Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-10
COMMERCIAL CONVENTl0R,
Important Synopsis Of the Third Days
Proceedings.

I lmpOrtant Synopsis OF the Third Days
1 Proceedings.
KEoKUK, September 9.-In the
/ Convention to-day a resolution was
adopted petitioning Congress to make
an appropriation for holding the
| Worlds Fair in the Mississippi VAL
ley in 1871 81
The Committee on the Mississippi
River presented Il report in regard to
the construction Of bridges across the
Ohio river 1t is rather lengthy, and
proposes that any bridge hereafter
built across the Ohio shall be made
with continuous and unbrOken spans,
that the space above high water shall
be forty feet, and the length of the
main channel span full 400 feet.
In regard TO bridges across the Mis-
sissippi, it proposes that those built
south of the Missouri shall have the
main spans 800 feet, and space above
high water mark of 90 feet. The re-
port was adopted, 1t closes with a
resolution requesting the Secretary
ofWar to construct a Board of Army
Engineers to fix the spans on all 9TH
ers rivers. The resolutions pre-
sented yesterday, in favor of the re-
moval of the national capital We're
taken up aud adopt d.
The COMMITTEES on Foreign Com
merce made long and elaborate re-
port through their Chairman, Judge
Burwell, of Louisiana, concluding
with resolutions first looking to recip-
rocal trade with all nations, and re-
quiring the appointing power to give
TO the Mississippi Valley full share
of the diplomatic appointments; re-
questing the cities and towns on the
Mississippi to extend the municipal
facilities indicated in the report, to
counteract the rivalry of tho cross
routes, and to regain the foreign and
domestic commerce of this valley;
requesting aid from the cities and
towns on the Mississippi, to
establish and Immigrant Congress
or depot in New Orleans; requesting
the reduction of the revenue on some
articles of permanent and popular
consumption, and that the RepreSen-
tatives of the Mississippi valley in
troduce a bill for the increase and
equalization of the postal steam sys-
TEN, by giving subsidies to steamers
running between New Orleans and
foreign ports, ~
The Committee to Memorialize
Congress in accordance with the resO-
luton, was named as follows; Wade
yer, of Iowa; Stannard, of Missouri;
Davies, of Ohio; Turner, of Illinois;
Kerr, of Pennsylvania, and Delaby,
of Kansas. The Convention then
adjourned until ? pm.
AFTERNOON Session.
The first business in order after the
Convention reassembled, it was an
nOunced, was the report of the Com
mittee on Foreign Commerce, and af-
ter a brief debate the report and reso-
lutions were adopted. .
Col. GrosyenOr, from the Immigra-
ton Committee, offered y resolution
that an increased supply Of skilled and
labor Is peculiarly neoe5-
sary for the development of the re-
sources of the Mississippi Val
lev, and that this Convention
heartily favOrs every effort to
encourage free immigration from
every country, which was adopted.
Mr.. Shryock, of st. Louis, offered a
in favor of a reduction OF
the duty on salt from p per cent. to Is
per cent. ad valOrem, which was laid
on the table, as was also substitute
offered by Col. Grnsyenor in favor ofa
revision Of our tariff system, the Con-
vention regarding them az foreign to
the objects for which il. assembled.
After y resolution of thanks to the
citizens of KeOkuk and the usual ones
IN tho officers of the Convention the
body adjourned cine die.