The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-23
Trans Mississippi Congress.

DENVER, May 22-The report of the
committee on resolutions of the Trans Mis-
Blssippl congress which was made last night
recommends that Congress pass the Bur-
roughs bill appropriating $40, 600, 900 for the
building and maintenance and levees on
the Mississippi river; demands govern
ment supervision of railroads; recommends
granting liberal charters and subsidies the
steamship lines under the American flag:
favors the admission of New Mexico and
Arizona into the union; asks Congress to
pass the Torrey bankruptcy law: to cede
10 the different. states all the arid land, ex-
cept mineral lands; to enact such legislation
as will foster our mining interests: recon-
mends more stringent naturalization laws:
immediate completion Of the ietties at
Galveston.
Upon the silver question it asks
that Congress be petltioned to repeal
all laws which in their effect work dis
honor upon, or in the least challenge the
sovereignty of the silver dollar as an alb
solute measure of values, and TO restore to
silver the place given it as perfect money
by the trainers OF our government The
congress also asks the president of the
congress TO attempt to bring around inter
national recognition and adjustment of
silver as money, or that limited agree
Latin union whereby the minis of those
nations may again be opened for the coinage
of silver. 1t also favors negotiations with
Spanish American nations for commission
on currency for this continent south of
Canada.
The minority report on the silver clause
simply demands the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. The forenoon session
today was entirely taken up in the discus
sion Of the majority report and at noon the
congress took recess without having
taken final action.
The fine hand of the Louisiana lottery
combination was manifested in the defeat
of resolution calling for a constitutional
amendment in which lotteries might be
legallzed IN any state. The vote stood 95
TO IS.
The remainder of the day was spent in
consideration of the resolutions. All
passed as reported by the committee, but a
warm debate was provoked by the question
of the government ceding the arid lands to
the states and territories.
a resolution deploring the law of the
Forty ninth Congress, prohibiting foreign
capital from investing in real estate and
mines, was adopted.
The majority report on arid lands urged
the cesSion of the arid lands to the states
IN which they were situated and limiting
Individual purchases to 800 acres at not
less IMAM SlZ9 per acre, and that only citi-
zens of the United States be eligible as
purchasers, the fund derived from such
sale to be devoted to the development of
irrigation and reclamation of arid lands.
The minority report was devoted TO
strong argument for system of govern
ment irrigation that would bring the lands
under cultivation. After much debate.
participated in by Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, Judge Bedford, of Colorado,
Delegates Gum, of Idaho, Morse, of Colo
RADIO, and Hardy, of Utah, the various
amendments offered were voted down and
the majority report adopted by large vote.
1t was voted to hold two meetings each
year, one in February and one in Novem-
Der. A basis of representation Was fixed