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Show CONGRESS ADJOURN3. TranrmlscUslpplano Pass a Number of Resolutions at Seattle Meeting. Tho session of tho Transmlsslsslp-pi Transmlsslsslp-pi Congress held at Soattlo camo to a closo Friday, after passing tho following fol-lowing resolutions: Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory combined; Territorial gov ornment for Alaska; a memorial favoring fa-voring an American morchant ma rlno; International ilsh hatchery to ba established on Iho Frazor river; closer trado rolnttons with Canada; placing tho consular servlco under civil scr vicoj also resolutions relating to forestry, for-estry, lnlgitlon, public lands and tho Improvement of rivers and harbors; favoring an appropriation of $1,000,000 for tho Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland; roads and bridges for Alaska; rccommouding a transmts-slsslppt transmts-slsslppt man for tho bureau of manufactures; manu-factures; recommending a man from Uio snmo district for a. placo on tho Intorstato Commorco commission; approving ap-proving a plan for n canal connectlns Pugot sound nud Inko Washington at Soattlo; moro stringent puro food laws; favoring tho St Louis exposition; exposi-tion; a differential of 4 per cent in favor fa-vor of Pacific coast blddors on battleships; bat-tleships; protesting against further oxtonslon of forest reserves In Washington; Wash-ington; rocommonding tho construction construc-tion of nn Isthmian canal; making Tho Haguo tribunal the court of last resort, and discountenancing tho salo of largo tracts of Phllipplno lands and tho introduction of cool I o labor Into thoso Islands. |
