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

Lou1sv1LLE, 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 Mrs Crooks, of Mime.
sota, to represent the territory in the convenS
ton. The first business was reading the re-
port of the committee on resolutions by g. 81.
Anderson, chairman. This paper was in two
parts, one being addressed to the Governors of
States in the Mississippi valley and the other
to tho Congress of the United States. The for
mer is as 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-
iberate 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 /. 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 suitable resolution to be adj
dressed to Congress, such rs 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 well for your legisla-
ture to appropriate q 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
m.
mission, the manner of its appointments
and expresses their qualification at the forma-
tion of the engineering commission, which is
to survey and report upon system for i'm
speedy relief is necessary before such a COM
mission can complete its work satisfactorily,
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
days, otherwise that the government shall raise
them and confiscate the property.
They ask for appropriations sufficient to
secure the immediate completion of works
now in progress on the various
rivers. OF these special attention
is called to Davies island dam, near Pitts
burgh, and 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. work Of
its magnitude can only be successfully carried
out by the government, whose generosity alone
is equal to the task
The report closes with an allusion to the
magnitude and Importance Ct the improve
ments desired, and petition to Congress to
give the matter immediate attention