The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-08
CINCINNATI.
southern Commercial Convention
Name Changed-AdjOurned to meet
next year I'm Baltimore.

! CINCINNATI, O., October 7.-Th
Southern Commercial Convention mt
at $50, but few members being on til
floor.
Prayer by Rev. Dr. NJ. T. Briggs.
4 resolution providing tor commit
tee to report, at next meeting, whethe
railroads will not pass students to co
lege at halffare was tabled.
Mr.. Bownell, of Kentucky, offered
resolution, which was adopted, provid
ing for the appointment of committe
on Education to report at the mex
meeting.
General Banks presented resolution
providing for the appointment of {
committee to present to Congress tn
proceedings Of the Convention in regar,
TO the Southern Pacific Railroad, whicl
was adopted
Mr.. Bryson, of Missouri, chairman
of the committee on Permanent Levee
on the Mississippi, presented report
including in the resolution the asking
ofaid from the general government.
Mr.. Remelin opposed the resolution
and said that the Convention was tilleC
with wishes for the aid Of States anC
municipalities who could do nothing
for themselves. What was the use O
talking about rights. When Uncle Sam
sends brigadier to reconstruct the peo
pie, they object; but when he sends al
engineer with appropriations behinG
him, the people receive him with oper
arms. The report was adopted.
Mr. Burwell, Louisiana, offered q
resolution declaring New Orleans en-
titled to the same or similar subvention:
for postal steam service to foreign ports
as has been extended to Atlantic ports
Referred to committee on Continuous
Water Line Communications between
the Mississippi and Atlantic Seaboards
There was presented report in favor
of untaxed water communication from
the Ohio river to the seaboard, and re.
questing the committee to memorable
Congress in regard to the completion OF
the James river and the Kanawha
canal survey, with a view to furnishing
a canal 100 feet wide and eight feet
deep, and carrying boats 500 tons.
Adopted.
Mr.. Able, ofSt. Louis, offered reso-
luton Of thanks to Cincinnati, for the
reception rendered the delegates. Gen
Banks seconded the motion in IL short
speech, and the resolution was adopted
by a unanimous vote.
Mr.. Cole, of Tennessee, offered a resolu-
ton from the special committee on rail-
roads. recommending uniformity OF
gauge and the removal of obstruc-
tons from the passage over all the
roads, asking Of the Government the
most liberal legislation, and expressing
the sympathy of the Convention with
the Northern Pacific Railroad, declar,
ing that expediency and justice alike
demand the same aid to the Southern
Pacific road which has been accorded to
the Northern, and urging on Congress
the renewal OF grants to railroads in the
South, that have lapsed by the late
war, and declaring in favor Of the pre-
vention Of all unnecessary obstruction
of railroads across the rivers. Adopted.
A communication from President
Grant, declining an invitation to be
present, was read. The special order was
taken up which was a resolution to
change the name to the National Com
mercial Convention. Mr.. Capers, Of
Georgia, explained his previous remarks
in regard to this matter by saving he
acted with the view to elicit an inter
change Of ideas, and had been pleased
to hear 80 many utterances as had
already been heard on this floor; 1t
gave him pleasure to see here evidences
of true national unity, and he favored
the change of the name.
Mr.. McCabe, Of Arkansas, thought
that this suggestion should come from
the South, and it was eminently proper
that having assumed a national charac-
ter, the sectional and Objectionable
name should be dropped.
Mr. Brien, of Tennessee, recited the
history Of the convention from it. origin
at Bristol to the present and declared
the eminent propriety Of the change Of
name.
A vote was taken by rising and it
was unanimous in favor Of the change
Of name. Applause
Forshey, of Texas, reported in favor OF
aid to Unconstitutional roads from Buffa-
10 to Charleston, Saginaw via Cincinnati
to Savannah, Chicago via Louisville to
Mobile, Marquette to New Orleans.
He said the demands of commerce are
not along the latitudes but across them.
from one climate to another. The re-
port was adopted. 't
Mr.. Cook, Of Ohio, Of the committee
to fix time and place of the Convention,
reported in favor Of meeting at Balti-
more, on the third Monday of Septem'
Der, 1871.
1 Resolutions of thanks to President
Garrett and Vice President Banks, were
passed unanimously
General Banks replied, saying he was
greatly impressed with the importance
of the action of this Convention, and
would speak everywhere in its honor
He suggested that the late war origin,
ated outside of parties and the removal
of it's consequences and the adoption OF
the principles that would render separa
ton hereafter impossible must also or
iginate outside OF party organizations
A report asking Congress to charter
road from st. Louis, via Louisville
and Knoxville to Norfork, was reconsid
cred and after debate Adopted.
Resolutions asking emigration socle
ties and others to extent aid to thou
sands of German artisans thrown out Q
employment by the warm France, will
view to introducing them and then
industries into this country. Adopted
President Garrett returned thanks t.
the Convention for the courtesy extend
ed to him and said rarely had so mucl