Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-15
MISSOURI RIVER
CONGRESS MEETS
SEVEN STATES REPRESENTED
BY DELEGATES TO YANkToN
CONVENTION.
GOV. BURKE IS PRESIDENT
President Ellis Says Railroads Aid In
Development of Stream Will Re-
turn TwofoId.-At Omaha
Next Year.

Yankton, S. D-The second annual
Missouri river navigation congress
met here under canvas, there being no
building in town large enough to seat
the delegates.
President Ellis, in an interview, said
he had been encouraged the past few
months by the attitude of railroad
men who had been in opposition to
the movement to open the Missouri
river to trade, but now looked on it
as a factor that would lead in the end
to greater business for the railroads.
Seven states were represented in
the congress North and
South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Missouri.
I Omaha Next Meeting Place.
The vote for next years congress
was captured by Omaha, that city be-
Ing first favorite with little opposi-
ton.
President G. E. Ellis, Kansas City,
Mo-, presided, and Vice President
F, D. Wead, Omaha, and Charles De-
land, Pierre, S. D., with Secretary
George G. Call, Sioux City, were the
other officers here. The first business
OF the session was the appointing of
the following committee:
Burke Heads Resolutions.
Resolutions-Gov. John Burke, Bis
marck, N. D. chairman; Charles De-
land, Pierre, S. D.; William Stull, Om-
aha, Neb.; E. M. Glendening, Kansas
City, Mo-; Mayor U. S. Guyer, Kansas
City, Kan; George c. Call, Sioux
City, Iowa; F. M. Stranahan, Fort
Benton, Mont; Isaac Piles, Yankton
S. D.; George H. Forsee, Kansas City
Mo-; Victor Rosewater, Omaha Neb.;
Hon. Bartlett Trip, Yankton, S. D.
Auditing-F. D. Wead, Omaha,
chairman; G. E. Deland Pierre, S. D.;
w. F. Corbin, Kansas City, Mo-; Theo.
Landman, Washburn, N. D.
Credentials-M w. Jencks, Yank-
ton, chairman; c. A. Koonz. Sioux
City; H. M. Christie, Omaha; c. H.
Harkell, Glasgow, Mo-; A. II. Jen-
nings, Kansas City; John Erengger,
Williston, N. D.; George Vaughan,
Glasgow, Mo.
On Order Business, Constitution and
Rules. A. Searles, Omaha chair
man; A. B. Beall, Sioux City; W. C.
Gilbreath, Bismarck, N. D.; w. G..
Mellier, Kansas City. Mo-; F. A. Rey-
nolds Chamberlain, S. D.; E. H. Heis-
Ter, Kansas City, Kan ; w. l.. Mont
gomery, Sioux City; W. J. Fantle,
Yankton; H. H. Hanks, Omaha; w.
K. James, st. Joe, Mo.
Politics entered into the winding
up OF the Missouri River congress and
the election of the president, Cover
nor John Burke, Of North Dakota, be-
Ing chosen in place of President C. C..
Ellis, OF Kansas City, who was an ac-
tive candidate for reelection.
Omaha was chosen by an over
whelming vote over Glasgow, Mo-, for
the next congress in December.
The vice presidents elected were:
E. A. Williams, Bismarck, for North
Dakota; c. z. Deland, Pierre, for
South Dakota; j. L. Kennedy, Sioux
City, for Iowa; Jerry Sullivan, Fort
Benton, for Montana; F. D. Mead,
Omaha. for Nebraska; w. R. Childs,
Kansas City, for Kansas; w. K.
james, st. Joseph, for Missouri.
The Omaha delegates decided to re-
tslrn home as far as Sioux City by the
steamboat Rosebud.
The members of the congress be-
lieved that the board of engineers ap-
pointed by the government for the
purpose of determining the cost of
the lakes-to-guf waterway exceeded
the jurisdiction permitted them, and
said in resolutions adopted unani-
mously by the convention, that "it is
not within the province of engineers
to pass upon the commercial interests
of the country" The resolutions de-
clare:
"We emphasize the Importance of
the use of the Missouri river to the
utmost of availability. The best way
to show our faith in the river is by
the use Of it; and in its use private
enterprise should not be left to the
mercy Of competition or treated with
Indifference when seeking to change
the direction of traffic and develop
new markets. Every interest of com
merce demands the improvement of
the channel and the conservation of
the headwaters to prevent devasta-
ton.
t'We favor the building of locks
upon all navigable rivers damned for
Irrigation, and are opposed to any and
all Instructions on navigable waters
is1WooL CLIP RATHER LIGHT.