Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-03-03
m.ss ff1lne At lE CLAIRE.
vEfo sEssAGf SUSTAINED.
tre.,af.s s.h.be. Eas.r.eA

Ia large pd en,hus hs'ic meeting Of citi
zkns va beN in pavenpcr's Hall, L,
dla,re, qbwA oA the |evening Of March LIST
ltss; dAp.. y p. Davenport pre. ding.
Uon. Laurel Ju9mers stated that the ob
jecA of the me kink vas to approve the lat,
vetspesA m. sn( also to approve the Pres
ident iisfiis, de- 4.ration that tie Cons,itu-
,ion is again |uOr0llsd and must be re,
read.
The followihg> solutions were adopted
amidst storm of a pplause:
Resoleed. That the regent &C, 4 fPr,S>denI
johnson, in vetoing an uPcons'l,u ionafasd
despo. measure the ffeedmsa's Bureau
Bill receives otr cofSial a hpro'l.
Resoired, Mat inasAuch ts ePresiden,
has declaredthat the 0ons,i\ \ut,r is asain
unrolled, that We will ktand\ty him in all
his efforts % preserve NE samk, md thereby
perpe,uate the union odthe sAtss.
1t was ordered that copycf the same
be furnis sed the presid dent.
Approval speeches sere MD. BY Hon.
Il v Glden. Hon. l Aurel Stnmers, and
sfs.
order<d that copy of thesf roceedinss
be firm. .hed the Davenport pssocaAr and
other pabers for pubication,|
wordi Of approval were Pokea by man ,
Republic dans present
The Aeeling thea k4sned with the
greatest good feeling eyfs,ing OF all sides.
A. H. DASkroKr, Chairman.
H.n. K'se- sesystary.
EDIToR DENocRAr.-The srt,le below
from the Otiumwa Uowa) Diiig Courier,
expl ,ins itself II the Western Uaion Rail
road Company can he made a.qualn,ed
with the route from PJrt Byron, ILL.,, via
lie Claire, Davenport, Muscatine DC, to
0ttu'nws and St. Joseph, they certainly
IN Ist see that it i, one Of great ispori ance
to themselves as we'll as to tn. country
th oush which it wolld pass. Tie Cour
Ter takes proper view Of the ci,e, and /
trust the papers at Davenport, Auscatine
and Washington, viii take the natter up
and urge the immediate construction OF
Of this road
"A Ng~ r. R. PgoJEcr -Whip in Chi
cago, Mr. Norris (our senior wa. inform
ell by Nr. Davenport, of lie Claire ti d new
railroad project, - hose interests Ar. Dav
export was then presenting in tat city
The project is as follows The Western
Union Railroad is now finished from Ra-
cine, Wisconsin, to Port Byron, Illinois,
opposite lie Claire, on the Mississippi a
bridge is to be built across the riyer be
tween these two points, and the rad ex
tended to Davenport, lthus securing road
around the upper rapids and IRON the lat
ter plarc to Musca.ine, from which point a
road is already built to Washington, from
thence i IS to be exLenIel T. Ouamwa.
from thence il will seek south a 4 west
connection, probably St. Louis aud ST. 10
seph. By referring 10 the map the reader
Will s C hat The route from I.c Ciaire TO
Davenport, Muscatine, Washington and
this place is almost an air line, an from
here to St. Joseph is the same The plan is
. feasibly "ne the grade all the way IS
easy, AMI the road could be built n but
lutte expense. The trade secured rom the
great ia Der regions of Wise ,n,i1 alone
would be enormous The = enetits i would
confer on Davenpors and Muscatine would
De great; both could by these means secure
an Eastern connection and he relieved from
the oppressive monopoly Of the Ro k Island
road. Muscatlne would have dir ct route
East, and the a>sengers would net be an
moved by the change Of cars a, Wilton
Junction, as they are now. The road is in
the hands of energetic and wealth capital
lists and we have no doubt will 5e built at
no distant DAY. -