The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-19
The Cheap Transportation couvsu.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-In the Chear
Transportation Convention this morning
the majority report OF the Committee Of
Railroads was adopted. 1t declares thai
RELIEF must come from Legislation By
which our system Of railroads can be re-
gulated and improved, and by competi
tion which will completely carry out re-
form, which the legislature must inaugu
gurate, and II recommends national
law providing for bureau Of commerce
transportation, &c; that the members Of
the association shall endeavor to obtain
the passage Of certain laws in their re-
spectlye states, including q law prohibit.
ing all railroad companies from making
unjust and excessive discrimination
against the places which are not compe.
tiLing points, and law obliging all rail-
road companies to transport the cars Of
other companiesl or Of individuals for Just
compensation with the same dispatch as
cars belonging exclusively to said roads.
It calls for legislation making It a penal
offence Tor q public officer to accept or
use q free pass oi railroad companies, and
prohibiting railroad companies from
granting passes to other than employees
and declines road lands or subsidies In
any form. II also recommends that rail-
roads and canals be constructed by the
National Government.
The manner oi constructing railroads
to he by contract to the lowest bidder and
when constructed they should be used for
the transportation Of Government proper.
ty, and when not required for govern.
ment use all citizens have the right TO
place cars and locomotives thereon and
TO operate the same, subject 10 the regu-
lstions TO be provided by the Govern.
ment, they paying toll therefore sufficient
TO maintain the railroad
Josiah Quincy Was elected President,
With Vice President rom each State.
X. Il. Ferguson moved that the next
session be held IN Richmond, the time to
be fixed by the Executive Committee.
James BiRer aud r K Bonner were
admitted a. delegates from ST. Louis.
'enatnr Window addressed the conven.
lion, and said the Committee Of the SEN
ate, oil which he was chairman, had been
employed in gathering much information,
and he could not now speak as to what
the report would be, but had no doubt
1t would be Satisfactory, and expressed
the opinion that 1t would be ready TO pre-.
sent to the Senate about February 1st.
Resolutions were adopted that the Com.
mittee ask Of Congress as means of al.
tording reliei to the country, the enlarge.
ment Of the Erie Canal and the Lake
route, the enlargement and extension ot
the Illinois 8 Michigan Canal to the Mis-.
sisSippi river at Rock Island, together
with the work on the Illinois river, the
improvement oil the Mississippi river ard
the Tennessee river route, better known
as the Atlantic & Great Western Canal;
the extension Of the Chesapeake g. Ohio
Canal from Cuberland, Md, 10 some point
on the Ohio river, and the control OF the
water line through Virginia.
Standing committees were appointed,
and to them plans for and reports on
cheap transportation were referred, with
instructions to present the results Of their
consideration Of the several papers to
Senator WINDOWS Transportation Com.
mittee.
The Committee then adjourned Stns die