Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-04
THE CANAL CONVENTION.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, May 2o.-1ne
Northwestern River Improvement
and Canal Convention re-a.senbled
this morning al O'Clock, some twen-
ty additional! delegates being report
ed, making the number in attendance
over 400. Of the state delegations
named one member of each conposes
the committee Oh resolutions. Pend
ing the report of the committees adj
dresses were made by Ex-Governor
E. o. Stanard, of ST. Louis; Ex-Gov-
ernor Brass, OF Chicago Hon. J. &.
Starr. OF Peoria Hon. John Hogan,
ST. Louis. A communication was
read from the secretary of the Couu-
cll Bluffs Board Of Trade announcing
a transportion convention to be held
in that city June 2lst.
The committee ou resolutions made
the following report. through Its
chairman, Gen. I. J. Henderson:
This convention, representing the
people of the Mississippi Valley aud
the Northwest, iu pursuance OF the
call of the convention, nnd in furth-
erance of the purposes thereof. unan-
imously declare:
First-That the congress Of the
United States should devise by law,
aud sustain by liberal aud efficient
appropriations system Of cheap
transportation by water route, con-
Meeting the Mississippi river and its
tributaries with the Eastern Atlantic
seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.
Secoud-That il has been the poll
cy Of congress and the desire Of the
peopls of the Northwest for many
years to inaugurate and complete u
system of water channel improve.
ment. having the Mississippi for its
base that to give greater efficiency
10 this policy there should be con-
structed from the Mississippi river,
on the most direct and feasible route,
TO the Illinois river at Hsnnepin, and
then to the lake at Chicago, Il canal
adequate to the present and future
transportation needs Of that great
part Of the Northwest, 10 whose pep
pie such work of internal improve
ment is imperativeiy necessary for
relief from expensive freight rates Oil
the produce aud commerce of the
country, and that the work SO long
needed should be Immediately CON-
menced.
Third That the continued i'm
provcmenI of tho Mississippi river
under the auspices of the Mississippi
River Commission, created by act oi
congress, 10 q work Of great national
Importance, and congress ought tt
promote the scheme Of improvement
by most liberal appropriations, anC
we emphasize aud enforce the united
aud earnest demand of the people o
the entire Mississippi Valley that con
gress shall make prompt aud adequate
, appropriations for the improvement
OF the Mississippl river and its navi
gable tributaries, from tho falls Of st
Anthony 10 the Gull Of Mexico, ant
that the convention has no sympath,
E with any policy that would deprecist
OR hinder the great enterprise o
making fully navigable and building
3 up the great commerce upon this ecu
! trail river-nature's great highway o
the continent.
Fourth-We hail with peculiar %
tisiaction the increasing success O
the barge line system of transports
ton on the Mississippi aud it's tribu
taries, aud the relief it gives to pre-
u ducers aud shippers of the Mississip
8 pi valley in cheapeniug freights.
Fifth-We heartily favor the pro
posed cession of the Illinois an
Michigan canal and the Improvement
: Oh the Illinois river by the state Q
}: Illinois, and declare that the Fri
canal should be made free OF tolll
> aud therefore hope for the carly sue
v C 30 OF the Efforts inauguratsd u &c
/. cure these results.
Sixth-That the commission unde
9 the auspices Of which this cOnveutio
1 has been called be continued, wit
the proviso that its members be ell
. larged by the selection Of an add
tional member from each state repre-
}; sented in this body, which additions
Q member shall be named by the dele
q gates Of tho respective states, sal
. commission to aiterward select il
- own officers and mature its own ol
!. ganiZation.
Seventh-The commission, then r.
organized as contemplated herein,
requested to select two gentlelne
from each state, to present TO col
gress an appeal for support towar
8 the internal improvements which al
. contemplated by the foregoing rest
:. lutlOns.
The report was uuanimOusly adOp
: ed amidst cheers.
d A running discussion followed, Q
3 Incorporating the recommendation {
canal from Hennepin to Wabasi
:, , but q resolution to that effect ",
Overwhelmingly lost.