Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-11-27
A BUSY BODY.
The Trans Mississippi Congress Gets
Down to Hard WOrk-A Contest
Over the Voting Power of
the Delegations.
Cannon, of Utah, Elected President
Important statehood Resolutions
Introduced The Full
Proceedings.

O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Imme-
diately the selection of the different COM
mittees was announced and the men,
bers thereof retired to prepare their
reports. ExGov. L. B. Prince, of New
Mexico, upon invitation of President
Whitmere, then took the chair. Upon
motion Of Delegate Hunton, of Iowa, the
Missouri river improvement commission
was formally invited to attend the con-
vention and enlighten it upon the prog
ress of the work of improvement.
The introduction of resolutions, to be
referred without debate to the committee
on resolutions, was then begun. Dele
gate Castle, of California, presented q
memorial to congress favoring the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal under
the control and supervision of the United
States government; Delegate Harding, of
Missouri, offered a resolution demanding
the defeat of the free lead bill now before
the United States senate; Delegate Lubin,
of California, handed in resolution fa-
voring the payment of bounty upon ex-
ported agricultural products, as just
return fer the aid offered manufacturers
by
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Delegate Frye, of Missouri, offered g
memorial covering all subjects to come
before the congress and suggesting cura
tive processes for all the ills of the fnan
cial system, as relating to silver. Dele
gate Bowen, of Utah, presented a resolu
tion favorlng restoration, by the inde
pendent action of the United States, ol
silver to it's status prior to the enactment
of the law of 1873. Delegate Stoddard
of Colorado, had resolution favoring
free gold and silver coinage at the ratio
of Is to 1; providing for the use of coin
certificates, and enabling and directing
the retirement of national bank notes as
fast as bonds supporting them can be
paid and taken up by the coinage of gold
and silver. Delegate Stanard, of Mis-.
souri,, offered plank favoring the use OF
silver coinage to the fullest extent posi-
BILE at such ratio as may be susceptible of
being definitely maintained; also endor-
sing the efforts of the government to se-
cure the more extended
USE OF SILVER
by other nations. Delegate Rush, of
Idaho, introduced resolution endorsing
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
to /.
An address on the beet sugar industry
occupied the convention for some time,
its deliverer being Delegate Fl. Hamilton,
of Nebraska. At the suggestion of Dele
gate Black, of Washington, the executive
committee was instructed to present, not
later than Wednesday morning, the plan
of permanent organization, which it was
directed by the San Francisco congress
to prepare.
The convention at this stage ordered
that the committee on resolutions consist
of two members from each state and ter
ritory represented, to be named by the
state delegations at the opening of to-
days session.
The committee on credentials reported
q full list of delegates, which was accept
ID. A recess Was Was then GtasasSssEH~. tsasSssEH
1o-DAY's SESSION. I
st. Louis.-It was nearly three-q uarters
If an hour after the appointed time when
President Whitmore called the trans
congress to order to-day.
rhe adoption of the report of the COM
nittee on credentials last night, which
enrolled all the appointed delegates prop
,rly accredited without regard to their
presence, gave especial point to the re-
port of the committee on rules and order
If business, which provided for voting
,ower for each state delegation of not
more than thirty votes, if SO many dele
rates are present; all the states to have a
citing power of not less than ten, no
natter what might be the attending
delegation. Pending consideration Of
his report, the members of the
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS
1ere announced as follows: Arizona, T.
}. Comstock, W. j. CLANCY; Arkansas,
ieorge Sngel, 9. 8. Collins; California, D.
.ubin, Il. w. Parsons; Colorado, T. L.
ohnaon, ]. s. Shafroth; Idaho, William I
Judge, B. E. Rich; Indian Territory, d.
|. Dehison, Fielding Louis; Iowa, s. F.
mlth, Bart E. Linehan; Kansas, W. H.
'oothage, Stephen Crane; Minnesota,
'homas Sharp; Missouri, E. 0. Stannard,
J. E. Yeater; Nebraska, W. j. Bryan, r.
'. Richardson; New Mexico, T. R. Gabel,
!. B. Prince; Oklahoma, Sydney Clark,
A. MCGUIRE; Oregon, R. B. Dodge;
cuth Dakota, 8. E. Wilson, j. R. Bren-
an; Texas, Lewis Hancock, E. A. Mar
1all; Utah, F. j. Cannon, @. @. Goodwin;
A. L. Black, d. E. Devine;
lontana, Thomas j. Merrill, W. H.
heed; Alaska, j. @. Green. Wyoming,
ouisiana, Nevada and North Dakota are
ot represented in the convention. g
The report of the rules committee was
lopted, excepting clause
LIMITING THE VOTING POWER
each delegation. Delegate F. J. Can :
IN, of Utah, moved to strike out the !
aximum limit, giving full delegation's '
,te for every man. He supported the Q
otion with the contention that tho Q