, 1874-01-18
TRANSPORTATION.
Recommendations Made. by the
Convention In Wash
ington'
Legislation Desired for the Reg
II ulation Of Inland Com
merce.
-
They Call for Laws to Prevent Unjust
Determinations.
Necessity for the Enlargement Of the
; Erie and Illinois & Michigan
Canals.


The Dead-Read System Condemned.
RAILROADS.
WARRINGTON, Jan. l7.-ln the Cheap Transportation
Convention, this morning. tbs majority report Of tho
Committee On Railroads adopted. It declares
that relief must from legislation, by which our
system Of railroads bo regulated and improved,
aud BY competitions which Will completely carry out
the reform which legislation must inaugurate. It
recommends national 1aw providing for Bureau Of
Commerce aud Transportation, ETC. that members
Of the Association shall endeavor to obtain the
Of eertain laws in ther respective States,
including = law prohibiting ali RAILWAY COM
pss' psn'ss ,aa1a from %aatna unjust aud e
are not competing points, and law onlging al rail-
way COMPANIES TO The cars ot other compa
pensation, ii a. WITH The same ID ss for es1s beons
It calls for ieghlshon making It penal o1enso for
way company, and prohibiting RAILWAY companies
from gz1nting paases to other than employees, and
+ ~ e
atrncted By the National aoyernment he manner Of
pe q e m 5ae
the transportation Of Government property, and when
not required for Government use al citizens to have
operate the same subject to regulations to be provided
cient to maintain the roadway
Jo6iah Quincy VICE elected President, with Vice
President from each State, and B. II. Ferguson Sec
retary. The next session will be held in Richmond,
the tlrnn to be nxed by the Executive Committee.
DELEnATEH ADMITTED
James Baker md B. B. Bonner were admitted DELE
gates from St. Louis.
REa6AnKs OF HKxAroR w1aDoM
Senntor Window addressed the Convention, and
said that the Committee Of the Senate Of which he Is
the Chairman, had been employed in gathering much
information He could not now speak to what the
report would BE- but he had no doubt that It would
be satisfactory, and he expressed tho opinion thAt 1t
would be ready to present to the Senate about Feb. l.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT.
Resolutions adopted that tho Convention aak Of
Congress, as means Of snording relief to the coun-
ry the enlargement Of tho Erte Canal mud lake route
enlargement and extension OF the Illinois Michigan
Canal to the River, at Rock 1sland together
with the completion Of the work the Illinois Mver;
improvement Of the Mississippi River aud the Ten
River route, tho litter known the Atlantic b
Crest Western Cana the extension OF the Chesapeake
l. Ohio Canal from Cumberland, Md, to point
on the Ohio River, and the conhol Of the water line
through Virginia.
STANDING coA3nrrEEs
appointed, and to them the plans for and re-
ports on, cheap transportation Fefced, with in
srucons to p1csant the results Of their consideration
OF the several Papers to senator Windows Trauspor
taHon Committee.
The Convention than adjourned eipa die.
CONGRESSIONAL. COMMITTEES WAITED ON
WARRINGTON, D. C.y Jan. 1T.-Th6 Committees On
Railways and Waterways Of the American Cheap
On Transportation ind House Committee On Roads
snd Canals this evening" snd communicated the action
Of the Association MeasrB. Thomas, Of Town, Allen
snd FlaRg; Of Illinois, Frobel Of Georgia. and others,
unde addresses urging the necessity of choaper
node OF transportation for all sections OF tho country.