Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-06
CHAMBER CT COMMERCE..

Sawdust In the River-The Genital System
EndOrsed-An Important Memorial to
Congress.
At the meeting of the chamber Ct conf
MERGE yesterday the subject of sawdust in the
river was debated at length and the matter
finally referred to Messrs. j. B. Sanborn and
James Smith, Jr., with instructions to pre-
pare bill to present to Congress.
The committee on mercantile affairs,
through its chairman, d. w. Ingersoll, re-
ported in favor of reaffirming the preference
of the chamber for the GENITAL system in
handling grain, and the report was adopted.
The committee on railroad crossings re-
ported that Mr.. Hill expected to have the
gates at Third street and Lafayette avenue
within ten days.
IMPROVING THE RIVER.
Mr.. McClung offered the following memo
rial to Congress, which was laid over one week
To the Honorable Senate and House of Repre-.
eentatives of the United States:
Your memorialists, the chamber of comm cree
of the city of st. Paul, Minnesota, would re.
spectfully ask your attention to the following
joint resolution of the legislature of Minnesota,
which was forwarded to former Congress, but
has never been acted on:
WHEREAS, By reason of sand bars in the
Mississippi river at st. Paul, Minnesota, the
navigation of said river is entirely obstructed
on the west side of said river, making it i'm.
possible for steamboats, to land and commune
cate with the carrying trade of the..rich country
adjacent and tributary; and
WHEREAS, The interests of commerce and ag-
riculture require that the river at this great
center of the commerce of the Northwest
should be made available to connect with all
the railroad system of the State centering at
this point, on both sides of the river; and
WHEREAS, The said obstruction to the ee
navigation of the river can be removed at a
small cost to the general government, by the
use OF the dredge boat and in removal of sand
bars in said river; now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State
Of Minnesota:
That the senators and representatives of this
State in Congress be and are hereby requested
to use their influence to secure, at the present
session of Congress, such legislation as will
provide for the improvement of the naviga-
ton Of said river at St. Paul at as early date
as may be practicable, Approved Feb. IL,
1875.
The chamber of commerce, representing q
city of over fifty thousand people, and a COM
MERGE which in its infancy amounts to many
millions Of dollars and in its growth is destin-
ed at an early day to be almost continental in
its proportions, reiterates the request of the
legislature of Minnesota, and respectfully re-
quests your attention to the fact that while
other cities on the Mississippi river
of les Importance than st.
Paul have received appropriations
lions of $4,000, $4,000, $4,000. and in one
instance over 100000 for merely local i'm
provements of the Mississippi river, st. Paul
occupying the commanding position at the
head of navigation which will make it neces-
sary to have every facility of good water and
ample levee room to handle the river commerce
which must concentrate at this point from O
radius Of thousands of miles, has never
received a dollar from the general government
for the improvement Of the river at this point
not a local improvement, but one urged by
the entire State through its legislature and de-
manded by the necessities of the expanding
commerce of the new Northwest. To the end
therefore, that this great river may serve the
purposes for which it was created, and may moi
be hampered and made useless at The
very point of transhipment upon which
the river itself derends for its Use
fulness and efficiency to the cities and States
far south of us, we'll as north and northwest
we respectfully ask that the sum of $25, 900
or so much thereof as may be necessary be ap
prOpriated for the removal of sand bars from
the river at st. Paul; that the improvement b.
made as soon as possible, as part of the sys
tenn OF river Improvements contemplated b,
Congress, and without which the system would
he ipcOmD Iete and Unavailable