The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-05
Cheap Transportation Convention,

RICHMOND, Va, December 4.-In the
Cheap Transportation Convention to-day
all substitutes for the report Of the Com.
mittee on Water Routes were Withdrawn
and COL Il. O. CSbell, OF Virgins, offer.
ed as compromise, resolution recog.
nizing, in addition to the lines of trans.
portation recommended by the Senate
Committee on Transportation; the pro.
posed Rock Island s Hennepin Canal,
connecting the Mississippi with the lii
nois river and Canal, and the chain oil
water ways to the seaboard, as q project
OF great merit and urging upon Congress
the necessity Of speedy construction ol
the work.
This!resoluLion was unanimously adopt.
ed.
The resolution by Col. Frabel, Of
Georgia, showing the necessity Of cheap
transportation TO improve finances, were
adopted. The railroad men came to the
front and the rest OF the session was
spent in discussing tho advantages of
railroad transportation, and in hearing
an able paper from Engineer Creole, OF
New York, on steamer and canal boats.
The name Of the Association was changed
to the American Board Of Transports
ton and Commerce To-nights session
will be protracted, as an adjournment
sine die is expected.
The night session Of tho Convention was
addressed byiJno. n. Vernon, Of Canada,
on the water transportation.
The Committe on Resolutions reported
q digest OF all the resolutions passed on
the subject oil cheap transportation in the
form Of memorial 10 Congress together
with petition to the New York Legisls.
ture Tor reduction Of tolls on the Erie
canal to the lowest possible rates, and a
recommendation to Congress 10 build a
ship yard in the east and steamboat
yard in the west. The report was adopted
and committees appointed to present the
memorial to Congress and the petition 10
the New York Legislature.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Hon. Josiah
Quincy, Massachusetts,; Vice Presidents,
1no. F. Henry, New York; Col. @. g.
Darlington, Virginia; Jno. q. Dore, Il
linois; ]. Nelson Harris, Kentucky; Chss.
Pelham. Alabama; Gov. Booth, Califor.
mia; Gov. Garland, Arkansas; Col. W, +.
Greenwood, Col. J, G. Beertle, District Of
Columbia; r. L. Niblock, Florids; j. III.
Smith, Georgia; F, G. johnson, Indiana;
Col. q. 3. smedley, Iowa; W. NJ. Bur-
well, LouisianS, Stephenson Archer,
Maryland; Chas. Francis Adams, Mas.
sachusetts; VIM. Window, Minnesota;
Gen. A. ]. Vaughan, Miss r. L. Bonner,
Missouri; Dudley F. Chase, New Hamp-
shire; M. ]. Jameson, New Jersey; Geo,
B. Porter, Nebraska; zsb Vance, North
Carolina; D. W. Aiken, South Carolina;
VIM. Maxwell, Tennessee; ]. G. Blaine
Maine Lyman Hinckley, Vermont; B.
B. Kitchen, West Virginia; Hon. hiatt,
Carpenter, Wisconsin; Daniel Clarke,
Oregon; Joseph Bailey, Pennsylvania:
John Davis, Kansas; Hon. Samuel Shell
labarger, Ohio; ]. B. Johnson, Texas;
r. q. Mileroy, Washington Territory;
i. B. Crews, Dakota Territory; F. q,
Capreal, John Ross, Walter Shsndly,
Canada; Msj. Flske, Montreal; Governor
Jewell, Connecticut; Elisha Dyer, Rhode
Island; Hon. R. @. Mccormick, Arizona;
Gov. Cochran, Delaware. Treasurer, F.
B Thurber, New York; Secretary, r. q,
Ferguson, Troy, New York.
An able paper by John Roach, Of New
York, on ship building was read.
Some further business of no public in
te1est was transacted, and the Conven.
ton, at 1lSO p. NJ, adjourned sine die.