Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-16

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= tion,' was the startling state :
:. ment made from the platform :
: at today's session of congress +
: by George ]. Kindel, of Denver. :
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 16.-Go-
vernon John Burke of North Dakota
speaking today before the transmits
sisissippi commercial congress plead
ed for Improvement of inland water
ways for navigation"
To prevent the disastrous floods
such as are experienced in the valley
of the Mississippi river, Governor
Burke also advocated the building OF
great reservoirs in the mountains in
Montana.
Scrap Over Parcels Post.
Bankers, business men, and farmers
today swept aside the banner of peace
tnat has hung over the congress and
plunged into bitter struggle over the
parcels post, and the question OF
rights. Defeated in the resolution
committee, where they had executed
victory, the supporters Of the parcels
post rallied forces and when the con-
vention opened not delegate was
missingv
kindeI Tries First Gun.
George X. Kindel, of Den YER, known
throughout the country becar:e Of his
fights upon the railroad interests, in
Colorado, fired the opening gun for
the parcels post adherents in speech
against what he termed the domina-
ton of the government BY ''robber ex'
press companies" who, ne laid, were
getting the benefit by the failure to
have a parcels post. He declared "tn-
ly nation of chumps would stand for
such damnable treatment and statec-
manship."
81 predict that in ten years, ne
said, there will be no express l'.m-
2any doing interstate or CO npetitl'e
business with our postoftices.' Mr..
Kindel said the United States Should
have a rural parcels post at the post
master generals proposed rate, name
", five cents for the first pound, ant:
two cents for every additional p:urd
up to the limit of eleven pounds; CT
twenty-five cents on rural nacKa2e
weighing eleven pounds.
Mail Order Houses Not Benefited.
"No mail order house could II ter
fere with the country merchants lus'
iness," the speaker declared, because
mail order houses would be subjected
to the general parcels post rate OF
eight cents per poun. or eighty'elgnt
cents instead of twenty-five cents on
an eleven pound package on the coon-
try dealers route
surke's Speech in Full.
The complete text of the address OF
Governor Burke of North Dakota, OIL
his topic of 'River Improvement is
as follows:
am a little timid in talking on
river improvement before SO many
and United States SEN
ators. remember that at the water
way convention in Memphis IN l9o'
the governors of the states OF the MIS-
sissippi valley were present and spoke
in favor of the general policy of river
l recall how on that
occasion we let loose the aeroplanes
of oratory and scared to heights
where we could kind of push the
clouds away and let the blessed sun
shine light up the project from the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf. But before the ap-
plause had died ay congressman
took the floor and told us that so tar
as river Improvement was concerned.
and the actual work necessary to De
one, one congressman was worth
dozen governors. And at the river
in Washington in 1908 we
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