Show S COMffltRCIAL CONGRESS Prominent Statesmen Who Will S Be in At endance EFFORTS BEING MADE BY CON GKESSMA2T W H KING Senators and Congressmen Who Have Promised to Attend The Subjects to be Discussed H R Whitmore chairman of the executive committee of the Trans Mississippi Commercial congress who was expected here from St Louis a few hours before the convening of the congress next Wednesday has concluded con-cluded to arrive fl day in advance so that all preliminary arrangements maybe may-be concluded by the time the congress meets Among the most interesting features of the congress will be the presence here of a large delegation from both houses of the national congress that Is I in case the extraordinary session of congress comes to an end in time for the trip to the west to be made i Efforts have been mado by Congressman Congress-man King who is a memeber of the committee to secure speakers to have i attend all leaders on both sides of both I chambers who are interested in questions 1 I ques-tions which affect most intimately the western countrv It is i now the belief 1 I that the three questions which will receive re-ceive the most attention are The Nicaragua Nic-aragua canal Hawaiian annexation I and irrigation While there are men 1 of the west fully able and competent to discuss all these matters there is a desire de-sire on the part of the executive committee com-mittee of the congress to have eastern or southern men take the lead in discussions dis-cussions One of the strongest men who has < promised to attend and speak is Senator I Sena-tor Morgan of Alabama a consistent friend of the western country who has i led in railroad and Nicaragua canal do bates and is a most ardent advocate of Hawaiian annexation He will make the principal address on the necessity I for building the Nicaragua canal Among others who have promised attendance at-tendance all l of course contingent ong I upon adjournment are Senators Carter Car-ter Mantle Shoup Perkins Proctor I Cullom Teller and Warren Congressmen Congress-men Bailey Slayden and Sayers of I Texas Champ Clark nOf Missouri I t Smith I I of Kentucky Fleming of Georgia New I lands of Nevada ShafCorth and Bell of rzdoel J rori I Colorado Mark Smith I of Arizona and James Hamilton Lewis and Jones of I Washington It will be seen that there are not too many men to take up leading places 1 when the number of wellknown western west-ern orators Is considered as soon as there Is an enumeration of the principal princi-pal subjects Not less than fourteen crei St et c I r topics are already on the lists for programming pro-gramming while the reports of committees com-mittees will more than double that number BrieflY stated these subjects Canal are as follows The Nicaragua Hawaiian Annexation Cession I to the I States r the Public Lands Irrigation and Whether it Should Be Under State j or National Control the Waterways I and Their Improvement and Control I Whether Those Portions of Streams Running Through Several States Should I Be in Charge of Local or National Authorities Au-thorities Japanese Competition and Its I Probable Effects What Legislation if I Any Is Needeu to Offset the Cheapness of Labor the Admission of the Territories Terri-tories the Preservation of the Forests and What Regulations Should Be Prescribed Pre-scribed Need of a Bankruptcy Law Construction of Waterways and Deepwater Deep-water Harbors What Steps Are Nec Floods I essary to Prevent Damage by and Whether a System of Reservoirs I Should Be Constructed at the Headwaters I Head-waters of the Great Rivers How to Facilitate Fa-cilitate Trade With Mexico and Central I Cen-tral America What Amendments Are I Necessary to the Interstate Commerce I Act How to Secure More Equitable Freight Rates for the West and the I Advantages of Government Control of i Ways and Communications While set speeches on these subjects I are being made there will be continued committee meetings all producing new I snhlects for consideration These will nil the four days of the session and promise to draw great crowds While many of the national legislators mentioned men-tioned will deliver addresses there will be a great speech by Judge Kinney of Honolulu on annexation and speeches by exGovernor Llewellyn of Kansas and Prince of New Mexico Judge Emery of Kansas John P Irish of California and many others |