Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-10
MANY SUBJECTS
TO BE DISCUSSED
TRANSMlSSlSSIPPl CONGRESS
OUTLINES PROGRAM
DATE SET FOR NINETEENTH AN
NUAL SESSION
Meeting at San Francisco October 6,
7, 8, 9 and 10 to Consider Prob
lens of state and National
Interest


BY Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Aug. 9.-Many
subjects of general Importance are in
cludcd in the call for the nineteenth
annual session Of the Transmississippi
Commercial congress which is to meet
in San Francisco october 6, Z, s, 9 and
10, and which has just been issued UNI
der the signatures of ]. B. Case, presi-
dent of Abilene, Kas.; Thomas f.
Walsh of Denver, chairman OF the ex-
ecutive committee, and other officers.
The call says, regarding representa-
ton at the congress:
1.-The governor of each state and ter
ritory may appoint ten delegates, and
not more than twenty.
THE mayor of each city one dele
gate, and one additional delegate for
each 5000 inhabitants, provided. how
ever, that no city shall have more than
ten delegates.
Zach county may appoint one dele
gate through its executive officer.
Each business organization one del
egate, and one additional delegate for
each fifty members, provided, however,
that no such business 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 ex-officio members with all the
privileges OF delegates excepting
Privileges of Members
permanent members of the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress have
all the privileges of all delegates ex-
cept when such permanent memlber re-
sides outside the tranSmisStssippi sec
tion, in which case he is entitled to all
the courtesies of the congress, except
voting. Permanent members resident
of the transmissiSsippi section act and
vote with the delegates of their re-
spectiVe states and territories"
The call continues:
ssThe subcommittee submits the fol-
lowing subjects as germane to the OBJ
jects of the congress, and upon these a
free and full discussion is invited.
They follow:
Irrigation and drainage; river and
harbor improvement; leasing of public
lands; dry farming; Alaska statehood;
parcels post and postal banks: trans
pacific trade; closer trade relations
with the Latin republics; public own
ership of utilities; Panama and the
canal; Hawaii and the Philippines; i'm
migration; live stock industry; ma
tional and state aid for highways;
sugar beet industry; Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition; national finances;
an enlarged and improved consular
service in the far east; the Pan-Amer-
ican railroad; interstate commerce.
Natural Resources
'sThe executive committee direct spe-.
cial attention to the conservation Oh
natural resources which was recently
emphasized by President Roosevelt at a
conference of governors of the various
No chi q NAV
16, 1908. As this question closely ar
fects the reserved rights of the states
of the transmississippi section in rela-
ton to the forests, the national re-
serves, the leasing of the pubic 90
main, inland waterways and the utlli-
cation of the power and development
of mineral and other resources, etc.
IL is the desire of the executive COM
mittee that a full analysis of these
matters should be made, to the END
that the administration may be &C
corded such intelligent cooperation
from these states as may be CONSIST
ent with the general good.
In order to obtain the best results,
the executive committee has made spe-
cial provisions in the program Of the
commission, and an invitation has been
extended the members to appear per-
sonally before the congress.
1.-THE executive committee enumer-
ates among the special SUBJECTS lor us
cussion that of department of mines
and mining. believing the great MIN
eral industry will not be adequately
recognized until a department of the
government is created coordinate with
the department of agriculture.
I'm addition to the above, upon
which recommendations and resolu-
tions may be made, any delegate may
submit suggestions germane 70 the op-
5ects Of the congress 1t is the desire
of the executive committee to have a
free discussion of all matters of inter-
est to the people of the transmississippi
country"