Show THE AST of THE GREAT vlist amount of resolutions presented on harbors arid lands and statehood SILVER COINAGE resolution PASSES AFTER A HARD FIGHT admission or utah to statehood causes a rod hot ficht in which tho liberals use their old arguments ArBu ments and utah california and colorado pass the greatest eulogy on the mormon people ever heard in utah it took three sessions ot the yesterday to completo the work laid out the morning afternoon arid sessions being devoted strictly to business it was expected yesterday morning that tho convention would last over today but by long sessions and expeditious work alio business was completed and last night tho convention adjourned to meet next year in san francisco alie congress has been a most successful one the most successful ever held and the results of its deliberations will be felt no doubt in om alio national congress nearly all the delegates remained until tho close of the session only a few probably eight or ten being called home by imperative business or by sickness just as promptly as ever gov me connell called the trails mississippi congress to order yesterday morning at the finance resolution which was so well debated on wednesday was called up and was unanimously passed tho following resolution was introduced u by mcdonald washington read and referred 1 Ilo solved that in view of the difference s whether apparent or otherwise in the relative value of gold and silver coin the american delegates to the international monetary conference be requested to propose to toe representatives of the other powers the propriety of readjusting the by chancing the weight of the cold coin as was in 1803 1831 and 1849 u as to conform to the value of the balver dollar of grains pure silver which has been the standard since 1702 the following communication from salt lake city was read by the secretary SALT LAKE CITY utah april to our visiting friends of the trans M congress gentlemen salt lake city through its chamber of com congratulates her enterprising and ambitious sister ogden in securing this grand convention of representative men from the trails mississippi states of oar grand and glorious country it marks an epoch in the history of utah especially ogden of which we are justly proud although salt lake city and ogden are rivals in a certain sense their rivalry idof that nature which best sub serves the interests of both cities and adds to the greatness of the territory of which they form such important parts the greatness and prosperity of tho ono is the progress and grandeur of the other and we join in hearty thanks to you gentlemen who today honor ogden and thus indirectly salt lake with your presence in this congress recognize the fact that you nave given deep ili ought to the great national questions which interest your respective states and the country at large and that your commonwealths ha vo asked you to I 1 come here and give us the benefit of your experience and thoughts on tho important issues brought forward for discussion and action here and we feel satisfied that the meeting of this congress will be of immense benefit to the trans mississippi states and especially to utah chois greatly honored by being chosen ai the place of this assembly we feel however that your mission would not be and salt lake city would not be sufficiently honored unless you extend your trip to metropolis and therefore when your deliberations here ahall have ceased and the labors of this congress bo terminated salt lake city through its chamber of commerce cordially invites yon to pay her visit and to take a drive thron gli her broad boulevards seo her business men her business buildings public schools hotel and other things that go to show that she has a progressive people wo can not guarantee to show you the inside but wo can show yon the outside of the most substantially ly built and finest equipped religious edifice in the great west namely the mormon temple it is estimated that during the present month people have passed through this building and viewed its magnificent appointments our people would be delighted to show you that to the material wealth of our common country they have juat commenced the erection of the largest copper smelter and refining plant in the united state for which the citizens of salt lake city have given a bonus of in cash and in land if you will tarry with ua but a short will give us infinite pleasure to take yon on a special train over the eastern division detward we of the salt lake pacific which is being built with the capital of salt lake people for the salt lake people and which is to be owned and controlled by them from the shores of the 0 rent salt lake to the pacific ocean we do not wish to convey the impression to your minda that this road is now in operation to tho pacific ocean or even to deep creek but the child is born it is a very precocious child and wilt not lone wear its swaddling clothes nor will it die in infancy it lies passed the biage when danger is to be feared from measles whooping congh scarlet fever croup teething colic and the many diseases which might consign it to an early grave and reputable insurance companies are willing to write a risk upon it for less than the usual tire that we feel safe in predicting that it will attain its majority and accomplish the purpose for which it was launched upon this turbulent world salt lake city as well as new khas her four hundred that four hundred have undertaken to raise the money to build the salt lake and pacific railroad they say it must be built this statement remove all speculative chances from the it makes it an assured fact and if our california and ne inda i friends would stay with us a short 1 time dank our bock beer and later on L bathe in the waters of our dead sea and they then wish to return we will take them g home over our in epe ciali cars of the latest design on behalf of and in ilia nama citizens the chamber of commerce ex tends to you a hearty and cordial indita alon to visit us and eee us as we are eliat we may become better acquainted with you and you with ns before returning to your respective homes W K president 8 W secretary f col fisk moved to suspend the reading but others objected and the communication muni cation was read W II 11 harvey declared that ogden as the center of tho great inter mountain country had no jealousies toward salt lake and asked the delegates to cordially accept the invitation this they did unanimously col irish arose and regretted eliat it y a had been thought necessary to pass the p resolution when ao many dele gates were absent and moved that later ii in the day a roll call of the delegates bo taken to record the vote on this resola i alon the chair informed him eliat alie time of meeting was and it waa not tho fault of the chair that delegates were no present at the time leet col moved to reconsider tho motion whereby the resolution was adopted and moved also to lay his own motion on alie table thus disposing of it for good both were ruled out of order and a motion to read tho resolutions one by one and if no objections were raised the clifair declare them adopted was carried mr pence of tho committee reported the following resolutions whereas the completion of the galveston work means a saving to the great west of ten millions of dollars on each grain crop and every working day costs the farmer thirty thousand dollars therefore be it Ite solved that the trans mississippi congress docs hereby memorialize the congress of the united states urging the congress the chief of engineers and the engineer inI ocal charge that time is tho essence of the relief to come fram deep water at galveston and that the work be pushed as speedily as rios aible to its accomplishment and the earning of the everlasting gratitude of the west charles A edwards of texas spoke to alie question and gave a brief history of the establishment of a deep water harbor on the lower gulf and quoted some most interesting figures the resolution was adopted dr dixon chairman of the sub committee presented the following resolution on hydraulic mining the response has been feeble indeed and appropriations so meagre as to be wholly inadequate to the requirements and whereas by the action of the state and united states courts in the state of california in enjoining hydraulic mining the gold product of the state has been reduced millions of dollars a year for the last ten years and whereas the outputs gold is a matter of material importance not merely to the state of california but to the finance and treasury of the united states and whereas the congress of the united states at Us last session passed a law commonly known as the carpinetti Caroi netti bill which provides for the construction under a board of engineers appointed by the president of the united states of dams to impound mining debris by means of which dams when constructed the navigable streams of the state of california will protected from injuries which would otherwise necessarily result to the navigability of said streams and which dams would also enable hydraulic mining to be revived without injury to the navigable streams and vastly add to the gold product of the united states and whereas the told mining industry of california is now in such condition that the owners of the mines in largo number are not financially able to bear the expense of the construction of such dams and the state of california has appropriated to aid in the construction of such dams whenever the united states government shall have made an appropriation for that purpose not less than said sum resolved Ke solved uy the trans mississippi congress in convention assembled eliat a great and commanding need of the state of california Is liberal treatment of its navigable waters and harbors by the federal government and we earnestly request our representatives in congress to use all honorable means to secure appropriations adequate to the requirements that we urge upon congress the importance bill recently introduced into congress by lion placing of the sacramento and san joaquin rivers under alie contract and special commission system Jle solved that we urge upon congress the great importance of making an appropriation pria tion of to be used in connection with the appropriated by the otate of Californi ain carrying out the pro of the Cann netti mining law in alie interest of the navigable creams and mining recently passed by congress in the impounding of is bettor stated than we can state it by hudso sawyer of tuo united states circuit court in the case of peter vs liberty hill mining company in the case of the conflicting views of engineers on the subject it is impossible to he satisfied of the sufficiency of this dam the whole matter rests in mere opinion wo have no richt to blindly speculate upon matters of each consequence with our facilities we can foresee with reas anable certainty what may occur in these mountain rivers confined in deep canyons which sometimes become Ir torrents nothing short of the attribute and prescience of omniscience is equal to the test of determining the of such a dam and nothing should be accepted as sufficient except upon the moat indisputable and evidence and by united states district attorney audgo deady in the case of edwards woodruff vs north mining company whether a dam can be to stand the pressure to which ft will necessarily bo subject under these circumstances and whether it will be of any material use in preventing the how of the debris and the of the river below aro questions upon which I 1 am not fully advised but from the evidence in the case and my observations of the premises I 1 am strongly impressed with the belief that sufficient of the debris would still pass over the dam in suspension with the water to maintain and even increase the present fill of the river the united states debris commission in its report to alie secretary of war february page 16 in discuss ing tho very question say at its this system of restraint would be costly and one that would ullard onla partial protection to the interests involved on the rivers below it still be seen at a glance that our constituents whoso all depends on the matter cannot accept the recommendations of the majority 0 the california delegation D P DUEST yuha GEO 0 W yolo W S GREEN calusa colusa the protest was filed and abe resolution waa adopted dr dixon continued the reading of alio resolutions brought in by his committee as follows alons in the river and harbor bill as heretofore by which the work has been rendered tar more expensive and its completion unnecessarily delayed whereas there aro millions of acres of fertile tillable land adjacent to and dependent for transportation for their products upon the great arkansas river and whereas the improvement of river open up a market for these products which at present is virtually closed to them therefore be it unsolved Ue solved that this congress does hereby memorialize the federal congress to lurther appropriate amounts sum chent to remove obstructions and to make other necessary improvements improve mente whereby navigation on this river will be to the extent that steamers may be able to transport the products of the vast area contiguous to and dependent upon this great water way thereby giving to the farmers the lumber men the miner and others an outlet and a market for the valuable products annually ann cally produced and for which there is not at present an adequate system of transportation whereas hopes pass on corpus christ hay is the most point on the texas coast where a deep water harbor is possible and whereas this pass is nearer the heart of the irons mississippi country than any other poin on the gulf coast at which harbor betterment is being prosecuted therefore be it this congress regard with great interest the success of the efforts to obtain a deep water roadway into the sea at that point and endorsee the work and hopes that the attainment of a thirty foot depth of water may be speedily realized Ite solved that the trans congress hereby urges the congress of the united states to increase appropriations for the missouri river improvement to the end that this dangerous stream may be restrained within its proper channel in the interest of navigation whereas the opening of the waterways in competition with railways invariably and materially cheapens alio cost of transportation and especially with heavy commodities and whereas the great and pressing need of the west and southwest is cheaper transportation por tation to the seaboard and from tide water to alie interior and whereas several important rivers existing in the state ot texas which up to ft comparatively recent period were navigated by large steam river crafts but which by reason of the advent of the railways with their speedier but costlier transportation has been allowed to lapse into a condition the states that she be endowed by increasing the apportionment as choice lands are rapidly settling in that territory and that the same policy and treatment bo applied to arizona kew mexico and oklahoma if from the situation at the time of their elevation to statehood it appears required in equality Kc solved that the beet sugar industry should be encouraged by continuance of the operation of the present sugar bounty law and that we urge upon the national government Rovern ment and all states the importance of this industry and especially its adaptability to conditions existing in the trans mississippi states resolved Ke solved that sugar beet seeds should be distributed generously by the agricultural department and that additional appropriations should be made for sugar beet tests at the various agricultural experiment stations resolved that upon failure of railways to comply with the agreement under which hey accepted grant lands th elands should revert back to the public domain Ite solved that congress is hereby |