The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-29
new STATE GETS
THE CONVENTION
Official Call for the Eighteenth
Annual SeSslonof the Trans
Mississippi Congress.
OCCASION A FITTING ONE
SUBJECTS MENTIONED IN THE
CALL.

hatiSaS city, July 2o-Ihe Ofnclal call
fer the eighteenth annual session of the
transmississipRi commercial congress, to
be held at MuskOgee. in the new state of
Oklahoma. Nov. 19, 20, q and % next, was
issued today.
Representation is provided for as fol-
lows: The governor of each state and ter
ritory may appointte ten. and not more than
twenty delegates; the mayor of each city
one delegate and one additional delegate
for each 5000 inhabitants, provided. how
ever, that no city shall have more than
ten delegates; each county may appoint
one delegate through its executive officer;
each business organization one delegate
and one additional delegate for every fifty
members, provided. however. that no such
organization shall have more than ten del
egates
Governors of states and territories
members of congress of the United States
and former presidents of the transmissis-
sippi commercial congress are eX-OfficiO
members with ali the privileges of dele
gates except voting. The call says:
Occasion Fitting.
The executive committee respectfullv
directs attention 10 the fact that The
1ranSmississippi commercial congress in
holding its eighteenth annual session CO.
incident with the admission into the fed
eral union of the new state of Oklahoma
follows a precedent, long established, of
maintaining a foremost position in all
matters affecting the material advance
ment of the region west of the Missis-
sippi river. The admission of Oklahoma
and Indian territory is, therefore. sug-
sested as fitting occasion for the assem-
bling of the commercial interests of the
transmlsslssippi states.
The message of the president of the
United States to the national congress
Jan. % 1897, endorsing the recommended
JiOns of the tTansmississiDpi commercial
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sas City session, urging a closer CONNER
clal union with the Latin republics again
brings forcibly TO the attention of the
commercial bodies of the transpississipUi
along this line, to the end that the COM
merce of the country may be so enlarged
as TO obtain unrestricted and speedy i'll
tercOurse with the republics of Central
and South America
Waterways Commission.
Attention is also directed to the prompt
action of President Roosevelt in appoint
ing an inland waterway commission
whose duty if is to prepare and report a
comprehensive plan for the Improvement
of the river systems of the United States
1nasmuch as the transmssissippi states
and territories are especially Interested
in the work of this commission, the COM
mercial organizations of this section are
urged to give this matter attention when
delegates are selected to attend the con-
gress"
Other subjects mentioned in the call for
discussion are; Forest reserves the crea-
ton of a department of mines and mining
coordinate with the department of agri-
culture, rivers and harbOrs, federal super
vision and the right of the government to
secure the cost of operation by a leasing
system upon water. land or timber oper-
alton of the national reclamation act
drainage of submerged public lands. scien-
title farming as a means of retaining
the public grazing lands In the semi-arid
states. municipal. state and federal owner
snip, statehood for New Mexico, private
monopoly, Panama and the canal mer-
chant marine irrigation beet culture and
the SUGAR manufactures and immigratinn