Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-22
HOT DEBATE IN
COMMERCIAL.
CONGRESS
OKLAHOMA SENATORS
IN ORAT0RICAL BATTLE
Resolution Commencing Ad-
miniStration Financial Policy
Carried by Overwhelming
Majority
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b Morning journal Special Leased Wire
Muskogee, Okla, Nov. 21.-The
Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress
will meet next year at a Francisco.
The congress today elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year,:
President, j. b. Case, Abellne, Kan;
vice president, Colonel Ike T.. Prior,
San Antonio, Texas. second vice pres
ident. n. c.. Larimore, North Dakota;
third vice president, w. f. Baker
Council Bluffs; fourth vic president,
G. T. Calbreath. Denver. secretary,
Arthur F. Francis, Cripple Creek.
The Commercial Club of Council
Pluifs presented a petition asking for
the endorsement of the congress for
the improvement of the Missouri river,
the waterway from the lakes TO the
gulf. and for other rivers in the south
west.
me Retail Merchants association. Of
the trans Mississippi section presented
a protest against the parcels post.
Henry I. Kirk, Of Omaha, made an
address which was a plea for extern
ton of navigation to Omaha. He re-
called the great navigation of 80 years
ago and said:
Ell IS the rebate and the pass that
have driven these boats from the
rivers"
Senator w, j.. Stone, Of Missouri,
spoke upon "our insular possessions "
and set forth conditions as he gath
cred them from six months personal
contact with the orient.
Robert owen and Thomas p. Gore,
United States senators elect. met In a
debate during the session and the
powers of both were put TO test. The
committee on resolutions a rejected
the resolution commencing the action
Of President Roosevelt and Secretary
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tiicates of Indebtedness to relieve the
financial stringency and urging citizens
10 invest In the certificates, offered
Yesterday by, David II. Francis. eX-goV-
ernor Of Missouri, by a vote of II to
II, the chairman casting the decid-
vote, Because the committee was 50
evenly divided, the resolution was re-
ferred back to the house. The senti-
ment seemed to favor the action of the
committee. Senator Gore urged that
the house vote the resolution down.
Senator owen followed his colleague,
declaring that the resolution should be
carried. The house went to the side of
the Indian senator and when the vote
was called the resolution was adopted
by a vote of 1876 to 43.
senator owen scored Maty Tiger.
chief of the Creek nation. for allow
ing the federal government to place
words in his mouth through the in
strumentality of an interpreter.
Chief Tiger bitterly assailed Sena-
tor Owen yesterday in a speech before
the congress.
When the cities were lighting for
the honor OF the mex annual meeting
Of the congress President LOVeland
choked with sObs, told OF his sitting
with the committee of fifty appointed
TO receive the messages of sympathy
which flashed from the corners of the
earth to the stricken city Of San Fran
cisco on the days hat followed the
great horror. and with tears in hts
eyes he asked that the honor be given
ia the METROPOLIS Of the west. San
Francisco had won before the cheers
that answered President LoVeland's
speech had died away from the hall.