The record-union., 1894-02-15
TRANSMlSSlSSIPPI CONGRESS.
RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO MANY
IMPORTANT CUSHIONS.
Appeal For the Improvement of Cali
fornia Rivers and tho Impound-
ing of Mining Debris.
snecial to the REcoRn-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 1.-THE Trans
mississippi Congress was called to order
again by President Mcconnell at 1920
o'clock this morning.
Eddy OF Oregon offered resolutions that
the improvements on the waterways of
the West should be pushed to compile
ton; also, that the passage of the Wilson
bill should be defeated, and that the re-
peal of the Sherman law was a CONNER
cial necessity to the nation.
McGiluray of Washington read reso-
luton favoring river and harbor i'm
provement.
These were referred without discussion.
as also were the resolutions of Estee of
California, calling for the construction
Of the Nicaragua Canal; by a Wyoming
delegate, providing for the ceding OF arid
lands to the States and Territories; by
Wilson of Arizona, favoring Government
action favoring irrigation; by Grimes of
Colorado, of a like import; by Missouri
delegate, favoring the improvement of
the Mississippi River; by an Arizona
delegate, demanding the immediate re-
monetiZatiOn of silver at the ratio of Is to
l; Warren Of Washington, relative to arid
lands; by Pinch Of Idaho, condemning
the Wilson tariff bill; by California
delegate, tavoring reservation from sale
of the remaining forest lands. Several
other delegates introduced similar reso-
lutions, which were received with cheers.
A resolution was offered favorng
the canal system in the San Joaquin Val
ley.
President Mcconnell offered a resolu-
ton favoring the donation to the States
Il vi Of oil
claimed. by irrigation. and favoring sill
yer.
Resolutions were offered by the Cali
fornia delegation favoring the speedy
completion of the Nicaragua Canal.
California rivers and hydraulic mining
were made the subject of the following:
WHEREAS, The Sacramento and San
Joaquin Rivers, the great waterways OF
California, are threatened with destruc-
ton by debris from hydraulic mining;
and whereas, the filling of the channels
of these rivers by such debris causes i'm
mense injury to adjacent farming lands;
and whereas, discontinuance of such
mining prevents the output of large
quantities of gold, and the community
suffers from lack Of the money which
should be made of that gold; and whereas,
the nation alone can cope with the con-
fiicting conditions; now, therefore, be it
ReS0LUed, AS the sense of this congress.
that the Government of the United States
should make sufficient appropriations
for, and cause to be done, such work of
impounding mining debris as may per-
nit hydraulic mining without its causing
injury to the navigable waters OF this
State and to adjacent lands.
ReSotUed, That we urge upon Congress
the Importance and necessity of imprOv-
ing and preserving the navigable streams
of California and their tributaries, and we
urgently ask that the improvement of
these streams be under the special con-
tract system, and that the bill now pend
ing in Congress, introduced by Mr.. Cam
inetti to that end, be promptly passed.
At II o'clock the congress adjourned, to
meet at the Midwinter Fair grounds at
2 p. NJ.
The afternoon session was held at Festi-
val Hall, on the Midw1nter Fair grounds,
where other attractions were evidently
too strong, for the attendance of the con-
vention was small. The session was taken
up with a free silver speech by A. W.
Thompson, Populist politician of San
Francisco, and speech by Alexander
Majors, an aged pioneer of Colorado, who
made an earnest plea for the remonetiza-
ton of silver and free and unlimited
coinage.
At o'clock the convention adjourned
until tomorrow morning.
In the evening the delegates were given
dinner in the Vienna Prater at the ex
position grounds, after which they wit
messed a display of fireworks in their
honor. Senator Jones and Stewart were
invited guests at the dinner.