Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-02-08
LEWIS AND CLARKE EXPOSITION,
Or. Henry Waldo C0e Z Commissioner
to the North Dakota and Minnesota
Legislatures In Bismarck.

to the North Dakota and Minnesota
Legislatures in Bismarck.
DR.. Henry w. Coe, who will be re.
membered by all old timers as a prom.
inent Dakota pioneer of 1879, who
lived at Valley City for a veal and at
Mandan for ter years, leaving there
for his present home at Portland.
Oregon, in 1891, is in Bismarck in the
interest of the Lewis and Clarke Cen
tennial and American Pacific Expo
sition and Oriental Fair of 1905. DR..
COe is an eX-member of the North Da-
kota Legislature and was suDerintend-
ent of the state board of health, pres
ident of the State Medical society of
North Dakota and held other positions
of trust and honor in this state. and
his connection with the exposition
will give that proposition a careful
consideration from the legislature.
DIR. o has prospered in Portland.
his sanitarium there being one of the
well known institutions of the coast
and his Medical Magazine. published
for ten years past, together with his
extensive copper and gold mining in
terests in the st. Helens mining dis
trict of Washington has made him
one OF the substantial and wealthy
citizens of Portland-a city of wealthy
G In an interview with DR.. Coe
today he said:
sAynpAp Ia- ,N.,-w...- nEAa .,p
and the city Of Portland. by popular
subscription. has raised another $500
600. Other commissioners of the eX-
position who have visited Idaho. Utah
and Montana have been promised the
cordial support of the legislatures of
these states to the amount of 5000
for the first named and S25 900 each
for the other two. The state of Wash
ington will be represented with a
s25Q.00o appropriation, whilc pledges
have been secured from British Co
lumbia, California, Nevada, Arizona.
Wyoming, Colorado, Missouri and all
states east of the Mississippi river.
which are making exhibits at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition to be
held in st. Louis next year.
The origin of the Lewis and Clarke
expedition gives strong support to the
great man theory of history. Explora-
tlOn or a route to the Pacific in the
latitude of the United States was a
long-cherished project promoted by
Jefferson alone, just as the sale of
Louisiana to the United States result
ed from the sudden impulse of Ma
poleon B%onaparte. There was an in
terval of twenty years between Jeffer-
sons first efforts for such an expe-
dition and his success in sending ont
Lewis and Clarke. As early as Deem
Der !, 1883, he proposed an expedition
to the Pacific coast under George
Rogers Clark. Nothing seems to have
come of this effort. But only about two
years later Jefferson was enlisting
other services for the accomplishment
OF this pet project of his.
"A few years later. in 1892, jefferson
was again promoting a scheme to
achieve this end. Funds were raised
by subscription, as he had proposed
TO the American PHILOSOPHICAL society
OF Philadelphia. Two men were to be
equipped to ascend the Missouri. cross
the Rocky mountains and descend the
nearest river to the Pacific. Meri-
wether Lewis and the French botanist
andre Michau We're selected to exc
cute this project. But the Frencbman
became involved in Genet's pIottinys
10 Drecipitate the west in an attacl,
upon Louisiana, then a Spanish DOS.
session. So the expedition of eyplora.
ton failed to materialize.
Results Of Efforts.
aerjrh zOpnRv vbgkqj shrdl cmfwwww
Jeffersons repeated efforts as a pri
vate citizen in the promotion of west
ward exploration had resulted only in
failure. But a government exploring
expedition, however. was in J~efferson's
Clne an innovation. His political prin,
ciples did not admit of such. but DO
iltlcal principles were brushed aside
when his heart was set on a project
as a patriotic measure. The conf
Dental message sent to congress Jan
uary is, 1903, proposing a t%ransconti
mental exploration costing only a few
thousand dollars. and promising moth
ing revolutionary, would be indorsed
without question. The confidential
message asking for an appropriation
by congress for the expedition ex
hibits wonderful adroitness.
The result of all this work bv Jef
lerson and the hardships encountered
by Lewis n Clarke in the eyplora
ton OF the original territory now com
prislng the state of Oregon. Washing
ton Idaho and parts of Wyoming Mon.
tana and British Columbia. is a fitting
commemoration of the Tooth ami.
versary of this expedition to the Pa
cific coast"