| Show c c cOP OP OPE N I N G St SESSION Sm AT PO PORTLAND TL D rAI rAIF F California Ulah Colorado Texas And Montana arc Heavily r Represented There ThereAT ThereAT ThereAT AT THE TE I I nHI ICI That There Ther Will lie lic On Oni I 1 nIl lItes Present atul nt lit ul Ulli SOME WELCOMING Speakers Speaker Art Ar Got Gor ant U S Sen atou Municipal Or Cu Au Aug Everything 1 ii III In readiness for the opening athe a o the time i congress Hereu Is III to ben begin u four day ticy Ion In Port lort Portland land hanoi today Delegates ny the hundred ha have been ni riving arriving In time lilt city etty tho thit I ILlI two tO d s und and 8 lite cy A I K F that there will b bIn bi In III ih th neighborhood ot of 1000 d pi lii nit nt when t I 1 P J Jets n lI of the committee calli calim lit Ih the meeting to tu I lOne ar are h here hATe rc from Crom CalIfornia Utah l 0 Texan mini and b lie its HI sides 1 H a 11 liberal number front from all th tim III II went Pt of or the MIssIssippI river A AK Ac otis II to 10 be expected tim the largest at ut will trIll b bt from tie the thre sister sinter of Oregon Washington iliad and the of or III In time iho mutter matter of the nex meeting place n signs I I being u ot J ml matter It of nr if keen keel tt will rest rent largely with the delegates n 0 ot those these Already the represents o of Suit Hull take lAke Denier pener and Marl Mar sr l the three thre leading nn now floM In lii the lIel field hll commenced tin th work of ot securing convert converts sail and nn so rR tam fai tamas HI as t aim l b learned each cath hll tilts has mm ar nr I choice hole In iut th the lute prIze Tim Th sessions today will he I for tor th thi part parI to to time the making ol at welcoming addres cH by floss ciot K Jo nf it Oregon 1111 mind and 1 K 14 Mead of or WR of Oregon Oreon and l Illee ll 01 at Washington by hy representatIves i sa 01 municipality and till this loot toem commercial organisation The TIne r re wll 11 b be he mails made by o 00 O Oso Oro o C Pardee of 11 Uns ln 1 II it y of or Nebraska und v Dr Thu nId Id R n of ot Missouri The only matter i n of routine nn on the Ihl program today In Is the of the committees on timid and permanent organisation NOT ALTOGETHER Hardly had the welcoming Ii to time lie congress mongrous which assembled In Portland loda St when lien hen It H 11 1101 that thai th their theto IM is not nol altogether harmony harmon on 11 th thi subject of ot Chinese restriction law laMs J f became apparent during the address o II Jo 1 K J that thi of nr Washington and amid Orf I Is In tutor favor 1011 nf of strict application nf ot th thi lawn against a 1 more tutors lIbra rn 1 nn omi I the h part of ot the time a II or riia tita 1111 representatives md ind f i Din the middle west The first session Ion of ot tho Ihl congress wm suits opened with a nattering haltering attendance n a representative men from nil all parts parIs o a othe time the W wont stOat III Hearty welcome to te the del el gates Rot 1 mind and high tribute I In the Ihl Important tant tent work ok accomplished by hy Ih the con eon grexa in its Ih the pl past were sucre crt reflected In t thi th h lu of ot welcome elcome delivered by tin tIm foremost men of ot Oregon lid and nd Wash ing ton Following the Kit call to order b by Ku Mil fim i Jennings of ot San Salt Francisco chair chairman man of it t th the Committee Invocation was wal delivered by Rev v J W o nf of Portland Chairman hallman Joining Jennings Theodore rl B of Portland pr pres blent of nr n f tho time who delivered hit him address welcoming th this cnn guess GOV by C Mr Wilcox Will wat followed b Cloy who this the lei del In lu behalf of or Oregon Mr Mv Cham Chasm barium her In In eald In p pert pail rt rtIn In III welcoming the delegates in lit tonal bohal of time the state o of Oregon Oron time Iok occasion to 10 on ref refon on the tho work It hv has ved in tnt th time put He fore the congress hal had been en organist C so M great a 11 lack buick of or unity existed that legislation favorable to many uny on one of or the west ul was Will almost impossible I ti obtain Each Jalc of or unity hAP bee I tsui ilu retard retarded ed Id the growth eruth of ot the country limit foi 01 the unity by the organisation lion tion ol of the U It I Is doubtful III In said whether the of or art arid rt and arid semiarid lands land would not hay hayt b been ell postponed even een to this timia day as RI had been ben the achl m of If the congress hitherto there Ihle wa 1 v vii 11 i much work before odor It much h to achte still more work 1 In Is to make reclamation of ot the lite arid anti lands hands i a success ucc must mUll I th the tho conflict t be twe twin n public and interests Interest b bu be Thai II tue other matters of or rr great t pub pul II Ho it mich urh an aim approprIations appropriation fat foi th the ml harbors und and for or the con COli of C i m an anile ull i In an as natural regulator for fr freight rates rate for tor commerce front from th empire tu to o the sea noa oa that ought tn to h b taken up tip mind considered r d b by t hit thu the governor tl h himself very lit strongly on till the tho subject ol ci Chinese exclusion laws law and the time boycott This rIds country must have J i stringent nt law lass excluding Chinese coolies H Hf Ili alice that China threatens a t bo boy tott lott but he be believes that Ihal this thin boycott receives receive th the tho encouragement of persona person In Iii Ihl this country who have personal In merest to and he ho suggests thai much of the clamor here for Chines Immigration came from th those direct Interested In exporting product products t to Chi Chinese hi nose nese posts post a class which represent represents i s ismall small email minority of or tho tite people of ef thi Ihl coast cot cotI It I was wall th the Ihl of or lay Chain advocating the Ihl stringent ap map application 1 of or the restriction laws thA Inn the difference In III sentiment nt on the sub lub jet jeer became apparent This WM was r vs ft fleeted principally by enthusiastic ap applause from the Oregon and Washing ton d l p meted lasted out omit to a aih h ex etc pension on thus the subject A F E MEAD ks Albert K E Mend Mead of followed Judging by the utie rich contribution ol oh tin the congress In the M d |
