Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-04

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 3.-The Mississippi valley
river improvement convention assembled at
10 o'clock, President Underwood in the chair.
telegram was received from the Governor
of Dakota. appointing Mr.. Crooks, of Mime
sofa, to represent the territory in the conven-
ton. The first business was reading the re-
port of the committee on resolutions by G.. Il.
Anderson, chairman. This paper was in two
parts, one being addressed to the Governors of
States in the Mississippi valley and the other
to the Congress of the United States. The for
mer is AZ follows: To the Governor of the
State of -.-Sir: The commissioners ap-
pointed by the Governors Of the several States
and territories of the Mississippi valley to de-
liberate upon the necessities and Importance
of improving the Mississippi river, and its nav
agability, and tributaries, after due considera-
ton, have issued the address here inclosed i. e.
the address Of E. G. Underwood, embodying
their views, of the importance and utility
of ample appropriations for said Improvements
that they may subserve the purpose of their
Creator in placing them where they are and
render them of paramount utility to the people
of the United States. We beg leave to call the
attention of your excellency especially to the
lucid argument of the address and respectfully
request that you lay the same before the legis-
lature of your State and suggest the propriety
of embracing in a suitable resolution to be ad-
dressed to Congress, such as We trust you and
the people of your State feel to be due from
them in furtherance of the objects in view by
the commission, and we further respectfully
suggest that it would be we'll for your legisla-
ture to appropriate saitable sum of money to
defray the necessary expenses of the commits
sion in carrying on the work for which they
are appointed.
The address to Congress first recites the OBJ
IoIn nf fh0
mission, the manner of its appointment
and expresses their qualification at the forma-
ton of the engineering commission, which is
to survey and report upon system for i'm
proving the Mississippi and its tributaries but
speedy relief is necessary before such CON-
consequently the convention urges upon Con-
gress the propriety of making certain improve
ments which are enumerated.
They recommend the removal Of snags and
sand bars at the expense of the government,
and also the passage of a law requiring owners
of sunk vessels to raise the wrecks within sixty
days, otherwise that the government shall raise
them and con6scate the property.
They ask for appropriations sufficient to
secure the immediate completion of works
1vsr. OF progress sSsse G special the attentions
is called to Davies island dam, near Pitts
burgh, and q dam on the Monongahela, wing
dams in the upper Mississippi, increasing the
number of lights along the same stream, and
to works along the falls of the Ohio.
With regard to the last the report says: 1.-The
work OF removing distractions in the Ohio at
the Falls of Louisville is entitled to prompt
attention. Enterprise among steamboatmen
has done much and is still working to secure
channel of comparative safety. A work Of
its magnitude can only be successfully carried
out by the government, whose generosity alone
is equal to the task" $751;.
The report closes with an allusion to the
magnitude and Importance Ct the improve
ments desired, and a petition to Congress to
give the matter immediate attention.