| Show THE CLEARING HOUSE t. t FOR IDEAS AND OPINIONS l SOME SPEAKERS AND OFFICERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI TRANS CONGRESS t f up rw r f p F Y I 4 V A ft vrr v fr r rt t C VL t L. L P Py y r y s 2 f s x Ali 1 Xo No 1 Colonel l-Colonel Fred Fleming i UNI 2 Lv con rc ee J No Ko 2 George 2 c 11 31 Reynold Continental Con- Con Commercial National bunk V 5 S 11 No o. o 3 3 3 V R R. n. n Stubbs i stub M governor Joo of I Kauns H N Xo 4 4 Champ Clark Hone of of J No to 5 W. V V A U. U ir I president hunkers Bunkers a i lon Xo No 0 6 Herbert S S. S governor BOV- BOV ov- ov Kansas City Nov No 4 When When Speaker Champ Clark Governor W. W R R. R Stubbs of ot Kansas Senator Nelson W. W Aldrich of ot Rhode Island Governor Herbert S. S Hadley o of Missouri and a few tew other I of ot the nations nation's men meD of note take tako the floor at the thc Trans Mississippi Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial congress which meets In Kansas City November 14 to 17 there will be enough h Interest In what they have to say to the people o of the west to warrant warrant warrant war war- rant listening For or the officials of the congress have uttered the word that no one will be allowed to read his opinions from a paper No er e every man who ac accepts accepts accepts ac- ac an invitation Imitation to address this I congress must be a n wf wide awake e anale one and able to flow his thoughts directly from his tongues tongue's end The ruUn ruling I while particularly cheering to the tho four thousand delegates delegate who will at attend attend attend at- at tend tho the congress Is wiser still for forIt forit forit It will Improve the Interest of debate a hundredfold And mighty questions will be probably probably ably finally settled before the congress congress con con- gress adjourns For the resolutions adopted b by the delegates assembled at these con congresses sound the ko keynote keynote key key- note of ot feeling In the west that tho the lawmakers In the east may act ac ac- ac- ac cordingly And always In the twenty- twenty two years that th the congress has de debated debated debated de- de bated and the national legislators legIslators leg leg- i have hac heeded the keynote Through i lJ this body's bOd's Influence millions of ot dollars have b been en appropriated b by Congress for reclaiming land both b by Irrigation projects and drainage ca canals ca- ca nals The existence of at tho the postal banking system Is due largely to the tho efforts of ot the Trans Trans- Trans Mississippi Through the endeavors ors of ot this bod body rivers have ha been Improved Into navigable nav nav- streams and scores o of other useful and beneficial things ha have havo vo been accomplished But this year the con congress ress has two things to deal with each of them o of colossal Importance The one one cur cur currency r rency ncy reform reform reform-Is Is of or national import the other of ot local Interest the Interest tho western western west west- ern rivers improvement appropriation The former has to do with Senator proposed banking bill which provides for a centralized bankIng bankIng bank bank- Ing S system controlling one national reserve fund read ready and guaranteeing to render the tho country countr proof panic-proof antI and at the same time to open up imp for use uso the millions o of dollars donars stored in the separate banks as reserve reserva funds The Tho west Is an important factor In tho the nation and the commercial Interests Interests Inter Intel ests of oC the tho west are not to be unno unno- unno So far no definite expression ha hn haR come from om the west on tho the Al Aldrich Aldrich Al- Al bill largely perhaps because the tho west has hils had no opportunity of studying It ft It Is almost Impossible to comprehend its technicalities by a perusal of the bill Thorough understanding under under- standing a of the bill requires language langu and Senator Aldrich has agreed alreed to champion champlon In person the merits of oC his pet measure Senator Lafollette who ho has hoa studied the currency question also Is 15 expected to be here and be heard on the other side Also Aleo George Georg-e M M. Reynolds Renolds president o of the Continental and antI Commercial National rational bank o of Chicago the largest bank in America and W W. H. H Fuqua president of ot the First National bank of Amarillo Tox Tex and also president o of the Texas Bankers' Bankers association will Ill be among the score of ot speakers who will take further part In the dis dis- Knowing this more than four tour hun hun- red bankers from over the tho west have signified an Intention a of hearing hearing- the s speech When tho the last Que question has been answered cred and the vote vole has been counted tho the resolution adopted l will bo be th the acting influence on the time future e life of ot the bill bil But Judging judg from the tho tone lone o of oC some of the letters received at congress headquarters In the RIalto building Kansas City many of the Western v rn bankers oppose Senator Al- Al bill bUl so the scene durin during the 1 discussion of this bill may mav prove prove to be Interesting If not exciting There f will HI he be more than four thousand delc- delc V t pates Dates present to cast st a unanimous oln oto te for b the time twenty million dollar ollar appropriation ap- ap ap ap- for Improving the tho Missouri Driver er above St. St Louis This amount k t. t 11 is asked a kod for tor in lots of or two million doli dollars dol- dol i lars a year Governor John Burke Durke o of North Dakota Dako Dalto- ta ta who Is president of the thc Missouri ner J Improvement association having h I to do with the river rl will Lly call a n. special meeting o of his organization or- or to meet here with the conr cont con- con r t ress and boost the scheme It fathers members of or the House rivers ers u and nd harbors committee will be present to to hear the debate which will take Place Waco r Stephen Stephen M M. Sparkman who Is li C chairman airman of or that committee also will bo ba Present resen t. t In n connection with the vast tance of Improving Improving- the river rl comes Lieutenant Georgo George Goethals with the tho pictures he has taken o of the progress ress made on the Panama canal Through the tho efforts cHarts of Congre Congressman Borland governmental go pei permission mission ion was obtained to show these pictures picture at the congress It will wm be bo tho thu first time that public eyes ees have havo gazed upon them Last winter winter win win- ter Congress had a brief glimpse e o of them I These leso pictures are taken dally daily and when the time great canal opens Its locks In r reception c to the first ship tho the photographs will VB be bo filed away in governmental governmental gov gov- a archives as record records On the conservation of the nations nation's health healthy Senator Robert L L. Owen of or Ol Oklahoma lahoma will speak championing his bill which pro J provides es for a public health commission ion Dr W A. A Evans health commissioner of Chicago will talk on on the same subject But this bill hili has met mot some If el lively opposition from health cure sects and antI the they will be there In person to give I e their ideas o of how to keep h healthy They claim the congress officials officials say that the bill hampers public freedom and on this ground they will oppose It Senator William WilHam E E. Borah of oC Idaho whose great hobby Is Irrigation will present facts on this subject to time the congress Railroads and Interstate rates will g get t their share sharo of at attention From every e state west of ot the Mississippi MississIPPI Mississippi Mis Mis- rivet river l. l and from tram Alaska Hawaii Ha Ha- wail and the Philippine Islands the tho delegates delegates' will attend th the congress These delegates are appointed by the governors of at the states counties cities and also b by all kinds a of commercial and business organizations Nine governors an and nearly two hundred government heads and other officials will be pres pres- ent Besides the thc nearl nearly delegates delegate which have accepted Invitations the tho officials of time the congress say that upwards upwards upwards up up- wards of ot sightseers will also be present making It the tho greatest congress con con- gross gress ever held The The- Trans Mississippi Comm Commercial congress j Is The Free Iree Forum of the tho West est It is a sort of clearing house for tor western ideas which cr crystallize crystallise Into legislative form In Washington The resolutions adopted b by the congress are aro forwarded to the national President who unless h he het oversteps O precedence nce drafts them Into his annual message to Congress In 1891 1831 In Kansas City the Tr-ans- Tr Trans Mississippi was conceived thou though h it got ot its real birth a few months later in Colo At that time three organizations existed In the west west the tho Deep Water Yater convention the Trans Mississippi convention and Abe tho First Ye Western tern States congress The first of at these was a movement for gulf ports and the latter two devoted at- at to the national Congress Con in the tho hope that agitation would force toree recognition recognition recognition on the part of at the ea eastern tern states The east having political control got political advantage e and therefore the money leaving the tho west ovest without ap appropriations appropriations ap- ap for Improvements ro ment |
