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Show OTHt-l'S ; SECT (M? IS : , SUBJECT Cf : SPEECH At 'COffiEMAL 'CONGRESS ' . : ' KANSAS CITY, Nov. 21.-John Henry Smith of Utah, a cousin of Joseph F. Smith, the Mormon leader, spoke briefly before the Trans-Mississippi congress today on the raising of sugar beets" in that State and the need of irrigation thereby ' , ( "Give us water," said he, "and well raise the greatest great-est crop of sugar beets in the world. Y?e are raising .more than 100,000,000 pounds of sugar beets In Utah this year." KANSAS. CITY, Nov. 21. At the Trans-Mississippi Commercial, congress, which is meeting here in annual session, this was to be a day of speeches, according ac-cording to the prearranged program. Many additional delegataes, delayed in reaching the city yesterday .by storm, north, east and west, arrived during the night and' today. The topics up for consideration today included the improvement of waterways and trade relations with the . South American countries, reclamation of sub- merged lands, public drainage, matters of insurance control, naval construction and Alaska. It. was intended to 'give the Latin-American Latin-American diplomats, who were crowded out of last night's program, a chance to speak and to bear from Victor A. Al-derson, Al-derson, president of the Colorado School of Mines, who failed to- reach Kansas City yesterday and take his place on the program. then. At the morning session the first thing was the call of States for nominations for chairman of delegations, vice-presidents, members of the executive committee com-mittee and members 'of the committee on permanent organization and resolution. resolu-tion. ' " The first address of the day was delivered de-livered -by . Bepresentative J. E.- Ban-dell' Ban-dell' of Lake Provid enee. La., on "The Improvement '. of . Navigable' 'Waterways.",- . -Among the- ether speakers on the program pro-gram were the following: - Morning session W. D- Vandiver,- superintendent su-perintendent of insurance of Missouri, on "The Business of Insurance from a Western Standpoint.". ' v Afternoon ' mission John' "Barrett; American- Minister to - Colombia, on 'The Panama Canal and Our Great Undeveloped Un-developed Opportunity in South' America Amer-ica and the Pacific Ocean."" Morris Sheppard of Texas on "Levee System." . ' . . F. H. Newell, Washington, D. O, chief of division of geological survey, on ?' Public Drainage and .Its Relation to the Beclamation-Service.!' W. H. Herron, Washington, D. C, topographer in charge, of the middle West, in the Department of the Interior, Inte-rior, on 4 ' Beelamation of Submerged Lands." A paper on "National Construction on the Pacific Coast." by George B. Dickie, to be read by the secretary of the congress, Arthur T. Francis. At the evening session J. G. Brady of Boston, former Governor of Alaska, il down zor an aaaress on Aiasaa. Discussions are to follow the presentation presen-tation of each of the papers. |