The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-09
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Miss ssippi Valley O. M
mercjal C0nV0 ton.
Further Particulars of ii Q
Coal Pit Disaster.
One Hundred and Three
Dead Bodies Take4 Out.
Death Of Senator Feggen-
d9n.

Mississippi Valley Commercial Goa.
FentiOn.
KEeKBK, Iowa. September s.
/ The Mississippi Valley Commercial
I Convention Teassembled at 9 O'Clock
( this forenoon The Committee on
I Permanent Organization reported as
tfOllOWs: President, VIM. Vandever.
Of Iowa; Vice Presidents, one from
each State represented; Secretaries,
one from each State represented. The
president was conducted 10 the chair
and made a speech Of considerable
length, from pamphlet which he
had prepared for the occasion.
Mr. Howell, from the Committee
on Order of Business, presented The
majority report He explained the
reasons which induced a division Of
sentiment in the Com.nittee The
Committee reported the following
subjects 10 be acted upon:
tsHne. Mississippi River and its
tributaries. 1 b. Ha
2 Foreign Commerce
B. immigration.
4. Pest Telegraph.
The committee further recommended
that standing committees be appointed
UpOnseaeh of the foregoing subjects,
the Committee on the Mississippi
River and tributaries to consist of one
member from each State The other
standing committees 10 consist of FIVE
each.
The minority report was then read.
Itproposes that the Convention shall
consider all matters connected with
theieOm merce and travel of the Mis-
sissippl aod It's tributaries, or which
may IN any way hinder the develop
ment ofsIhe county drained by its
waters, and qhat11bthe Convention
ought net to be couhhed to the sub
jects mentioned IN the majority re-
port: that one subject included ia the
minority report-thc Postal Telc-
graph-has no special application to
the Mississippi and Mississippi Val
ley, while other subjects Of great i'm
p0rtance to the Mississippi Valley are
excluded. The-cOmmittee also think
1t WOald be unjust and unWise to re-
fer allthe resolutions to committees,
without debate. They also believe no
standing committees sh uld be ap
pointed. but tlIat all subjects should
| be considered In open Convention,
unless special committees are ordered.
The Minority Committee therefore
recommend the following order of
business:
1. Mississippi River and its tribu-
taries.
2. Foreign commerce.
3. Immigration and that the com
mittee shall then be open to consider
other matters pertinent to those oh
jects,
Mr. Finklenbug, who made this
report, said tnat since the Committee
had. prepared this report, by a change
In the views Of the. members, it had
become the majority report.
Alter an hours discussion, which
took a wide range, the minority re-
port was adopted.
| Mr.. James, Of Tennessee, offered a
/ restitution that the vote OF each State
/ DC represented with It's Representa-
4 tives In Congress, if not, Iowa and
/ Missouri would swallow up all the
other States.
Gen. Bussey, Of Louisiana, offered
/ q resolution, that a committee Of one
I from each State be appointed on the
/ Mississippi and Its tributaries, and a
committee Of five from each State on
/ the subject Of Immigration and foreign
/ commerce aud the removal Of the
Capital. The resolution was adopted,
and committees appointed.
/ fFhe Convention then adjourned
until Bpm.
/ tNT,.oLss ~ +I,o 49,. - tLa v,orr;,,,
! session was exhausted IN motions and
I counter motions and frUitless debate.
/ Very little business having reference
to the objects oi the Convention was
transacted. o En-
KEoKUK. Iowa, Sept. 8.-Aftel-
noon Session.-During the morning
/. session Of the Convention, letters
\ were read from President Grant,
| (writton by his Private Secretary,
Rob't III. Douglass. Hon. Wm. Long
\ redge of Iowa, J as. S. Negley Of Pitts
burg, Pa, Gov. Butler Of Nebraska,
| and Q. & Murray, of Duuleith, re-
gretting their inai ility to be present
When the Convention re assembled
at 3 o'clock, Mr.. Swift, of ST. Louis
offered a series of resolutions in ref.
erence to the erection of a bridge
across the Ohio River by the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad, and calling
\ for the repeal Of so much of the ac
4 of Congress of the 18th of July, 1862
as -teallow the erection of bridges
over the Ohio River above the mouth
Of the Big Sandy, with spans across
= the main channel of300 feet.
! L. Judge S. T. Miller, from the Com
mittee on the Removal Of the Ma
tional Capital, made the following
report:
! ResolUe,I, That the best iutercst
4 Of the whole people Of The
United States require the re
moval Of the National Capital from
its present location, aud that it is tht
opinion Of this Convention that somt
point In the valley Of the Mississippi
should be selected for its permanen
ablishment.
ReS0lccd, That We are opposed t,
any further appropriations for perma
II nent government buildings in Wash
u ington City. and recommend that Con
gress take measures for the remova
, l.Of the seat of government as soon a
n ii may conveniently be done.
: Strong speeches for aud against tn
4 resolutions were made a resolution
, / to lay them on the table was carrie,
by a vote of 46to q.
= Resolutions In regard 20 the tariffs
e the money market and various olhe
! questions, were presented by variou
members. Some were referred to IN
various Standing Committees, bu
E most Of them were laid on the table
: A motion was made to reeonside
I the vote laying on the table the reso
/ lutions presented by the .committe
4 in favor of removing the Capital. 1
long and warm debate followed, an
o finally the motion for reconsideratio
/. was Withdrawn.
j ResoIved, That both science an