Show TASKISIIARD l HH t r D II I I COllIllllLL on ResolutIons I TransMississippi tonal C a I fSS ton-al ff T ork rj UTAH fv1AN IS CHOSEN Geo Q Cannon is Selected Fourth VicePresident SECRETARY NOT YET NAMED Besolutions Indorsing tho Bills Now Bofore Congress Providing for tho Immediato Construction of tho Nicaraguan Canal Were Hecelved Iicargunn Receiec with Great Applause Time When Place of Next Meeting is to bo Determined t De-termined Was Fixed for Friday Afternoon Two Places Desire I New Orleans and Cripple Creek Mr Johnson of Utah Makes a Speech Advocatingthe Adoption of n Hesolution Regarding Locators on Gilsonito Lands A Number of Interesting In-teresting Papers Read I I I Houston Tex April 18The committee com-mittee on resolutions the most important impor-tant of the TransMississippi congress IB at work tonight preparing to report tomorrow It has over ICO resolutions S to act upon and not more than twenty five will be accepted Special interests are behind many of the resolutions and the committee Ijns itacasy task In selecting se-lecting only thoao whleh will affect tho whole West which Is Its object Several Sev-eral Important resolutions werp adopted adopt-ed today RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED I The first business today was the Introduction In-troduction of resolutions as follows By T Me Patterson of Colorado In Horsing the hill now before Congress to appropriate 55000000 for the SL Louis worlds fall Whltemore of Missouri favoring a Government cable from the United Staten to Hawull and Manila Patterson of Colorado opposing tho HannaPayne ship subsidy bill Gov Sayers having reached the city addressed convention bidding welcome to the delegates A telegram from W J Bryan thanked the congress for Its Invitation but declined because to attend the sessions declned cause of other engagements UTAHN IS HONORED The committee on permanent organization organ-ization reported the following nomination nomina-tion of ofllcerB President John R C ton olcer Pltkin of New Orleans llrbt vicepresi dent Walter Gresham of Galveston sicond Icepresldunt L B French of Santa Fe N M third vlcepresldcnC S O Brooks of Sl Paul fourth vice president George Q Cannon of Salt Lake Tie report was adopted and the L olllcers were declared elected The selection olclr1 ecarc lection of a secretary Is left to the delegation of the State which secures the next congress W I Bates of Denver then read his I address In opposition to the ship subsidy sub-sidy bill He was followed by Prof Waterhouse of St Louis on A Factor I of Public Prosperity I 1 AFTERNOON SESSION At the afternoon session Mr White more of Missouri read a paper prepared by Lyman J Cooley of Chicago on The Lakes and Gulf Waterways This was followed with an address by Rev Dr Lucey of Arkansas on Industrial In-dustrial Developments of the South as T Affected by tho Negro Race FAVOR NICARAGUA CANAL Mr Coleman of New Orleans and Mr Whlleniore of St Louis Introduced resolutions Indorsing the bills now pending before Congress providing for the Immediate construction of the Nicaragua Nica-ragua canal There was great applause raga when Mr Whltemoru declared that the time has gone by for argument over this canal it must be built and at once I Mr Troutman of Kansas then addressed ad-dressed the coirgress on UA Century of r TransMississippi Development I After 41 brief discussion of the time at which the next place of meeting Is 1 to be selected which was set for Friday Fri-day aftcrnoonj Mr Mead of Oklahoma read his paper Then the congress adjourned ad-journed RESOLUTIONS REPORT READY The resolutions committee tonight i agreed to report tomorrow favorably T resolutions on the following matters 4 resolutons lopmenl of trained consular J service relating to the admission of the existing Territories UH States relating I re-lating to pure food favoring the establishment es-tablishment of the ni tonal depart tablehmenl ItS ment of mines and mining favoring 9 tho establishment of a department of commerce and Industry commerce ane |