The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-11
Action OF the Recent Canal Convention
p, az" at Davenport, Iowa.. &c.,. .
DAVENPORT, Iowa, May Is.


TIE Committee on Resolutions made
the following report through its Chair
man, General Z. j. Henderson:
This Convention. Representa-. the people Of
the Missis 'ippi Valley aud OF tho Northwest,
In pursuance of tn, purposes thereof, unani-
mUusly declare:
I. That the Congress Of the United states
shot!d devise by law. and sustain by liberia!
and efficient appropriations, 4 system Of cheap
transportation by water routes connecting the
Mississippi River and its Tributaries with the
eastern Atlantic scahoard and the Gulf OF
Mexico
.. That II has been the policy Of Congress
and the tIcs,o OF the pc rDle OF the Northwest
for many years to inauTllr0tc and complete
system of wafer neutrality-suspicious.. having
tho, Mississippi for its base:, that to give
greater eici oncv to this policy, there should
he constructed from the Mississippi River, on
tho most direct and feasible rQu G to the llli-i
n0isi River 1T Henneoip, aud thence to tho
lake at Chicago, a canal adequate 10 tic pres
! ent and future transportation needs of that
great part of the Northwest to whose people
| such work OF intelnal. Improvement is an
| imperative necessity for relief from the cx-
cessive freight rates on the 'pruduce and com
n,crte of the country, and that the work SO
long needed should be Immediately COM
| mcnccd.
g. That the continued Improvement of the
Mississippi River under the auspices of tho
Mississippi River Commission, created by act
of Cong ess, is a work Of such National im-
portance that The Congress Of the United
States Ought to promote that scheme Of i'm.
| pr0vemcnt 10y, the most liberal appropriAt ions,
ina separate approximation bill therefor, and
that we emphasize and indorse the united and
earnest demand of he people Of the! cnt re
Mississ ppi Valley that Congress shall make
prompt and adequate appropriations for the
Improvement OF the river and its navigahle
tributaries from tie IA Is Of st. A,,tholiy 1t,
the Gulf OF Mexico and that tn $ Convention
has no sympathy with any roicv that would
dcprecate or hndcr this great enterprise of
making fully nlv.gable and building up q
great commerce upon this. central rivcr-Na-
tires great h .hway of the continent So
T. THAT We hill With peculiar sttisfa ton
| the INCREASING success Of the barge tine sys-
tefii Of. TRANSPORTATION OH the mississippi and
its tributaries and the relief it gives to the
Producers and shippers Of the mississippi Val
leyin the cheApehing OF frci9hts.N h''l'~i -"
s. z hat We heartily favor the proposed COS.
sion orthe Illinois & NJ chiyan Cinal and the
improvements on the Illinois River by tho
state of Illinois ana declare that the EricCa'
nal should be made free of tolls; therefore. VIC
hope for the early success OF the efforts inaut
d't0secnreihese results IL iE5. luf
g.. That tho Commission, under the auspices
OF which this Convention has been called be
contlfiod, with the provis0;that its Iuemper.
ship be enlarged by tho selection Of an add.
ti0nal member from, each State represented
i'm this body, which additional lpenlbGr shall be
named BY the delegates of the respective
States, said Commission toafterward elect its
I own ,0s6cersa and mature its own organization
~. That the Commission, when recognized
a. contemplated herein, be, requested to Sc
lcct two gentlemen from each state to present
to Compress the appeal for the support to the
work Of internal Improvement which is con
templated by the foregoing resolutions, Il
,, The report was unanimously adopted
amidst cheers cheers ..L-l 1i,,,..',,..
~ The enormous increase of genera
business; as shown by the, receipts al
railways, is by no; means confined t
the. United States. The increase il
France for the year 1880, as compared
with 1879, was S22, 100000, ahd TIT
difference in favor Of the former years
fW compared with 1877, was ever $685..
Q00. 900. >, a. London newspaper, refer
ring to this subject, SAYS: 1.-THE in
creasinq wealth Of France IS astounding
and indicates atl amount Of prosperity
which has never been.even approached