Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-18
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
Meeting OF the Senate Committee In New
YOrk-Influentia Canadians
Present.
Speeches by Senator's Sherman and
COnkling-"PrOs ress OF Trade
Knows no Nationality"

New YORK, September ia Mon
treal dispatch says that the United
States committee on transportation and
on routes arrived there Yesterday after
noOh, and in company with members
Of the board Of trade and other repre-
sentative men OF the city, took a short
excursion over the proposed route Of
the Caughnawoga ship canal, and to see
the canal facilities to Montreal. While
the party Was going through Lachine
canal dinner was served, after which
speeches were made. Mr.. McLennan,
president of the Montreal board Of
trade, said that the st. Louis route had
answered avery good purpose for the de-
velopment of trade, and il it would an
swer the purpose of the people Of the
United States, they could participate
with the people of Canada. After
speaking Of the canal system of Can
ada, which is to be still further i'm
proved, Senator Window was intro
duced. He said the desire Of the COM
mittee was TO learn which was the best
and cheapest route to the seaboard, and
which would best build up their coun-
try. Happy if such route should con-
duce also 10 the prosperity OF Canada;
that the American continent is to be-
come the granary of the world, and the
west would hail with pleasure and gra-
titude any route that viii give cheaper
facilities for carrying their products.
Senator Sherman said: ''rhe people Of
the west consume, at the present time,
two bushels Of grain in removing one to
market. 1t cost ten cents per bushel to
send wheat to Toledo and Chicago, and
if the west could send it for a cent less
by any other route to their market, that
route would be used. Though the States
have built siXty-seven thousand miles of
railroad, that is still insufficient. Canada
had given her water T-carriage, made by
the hands Of almighty God, and Ohio
people said that If New York did not
offer them facilities for the carriage of
their grain, why, they would bring it to
Montreal. The progress Of trade and its
developments knew no nationality and
no accidental difference. The west
must have an outlet" r
Senator Conkling, in the course of his
remarks, said: All products are valus-
BILE IL you can place them where the
needs of man require them. Now We
doubtfully contest wavering balances Of
trade with Russia in respect to her sup
ply Of wheat to Great Britain, because
to bring bushel of wheat from Chicago
to the Atlantic coast costs us thirty
cents. Russia can do it equally as cheap,
including cost of Transportation. How
can you, or how can we change all this?
By finding route by the ST. Lawrence,
or by any other channel by which You
can reach the seaboard for fifteen cents
per bushel. Do this, and Russia no long
er can hold dispute in the markets Of
the world. Cheap Transportation, by
whatever route, IS doubly interesting to
US in the States. A ruthless rebellion
rolled upon us great debt, which bur-
dens our people, though they steadily
and brsyely melt it away. Show US how
to transport eheaply the growth Of the
west into the port of New York, and
our debt vanishes like the shadow of a
passing hour. Cheap transit is, indeed,
the great material question"
Hon. John Young, q member of the
Canada parliament made 8 short ad-
dress, ,remarking that 1.-THE larger the YES
sci the cheaper the transportation, and
we have an opportunity of making
through the route of the st. Lawrence
navigation, capable of accommodating
vessels of twelve hundred and fifty tons,
such an extraordinary advance of
trade IN the interior, that all our respect
i've routes will have plenty 10 do. 1
think the route of the st. Lawrence will
be altogether the cheapest, and Ameri-
cans ought to have the same right to the
St. Lawrence as we have under the trea-
ty." In the evening delegates from the
board of trade waited on the commission
and discussed the question of transporta-
ton. The Canadians wanted free trade
into the United States in return for the
construction Of the Caughnawoga canal
and its use by the Americans. The
other points mocted were the manner of
conducting trade-wheat purchased by
importers here, leaving nothing for
commission in the trade; mode of
bringing ii, and kind of vessel; termi-
nal charge; economy of shipping; diff
ference Of freightage, and method of
conducting the Russian trade. The
reciprocity treaty and other matters
were considered before the adjournment.