Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-02-11
Rail Road Meeting.

HUH ltUdu MCCtluSs
At public meeting held at the State House
in Iowa City, on Friday eve ming the 9Th inst
for the purpose of appointing delegates to at.
tend the Rail Road Convention to be held at
Fairfe d, in Jefferson county, on the 18th inst
On motion the Hon. JAMES P. CARLETON
was called TO the char, JOHN NJ. COLEMAN ap-
pointed vice President, and f. H. Lee secretary
The object of the meeting having been sta
ted. on motion of Cap. F. NJ. Irish it was
Resolved, That committee of three be ap.
pointed by the chair to wait on the Judges of
the Supreme Court, now in this City, and on
behalf Of this meeting TO request addresses
from each of them upon the subject matter Of
our deliberations.
Whereupon F. NJ. Irish, NJ j. Morseman and
George Paul were appointed said committee;
who after short interval introduced the Hon.
Joseph Williams, George Green and J. F. Kin.
ney, the Judges of the Supreme Court. who
when called upon each respectfully ad.
dressed the meeting in support Of unanimity of
action in favor Of procuring appropriations of
land for the TWO great Rail Roads of the State
from Dubuque to Keokuk and from Davenport
to Council Bluffs
On motion, Resolved, That committee of
five be appointed by the chair to prepare and
introduce resolutions, expressive of the sense of
this meeting upon the subject of Railroads and
to prepare ~ of delegates to represent Johu-
son CountyI the Convention to be held at
Fairfield on the llth inst
The following named gentleman were ap-
pointed by the chair to wit
Legrand Byington, s. C. Trowbrdge, Henry
MUIR, flames D. Templn and W. Penn Clark,
who after having retired few nome nts return.
ed 4 offered through their chairman Mr. Bying-
ton, the following resolutions which were adop-
ted unanimously to wit:
Resolved, That the Dubuque and Keokuk
and Davenport and Council Bluffs railroads ARE
not rival, but co ordinate works: and that it is
the right of the people Of Iowa, to demand. as
they are demanding. and to receive, at the pre-
sent session of Congress. grant of public land
in aid of their construction.
Resol, ed, That this proposed grant on be-
half Of these railroads, stands recommended.
not merely by the immense importance of the
works, as indispensable links in the great tho
roughfares from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the Mexican Gulf to the Northwestern
Lakes, but by the wishes Of the who'e people
of Iowa, expressed in every variety Of form and
upon numberless occasions for more than five
years past.
Resolved; That the current, shameless, un.
scrupulous movements of the Town of Burling.
ton. to override these land grants, and to Sc
duce or drive our delegation in Congress from
the plainly marked path of repres enta,ve duty,
are totally indefensiblo in the eyes of all hon
est men. and if successful, would be an infa.
nous fraud upon the State.
Resolved, That duplicate land grant to the
Des Moines valley, at the expense of those for
which the State has petitioned for years-which
is just now the twentieth day hobby of Burling-
ton duplicity--wou'd be an unmitigated out
rage upon the people of Iowa: And that who.
soever shall construe this emphatic declaration
as an expression inimical to the honestly secu.
red prosperity of every section of the State,
shall receive from US the brand due to delibe.
rate falsehood
Resolved. That the pre-eminent Claims to
Congressional favor, of the above coordinate
and the paramount duty of the Iowa
to support them with all their skill
and energy, have been demonstrated By the ar.
guments and instructions of three legislative
sessions four state conventions, a score or more
Of district meetings, and a multitude of petit
tons from the psople1b al. which Burling.
hoe hoon h;thorto committed b,,l
and her 81 ence)--in view OF all which We de-
clare, that, to the extent of our ability, we will
infct municipal and political condemnation
upon any man or set of men, who will aid, by
a violation of representative duty, in sacrificing
these great works to the petty ambition Of a
single corporation.
Resolved, That in the language of the Mi
ners' Express, the introduction by Judge Clark
into Congress of bill fora grant of land to aid
IN the construction of a railroad from Dubuque
10 the mouth of the Big Sioux river. was un-
called for, mischievous in its tendency, and not
demanded by the people whom he represents
N Congress.
Resolved, Thattwcnty- five citizens Of John
son county be appointed as delegates to the
which has been called at Fairfield, |
or Wednesday next--that each OF said dele
gates have power to appoint substitute, if
that these resolutions be pre-
,ented and read to the said Fairfield Conven-
ion, as an earnest of the sentiments of this |
part of the State, upon the great subject of their
The committee also reported the fol-