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Show TRANS-MI8SIS8IPPI CONGRES8. Session at Muskogee Ended and, Next Congress Will be Held In 'Frisco. Muskogee, Okla. Tho eighteenth annual session of tho Trans-MlsBls-slppl Commercial congress adjourned Friday afternoon to moot in San Francisco noxt Novcmbor. A resolution resolu-tion increasing tho parcels post was votod down, nmld great applause. Resolutions wero paBsed favoring tho establishment of a postnl savings bank system by tho national government; govern-ment; for nn lncroaso of tho lntorstato tariff rates, not to bocomo effective until chnngo of protest could bo made; for an appropriation by tho government govern-ment for hotter roa'ds; for tho appro-prlatlon'by appro-prlatlon'by tho government of not less than $500,000,000 for tho Improvement Improve-ment ot rivers and harbors, nnd for tho establishment of a bureau for tho, Improvement of rivers and harbors. Other resolutions ndopted were: Favoring Fa-voring construction of a dry dock in Pearl harbor, Hawaii; favoring establishment estab-lishment of agricultural experiment stations In every congressional district dis-trict In tho Trans-MlsslsBlppl country; favoring separation of surfaco lands from tho underground mtnoralB on public lands and sale to actual settlers; set-tlers; favoring federal appropriation to prevent fever nmong cattlo becnuso of fever ticks. An executive committee was uppolnt-ed uppolnt-ed with Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado as chairman. Tfio following congressional congres-sional commltteo was apolhtcd: Fred Flomlng, Kansas City; II. P. Wood, Honolulu; Theodore P. Wilcox, Portland, Port-land, Ore.; Alva Adams, Pueblo; R. C. Kerens, St. Louis; E. F. Harris, Galveston; J. D. Phelan, San Francisco. |