The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-01

gates TO the State railroad convention assembled in the
hall of the house of representatives on Wednesday
October IS, 1851, al II o'clock a M and was called 10
order by Hiram Price, esq, of Scott, on whose motion
Governor Robert Lucas, OF Johnson county, was an
pointed president pro tenn, and T. b. Cumming of Lee
secretary
The convention, after preliminary roll-ca OF dele
gates for counties completed It's organization by cboos
ing
For Presidsnt-Ex Governor Robert Lucas, of John.
son.
For Vice Presidsas--Genera Arthur Bridgman, of Lee
William II Bent OF Dubuque Daniel Rider, OF JET.
ferson A. + Durdock Bosquel OF Marion.
:. Seoetcres.W. Penn Clarke, of Johnson; Thomas
Tostevn, OF Henry.
Mr. Byingon, from the committee on resolutions, re.
ported the following resolutions, &c, which were unani.
mousy adopted, to wits
Rssoesd That this convention viii reafrm the resou.
tons of the State railroad of December last
which said resolutions follow numbered from to inclu
l. Resolved That tho interior OF Iowa is peculiarly sus-
cePtibe to improvement by railroads. and her position and
that their construction Would not ony accelerate her en-
ward in enterprise and refinement, but would pro-
her borders which are now comparatively useless. and
that In view of this consequent enhancement in the value
OF such lands and OF the great facilities which such roads
would furnish the government transporting troops
and munitions 10 and from her extensive line Of frontier
should make State liberal grant Of lands in aid
OF the construction of the railroads mentioned
South Bend Of lake Michigan, Council Bluffs. and The
Immediate and favorable Of Congress than
the several ineroceenic routes through distant foreign
attention OF our government and citizens of produc
tive State which is nersec,ed by that parallel and situated
upon the continent, we earnestly invoke the action Of the
magnificent public domain the legitimate whence
to obtain the means OF constructing T.
ReotUed, That senators and In the
by
, earnestly and anremiunsy to urge upon the auen
ad ows for
liberal grant OF the public lands Ia aid Of the construction
from Davenport Council Butts, upon which shall
be found 10 DC most and most conducive TO the
R"a d. uup The unagsng y Sh which the
people OF the Eass pushing forward their various lines
Dubuque and Davenport. affords reliable guarantee
that, within very short PERIOD the citizens of Iowa will
Of HE Year with Baltimore and Washnson via indianap
oils and Wheeling with Philadephis, via Cleveland aud
Boston, Via Buffalo and Albany, and with aimo., every
other part Of the republic numbeess lateral roads
tended towards by these rival ces for purpose of
securing GU. trade I ne. only afford Us every Pie
increased facilities the tide Of emigration from every part
sa; e. s' ha 81 people of tho interior
Iowa have right 70 anticipate the speedy polonGa,ion Of
expect from Congress, the of many millions
occupied within borders that liberal degree Of
western States for nternal-improvcment purposes.
Resolved That experience of fourteen
the surplus Of 1886 among tho then existing States
was simply equivalent to grauy to the States receiving
using untold millions of this fund for educational aud
terna provemen purposes, without apparent pros
he enabled obtain her share of the treasure
that, in addition have complain Of unjust dscrimi
nations 10 older sister States and that with these
roas properly urged by our
eve that our present application can denial
4 Rsolped further (as specific declaration of the
views and wishes OF the people OF this Stated That the me-
sorpt by the presden, Of tbs conve ion and ran.mt,ed
with the printed proceedings thereof and accompany
ha. n. our NAV bs 10 he
House of Representatives of the United States.
MEMORIAL.
The people OF the State of Iowa, by their regularly
pointed delegates assembled in convention at Iowa City,
the 18th day OF October 1851, represent 10 the Con-
gress of the United States that two extensive railways
have been projected and sufficiently surveyed to establish
the praccability and economy OF their construction,
which designed 10 said State in different d.
rectoDs, and to cross each other at right angles; that
the Inhabitants, and indispensable 10 proper develop
ment OF the immense natural resources OF the State and
that OF said railways will extend from Dubuque. the
heart OF mineral region, to keokuk, at The head OF
uninterrupted steam navigation OF the Mississippi river,
and the other from Davenport at the most eligible if not
the only practicable point for bridging SAID Ive, and At
railway. via Fort Des Moines TO the Council Bluffs
thereby forming important section, upon direct line,
OF the contemplated railway from New York and Boston
to the Pacific ocean,
They further represent that the pecunary means OF
Iowa inadequate TO the speedy construction OF sad
railways; that their routes will extend through, and ada
cent to. many hundred thousand acres OF government
land, which by their construction will be rendered avail
able TO the general treasury, and become the happy
abode of eneIprising population but which, without
such Improvements, must continue yaueless waste Tor
long series of years. forever and that said railways
would, in addition, be OF immense direct benefit TO the
general government media for the certain speedy and
cheap transportation OF her troops munitions. property
mails and dispatches to and from her extended frontier
poets and settlements
They further represent that in view OF the manifold
national and State interests 10 be promoted thereby the
people of Iowa have been for several past urging
the favorable consideration OF Congress their re-
quests for that degree and species OF unobectonable aid
in the premises which has been extended TO our SISTER
States; and that in addition 10 large numbers OF indi-
vdual petitions, they have repeatedly presented then
views through the Official action OF their general assembly
OF regularly constituted conventions. &c, as VIII more
fully appear from examination of the documents here
attached erhbs and numbered respectively from
10 10, inclusive "
founded in equity. and supported by consideration
of policy and they have already suffered much from
they respectfully ask the honorable Con-
gress 10 pass into law, at early day, the bill which
will accompany this memorial and which, in every es-
senta particular corresponds with the act passed by the
last Congress, entitled IAN act granting the right OF
way and making grant OF land 10 the States OF Illinois,
Mississippi, and Alabama, in aid OF the construction OF
a railroad from Chicago TO Mobile"
BILL
Granting the right OF way and making grant OF land TO
the State of Iowa, in aid of the construction Of railroads