The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-16
Canadians Meet With South ern Good Roads Boosters
 at New Orleans
TWO ROUTES ARE
 TO BE CONSIDERED
After Warm Debate Members of Jef- ferson Highway Association Decide to Leave Matter of Choosing in
 Hands of Directors of Body

New Orleans, November 15.-Good roads advocates from Mississippi valley states and the Canadian province of Manitoba, here to organize the Jefferson Highway association, through which it is proposed to construct an international thorough fare from New Orleans to Winnipeg voted today after several hours of heat ed debate to leave the selection of the 1oue to the board of directors, which will consist of one vice president and three members from each state
 Two routes for the proposed highway are under consideration. The Oklahoma, or Parsons route, runs from New or leans to Shreveport. La., through Dur ant, Tex, Muskogee, Okla. Parsons and Kansas City, Kan, Omaha, Neb, Sioux Falls. s. D., and Fargo and Great Forks, N. D., and thence to Winnipeg. The Jop- lin route runs from New Orleans to Shreveport, La, through Fort Smith Ark, Joplin, and Kansas City. Mo. Des Moines, Ia.. and St. Paul, Minn.
 Lafayette Young Chairman
 Former United States Senator LaF'ay- cite Young of Des Moines was appoint ed temporary chairman and Walter Par ker of New Orleans, secretary, at the opening session of the convention to- day. Strong delegations from Missouri Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas lined ur into two well organized factions imme- dlately after the selection of the tenn. porary officers and with the aid of sup porters of the two competing routes fought over all of the convention busi- ness. In the early stages the faction favoring the Oklahoma route gained the advsntage, forcing the adoption of a method favored by that faction for the organization of the convention. It was unsuccessful, however. in it's attempt tc have the route for the highway select ed by vote of the convention. Chairman Young submitted to the convention the names of nine delegates to form the com mlttee on permanent organization, de- claring that an informal caucus had de. cided on the persons named.
 Committee Selected
 Ratification of the proposed committed was strenuously objected to by the Okla- homa faction and led by D. M Fink of Muskogee, the western advocates suc- ceeded in having the convention auopl the method of appointing one report from each state as member of the commit tee on credentials, rules and permanent organization.
 The committees were organized as fol. lows
 Credentials-E. B. Parrish, Nebraska Herman Roe, Minnesota; Robert Dick Oklahoma; w. N. King, Texas; Jake Shepard, Kansas; D. J. King, Missouri Alexander Grouchy, Louisiana; pr. s. A Neither, ArkansAs; H. H. Polk. Iowa
 Rules-R M Manley. Nebraska; Sena- tor T. E. Cashman, Minnesota: A. L. Churchill, Oklahoma; B. K Coglan Texas; H. H. Shepard, Iowa. F. l.. Trav- CTS, Kansas; John M. Malang, Missouri Walter Parker, Louisiana; S. M. Dickey Arkansas.
 Organization-R. K. Brown, Nebraska J. H. Beck, Minnesota; w. l.. Biggs, Ok lahoma; w. N. Harrison, Texas; w. A Hopkins, Iowa; c. F. Scott, Kansas: C. Y. Adams, Missouri; w. l.. Polk, Louis jana; B. M Dickey. Arkansas.
 North and South Dakota were not rep resented on the three committees bu; the convention adopted a resolution tc elect from each of those states a vice president and three directors. With the Dakotas represented in the directorate il is said that advocates of the Oklahoma Parsons route will control the board.
 The concluding session of the conven. ton tomorrow will be devoted to the consideration of committee reports and the election of officers
 In the absence of Governor Hall oi Louisiana, who was expected to address welcomed by Mayor Martin Behrman and Edgar B. Stern, president of the New Orleans Association of Commerce.