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Show MINING DEPARTMENT WARMLY FAVORED ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct 29. The Trans-Misslsslppl Trans-Misslsslppl congress has adopted unanimously unani-mously these resolutions: We recommend liberal expenditures for the improvement of rivers and harbors by the Federal Government as one of the best and wisest methods of appropriating public pub-lic funds. We recommend that Congress make sufficient appropriation to complete the Improvement ot the mouth of the Columbia Co-lumbia river and the harbors of San Pedro and Oakland, CaL We recommend tho improvement and adequate protection of all Pacific coast ports from British Columbia Co-lumbia to the Mexican border. It is the sense of this congress that there should be Immediate construction of a naval station sta-tion at some point on the Southwestern Pacific coast. We favor the passage by Congress of a law amending the interstate commerco act so that it shall definitely prohibit common com-mon carriers from limiting or restricting their common law liability by any general or special notice. We petition the Congress Con-gress of the United States to enact legislation legis-lation empowering the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission, when a rate or practice prac-tice complained of is found to be discriminative discrim-inative or unreasonable, to determine what change shall be made, what determination shall be operative within thirty days, and so continue until overruled or suspended under Judicial proceedings. We recommend that all the principal big-tree groves In California be secured by the United States Government and held for park purposes. We favor Statehood fur Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and In Joining these two Territories Into one State we urge upon Congress the importance of a spirit of fairness. As an act of Justice to Alaska and to those desiring to go there, we favor a sectional survey of said region. And we favor the amending of the homestead laws pertaining to the lands of Aluska, so that any citizen of the United States may ac-qnlre ac-qnlre 320 acres by settlement, residence or commutation, providing that the applicant is not the owner of 160 acres of land and wishes said 320 acres for home purposes. We favor the union of labor and the combination of capital as the proper means. to advance the public good. We condemn any act of either combined labor or capital that in any way abridges the national rights of men. We recommend the enforcement of the Sherman act of 1XH0, and to that end urge Congress to pass an amendment to that act, making It the duty of all United States District Attorneys Attor-neys to prosecute all unions of labor or capital whenever evidence making a prima facie case of the breach of the terms of the act are presented. And we recommend the appointment of a special commission by Congress to Investigate the arbitration laws of New Zealand and other countries which may have such laws. We recommend recom-mend to the several States and Territories the adoption of such legislation as win place the subject of permanent public road Improvement under an Intelligent and uniform State and county supervision. The resolutions urge a thorough organization or-ganization of the consular service and favor a department of mines and mining in the Cabinet. i |