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Show JAMES H. BRADY FOR PRESIDENT; WICHITA, 1913 Directors of the Transmissis-sippi Transmissis-sippi Congress Make Two Important Decisions After Af-ter Deliberation. EXECUTIVE SESSION HELD YESTERDAY Report Will Be Made at Today's To-day's Session of Organization; Organiza-tion; Important Resolutions Resolu-tions Drawn. FORMER GOVICRN'OR .lames IT. Brady of Idaho will be the next president of t lie Transmissis-sippi Transmissis-sippi Commercial eonpress, and Wichita, Kan., will be the place in hich the 10K5 congress will convene, if the report of the directors, covering an executive session yesterday afternoon, after-noon, is adopted by the delegates this forenoon. The decision of the directors, which virtually represents the vote of the congress; tho adoption of numerous resolutions comprehending the prosper ity and development of the. great west, and spirited addresses on timely subjects sub-jects of vital importance to the states included in the congresB. formed the features of yesterday"s sessions. The convention will adjourn after today's sessions, during which, final resolutions will be considered, committee reports adopted, newly-elected officers installed and miscellaneous matters given attention. atten-tion. Powell a Leading Candidate. The Kansas delegation had come pre pared to elect their leador. John T.. Powell of Wichita, prosi-lent of the congress. con-gress. TTnt.il Former Governor Brady's appearance in the fieldj Mr Powell was the leading candidate. However, in the directors' meeting, Missouri, Oklahoma Okla-homa and Louisiana are said to hare favored Mr. Brady, whose activity in the work of the congress, spirit, pro groseiveness and influence have given him a wide reputation in the country. In order to avoid a contest with Kansas Kan-sas ou the candidate, a compromise was effected, recommending Wichita as the next, convention city, thus dividing honors hon-ors among the two loading candidates. New Orleans was out strong to secure tho convention, but Governor .Tared Y Sanders of Louisiana withdrew in cour tcsv to the proposed compromise. Tho directors also are 6aid to favor kt rviYT.nll frvr first vice president. Mr. Powell for Inst vice president, Richard Saxe. .Tone of Washington, W. F Jensen of "Utah and fJnvcrnor John Burke of "North Dakota for second, third and fourth vice presidents, re spcctivclv; Retiring President Arthur C Trnnibo for congressional committee chairman, and Vice President Harry G. Moore nf Kansas City for executive committee chairman Directors Report Today. The nnmes of officers repreFenfing the choice of the directors as here men tioned will be submitted in a report to the delegates at this forenoon's session ses-sion for adoption. Of the many resolutions considered at yesterday's morning session, that of Judge A. TC. Helm of Wichita. Kan., for a memorial to the federal congress asking ask-ing the divorce of American rail carriers car-riers from water carriers, brought on the sharpest debate und proved the foa- tUTn a losing fight, Judge Helm do-e do-e nrf( that the great west could never (Continued on Page Nine.) JAMES H. BRADY FOR RESIDENT (Continued From Page One.) receive the henefit that should come tfaroufrh the Pauama ca.nal and the Gal ve.ton gateway, so lonp as the hnaines that came from the Atlantic coast through 'he L'nlr was due-tcd bv rate. put into effect by tnt"re.-ti in control of rail and water carriers alike. Transportation a Factor. .Itidc Helm declared that no fac(or wielded a greater influence on commerce, com-merce, trade and business than transportation, trans-portation, and that inasmuch as transportation trans-portation avenues should of necessity exist, they should he operated with just equity to nil parts of thf country. He asserted that he believed the carrier were probably not. collecting too large fares, hut I hat the states of the west were paying much more than then-share. then-share. He said that the people of the southwest were required to pay too much: that they were hcinp; robbed of the natural advantages that should po lo them Ivy reason of their proximity to tho deep water porta of the Gulf ol Mexico, and were deprived of the use of the Galveston gateway. "In Texas,'' he said, "the railway commission enforces reasonable rates in ami from that port, but when you pa.-.s the Texas border it would be .iu6t, as well for you if the port of Galveston were blotted out, for it is absolutely of no benefit. ' ' He quoted the rates from Galveston to Oklahoma ami those from New York to Oklahoma bv rail tn show that the former rate was prohibitive of competition compe-tition with the latter. ''This. ' he jaid, "is because the railroad companies own the steamship lines engajred in coastwise traffic between be-tween New York and Galveston, and it 1 H to their Interest lo maintain as high ,1 level of rates ng possible What the steamships lose in business ifi more than made good by the rates they aro able to Charge on the long haul from New York by rail. ' Fix Minimum Rates. fiejrardinrr the fixing of rates and charges, he declared that it was of prune importance that tho interstate commerce commission should ha-ve power to fix minimum as well as maximum max-imum charges, so that rail carriers, by making a temporary sacrifice in rove nue. could not place rates far tfeneath the reach of competing water carriers. Judge Helm ottered a resolution urging urg-ing amendments to the interstate commerce com-merce net, whereby the commission would be empowered to regulate coastwise coast-wise traffic as well as railroad traffic. The proposed amendments would make it unlawful for any common carrier to regulate commerce, to own. lease, oper. ate, control or have any interest in any common carrier engaged in handling foreign, coastwise or inland traffic by water It would give the commission power to fix minimum rates nod charges under the same restrictions and conditions as maximum rates and charges are now fixed. In closing Judge Helm said: "I belies, e the time is coming in the near future when the interests and forces that control our government will be centered in the great west, which will come into its own When that time COmea, I believe the government will find itself able to say to anv individual individ-ual or rorporaton, 'When we pass a law and put it on our statutes, we put it there to be obeyed and not to be evaded Resolution Is Lost. The Helm resolution was lost bv a vote of delegates. The principal ob'jec tinn was raised by N, C. Richards of Washington, who declared that the plan would put American railways at n great disadvantage in competition with ('ana dian lnes. However, the resolutions committee presented a resolution embracing em-bracing portions of the Helm measure, urging that the federal congress should adopt such legislation a3 would place water transportation engaged m coast wise traffic or inland traffic cither un der tho control of the interstate com merec commission or under a separate commission to be organized for that purpose. It. further urged that authority author-ity be given the commission or such other commission a might be created with jurisdiction over transportation bv rail and water, to fix minimum rates and charges. e Another important resolution, which wns adopted, was that prepared by the resolutions committee, recommending that the federal congress be asked to appropriate 15,000,000 toward the Panama Pan-ama Pacific exposition of 101-j at Ban Francisco, and 11,000,000 toward the Panama-California exposition of lir ut San Diego Ask National Support. This was done without the vote? ol the California delegates, who adhered stnctlv to the pledge that no financial help should be asked from the United States government. govern-ment. The other delegates respected their scruples, but Insisted that the expositions, ex-positions, being international In their scope, should have the support of the whole people of the Fulled States. The far-reachlnc effects of the Panama-Pacific exposition were explained bv John Brisbane Vv'alker, the second speaker speak-er of the morning, lie said thai eleven routes were offered of-fered to visitors to the exposition and nine of these lay through the trans-mlsslsslppi trans-mlsslsslppi states, through which three-quarters three-quarters of a million travelers would maka thair way. But the great influence Of the exposition, he predicted, would come from the meeting of the great Intellects of the world In a parliament rr the solution or world questions, in- nluding that or universal peace. A report on tho recent convention 01 the (meiican Travelers Protective usso-olatlon usso-olatlon was mad'- by " Aldrl'-h of I'cn- n. Mr. Aldrtoh described ibe scope of the association's work and traced lt ;r..wtb from bin members In 1W to - "3 . - cut members in isiu. Accept Convention Invitation. AcceptinK an Invitation to the "See America F1rst': congress, to be held In October, the congress decided to appoint ap-point twentv deleaatca to this convention. conven-tion. a. L. Bom men of Tacoma wash.. rp-resentlng rp-resentlng Governor m Ei Have of Washington Wash-ington and the Seattle chamber of com-merce. com-merce. pucceeded In getting a resolution adopted by Che congress a.-klng tbat President Pres-ident Taft Issue a proclamation this year and each succeeding year designating a dute as a national "See America First' day. An amendment to this resolution, presented bv John A. Fox of San Dlejro. (a I. wan presented. The amendment provided thnt the date for the seeing America first dav b observed annually on th birthday of the !m. natter Harrla of Salt Lake City, who originated the 'see America first'- Idea. Seeretar, Keeker announced i ,iH t S pe.ai excursion win he conducted to Rtngharn and Garfb-id Saturday morulas, tn order that the delegates may Inspa I he gietit mlnef, And smeliera nf the I'tnh Copper company. Th." tta'n Will leave the Oregon Short Line iatioii at an hour to OS announced ialer. All deie-,itejt l -lag oiilsl'le of Salt I.nke .our'v mil h- furnlsbed free transportation ror the trip Iowa Member Protests. The wires brought a protest ft em an low h membet KaiiTt ii ,-ioinK or post- offi. e on Sunday under the new pnnal law and mor resolutions r-mnd theli saj to the secretary's table. A resolution adopted by ti.e ongres requested the same protection for the products ef the farm and ranch ns l accorded to other products. Including ma tlll'm-l tired OrodUCtS! abo oi'c :il-- Inc ronjT!e -r, appropriate a sum for the opening of the Aransas Pass harbor har-bor on the cjnir of Mexico. Among resolutions Introduced ihie morning was one by R. M l'air of Kan,, appre,-. mi state supervision of 'be aois of stock in companies seeking to dispose of stock to the public; by B. H. Weiibye ol all-rornia all-rornia asi.in;; t government to Improve all nalloual parks, av it ha done tli" Yellowstone national park, for the benefit bene-fit of tonrirtH, by -i w. Musser of Utah, asking congress to pass s law granting the right of appenl from the final dot ls- lons of the se, retary of tits Interior or the Secretary of. agriculture to the United Slates district :-oort In which property Involved In-volved Is located, by J. W. hHeniv Of 1'tah favoring the employment Of convict con-vict labor upon public works, but not in the manufacture of articles or commerce, either ty public or privMn enterprise. Willard Done, Speaks. The speakers at the rtcr:inon -ession Which Was called to order by R. II Faxon chairman or the resolutions committee, com-mittee, were Willard Pone. Utah stat' Insurance commissioner: J F Callbreath, secretary of the American Mining congress; con-gress; P B, Qulnn. immigration commissioner com-missioner of Australia, and .John A. POX, commissioner at large for the panama- C'allfornla exposition or 191T, at San Diego. Mr. Pone, In an able discourse on the subject or "Klre Waste." made known some startling figures and ractx relative to preventable conflagrHtl-ins. Which, hi declared, were a vital factor In causing financial panics in this country. He urged that esich state have a lire prevention pre-vention association. and outlined at great length many remedial steps thai are and should he taken to prevent great losses by fire. Mr Callbreath protested vigorously at the policy of the Interior department in refusing to locators of water power and irrigation waters and other public utility projects, rights of way across the pub lie domain. Urges Congressional Fight. "Under the laws the states have the right io dispose of their waters" said the speaker, "but the departments se-k to do bv Indirection what they cannot do directly and hy refusing rights or way prevent the development r,f public utilities which the state may sanction" lie urged the congress to right vigorously vigor-ously n pending bill which would spe-t spe-t if U ally invest the secretary of the Interior In-terior with power to deny rights of way. "I belle e In the conservation of nppor-tuilltv nppor-tuilltv : the prevention of waste," said Mr Callbreath, "but the meaning that has been given 'o the word by tbe faddists fad-dists who know nothing nf western conditions con-ditions has made It almost hateful to us " lie declared that the distinctly great asset of America was the enterprise of its people, and that he was happy that he had especially fotuid this so In Salt Lake, which was the real center of the great west. When the opportunity of Americans to develop and control tbeli own sections was destroyed, be declared, the best asset of the country was destroyed de-stroyed Problems Are Similar. Commissioner Qulnn said the problems confronting the people or the i nited States and those or Australia were very much the same He declared that his government bad established offices In San Fran' lsco because or the great results expected rrom the Panama canal; also Tor educational purposes relating to commerce com-merce and development. He called attention to the fact that San Francisco Is the nearest English-speaking English-speaking neighbor to Australia and eX-actlj eX-actlj half way to London, and he said the Australian tourists should be persuaded per-suaded to make their trips to England by way of America. Educational Opportunities, He spoke of educational opportunities here, of America's unsurpassed scenery and the unlimited possibilities for growth and achievement. He said that when he returned to Australia he would tell his fellow eountrymen to "see Australia first." but that whenever they left their native land for foreign parts to "see America first." Mr Qulnn snoke at length of the meat supply and wool market of Australia and predli toil that San Francisco would one day become the seat of a magniti-"cent magniti-"cent textile industry. As a representative or one of the two great expositions to he held on the coast In l'Jlo, Mr. Fox spoke in part aa fol-lows- To this TransmisslBSlppI congress, perhaps mure than to any other active ac-tive working force in the history of our nation. Is due the credit for bringing about the undertaking of that great engineering and commer-COlal commer-COlal enterprise. In the early years of the life of this congress resolutions resolu-tions were adopted and reiterated at every session urging the congress of the United States to take some action towards constructing an isthmian isth-mian canal. Public Opinion Ripened. Public opinion was ripened and the whole transmlsslssslppl country was awakened to the need and importance impor-tance or consummating this great work, and now that It Is bo soon to be completed, no people has a greater right To rejoice or to enter-lain enter-lain brighter hopes for the prosperity resulting therefrom than the people of those western states The Panama-Callfornin exposition at San Diego is not attempting to rival the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco; it Is simply affording afford-ing the states of the west an additional addi-tional opportunity to exploit their resources re-sources lo the preat throngs of visitors that will cross the continent In 1916 The $5,000,000 that Is lining spent b Sun DlSgO In building her exposition is Just that much added to the J17.00rt.nuti that San Francisco Is spending to draw people through these western states and exploit i hem to the. fullest extent. Lauds San Diego. Speaking for the San Dleao exposition exposi-tion I wish lo siiv to you as repi--sentatives f the western states, thai we are devoting our activities lo exploiting ex-ploiting thOSS tblngs that are of 1 i rs,"st importance Ut LOO upbuilding f f this great transmit ttselppl country. coun-try. 1 As to the alle and M op ot the exposition, vou may judge bu ourselves our-selves l.en I tell you that we are spending t. and on-lva1f times as much as a, -is fpent bv Omaha In building her exposition and nearly three time as much as Seattle rent on hera M?.pel from your minus, therefore, any idea that you miv have bad thai the Panama-California exposition was to be ut a second-rate second-rate show. It frit be the most unique and original gem of an exposition that has ever been held, and will i'U its pan m attracting 'ii rcnpie across the country In 1 9 1 Former Congressman Robert W ftor.-, n;e o! Cnloiudn t'ae fli-t ,ak- e ,t'. the night session. In illctisslng :h eform of banking and OUrrsSCy lat I ' i irged ihe plan of the ftfational Reserve association a -.t remedy for the piese"? His of the American banking system He said in part A Comprehensive Plan. In a geneial the pUn provides fo, h omnin.-ition the ndepenienl UttltS of our banking nlrn into what i known as '-local associations." Thoe Iocs! si'-'x-Ih tions In turn 10 be formed Into distinct associations and those gsstrici associations iotu- hnd to innUe up the National Ro-eive Ro-eive Association of the United SlHles The district as-.,-atlon would be fitteen In number. The entne country coun-try would be divided m!o rtfleeti di. met around fifteen of us commercial eerurs anil In eaih district tbeie would be a branch of the National Reserve a&wlatlnn. It Is proposed thai there shOUld be forty-Sli directors or the National Reset v association. Out or the forty-kIx. forty-kIx. seven would be what might OS teimei government or ex -officio director'. di-rector'. I Tbey would consist it the secretary secre-tary of the treasury, the secretaiy of commerce ami labor, the secretary of agriculture and the comptroller ( the currency, to whom v,.nid e added the governor and two deputy governors govern-ors of the reserve assor latio-v. The chief function to be performed by the association and that n which the business men of the country at most vitally interested la that it would be authorised to rediscount at its several sev-eral branches, for the banks of the country, the short-time commercial papr held by such bank- It Would thus act through its branches as a great national clearing house for the credits of the country. Answers Callbreath. The attadt made in ihe afternoon h Mr. Callbreath upon the conservationists "'' answered In the evening by formal Governor G-eorge w. P;,ii-e nr California He repudiated the comparison with an Indton "who cannot use the resources himself and wants on one e'ge to them. ' . The conservationist, he said, "wants the resources used, but doesn't want .hem wasted and, aooye all. do--i not want thorn grabbed and put in cold sloraKc ; they cannot be ic ed." Governor Pardee itrd die coal of Utah. Wyoming, California and Alaska as an Instance or resources -n awaj and held in cold storagt i private interests. He r-rrrreti to various potential powers that were held in prtvati handi unused. "ir there is any cold storage to be done." he said, let It be done by the masses r,r the pebple Who own the resources now." For every ton of coal that has been mined, said "lie speakoi i ton has been wasted b allowing II i I remain In the mine, not because it could not be mine,; and sold at ;. profit, bui because there was more money tn going after fresh coal. The timber resources srere being used in the same a v ,;, . larod 'Fori he said "will always be exlerinliuiled if tlur are allowed to fail into private ownership-," Mentions Socialists. Charging thai the opponent! of conservation conser-vation se"k to picture the conservationists conservation-ists as Socialists. Pardee said: 'All Socialists are necessarily cense; -iratlonhts. but all I'mi-rvalioni i . not Socialist!. Wo believe jn letting private pri-vate enterprise make all the moneo it can while serving the n d of the masses of the people " One of the most eloquent addresses to whi'-h the Transmlssisslppl congress has listened was thai delivered tonight hv SX-GOV. Tared Y. Sanders of Louisiana in making a plej for the regulation and control by the national government of thi flood waters or tho Mississippi river, Sat that It was right ror the ernment to furnish money lo store the waters of Ihe west for irrigation put -pose", he declared I' was equally a gov -ernment function "to keep your water off the fertile lands of our Mississippi vallev Thirty-two states dump their water down upon US. This make? the government regulation and centre! Of these waters a national question. It Is not a question of charity, not a question of aid only a question of money. No engineering problem is Involved Tut '"olonej Ooethals at the Mississippi with the monej Si his disposal, after he has finished the Panama canal, and he will have the banks of the river protected without knowing he 1ms done any work." Tells About Levees. The former governor told of the MM miles of levees In Louisiana which have to be maintained and rebuilt every sevt n years and the 1 M miles of levees along the Arkansas bank that Loulslans had to keep up to protect its own levees. The remedy he proposed was the mat-tressing mat-tressing Of the banks or the stream, thus absolutely protecting the levees and settling set-tling the Hood question forever, Thi. he said, could be done at a total cost of $80,000,001. a bagatelle compared wltb th flood losses, which have amount cd to licO.nrin.iKio this year The final address or ti e evening w.i an arid i ess by Senator Chester I, Long or Kansas, who explained the Influence of the TranamUaisslppi congress on legislation leg-islation by the fact that It was truly representative rep-resentative and represented no One Sided policy. |
