The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-27
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL CON.
VENTION.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 20

| DALTlMOlIS, Dcpt' SO'
The National Commercial Convention
assembled OF 1O;3O-Hon. II, NJ. Bishop
presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev
DR.. Fuller.
Mr.. Jones, OF Tennessee, submitted Q
report relative TO the removal of Obstruc
tions in the Tennessee river, accompanied
by resolution requesting Congress tC
make an appropriation for such purpose
under the control Of the Secretary o.
War.
Henry G. Davis, U. s. Senator from
West Virginia, appeared and took his sent
rs delegate.
Resolutions being in order, the States
were called and tho number sent up, and
under the rules, appropriately referred
These resolutions embrace almost every
subjeCt-suCh as the removal Of duties on
salt, sugar and CoiT.e, and tolls on the
Louisville canal requesting Congress to
establish bonded warehouses for storing
tobacco and whisky In Cincinnati, st,
Louis, Chicago and other cities.
Mr.: Amour, of South Carolina, offered
a resolution asking the Convention to ap.
point q committee Of three, whose duty
1t shall be to prepare and present 10 Presi.
dent Grant, in the name OF the Convention,
q memorial asking him not TO proclaim
martial law in South Carolina, unless
responsible citizens thereof refuse To use
their influence to bring every person TO
justice who Is charged with acting with
the Ku.Klux. The resolution also di.
reefs the same committee TO issue an all.
dress to the people oI South Carolina, re.
questing them to do their utmost duty In
arresting every person who is proven to
have committed deeds known as Ku.Klux
outrages. The resolution was laid on the
table, and the Convention took recess.
The Convention on re.assembling con.
tinued the presentation oi resolutions,
among which were the following The
regulation Of the sale of petroleum by Con.
gress; working Of coal mines, and the
enactment Of stringent laws for the pro.
lection OF miners and laborers; relative
to railroad lreights in the South; relative
TO the post Office, and providing against
the duplication Of the names thereof.
A resolution was also offered by Mr..
Monroe, Of Iowa, endorsing and approving
of the action of the Southern Conventions
held In Louisville In 1900, and TINT in
Cincinnati IN 1870, relative TO water
line communication between tho Missis.
sippi river and the seaboard, comprising,
first, connection through the States Of
Wisconsin and Illinois, between the Up.
per Mississippi and Lake Michigan. Sec.
ond, connection Of the Mississippi river
from tho mouth OF the Ohio, with the
Atlantic Sea board, the rivers OF the Ohio,
Kanawha and james, and the James
River & Kanawha Canal and Third,
for the removal of distractions TO an easy
and cheap outlet from the Mississippi TO
the Gulf, and urging Congress for speedy
completion of the same, all of which were
referred. ....-...
The President then announceda a special
committee Of one from each State repre-.
sented, to whom oil resolutions regarding
other matters than those embraced In the
order OF business will be referred, and the
Secretary iead list Of the names Of the
members Of nine regular committees,
handed in this morning.
J. II. Wise, of San Francisco, was ad.
mitted as a delegate from California, and
the Convention adjourned till r. NJ. to.
morrow.
During the session to-day an invitation
was received by the Convention from the
President Of the Cincinnati Exposition to
visit that fair.