The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-01

.Souy oeeH He4u dI OSueH, anu an d.
little delicate about urging Salt Lake
I City, feel more delicate than 1
/ otherwise would. We do not have
desire to monopolize the congress, but
l wish to present Salt Lake City as
place of meeting and to say that you
| VIII be welcome there. If we do not
say very much about it, it is not be-
cause we dc not mean to welcome
you if you come.
Our president has visited that city.
but | am sorry to say he did not re-
celVe as much attention as he would
nave received had he stayed longer
Ex-Gov. Prince, of New Mexico.
Mr.. President I rise to say but a
lew words IN seconding the suggestion
that the next meeting of the Congress
be held in Salt Lake City.
The last three meetings of this con-
gress have been held on the borders
OF the great Mississippi country,
one at san Francisco, in the extreme
west; one, year ago, at st. Louis, and
thls session in Omaha, which is also
IN the eastern part of this territory.
Ihey were, [ think, words of wis
dom which fell from the lips of our
eX-President, Mr.. Cannon. a few mo-
ments ago, when he said that it would
enhance the interest in our proceed
lngs If the next meeting should be held
IN the central part of our territory
personally, / have no interest what
ever in going to Salt Lake city. 1t
might be a matter of novelty to go
! 10 some newer place, but it seems to
me that in the interest of this organi-
cation we should subordinate all such
| ideas, and l think the next session
meeting should be held there.
A Typical Place.
,;al,
President Cannon did not speak of. on
account, perhaps, of the proverbial
modesty of all his utterances, and one
of these is that Salt Lake city is a
! typical place to hold any kind of a
convention. Its people are hoSpitable
! to a fault. I had the honor to attend
a conference in that city in the month
of May last-a conference which was
to be attended by only twenty-seven
persons at the moSt-three appointed
| by nine governors, and yet the whole
of that city from end to end was feS-
TONED with the red, white and the blue
| in honor even of those tWenty-SeVen
people who met there as representa-
| tives of the states and territories in
the Rocky mountain region.
Apart from this, it is to be remem-
bered, that there we have perhaps the
| best object lesson teaching that is to
be found anywhere in the transmits
SiSSippi country in regard to some of
the great subjects which always come
! before this convention 1t is the birth
place-the cradle of irrigation in North
America. and l think that we may see
there better displayed, perhaps, than
| it can be seen in any part of this
trans Mississippi country, these practi-
cal demonstrations of this problem. 1t
is so full of enterprise and energy that
we can see there better than in any
other place. what the energy and en-
| terpriSe and perseverance OF man can
do. There is another point, and that
is that Salt Lake city has the press
| facilities which are necessary for a
successful meeting. It is of the great
! est Importance to have the meeting of
this body in place where the press
IS fully established and where the AS
sociated Press facilities are Of the full
! lest description. Meeting here, 200 or
800 of us in a hall, we are but small
audience. but our true audience is the
| United States. and the people of thse
United States are to be reached
/ through these press facilities, and these
are to be found at Salt Lake.
Another Reason.
There is one other point, which may
be point of sympathy, different from
these practical suggestions. The ter
ritory of Utah has sent to this Congress
/ for the past four or five years l think
by far the largest delegations in pro-
! portion that have come from any part
Of the United States. They sent thir-
ty-five delegates all the way to ST.
! Louis last year-more py far than
came from Nebraska or Iowa, or Kan
sas or Arkansas, which Immediately
surround the state of Missouri-as
many, l think, as all of them COM
bined They have shown their inter-
est in this work. 1t seems to me to be
a deserved compliment, if we are to
pay compliments, that we should meet
at Salt Lake City next year"
Mr.. WoIfenberger, of Nebraska.
sMr. President-On behalf of a por-
ton of the delegation from Nebraska,
J desire to second the nomination OF
Salt Lake City.
TT has not been ninety days since in
another national congress-a body OF
great Importance to this western coun-
try-it was my privilege to be associat-
ed intimately with a delegation from
Utah. and l cannot fail TO remember
that that delegation stood solid by the
Nebraska delegation in its effort to Sc
cure recognition in a great meeting
This, with the other reasons which
have been spoken of so eloquently by
our friend Ex-Governor Prince, in re-
! gard to press facilities and tranSpor-
tation facilities and the central geo.
graphical location, suggests Salt Lake
CITY as a most desirable location fo1
the next meeting. This being snigra-
tory congress, of course, in justice to
J all. travelling from place to place, we
| should reach every geographical Sec
| ton. but the nearer we can remain
to the center the better it will be for
the congress and all interested in its
! deliberations. The amounts expended
in railroad fare amount to many thou
sands of dollars in travelling from the
far east to the far west. This would
have been a dangerous argument for
us to put forth a year ago, when Oma-
ha was seeking the location, but as
| Omaha is out of it now for a year, we
can afford to be frank.
An Ideal Spot.
"Mr. Chairman. / believe that in the
interest of all the questions, and prin-
cipally of the two great questions the
currency question and the irrigation
! problem, Salt Lake city is really an
ideal spot to hold the next congress
1t is in the heart of the western half
of the continent, and as has been
happily said, is peculiarly situated to
| illustrate several features which we
can only learn by observation. 1t is
situated in the centre of the district
where the least poverty prevails among
the masses, than in almost any other
spot on the globe where agriculture is
one of the main dependencies of the
people, 1t is in the arid region of the
western half of the continent, and in
the census report on irrigation, to be
found in the compendium of the
Eleventh Census you will find THAI
Utah is the ideal state in having solved