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Show 7- -- S&tinU.-T- Jusf 131 WHEN CONGRESS MET- - IN WALL STREET Nati Mat CUy C&Jt n yean ago the Congress ware; the sessions pending the construction of the buildings at the aew eapitolsproper to be held alternately at Anaapolia nd Trenton. United State was biddies adiea to Wall Street, where it bad associated with the "money power" for a period, returning temporarily to ita acenea f former of th . r-- 0. P. AUTO Fy fire-ye- ar ' 1 , i to finally remove to the new capifol to be established oa the was IT ' who . l ' r tar tt t tVirvticonrfa AAAtf a past the historic spot at the corner tat Wall and Nassau streets, but a few! feet from the doors of The National City Bank of New York, are mindful of fhe stirring events which occurred, during the iiirit- vrara in- vhirh it wit wmw tK swiki. " ' I ! ' -- l " 1 oe Congress, -- t New York Eighth Capitol 1785 that the Congress of the Confederation, after a de--' KepttmtheRun t. . .J c '.. fJ J ' . aecaae- be-- Kim uu uunng me New York - 1 had been in large degree due to the necessity of hurried moves to pre- vent the Capitol and the Congress falling into the hands of the British. The first movement from the wherejtjpent all . .Valley J5?hich Forge. T" Returns - otthat-temb- to Princeton, New Jersey. At Princeton it completed its session ' afld there adopted a plan for the creation rtf hvn nermonant nnlff cities, one to be located on the Potomac ana the other on the Dela- - I - . ..1 - York and the cstnblishment ofjhe permanent capitol of the nation at the spot now designated as the iJlstnct 01 Columbia and the city AtA?.'iJ7 rib ul In 1 ; a. f rr-lMf- nJ. .. ff "' m iw - v ft' ' iJ- iyu-ieu- 6. 9. 2. u. Federal Baltimore, December, 1776 Court-hous- York, Pennsylvania 1777 1. Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J November, 3. State-housAnnapolis, ld., 1783. 5. Court-housTrenton, New Jersey, 1784. Court-hous- e, e, e, of Washington.1-Onimportant questions of the first laid before the Congress had been that .of the assumption by the Government of the 1783. .11. ;; , 000, the ..domestic debt of the Confederation $42,000,000 while the debts of the various states incurred during the Revolutionary War agexisting debts of the Confederation . gregated - 2(,m 000 -- making -- the and those which the states' had grand total of $XQ,00O.OOOr a sum created during "wmrrrtrrcn sounded large, no Wat- -, foreign debt amounted.to $12,000,- - ter how small it seems to us in e - -- . ''t J a i z- fjittaBteT)f " w - tvrk. - -- e" matcriaTTy" that date would-not"bbeneficial to the states themselves. Most of these claims were held in the North, and as a result, the members from the northern states while favored the proposition, those of the South wcr almost solidly against it and succeeded in temporarily defeatingthi feature of the measurer Hamilton's ThreeProposals The proposition submitted to the .oncTcss by ""TTauulTon included: first, the assumption of the foreign How it Was Settled when the as .Atih.is.ofjuncture.', the debts of the states sumption Hate set Tor" flie "next session, the." fir- -t in Monday December, of of several hours as at present; days-mstea- d -- . During 1921 Provo Reservoir Company has enlarged its storage at the head of the Provo river to .meet the increased demand for its late water in both Utah and Salt Lake counties, - During the year a new pumping, plant has been installed at the Jordan Narrows," and was operated during a portion of the low water season. This plant has two units in operation, one of five and One of ten second-fee- t capacity. Water is pumped from the Jordan"river into thesteel siphon'crossTrig the Jordan. Narrows and lifted Xo the canaPon" Ihewest side vertical height of over 250 feet. res-eryio- rs " : flouring the high water period in Provo river, the pumps are not operated, but after the water falls xtff and it becomes necessary to.. maintain the supply, the pumps are started and the pumped, water is used tV supplement the high water in irrigating lands county on thye west of the Jordan river v I - . x As the demand for pumped water increases, to meet the requirements. this-plan- t wuTbe enlarged ; ( District has been partially irrigated by , a pumping system that has become inadequate and it is the purpose of the' Goshen Valley Irriga-- " 'tion. Company, newly organized, to install pumping' plants on the west shore of Utah lake and irrigate most of the irrigable1 land in this district. :- . 1 Q , a u 1790,1 buildinps and presidential residence would be ready for occupancy. H And this is how it happened that 131 years ago Congress was tear .fully pacVitig its belongings at tha corner of Walt arid NassaifWeetl preparatory to the triptO Phila dclphia, which was then a matter f irrigated -- there until the yeaf 1800, by 'which time the Capitol and remain The Provo Reservoir company first turned water through its canal in the year 1910. Since that time steady progress has been made in the .development" of the irrigation system, until in 1921 over 12t000 acres were t ' 1 Provo Reservoir Company Com- -' The operation of the pumping plant of the Utah Lake Irrigation waters of pany has demonstrated conclusively the feasibility of utilizing Utah lake for irrigation purposes; by pumping to higher levels. The Mosida 910 Wall Street in the early days of the Republic. The building with the "custom house" sign is- on the'site of the present home of The National these'days in which we count governmental appropriations in terms of billions. 7 - - . "ValuesoHmproved land in thlff district Tange from 400.00 tc $800.00 an - m t - - jatm -- ' k' l . 1 ., Company -- - f - I Developm eni of , -- II - Hall, New York (reconstructed City -1s4aaij MremrwHerer the first under Constitution the Congress met, and Pres. ,dent Washington was inaugurated. First Capitol building at Washington, D. C, 1800. v . HaHr.Watt-imd- : Lancaster, rennsylvania,l777 e, With the development f the system, new pumping units have been n installed from time to time and the main canal extended northward-irSalt Lake Valley. Last year the canal was extended from a point near -miles. This TaylorsviHe, northwesterly to Magna, a distance of about ten extension has brought under irrigation an area of more than 2,500 acres. .... in nhw. ... : '' s.. The American Congress' had ten meeting places up until the time it was permanently located in Washington in 1800. The pictures reproduced'here are. from rare old prints and original drawings collected Mr. Austin. They are listed below ju the order in which the buildings ere occupied by Congress: by . , 8, Carpenter's Hall. Philadelohia. 1774. , mj , ,w , tt.m t. Irrigation - a "1 As ke 7- J te disappeared. The bill for payment of these claims was passed and a little later the measure establishing a permanent seat of Government on the Potomac became a law, with a proviso that Congress should re- -, move to Philadelphia before the . Ufi --:- northerly through the main canal covering, the land west and adjacent to Utah lake and Jordan riyeiv.The canal continues in a northerly .direction into Salt-Lacountyr and waters several. thQUsandcres.inSaltLake -Valley, west of Jordan .river, " - 1 ment, the hostility of certain Southern members to the payment of claims of the states mysteriously mm : l Hi ,t k The irrigation system of the Utah Lake Irrigation Company was commenced in the year 1911, and has been steadily developed until at present more than 10,000 acres are being irrigated through its canals. acre. , n nkt ' 1 mm i 1 The water for irrigation in this system is, pumped from Utah lake to ' an elevation of 100 feet above the lake surface. The pumping plant is located on. the west shore of Utah, lake near Saratoga. The water flows " kA .laid-befor- "I1 Development of Utah Lake r - f dlDiUj - It was during the second session of that first Congress under the new 'Constitution that the events occurred which resulted in the departure of the Congress from New nigtit if IT lift' ft 1 Why Congress Moved remain.ing there until JBA Uwing to some misunderstandings with the Philadelphia ef 151 inwhich the "Became."". the" Philadelphia by the British in 4778, Con- A gress returned to its oltf quarters in (Z:rTV I; f comchar- the First- Congress under the Constitution - and -- the place in which Washington took .the oath of ofneeas the first Pres ident of the United States. On;the evacuation of authontiesrt-remcved6v- .11,) 1 Delayed meeting place of -- m m Conslitutioarenuireilmoresuitabte surroundings than those offered by the old City Hall, had contributed $32,5Q0 for the improvement of that building, and it was renamed "Fed- - was" to Old Quarters lit . I?.,-- . - II w m of the election did Aot reach General Washington at his home in Virginia until April 14, 1789, and because of the time occupied by his journey thence to New York, his actual inauguration did not occur. untirAprll 30, 1789. Meantime, the enterprising ritiygtr nf Nsw Vnrlf realizing that tke dignity of Con gress anq president under tne new le- Washington n - is the flying machine had not yet been dreamed of, the official report movement of the British in that uirecHon, u nastily. renK)Yedto Lancaster Jennsylvaniarwhere-- it wui lor inree aays, re-- I moving thence to York 09 the op-' posite aide of the Susquehanna, VnJK ?n at is- acterized those days British were preparing to move up. on that town, ftd the December session ol .that year, 1776, was held at Baltimore. - With the danger of an immediate occupation of Philadelphia tem porarily removed, however, th. hat city m Ma"ch?8817y7UrtRH , Inauguration - With the limited facilities of munication and travel which - yoripnalminafaceraaiaelr phla, occurred in 1776, when the -- nrrr r cade of wandering in search of a permanent abiding place, estab- Iished itself in the modest old City Hall, which the stood at the cor-- ! ner of Wall and Nassau streets. During the period of its existence, which began at Philadelphia in 1774, it had held session in no less than seven different cities and to wns, thus soaking. New York th- eighth capitol of the United States, while ' Washington became in " its - tjurn the ninth capitol, -- Opposition is Aroused; The third proposition, that the Government of the United States should assume the debts created tiy. the respective states during the Revolutionary War was bitterly opposed and its final settlement resulted incidentally in the good-by- e of Congress 'to Wall street. The opposition to payment by the Gov ernment of the claims ot the re spective states was bitter and long drawn out, much of the opposition being bated upon the assertion that the claim had been already bought up by speculator and that the assumption bytke- - Congress under en It was in - - where it was granted jthe use of the City Hall All of the meetings up to this time had, of course, occurred under the Articles of Confederation, un. which,, however haiL-provsatisfactory, and when the ninth state ratified the proposed Constitu-'tion, iff 178C, the Congress, then is session in New York, hastily passed a measure requiring that the vote for the President, provided by the new Constitution, should occur on "the first --Wednesday in January, 1789, that the' electoral votes should be cast on --"the first Wed- neaday in February," and that the President should be in.augurated.on . the hrst Wednesday in March." As it happened that the first Wednesday in ' March fell upon the fourth day of that month,' the date" "March 4th"as the . beginning of . the termof the President and Congress, was thus permanently established. ,.1 w ng place debt of the Confederation; second, the lull payment of the domestic debt, which hid fallen far below par in its market value; and, third, the assumption by the Government of the debts incurred by the respective stales during the revolution. The first proposition, for full payment of the foreign debt met with no opposition, and that for the payment of the domestic debt- was opposed by many but received a majority vote. Lure of Great City The session of 1783 was held at Annapolis and that f 1784 at Trenton, where it appears that the lure of the" great ci,ty of New York, which; had then a population, of 33,000, overturned the double capitol plan, and to January, 1785, the Congress removed to New York, at Philadelphia, whence it activity After five years in old Federal Hall it was packing its bags Just 13 f years ago to move to thence to Philadelphia, Washington. seemed likely fa" fall, diplomacy go in its fine work. The question as to the permanent location of the Capitol of th Nation was then pending. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore wanted it. So- did several other enterprising cities anj towns in the middle states and. in Virginia. The South, which was opposing the measure for the payment of the claims of the states, was sojidly in favor of the transfer of the'permanent seat of government to that section of the tjuntry.' Hamilton favored the payment of t'.ie claims of the states, JerTerton favored the location of the Capitol at the South, and these two experienced men, putting their heads together, svorked out a plan which was certain of their colleagues at a dinner at the home of Jefferson, where the details were agreed upon. Tke next day, to the astonishment of those not immediately participating in the agree- Last season, surveys were run from lheProvo Reservoir canai on. the east side of Salt Lake Valley from the point of the mountain to Big Cotton-wood Canyon. It was found feasible to furnish water to a large acreage lying north and east of Draper. At some future time, when Salt Lake City will find it necessary to acquire all the water from the canyons south of Big Cottonwood for culinary purposes, the Provo Reservoir canal may be extended along the east side to supply lands now being irrigated by these tanyon streams, thus releasing thd canyon water for use in Salt Lake City. During the past year the main canal has been extended from its' present terminus near Murray, northward towards Magna. "This extension will no doubt be completed next year, west and northwest to Magna, thus bringing under irrigation an approximate area of 1,500 acres. ot ft coupll -- |