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Show TRASS - MISSISSIPPI COXGRESS. Now in Session at Omaha Gov. Adams on the Wants of the West. Omaha, Oct. 20. The third semi-annual session of the trans-Mississippi congress convened yesterday afternoon, 100 delegates being present. The congress, w as called to order by Governor Prince of New Mexico. Governor Thayer of Nebraska welcomed the delegates on behalf of the state and Mayor dishing on behalf of the city. Ex-Governor Adams of Colorado spoke of ! the aims of the congress, the breadth of the subjects it proposed to discuss and the importance im-portance thereof, not alone to the immediate west but to the w orld. ''Great progress already al-ready had been made," said he," ''but greater is in stove for us. We want the east to know that the star of empire no longer hangs over the states of New England, oyer the numberless nionied arteries of Wall street, but over the great and glorious country coun-try stretching from the father of waters to the treasure-bound shores of the rolling Pacific. Pa-cific. We arc here to voice the sentiments of various sections of our common country; to push, to centralize and crystallize a common com-mon work." Governor Adams closed with the statement that the time is at hand when the w est, by unity of action, could demand and receive political recognition long withheld. Senator Sena-tor Warren of Wyoming followed Governor Adams with a short talk, advocating the interests in-terests of the mining regions before the convention. The congress organized permenently this morning by the election of Chas. S. Thomas of Denver as chairman, secretaries were appointed ap-pointed and the committee on resolutions named. The congress then took a recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon. - - |