The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-21
Central and South American Com
merce to be Considered at
rans-Mississippi
Congress
MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Distinguished Men Assemble at San
Antonio, Texas, to Attend 21st
Annual Meeting Of Big Con-
gress This Week.

san AhtoiliO, leAds, NOV. zl.-IHe
twenty-first annual meeting OF the
Trans Mississippi Commercial Con-
gress has extracted to San Antonio
the largest gathering of distinguished
men ever assembled here. Page after
page of the registers at the leading
hotels filed today with the names of
United Senator'S. governors of States.
diplomats. financiers, railroad officials
and other persons of prominence in
public affairs and in the world of COM
merce and industry.
Elaborate Banquet Tonight.
Preceded by an elaborate banquet
tonight at which William j. Bryan,
Senator Joseph w. Bailey and other
men of wide note are to speak, the
regular sessions of the congress will
begin tomorrow morning and continue
until Friday. r. w. Fleming of Kan
sas City. chairman of the executive
committee, estimates that no fewer
than 1900 delegates will be present
when the gathering is called to order.
Not only will every state west of the
Mississippi have large delegation on
hand, but the east also will be better
represented numerically than at any
previous session of the congress.
The programme is believed to be the
best ever prepared for a meeting OF
the organization. Both in the variety
and importance of the subjects to be
discussed and in the prominence of the
speakers to be heard the session
promises TO eclipse all former meet
ings of the congress.
After Latin American Trades.
The promotion of closer trade rela-
tions between the United States and
the republics to the South will be one
of the most important subjects con-
sidered at the meeting. Representa-
tives of the state Department and the
Department of Labor and Commerce
at Washington will be among the
speakers and 1t is expected that emin-
ent representatives of Mexico and the
countries of Central and South Amer
lea will present their views.
other subjects slated for discussion
during the four days session include
the Improvement of inland waterways
and harbors, Pan-American trade and
the Panama canal the reclamation OF
lands by irrigation and drainage, mer-
chant marine. insurance, interstate
commerce. the conservation of natur-
al resources. the development of AL
aska, and the parcels post. Delega-
tions of influential business men from
San Francisco and New Orleans are
here to urge the claims of their re-
spective cities as sites for the pro-
posd Panama exposition in 1915.
Thursday Governors Day.
Thursday has been set aside as
Governors Day" on the programme
of the congress, and 1t is expected that
the chef executives of Nebraska,
Missouri, Texas, Colorado. and a num-
Der of other States of the West and
Southwest will address the gathering
Prominent among other speakers TO be
heard at the several sessions are Sec
retary OF Agriculture Wilson, Secre-
tary of State Knox, William ]. Bryan
of Nebraska, Governor Campbell OF
Texas, John Barrett. director of the
International Bureagi Of American Re-
Publics; f. II. Newell. director Of the
United States reclamation service. B.
+. Yoakum, of the St Louis and San
Francisco railroad. and Judge r. s.
Lovett. chairman of the executive
committee of the Union Pacific rail-
road