The record-union., 1895-11-26
Burden Of the Speeches Made at the
TTanSmiSSiSSippi Congress
WHICH ASSEMBLED AT OMAHA,
NEBRASKA. YESTERDAY.
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Ter
ritory Experiencing Severe Wiutry
Weather-Several Inches of Snow
Falls. Accompanied by High
Wind-A Regular Blizzard at EN-
poria and Vicinity.

poria and Vicinity.
OMAHA, Nov. 25-"No sectionalism"
is the burden of the speeches of the
eighth annual convention of the Trans
mississippi Congress, which assembled
at Creighton Hall to-day at noon. The
audience was composed of the delegates
to the congress from the tWenty-four
/ States and Territories west of the Mis-
| sissippi, prominent business men of
Omaha and members and delegates
! from the Womans Club.
/ President George @. Cannon of Utah
! called the convention to order and in
trCduced Chairman I. w. Carpenter of
/ the Commercial Club Committee, who
/ greeted the delegates.
Mayor Bemis followed in a character
istic speech, touching number of mat
ters of interest to the city and the West
| closing with the address with which he
welcomed the Populist National Con-
! ventiOn in 1892, in which he declared
/ himself for the free coinage of silver.
| Governor hOIcomb welcomed the dele
gates TO Nebraska and spoke briefly of
the difference between the many con-
/ glesseS which have recently been held
They were congresses of farmers, bank
erS, or some particular class, but the
Transmissssippi Congress was made
up of men from all walks of life and en-
gagged in many different callings, and
acquainted with the needs of all sec
tiOnS of the great West. But still the
congress was not sectional; it was
broad, and would not advocate legisla
ton detrimental to any part of the
country.
Governor Holcomb then branched out
into discussion of the development of
the West, suggesting what action the
congress should take on it and on the
| irrigation question and a number of
| other matters. He was vigorous and
emphatic in his advocacy of the rec
| OgnitiOn of Cuba, backed up by force Of
arms ii necessary. This sentiment was
| greeted with great outburst of ap
! plauSe, and when the band played
America the enthusiasm was re-
newed.
Governor L. Bradford Prince of
New Mexico made the address in reply
to the welcoming speeches. His speech
was a very able and enthusiastic one.
He said to reply to gracious words OF
welcome was always pleasant task,
and to speak for constituency such as
the congress represented was a high
honor. He emphasized the fact that
the congress was not in any way a sec
tional one; if there was any sectional
ism, it was ION the other side of the
river"
Governor Prince briefly and eloquently
sketched the settlement of the great va
riety of resources and climate found in
the transmississippi region. But the
variety of interests, when understood,
were not antagonistic. Speaking of the
I SYr. el-fe ont Of n
the congress, Governor Price empha-
sized it by stating that two of the dele
gates to the congress in the hall never
before in their lives had seen snow until
they saw it in Omaha now.
Speaking further of the variety of
interests and resources Of the trans
mississippi region, Governor Price re-
ferred to a number of them. silver,
wheat, wool and others, and urged
briefly that the antagOnism to these
interests of it was foreign, and not of
CT N itself
To the Governor Mayor and business
men of the city, Governor Prince re-
turned thanks for the welcome rendered
the convention, and he also gracefully
thanked and complimented the ladies
wi . had decorated the hall and shown
such an interest in the congress.
President Cannon then made a short
address, in which he reiterated the de-
mand for no SectiOnaliSm made by the
Governor and Mr.. Prince.
Adjournment was then had until >
o'clock. when Professor Waterhouse Of
Washington University, ST. Louis, was
introduced and spoke on the cultivation
and use of ramie, otherwise known as
China grass grass cloth plant" and
"rhea." He claimed that it was the
strongest fiber known, that the gar
nents made from it We're waterproof,
-.
China the same garments being handed
down to three generations. Ramie re-
quires a clayey, sandy. alluvial soil
found in the Southern States. He pre-
dicted that the invention Of new ma
chine for separating the gum from the
fabric of ramie would revolutioniZe the
textile industry, as did the invention of
the cotton gin.
Hon. Hugh Craig of San Francisco
spoke on the Hawaiian question, Amer
lean merchant marine, rehabilitation
and the cable to the Sandwich Islands.
Resolutions were presented in favor
of Government control of the Nicara-
guam Canal, Endorsement of ramie, ap
pointment Of a United States Irriga-
ton Commission, admission Of New
Mexico to Statehood, free coinage of
silver. Improvement of the Mississippi
and Missouri Rivers, enactment Of ma
tional bankruptcy laws, annexation of
Hawaii and Cuba, construction of a
railway from Southern California to
Salt Lake. the speedy completion Of the
Henepin Canal, and favoring the deep
ening of Duluth Harbor. The congress
then adjourned until s O'Clock this
evening.
thedhoarisreet siaa-cimaa aMexeauer
The evening session was given over
to an address by Governor Prince on
statehood of New Mexico" and by
Professor John r. Park of Salt Lake
City on Forestry in the Rocky Mount
ain Region Ex-Governor Princes
paper abounded in facts and figures as
to New Mexico's resources and fitness
for Statehood He showed that his Ter
ritory had many mineral and agricult-
ural advantages and was peopled by
an intelligent constituency. He showed
that New Mexico sent more Union sol
diers into the Civil War than all the
Territories recently made States: that
the percentage of foreign born popula-
ton was very much less than any other
State or Territory in the Union.
WINTRY WEATHER.
snow Falling in Missouri, Kansas and