The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-27
CHAMPION OF SILVER
The Transmississippi Congress
at Ogden Wants No
Other.
Gov. W..j. Mcconnell, oe Idaho, Declare,
him>cH and is Elected President
by IL Large Majority.


: O'Clock. The interest in the organic
alton of the congress centerei in the 81
lection OF president. Gov Mcconnell
OF Idaho was plainly the favorite. witt
\. {. Fisk IA close second. Both mel
are distinguished for autiacty McCon
nell as United States senator from In
new state OF Idaho. startled that stait
body by declaring that the goyernmen
mortgage Of sl2.0oo.0Go on the SoutherI
Paci'c railroad was changed from frs
to second mortgage through the pay
ment of sooo.0Go Of English money. an,
challenged the senate to call for dates
ligures and names. a challenge which
was not accepted. a. e. Fisk recent,
| called down upon his head the denunci
ations o. the eastern press by suggesting
/ al the session Of the Bi-Mctalic league
/ at Washington that it might soon be
+ come necessary for the western states tc
seek an alliance with the silver produc
ing countries OF Central and South
| America.
Gov. Prince. of New Mexico. introduc.
ed Gov. a. l.. Thomas of Utah. who had
been detained from yesterdays session
by railroad accident Soon after he
began his speech he was interrupted by
the arrival Of s.enator Stewart of Nevada.
Senator Warren of Wyoming. and Hon.
/. NJ. Patterson of Denver These gent
lemen were received by the members
with prolonged cheers amounting almost
to an ovation. Gov. Thomas. in his
speech. took advanced grounds on the
silver question. At the close of his ad
dress resolutions were introduced byMon-
tana on the mineral lands in the grant
to the Northern Pacific. and by Secre-
retary Brady. of the Galveston Chamber
of Commerce. regarding the harbor of
that city. \. c. Fisk. of Denver. intro
duced series of resolutions covering
every subject it was proper to..take ac-
tion on. which led the chairman of the
Kansas delegation to state that not hav-
ing heard distinctly. he would like to
know if the keely cure had been indor-
sed.
The committee on permanent organic
alton reported as follows: For President.
Gov. w. J. Mcconnell. of Idaho: for sec.
retary, ". II. Harvey. of Ogden. Utah
assistants. W. J. Easterbrook Of Oregon.
and .. W. Crawford. of Texas \ min
ority report suggested also for president
the names of \. c. Fisk. Of Colorado.
and J. w. Bent of Washington \ vote
resulted as follows: III for the minority
and li6 for the majority. The standing
of Gov. Mcconnell on silver was chal-
Hanged by Congressman Elect Pence. of
Colorado.
Col. John p. Irish defended Gov. Nc
Connell's standing. declaring that it
was ridiculous to challenge the stand
ing of an Idaho man, as Idaho would
probably not allow an anti-siyer man to
live peaceably within its borders. Gov.
Waite declared the congress should know
where he stood on this question. Me-
Connell on being called out. placed him
self on record as favoring the free coin
age of silver in the ratio of sixteen to
one in gold.
The committee on permanent organ
ization presented the following list of
vice presidents: Arizona. Hon. w. \.
Cheney: Arkansas. Hon. W. NJ. Fish
back: Colorado. Q. f. Hicks; Idaho \.
j. Hannaford: Oklahoma. John j. Dills:
New Mexico. Gov L. b. Prince: Mon
tana JAS. \. Murray: Utah. c. c. Good
win: Kansas; J. W. .Ady. Texas. Gen.
Geo. Afford: Nebraska. Congressman
W. Bryan: Washington. Col. J. w.
Feighan; Nevada, W. f. Sharon: North
Dakota. Gov. Shortridge: California. W.
johnson; Oregon. Gen. II. b. Compson:
Iowa; w. Il. Taylor; Missouri. w. B.
Archie: Wyoming, c. E. Bladenberg.
Considerable routine business was
transacted. but nothing was done of an
important character.
| 1t was expected that tight on the
location of the convention would ensue,
as San Francisco and Dallas. Texas.
were bidding for the plum. 1t was soon
evident. however. that California was in
the lead and Texas retired making the
selection of San Francisco unanimous.
The date was left to the executive com
mittee. Julian Sonntag, of San Fran
cisco. was selected as secretary. Col. w
ii. Harvey having declined. Each Of
the trans Mississippi states was author
lied to appoint a member of the execu.
tive committee.
This evening a large and distinguished
gathering greeted Col L. NJ. Patterson