The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-21
sT. LOUIS.

Permanent Organization Appoint
ed-PeFmaDent Officers Elected
Address Of Hon. JOAN d. Cation. O
Illinois, Permanent President
Resolutions offered, &c, dc.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 20.-The Nationa
Capital Convention met at the Mer
camille Library Hall this afternoon
and was called to order about 3 o'clocl
: by l.. r. Shryock, of st. Louis, tht
Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee who have had the arrangement!
in charge. After prayer, By Mr.
Brank, Mayor Cole was introduced
and made the following brief address
of welcome:
GENTLEMEN: The very pleasant
. duty of welcoming you TO our city
has been assigned to me By the com
mittee in charge. | very much regret
that some one more capable of speech
had not been chosen, but none could
have been selected who would
more sincerely and more cordially
welcome you to the city of st. Louis.
n We welcome you in the name Of all
classes of our citizens who hail your
. advent among US as the rising pur-
pose of the people to move at an early
day the Capital from its present loca-
ton to one more-centraI and aecessi-
bic. We welcome you. gentlemen, in
the name OF the great States through
whose common borders the great river
which sweeps by our city to day,
washes our common shores, and binds
US together In a brotherhood, In a
unity of purpose and fortune forever.
We trust, gentlemen, that your OBJ
iect is solely to seek q removal, not a
/ location; and we hope that all your
! deliberations may be conducted with
a spirit of harmony and concord,
| which will tend most to this great
purpose. and thai when you return to
your own happy homes, you viii bear
towards US the same kind and warm
feelings with which we greet you to-
day Ia our midst. y ~ t
| Judge Lowe, of Iowa, was then
nominated Temporary Chairman and
unanimously elected, with j O, 8.
| Colby, of Missouri, and Hon. Ed.
Harlan, Of Illinois, Temporary Secre-
taries.
Judge Lowe spoke very briefly of
the Importance of the object of the
Convention, and announced himself
in full sympathy with the movement
for the removal of the seat of the
National Government to the Valley
Of the Mississippi.
The following Committee on Per-
manent Organization was then ap-
pointed: George N. Stuart, Alabama;
William Gilpin, Colorado; *. X.
Jones, Illinois; A. e. Dodge, Iowa;
John Fishback, Indiana; Garrett
Davis, Kentucky; S. NJ. Strickler,
Kansas; II. Haidenheim, Louisiana;
Frederick Muench, Missouri; Thos. |
z. Tut, Montana; j. S. Church, Ne |
braska; William A. Pile, New Mexi- |
CO; n. NJ. Bell, Oregon; j. B. Jeggie, |
Pennsylvania; A. j. Keller, Tennes- |
see.
During the absence of the committee,
Garret Davis was called upon for
speech, TO which he responded by /
saying he was unPrepared to speak. |
He was surprised at the growth Of st. |
Louis. He looked upon that city as
the great commercial and manulac-
turing point, and believed the man I
now lived who would see a million /
people here; but he did not believe it
best for St. Louis to have the capital. |
He thought that she should rather /
concentrate all her energies in com
mereial and manufacturing enter
prlses-build railroads, &c. and be-
come the great centre OF supply for
the Mississippi Valley. His speech
produced no unpleasant effect upon
the Convention.
The committee then reported the
following names for permanent off
GERS: President, Hon. John ID.
Cation, Illinois. Vice Presidents
G.. K. Stewart, Alabama; Ex Govern
or VIM. Gilpin, Colorado; s. Il. Chit
tenden, Illinois; Gen. j. NJ Tuttle,
Iowa; Hon. S. e. Perkins, Indiana
Sam. B. Churchill, Kentucky; Henry
Haidenhim, Louisiana; G. Thile-
RUS, Missouri; Thos. E. Tutt, Mon
tana; J. S. Church, Nebraska; Gov.
VIM A. Pile, New Mexico; Asa t
MeCully, Oregon; j. b. Jeggie, Penn
sylvania; A. j. Keller, Tennessee; j.
p. Root, Arkansas.
Secretaries-D. A. Sutton. Emile
Pretorious and J.C.S.Colby, Missouri;
Thomas Moonlight, Kansas; d. l..
Hough, Illinois; NJ. NJ. Walden,
Iowa.
Judge Cation was escorted to the
chair amid applause, and stated that
as he had not, for nearly third of /
century, attended deliberative body, |
he was much embarrassed, without /
intimation and at the spur of the mo-
ment, to find himself placed in so re-
sponsible a position; and he hoped |
the Convention would be induIgent to /
him in the discharge of duties de-
volving upon him. He deemed the |
occasion which called the Conven
ton together very important
one-the removal of the Capital Of |
Al nf cd VuTth
the circumstances under which the |
Capital was located where it now is, |
know that at that time all the popU- |
lation and wealth Of the United States |
we're confined TO a narrow border. |
stretching along the Atlantic coast, |
and since then a great empire has |
sprung up in the West-an empire of |
wealth, power and enterprise. The |
/ circumstances which designated the
District of Columbia as the seat OF
/ Government no longer exist, but CO.
gent reasons have arisen why change
| should be made.
1t Is not for US, however, to deter |
mine where the Capital shall be To-
/ Gated, or even that it shall be moved
at all, but we come together to con
! suit for the general good, and II after
4 all the reasons for and against the re-
moval have been fully weighed, it
shall be apparent that the well being
of the nation will be best sUbservcd
| by leaving the Capital where it Is,
then | venture to say that none here
will desire its removal.
Thirty six years ago, when / fist
came to this valley, but small por-
ton Of the population Of the nation
was found in this region, and the
great praiTies bordering the Missis-