The Ottawa free trader., 1879-02-22

want money, he said while We want money We
, want also this ship cana!
( g. w. Armstrong maintained that Mr..
< Lynch's resolution would be II bar and prevent
7 all legislation, 1t would pa; every man in the
, legislature againstus There are only few
legislators instructed in the canal and it would
also array against Il. all the railroad men. We
must deal with facts, He wanted to modify
q the substitute making the amount smaller
There Is no surplus fund there and the monel
must come out Of the treasury. Weought, hc
added, 10 toapprove of Congressman lIayes's step
IN asking for 3j00000 for Beardstown dam
The matter was still further discussed by
4 Messrs Lynch and L., 5. Potter Of Marshall
county, after which the substltute-RayS re-.
! pOrt-Was adopted.
! Commissioner Kingman SAID he was pleased
with the resoluton--it is just what is needed
bill to that effect has already been intr6duc.
ed and to aid It's passage committee of No. /
men, two at least from each county on the can
al and river, should be sent to Springfield An
other bill has been introduced to enable the
commissioners to bring suits to recover posses.
sion to the Lake Front in Chicago; and third
to enable the commissioners to sell canal prop
erty ia Chicago.
! G.. W. Armstrong was opposed to having toe
many irons in the fire at once.
Mr. Stackpolc moved the adoption of the
majority report as not conflicting with the res.
oluton adopted but rather as being fitted to it,
but his motion failed
! John Hutchins, Of Marshall, moved that It
committee OF two or more from each county
along the canal and river so far south as Beads.
town be selected to represent this convention
at Springfield. Adopted,
The committee was made up as follows:
| Will-W. 5. Brooks, l.. II Goodrich; Grundy
L. g. Ray, =. A. Armstrong; La Salle-El-
mer Baldwin, g. W. Armstrong, w. II. II,
IIoldrdge, Joseph Hart, Alex. Bruce; Mar
shall II. Jones, T. n. Shaw; Putnam
| w. Hopkins, II. j. Swindler Bureau, Rob
Hunter, with power to select two others; Peo
ria-Julus 5. Star, Henry 5. Truit; Tazcwel
Hopkins Anthony, d. 5, Smith
On motion the above were accepted; and it
was further ordered that if any OF those named
were unable TO go they should have power to
select their substitutes
! Elmer Baldwin suggested that all the coun-
ties in the state interested should send dele
gates and some one else wanted all friends Of
the canal invited TO assist
| H. Hunter and J. G. Fort, Of Woodford Lew
Stewart and l.. Schofeld, of Kendall; 5. T.
Cummings and q Barrere, of Fulton; and NJ
b. Castle OF DcKalh, were also named and ac
cepted as part Of the lobby
Mr.. Hodridae then made "A speech in favor
OF the ship canal, and in accordance with his
sentiments, G. W. Armstrong offered the fol
lowing, which WAS adopted:
ReSolued, That we approve of the course pul-
i sued by Congressman Hayes of the ;th Congres-
sonal District Of Illinois in relation to the bill
presented in congress for the Improvement Of
the Illinois river
Mr. Stackpole offered the followed which was
adopted
Resoi,td, That il is the duty OF the committee
sent to Spring glicld to urge such action by the
! legislature OF Illinois is required to promote
the great object of suitable national conneC-
ton between the lakes and the Mississippi ria the
1 Illinois and Michigan canal at the earliest prac-
| tCabe day.
Mayor Ellwood enGuired about the petitions
that had been circulated. J.G. Armstrong re-
ported that about $4,000 names had been put
upon them coming from Chicago Will, Grun
dy and La Sale counties. On motion of Hutch
ms ordered that they be sent as fast as received
to congressman Hayes.
Adjourned sine die.