Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-06
SECOND DAY.


Some new delegates were admitted.
A report was adopted providing for the So
liciting of the cooperation of all the farmers
clubs and agricultural societies in the country;
and that each society and club be entitled to
one delegate, no matter how small the club,
and all State agricultural societies to two dele
gates, the entrance fee to be fixed by the Com
mittee on Finance.
Several resolutions relating to transporta-
tion, etc, were offered and referred.
Resolutions in favor of the Morrill, land
grant bill, and providing for the appointment
Of committee to memorabilia Congress in its
behalf, were debated aud laid on the table to
be called up at the pleasure of the Congress.
The resolution cOndemning the Eight-hour
law and requesting Congress to repeal IL was,
after discussion, voted down by large major
ity
A resolution to appoint a committee of
three to confer with the railroads, and solicit
the usual reduced fare couTtesies to the men,
bers Of the Congress, was debated and finally
defeated-30 to 26-many not voting.
The Committee on transportation made the
following report:
erty is national necessity. Our country is i'm
mense, and its climate productions and wants
very varied and diverse in It's different parts The
Of America" has stated that he regards cheap
transportation, even looking at 1t simply as a
means Of commingling, iraternizing and .unifying
rue, II possible, is the statement that the
greatest good Of the masses of the peo;
pie is 10 be subserved by furnishing all
articles whose production is local. but whose con-
sumption is general and necessary at the lowest
possible cost Of transpor Aion Eight States in the
Northwest produced eOO,COOOOO bushels Of cereals
in ls72-S0 bushels for every man, woman and
child Of its population, and enough, properly dstr
buted, TO feed the whole 40,uO0,OO0 OF the nation,
while the East had not grain enough TO last her
more than three months OF the year and the four
Southern States OF South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida required bO,OOO,OOO OF bushels
more grain than they grew, Pennsylvania has ex-
haustless mines Of coal. Massachusetts, with her
immense factories, has none. The Southern States
have soil eminently adapted TO the production Of
cotton and sugar, articles sought and needed
by all portions Of the more Northern
States. Missouri has her immense mines Of iron,
whose manufacture and use goes every
where. The Pacific Coast has her mines, her
wheat, and her minerals, valuable TO all. To fetch
and carry these raw products, and the secondary
products Of their manufacture, from producer and
consumer, at the lowest cost, Is the most worthy
and most desirable object Of the day, II will re-
move an oppressive burden that now rests like an
incubus upon the producing interests Of the coun-
try aud give cheap food, cheap fuel, and cheap
clothing 10 the people everywhere. In examining
into this subject hnd that In the first place the
present avenues for freight and transportation
insuncient or al least as now organized and oper-
ated do not do their proper work Our water routes
are obstruced by falls and rapids that not over
Gomez by shoals and sand-bars that are not re.
by ice or by low water The railways, being used
both for passenger and freight transportation,
can carry only relatively small amounts
OF freight and both water and railway
warehouses, elevators, and other modes OF
transferring freight AZ our principal inland and sea
board eiIiet We and, moreover, that rates chArg-
compared with the necessary cost and are even
| prohibtory In their character At points remote
from the great markets While Mr.. Quincy and