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Show COMMERCIAL CONGRESS TO MEET AT PORTLAND MIDDLE OF TflE MONTH r : - .' 7- ; . .. .PORTLAND, Or.) Aug. 11. The preliminary pre-liminary Cwork incidental to the sixteenth six-teenth annual --session- of the Trans- MlssIssippr'Jbmm'erclal.congfess,' ' w hichT convenes' in this city August 1. has been. completed and Secretary Francis reports- 800 appointments from the various States and Territories, with the assurance of. receiving as- many more within the next few-flays. - Prominent among the speakers . who have assured Mr. Francis of their intention in-tention to be- present are Gov.. A. E. Mead of Washington, .Gov. George E. Chamberlain 1 of- Oregon, . Gov. G. C. Pardee T - California, Gov.- John. H. Mickey of Nebraska, Gov. John G. Brady of -Alaska, Senators Fulton of Oregon, . and Plies and Ankeny of Washington, and Heyburn of Idaho, and a- number, of prominent men in public life. . The feature of the programme, that of Oriental trade, will be discussed by Mr. Theodore Wilcox, president of the congress; con-gress; Hon; ' John Barrett, American representative of the United StateV at Colombia, and James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railway. Missouri la now on his way.to Portland from' Sr. Louis, and.' wllladdress the congress on "Expositions and Their Influence In-fluence on the Honest Development Of the Country." ' .T Hon. John JW. Noble, former Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior and the first vV;e-president vV;e-president of the- congress, who will preside pre-side during the discussion upon Oriental trade, will address the delegates upon the subject. ".The Department of Commerce Com-merce and Labor." , ".The "Columbia River," a subject of great importance to the Pacific Northwest, North-west, will be discussed by MaJ. J. G. Langflitt, V. S. A.,' who has for six years been in charge of the engineering work on the Columbia river, and who, although al-though scheduled to be' in' Washington,' I has, owing to the Importance of this congress, secured permission to remain for the purpose of addressing the dela-1 dela-1 gates upon this most important suBject. |