Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-26
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

and River Improvements Matters.
At the meeting of the Chamber yesterday
morning there was the usual attendance
A communication was received from E. A.
Kirby, offering to supply the members of the
Chamber with copies Of the Strangers
Guide to St. Paul.
The committee on statistics made report
relative to the publication of an article in the
St. Louis Inland Monthly upon the city of
st. Paul and it's commercial and manufactur-
ing interests. The committee reported that
If our citizens would take sufficient num-
Der of copies, the article would be pub
lished. Mrs. Smith, the publisher of this
magazine being present upon invitation,
addressed the chamber, stating that the reg-
ular circulation of her magazine amounted
to 10000 copies, and that the same was gen
orally largely increased by special orders.
The matter was finally disposed of by being
referred to special committee of three
Messrs. McClung, johnson and Lee, to as
certain how many copies would be taken.
. IMMIGRATION.
Mr. Banning, from the immigration com
-aittee, reported the result of the efforts
made to induce the land grant railroad COM
panies to subscribe to the State immigration
fund and to act in corporation with the
State bureau. The effort to induce such
cooperation was not a success, as the roads
preferred to follow out Their plans already
formed.
Mr.. McClung offered the following resolu-
ton, which was referred to the committee on
immigration, with the understanding that
such be considered the voice Of the Chamber:
Resolved, That the Chamber recommend that
the bureau Of immigration to be appointed by
the Governor expend as large portion Of the
immigration fund as possible in short and
plthy advertisements of Minnesota in the
newspaper unions of the United States, and to
aid and encourage more general use of the
immigration envelope prepared by this Cham
le tiers to Germany, Norway, Sweden and other
foreign countries.
RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
Mr.. Banning called up the river improve
ment matter, saying there was evidently a
conflict of interests; that two parties, one
for improving the upper river and the
other for improving that below,
were becoming so antagonistic,
that there was danger that the whole matter
of river improvement would be seriously
ieopardized. The danger was that in the
conflict alluded to the benefit of the move
ment of last fall inaugurated in this city.
would be- lost. He sent up and had read
some newspaper extracts calculating his
position, and said committee should be ap-
pointed to cooperate with the friends of the
improvement of the river below st. Louis.
The only way in which we can get our river
improved will be to attach ourselves to the
South and their policy even if the
By SO doing they could form combination
that would command the attention Of the the
people and insure ultimately the success of
the contemplated improvements. The policy
heretofore pursued was valueless and with
out result, and reminded him of ttenuated
cranes pecking away at sandbars.
If they sat still and allowed this thing to
go on until st. Louis has accomplished her
policy, then St. Paul will lose forever all
chance Of having the river improved.
Captain r. Bakeley explained that the
sum originally asked for by the river inn
provement convention to improve the upper
river was only 100000, while that asked for
toimprove the river below St. Louis was two
millions Of dollars. AL parties were salts
fed with this except the levee party of the
South. This went on for some time and the
proposition was generally deemed acceptable
when the st. Louis Republican got up cry
for $4,000 900, so as to give the river
navigable depth of 20 feet from that point to
the gulf, as broached by Captain Eads him.
self. All trne friends of river improvement
regarded this as impracticable. The levee
committee Of Congress has left the original
recommended as made by the river i'm
provement committee, but had largely In
creased that for the section below st. Louis.
Adjourned.