The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-03
TRANsMss1ssIPPI CONGRESS.

The twenty~third session Of the
Transmississippi Congress is to be held
in this city during the last week of the
present month. Preparations for hold
ing this congress have been under way
for soma time, and il is assured that
the convention viii be generously
welcomed and Hospitality treated while
in Salt Lake.
The only time that this congress has
ever met in Salt Lake City before was
in 1896, during the heat of the pro-
silver campaign, and naturally
Transmississippi Congress held at that
time would be tinged with the eco
nomic sentiment Of all this western
country on the silver question. But
since that time the congress has
steered clear of all political entangle-
ments, and it has always done its work
we'll
That the Transmississippi Congress
has been a potent, practical factor In
the affairs of the Transmississlppi re-
gion is pointed TO by its friends with
Galveston in 1891, which indorsed
Galveston s active campaign for a
port, Congress acceded to the pressure
and made at Galveston one Of the
finest ports in the country. At Den
yer the next year this congress IN
dorsed the Jealous work of the lrriga-
tion Congress, which kept persistently
hammering upon this question until
the passage of the National Reclama.
tion act in 1901.
The Transmississippi Congress also
aided New Orleans in getting its port
in good shape. 1t effectuallv indorsed
Government aid for the Salt Lake
Route s harbor Mt San Pedro, and that
harbor is now pride of the coast. In
the convention at st. Louis the con-
gress indorsed the improvement of the
Mississippi waterway, and steps are
now taking toward that improvement.
This congress also indorsed at its Port
land meeting, Federal aid for the I'M
provement of the mouth Of the Colum-
bia river, the agitation resulting in an
y
shortly after by the Federal Congress,
which has been beueficially expended.
Through the twenty three years of
its existence, this congress has been a
factor in upbuiIding the West and
Middle West, The congress has drawn
from local commercial organizations,
from governors of States, MAYORS of
cities, progressive business and pro-
fessional men in their boards of trade
and chambers Of commerce, and from
farmers and agricultural societies, its
warmest support.
At the coming meeting in Salt Lake
there Will be discussed many practical
questions, among them "See America
First good roads; parcels post; cur
rency reform: reclamation of land, and
transportation. 1t is expected that the
broadest experience and strongest
practical intellects OF the Transmits
sissippi Congress will deal with these
and other pressing questions. Much
benefit is expected toefollow the meet.
ing of this congress. and the whole Ma
tion will be benefited by the discus
sions. and by the pointing out of some
OF the glaring economic errors OF the
politicians and place. seekers.
This city and State Will be especially
benefited by the meeting of this con
cress, quite aside from the discussions
and action that NAV be taken. The
association Of the men of bright minds
who come with us and mingle with our
people for the week is certain to be
of large benefit in every way, and to
be the opportunity of forming many
pleasant and profitable acquaintance
ships, But, above all, the results will
be generally beneficial, and the whole
United States will profit by this ses-
sion, as it has profited by sessions OF
the past.
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