Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.
First Days Session at Philadelphia Yes
ferday-A Bureau OF internal
improvement Urged-The
Mississippi.
Uniformity Ia Weights and Measures
Steamboats, and RiVers-Bills Of
Lading-The Tennessee River
Specie Payments.

PHILADELPHIA, June 16.-The pres
ident called the board to order at ten
o'clock this morning, and stated that at
the meeting Of the executive committee
last night, Charles Randolph was unan-
imOusIy reelected secretary and treas
urer Of the national board.
Applications for admission to the
board were received from the boards Of
trade of Davenport, Iowa; Cincinnati
and others; also from the merchants eX-
change of st. Louis, which were re-
ferTed to the committee on credentials,
which committee subsequently reported
that they had approved the credentials
of the Davenport board Of trade, and
Waldo M. Potter, its delegate, took his
seat. The delegates of the New York
board of trade were permitted to take
seats and join in debate, but not to vote.
Requests of the following bodies that
they have permission to Withdraw from
the national board of trade were granted:
Merchants exchange, st. Louis; Gin
.cinuati board of trade, and the boards
of trade of Salem, Buffalo and OSwego.
The resolution memorializing congress
to establish q bureau of internal inn
provement, analogous to the coast sur
vey to make preliminary surveys, and
suggest comprehensive and thorough
system of improvement, was taken up.
The board adjourned yesterday pend
ing the following substitute: "That all
internal Improvements made by the
government should be strictly national
in their character, and not otherwise,
and be made in the order of their i'm
portancs to the people of the whole
Union.
Mr.. Bayard, of Baltimore, moved re-
consider alton of the vote by which the
substitute was placed on its final passage.
After discussion, Mr.. Bayard withdrew
h motion to reconsider, and:moved the
SUI Ostitute be laid on the table. Agreed
TO.
rhe subject of the improvement of
the Mississippi river levees was inde-
finitely postponed after Mr.. Covington,
of Cincinnati, said he thought the Fed
eral government had no more to do
with the levees of the Mississippi than
with the Jersey flats.
The subject of the reduction of an
uniformity in postal rates, was referred
to a special committee, consisting Of
Messrs. Henry, of New York, Halter,
Of Milwaukee, and Eggleston, of Gin
cinnati.
Inc nith SUBJECT, 1aVoTlng the estab-
ment OF the postal telegraph, was re-
ferred to the committee on postage
rates.
The sixth proposition, for uniformity
in weights and measures, was taken up
and the following resolutions adopted:
Resolved, That the government at
Washington be requested to invite the
governments Of Great Britain and con-
tinental Europe to appoint commission
ers to meet in consultation with like
commission to be appointed by the Pres
ident Of the United States.
Re8otUed, That the antique way Of
measuring by cubics should, when prac-
teal, be substituted by measures and by
weight.
The seventh proposition requesting
congress to amend the shipping act Of
1872, and in the fifteenth proposition the
United States steamboat laws were con-
sidered together, and it was resolved
that congress be memOrialized to pass