Show MINING MEN AT GOLDFIELH Able Addresses Made at Opening Sea Ion of American Mining Congress Department of Mines Urged Goldfield NevAt the opening sos Ion of the American Mining congress on Tuesday a resolution calling for the organization of a federal mining department which was presented byE by-E R Kuchley of Missouri was adopted adopt-ed and handed to the San Francisco delegation to bo presented to President Presi-dent Taft on his arrival In that city I next week The address of C C Goodwin of Salt Lake City entitled Some Suggestions Sug-gestions for the Settlement of tho Silver Sil-ver Question was read by George H Dern and a telegram from John Hays Hammond at Butte Mont expressing his regret that ho could not be present pres-ent at the discussion of the question 1 was raid I The address of James A Heckman of Now York on Proper Settlement of the Silver Question of Vital Importance Import-ance to tho American Manufacturer was read The general silver debate was opened op-ened by Thomas Keppner of Nevada Ho was followed by several others all of whom declared for tho placing of silver on a more important basis A discussion of the need of a federal department of mines was the feature of the afternoon session United States Senator Francis G Norlands of Nevada and Congressman W F Englebrlght of California were the speakers Russell Dunn of San Francisco Introduced In-troduced a resolution calling on the department of the Interior to remove certain restrictions In its wording the resolution sugested an attack upon the treasury department From talk among the delegates about the hotels It seems evident that a strong opposition to any censure ol Gifford Plnchot chief forester will develop on the floor of the congress President Jt H Richards of Boise Idaho delivered his annual address Tuesday night After extending a greeting to the delegate and exproBS Ing his appreciation of the confidence showji Jn Wmby his election to head tho congress seven successive years the president went into the history and purposes of the organization The congress Is a national organiza tlon hejsald yet the questions with which it should deal are both national and local It will take years prbporly I to organize because of the extent 01 the movement On Wednesday a session of the congress con-gress was held in Tonopah the delegates dele-gates having been invited by the citizens citi-zens of Tonopah to hold one of their sessions in that camp |