The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-12-14
TAFT ENTERTA|NS
THE GOVERNORS
THE PRESIDENT GIVES DINNER
IN HONOR OF THE WESTERN
EXECUTIVES
SPECIAL MAKES FINE IMPRESSION
Efforts to Aquaint the East with the
Products and Resources of the
West Mil Bear Fruit

(From Our Washington Correspondent
One of the principal matters of in
terest during the past week surround
ed the visit to Washington Of the Gov
errors of twelve western states who,
with a party of prominent officials,
arrived in the east on a train known
at the Governors Special" with the
avowed mission of bringing more
closely together the East and the
West. Unfortunately, the cOnstruc-
tons of the tunnels at Baltimore pre-
vented bringing the train containing
the exhibit of western products to the
Capital; but the Governors were here,
and so were the other officials and
immigration boosters, and they awoke
the Capital to something of a realiza-
ton of the great advantages and I'm
developed possibilities of the western
country. In the party were Gov. John
F. Shafroth of Colorado, Gov. James
H. Hawley of Idaho, Gov. Adolph o.
Eberhart of Minnesota, Gov. Edwin
l.. Norris of Montana, Gov. John
Burke of North Dakota, Gov. Oswald
West of Oregon, Gov. Robert S.
Wesley Of South Dakota, Gov. Joseph
NJ. Carey of Wyoming, Lieut.. Gov. S.
R. Fitzgerald of Colorado, former Gov.
James H. Brady of Idaho, former Gov.
Sarles of North Dakota, and J. E.
Barnes of Washington.
A dinner was given by President
Taft in honor of the visiting Cover
nors, and it was one of the most
elaborate ever held at the White
House. Among the notables present
besides the Governors were Secretary
of the Interior Fisher, former Gov. j.
Franklin Fort, of New Jersey; Sena-
tors Perkins, c.. d. Clark, Nelson,
Warren, McCumber, Gamble, Hepburn,
Dixon, Guggenheim, Chamberlain,
Crawford, Gronna, Myers, Works and
Representatives F. c. Stevens, James
C. Needham, F. w. Mondell, w. E.
Humphrey, J.. R. Knowland, Julius
Kahn, F. M. Nye, c. NJ. Pray, Eben
w. Martin, Charles H. Burke, Louis
B. Hanna, E. T. Taylor, and Burton l..
French, Secretary to the President,
Hilles, C. D. Morriss, j. L. Day, Col
vim B.. Brown, Reilly Atkinson, Lewis
Penwell, H. C. Wallace, William Han
ley, L. Y. Mcdowell, c. E. Johnson,
J. E. Barnes S. j. Rich, Lieut.. j. w.
Simmons, and Maj. Archibald Butt.
One of the great results of the per-
sistent and effective work being done
by w~esterners and which is being
backed up by this tour of the east by
the party on the Governors Special"
is to ~acquaint the people Of the west
as compared with factory life in the
cities. The west has been carrying
on this work for many years and
recently they have secured a strong
ally in the new south, which through
its state and city governments, and
it's railroads, as we'll as commercial
bodies Is carrying on a great and
systematic campaign of education,
and the result is that the whole ma
ton is turning from it's discordant
mutterings regarding the high cost
of living to the relief that it has re
peatedly demonstrated exists in the
back-to-the-farm movement. Amidst
the fuss and feathers of the social
splurge incident to the trip of the
Governors Special" the Executives
of the different states have never for
one moment allowed anyone to for
get that they were after settlers, and
not seeking personal glory. From the
eastern standpoint and especially as
viewed from the National Capital, the
idea of former Gov. Brady Of Idaho
in bringing the big chiefs" Of the
different states SO actively before the
country in this immigration move
ment, has proven to be a great sue
cess.
Among the measures introduced In
Congress by Representative La Fol
lette and one by Senator Poindexter,
is one to abolish the Commerce Court.
Congressman returning to the Capital
are indignant that the work OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission
should be effectually hampered by the
Commerce Court, and as a result they