Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-21

soto eoce retort.
NJ. McMullen then offered the following:
Resotved, etc, That the thanks of this
Convention are hereby rendered to the
press of Memphis for their full and aeeu-
rate reports of the proceedings of this
Convention, and that the press through
out the country be requested to republish
the same.
He moved to suspend the rules and
adopt thH fe~solution, which was done aea.
con.
Mr.. Mellett, of South Carolina, moved
that when this Convention adjourn il do
so to Charleston. Referred TO Committee
on Time and Place, etc.
Reports of Standing Committees being
next in order, the Hon. Logan II. Roots,
Chairman of Committee on
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,
reports as follows:
M. President and Gentlemen Of the Con-
UentiOR: Your committee, to whom was
referred matters relating to Pacific rail-
roads, respectfully report the following
resolutions for your consideration:
ResotUed, That in the opinion of this
Convention the interests of the whole
country, and especially those OF the
Southern States, could be served by d
main trunk railroad line from San Diego,
CAL, through the junction of the river
0CACA ~ III liz III aAOAAA WIG az
of the ella south of that river to FL Paso
on the Rio Grande, and thence to a con-
venient central point near the 32' paral-
lei of latitude east of the BrazOs river in
the State ofTexas, from which main trunk
feeder roads should lead from st. Louis,
Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg and New Or
leans, and other points; all of which
feeder roads having equal rights of con-
nection with said main trunk; while sim
iIar faa6ar rnadl from San ErQnaTGnn and
other points on the Pacific coast should
have similar equal rights of connection.
Resolved, That the President of the
Convention be requested to forward n
COPY of this resolution to the President of
the United States,A he Viee-President and
Speaker OF the House of Representatives,
and request them to present the same to
the respective Houses of Congress.
Your committee hayen not deemedit nee
essary to consider any new railway con-
nections east of the Mississippi river, be-
lieying that local interests will seoul all
proper connections withthe various feeder
routes designated in the foregoing resOlu-
ton. But the great subject of securing
steam transportation between the lower
waters OF the Mississippi river and the Pa
citic ocean has received their earnest
thoughts aud efforts; and although u
recommendation may be considered us
gAAE IL HtSAAAN - ~ ' aNNA -
subject, its brevity has only been secured
by carefully excluding all damaging or
useless verbiage. But even III its concise
ness the resolution contains suggestions
and materials furnished from every State
represented in our committee; and indf-
vidual interests have been so well pro-
vided for in the general efforts to promote
the general good, that we do not think
the proposition of the committee al
meet with any serious opposition from
the Convention or the nation. So great
was.the unanimity reached by the COM
mitfee, hat they felt that their PROPOSE
ton would meet with your unanimous
endorsement. And they decided il wrong
to occupy your time with a lengthy report
in support of&e proposition they sub
nit vet, a proper respect for yourselves
and the thousands of thinking men who
shall read the proceedings of this Conven-
ton, have prompted them in a few words
to state a fewuof the advantages or this
road.
First-It is the shortest line connecting
the Gulf of Mexico and the Valley of the
Mississippi with the OF of the Pacific
ocean,.
Second-It is the line Of all those now
u~noccupied, of most easy grades and
cheapest construction per mile.
Third-It passes through less inhOspi-
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of fertile II ~hospitabie lands than any
other unoccupied route proposed.
FOurth-The line is touched by water
transportations at three points, atfOrding
greatest facilities for construction, and
consequently fastening and cheapening
such construction.
Fffth-This line will open to the world
the great mineral. of Arizona
and Sonora and render more valuable the
great stock raising districts of Texas, New
Mexico and Northern Mexico, and VIII
thus enjoy unrivaled traffic.
SiXth-It viii inevitably attract numer-
Gus feeders from the ~neighbOring Repub-
lie of Mexico, and thus not only stimu-
late enterprise there but secure to our
shipping ports the greater portion of the
bullion which now seeks Europe by haZ-
ardous conductors and smuggling vessels.
Seveuth-It will open a new cotton
growing area in Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona, in lands Of the cOtton-growing
belt, that were useless for lack of facilities
for transportation.
Eighth-It is well known that some
roads which would be among the feeder
roads referred to in the resolution have
not only been projected, but are already
in active course of construction, without
waiting for Government subsidy or en-
enlargement.
O. NAADAEA AtD ANe-"Nf NAAN IN
struction of this route. more than any
other, will do more than all else beside to
encourage and build up what we feel to be
the great necessity Of the hOur-immigra-
ton and direct trade with Europe.
Respectfully submitted,
LOGAN II. ROOTS, Chm.
5. b. BEAUMONT, Sec'y.
DIRECT WITH EUROPE.
w. w. Mann. Chairman of the Commit
tee, made a report recommending h es-
tablishing a steam line from some South
ern port to Europe, such being necessary
to the permanent prosperity of the South
ern States; that this line of ocean steamers
should be sustained by subscriptions
from the railroad lines and States,
and should be patrOniZed by the
people of the Southern States. The
committee heartily wprove of the scheme
in operation at Norfolk, inaugurated at
Bristol and organized at Norfolk. The
Chair announced that a further report will
be made to the Convention. He moved to
adopt the report.
Col. r. D. Lindsay, of Alabama, a menu
Der of the committee, begged leave to pre-
sent the minority report. He sent it for
ward 10 the Secretary and it was read. 1t
differed from the majority report only in
having the words and similar efforts
now being'maIe in Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston in
serted after 4" Norfolk" in the third para
graph.
Col. Lindsay, in a powerful
speech of some ten minutes,
attacked the narrow-minded policy of the
majority report. While willing, he said,
to aecede to Norfolk all that she claims as
a great seapOrt-One of the finest in the
orld-he was unwilling that it should go
forth as the sense of this Convention, that
it is the only harbOr in our Southern
try. He knew to the contrary, Charles
Mobile, New Orleans, all were pos
sessed of enterprise and business talent,
and all had their advantages of position,
of which he simply proposed a courteous
acknowledgement.
Col. Lamb, OF Norfolk, arose to reply to
Col. Lindsay. In reply to numerous calls,
he proceed to the stand and assembled it,
loud and continued applause.
Col. Lamb is quite a young man,
and is still suffering from wounds
received in the late war. His voice, though
clear, is not strong, but could be heard
quite well all over the house.
As soon as the applause ceased he adj
dressed the Chair, and said that he was
constrained TO say a few words in defense
Of the report of the majority. This Con-
yention, he continued, was not a Southern
Convention, but a CONNER
.ial Convention assembled to take into
consideration the best interests of a whole