfully di-
rects attention to the fact that the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress in holding
It's eighteenth ANIMAL session coincident
with the admission into the federal union
precedent long established OF maintaining
= foremost position In all matters affecting
west of the Mississippi river. The admis-
sion OF Oklahoma and Indian Territory is
tnerettore tne suggested as a fitting occasion
LOT Inc assembling OF the commercial in
terests or the transmisslssippi states.
CLOSER Commercial Union.
,, The message Of the president of the
Lnlted States to the national congress on
January Z, 1901 endorsing the Recommended
lions OF the Transmssissippi Commercial
congress which were adopted at tine Kan
N. a Rl g,iaI
union with the Latin republics, again brings
iorGibly TO the attention of the commercial
Dodles OF the transmississipp section 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 Intercourse with
the republics of Central and South America
Attention is also directed to the promDt
sction OF President Roosevelt in appoint
rug an Inland waterways commission
whose duty II is to prepare and report a
comprehensive plan for the Improvement OF
1nasmuch the transmissppi states ana
territories are especially interested In the
work OF this coinmission, the commercial
give this matter attention when delegates
are selected to attend the congress.
ofher subjects mentioned in the call are
forest reserves, the creation OF a depart
ment OF mines and mining. coordinate
with the Department OF Agriculture. rivers
ana harbors, federal supervision and the
right of the government to secure the cost
OF operation by leasing system upon water,
land or timber, operation of the national
reclamation act, drainage OF submerged
public lands, scientific farming as a means
OF reclaiming the public grazing lands in
the semi-arid states, municipal. state and
federal ownership, statehood for New
Mexico private monopoly. Panama and the
canal, merchant marine. irrigation beet
culture and the sugar industry, immigra-
ton.