East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-07
PLANS BEING MADE
FOR GREAT CONGRESS
HELD IN SEATTLE
NEXT SEPTEMBER
Big Meeting Will BE Made of Dele
gates from Commercial Bodies of
Five States and AlasBa-COnvenes
September 5.

September 5.
Seattle, April 7.-Elaborate prep
arations are making for the first
| Northwest Development congress,
which will be held in Seattle in Sep
tember, and which will be made up
| Of delegates from the commercial bod
les of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming and Alaska.
| These preparations are in the hands
of an arrangements committee, which
has already organized with the presi-
| dent of the Seattle Commercial club
| as chairman and the chairman of its
publicity committee as secretary. Va
rious other commercial and develop
| ment bodies of Seattle, including the
| chamber of commerce, the Manufac-
| turers' association, the Clearing House
| association, the Rotary club, the Ho-
tel Mems association, the Real Estate
| Mems association and the Good Roads
club, will each be asked to appoint
a representative to serve on this COM
mittee.
A like invitation will be extended
to the principal commercial body in
each of forty of the chitf towns and
cities within the territory which the
congress will claim as its field Of op-
Grafton. From this committee when
completed the chairman will appoint
an executive committee of five, upon
which will devolve the details of or
ganization and preparation.
To make the membership of the
congress as representative and COM
plete as possible each commercial and
development body within its jurisdic-
tion will be asked to name delegate,
the proposed ratio being one delegate
for every twenty-five members or
fraction thereof. The oranges and
farmers unions will be invited to par
ticipate on the same basis.
The plans of representation also
include the naming of twenty dele
gates-at-large by the governor of each
state and of eacr city of the first
class. Mayors of cities of the second
class will be asked to name ten, those
of the third class five and those Of
the fourth class two delegates. 1t is
confidently believed that in this way
NItlt Will DC DlOuSHl lOBtllGI OH e1o-
sembly of not less than two thousand
men, each a leader in his particular
community and able to speak for its
especial interests with accuracy and
authority.
The congress will convene on Sep
tember and will remain in session
five days. The first day will be de-
voted to conservation, irrigation, the
Improvement of our rivers and har-
bors, and such other matters as are
subject in greater or lesser measure
to federal control. 1t is expected that
through the congress President Taft
will then address the people of the
northwest on the subject of Canadian
reciprocity. 1t is probably that Sec
retary of the Interior Fisher will also
be one of the speakers on the first
day of the congress.
The second day will be set apart
for consideration Of those phases of
development in which the state and
the municipality have a dominant
part, and it IS hoped that the speak
lers on that dag will include Governor
pW ilson of New Jersey, Mayor Simon
of Portland and DIR. Albert Shaw or
Frederick c. Howe, each of whom
has made a profound and searching
study of municipal betterment both
in this country and abroad. Railroad
extension, transportation and cognate
subjects will be discussed on the third
day, when the speakers will be such
men as James j. Hillof the Great
Northern, Robert S. Lovett, head of
the Hartman system, and Franklin *.
Lane of the interstate commerce
commission.
The industrial and agricultural up
building of the northwest will claim
attention on the fourth day, when it
is planned to have addresses by Henry
Wallace, president of the conservation
congress, and by Frederick w. Taylor
of Philadelphia, the greatest living
authority on factory management and
development.
The fifth and last day will be de-
voted to reports of committees, the
election of officers and to clearly and
definitely formulating the particular
and continuing work of the congress
itself. Promotion and publicity ex-
perts of the highest standing will
| address the congress on that day.
Their addresses will be of an emf
| nently practical nature, and it is the
| hope of its projectors that from the
l Deliberations of the congress as a
whole there will develop a central
and permanent body, able through eS-
perts to speak for all the sections
with force and effective-a bureau of
advice and information which, by
the scope. the accuracy and the dis
interested spirit of its operations
will, in compelling way, bring the
resources and opportunities of the
northwest to the attention of those
in the east bes fiedteacmfwycmfwy