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Show MILITARY ISflf UrIDER DID Pan-American Road Con-gross Con-gross Passes Resolution for Investigation. OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. H. The Pan-American Pan-American Bond congress adopted n resolution reso-lution today calling pn congress to Investigate In-vestigate the feasibility and nmosslty of constructing a system of military highways high-ways throughout the country. The motion as finally adopted was a compromise agreed to by .the majority members In order to slop a fi Minister which had been maintained by the opponents op-ponents of the resolution. The original resolution as reported and recommended by the committee on resolutions reso-lutions ceiled for jhe Indorsement of a pla u to submit to Cne na llonal government govern-ment the question of Investigating the 'practicability of building the. military highway through California, t tregon and Washington from the Mexican to the Canadian Ca-nadian line. This road would cost $50.-000,000, $50.-000,000, Delegates from the interior of Illinois, headed by A. D. Cash, stute high-Way high-Way commissioner of Bpnnnlsld, argued that the word "military" should be left out and that the motion should be made broader so as to Include all sect Ions of the I'nlted States. G. P; Coleman, state highway commissioner commis-sioner of Virginia, and J. 0, Malonev, secretary-engineer of the Colorado state highway commission, told the Pan-American Road congress in session in the municipal mu-nicipal auditorium here today tliat the placing of convicts at work on the slate roads would go far toward providing a solution of the existing prison problem. Coleman declared thai the work built up the men physically a nd, as a result, morally, and fitted them for life upon leaving prison. Malonev said that the honor system in Colorado had proved a BUCCeSS in every way. "T can say that the experience of the state of Colorado with the employment of convicts pn the roads under the honor system, without guards of any kind, has been entirely satisfactory," Moloney said. "It would seem fair and just," he continued, con-tinued, "that the prisoners thus employed em-ployed should receive a monetary remuneration, re-muneration, as well as receiving the benefit bene-fit of having their prison terms shortened." |