| Show THE OMAHA exposition v the party of 01 ohn citizens clUze off who arrived here on OD sunday bad a meeting with governor wells secretary of state hammond Hao amond and the legislative members of the committee on manu fac fractures tures and commerce monday at 6 5 at the executive tf office fice abe amaba gentlemen were dordon W john A wakefield W B R bennett john H evand charles Cb arlea metz henry A Tb ompson G U M hitchcock Z T lindsey and captain ff E palmer A S hazleton of council 3 bluffs with introductions and handshaking ings over came the consideration confederation ot of business which was the object of the visit of the gentlemen from the gate gat city mr wattles wattle chairman of the delegation was wag the first to speak he said aid they came not as orators or fluent speakers speak erb but as business men to make a business proposition in which he thought the people of utah as a well as the people ot of nebraska were interested the trans mississippi congress metat last year the question ot of holding a trans trana exposition was one of the themes considered the matter was favorably acted upon prom from that time to the present the omaha amaba people bad been work las ing on the matter A corporation had bad been formed and the people and state of nebraska would raise about half a million dollars for the enterprise ter prise A bill was pending in con arse ee for abe appropriation of half bait a million more everything possible was being done to ranks make it a success substantial encouragement bad been promised throughout the iowa alone is to give for a building in utah the abe omaha delegation bad teen been received with marked consideration and courtesy by governor wells and other citizens notably among these was hon hod george Q cannon they bad learned with pleasure that bat the utah legislature bad taken cognize lance of toe exposition this they believed wound be a profitable action for atle new dew state A great tide of immigration is setting in and utah should secure its proportion of it 0 M hitchcock Hito editor of the world herald said it was necessary to secure escure the full operation cooperation co of the states of the entire west an ah exposition that would not dot represent the whole west would woula largely fall in accomplishing the object for which it was held ardent support was and must if possible be secured nowhere else could be found such an example of human pluck enterprise and wisdom as they had witnessed in utah it fairly made them ludm ashamed of their comparatively meager accomplishments to in Neora eka asks when contemplating what had been done in this once desert like ilke country city attorney hazleton of council bluffed iowa eald amid he accompanied the det delegation legation simply lor jor the purpose of telling how bow the people of his state towards the enterprise at the trans mississippi congress there was a strong sentiment that something was wrong lp IP the western part ot of the union and that ft a large would be a partial remedy hon george Q cannon one of utahn prominent and enterprising citizens gave valuable aid to the end stated in fact be did more for it ban anyone else iowa buwa has joined heartily in the project aud utah it was hoped would du do likewise governor well belld said in part that it was already known what utah had done to encourage the exposition in the passage ofa of a resolution Hedi he dust know if anything further aoud be said at this bis time he was in hearty accord aith aba tbd movement and believed that ziab utah tab should be represented he know knew the exposition would be much more successful it if utah was represented estban if she were not he further sold said that be thought it was the sentiment of the legislature to have an exhibit ilO inaba but the appropriations for that purpose had bad better be deterred until the next session eose loo which meets a year from now in 1897 the state would be fifty years old one your year torn next july it id would be a half century bince two tired travelers first bizaj upon salt bait like lae valley it was possible that we should want some appropriations lor for a celebration of that event which was or of great importance to us ue whether that would take toe form I 1 or m of an exposition remained to be seen but the matter could be safely left to the legislature of ext year which would in his opinion do what was right in the premises senators booth glen miller and Candland Candian dand and representatives taylor clark and harris harne all favored giving such resistance assistance as we state would be able to A legislative appropriation this thie year could hardly be thought of however but next year jear the amount of the states state la revenues would be determined and something substantial might then be done this brought the meeting to a close with many thanks from the exposition promoter prom otere as to the promises made |
