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Show WANT LOWER FREIGHT RATE8. Delegates to Transmlsslsslppl Commercial Com-mercial Congress Believe Lower Rates Necessary to Progress. Salt Lako City. Of tho many striking strik-ing features thnt testified to tho great work nnd purposes of tho TrunsmlH-slsslppl TrunsmlH-slsslppl Commercial congress nt the opening sessions ot Its twenty-third annual an-nual convention hero Tuesday, probably prob-ably nono Is of moro lmportnnco than tho Introduction of a resolution by Judgo 13. A. Helm of Wichita, Knns., comprehending lower freight rates n Imperative to tho progress and development devel-opment of tho twenty-two stntcB west of tho Mississippi. A movement urging tho government to utlllzo the machinery now In use nt tho Panama cannl to Improvo tho channel chan-nel of the Mississippi river for the drnlnngo reclamation of vaBt areas ol Bwamp lands' bordering on thnt great waterway; nlso a proposal that the federal congress bo asked to appropriate appro-priate $5,000,000 toward tho Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific International exposition ot 1915 nt San Francisco, formed Important features. " A lrago number of other vital factors fac-tors or proposed moves In tho Interest of western development wero disclosed dis-closed either In tho form of resolutions or In addresses. |