The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-01
Local News.

HUY.t avTQ IylE on .I .n
The Mississippi river improvement
committee met at St. Louis this week and
adopted call for convention for the i'm.
provement ef the Mississippi river and Its
nsvigsble tributaries, to be held in Wash
ington, d. G., Feb. s, 1884. The call 10 ad.
dressed to the people of the Mississippi
valley and to those communities which are
in hearty sympathy with the objects to be
attained "lu view of the magnitude OF
the interest involved aud the results to be
accomplished we cordially and earnestly in.
vite the commercial bodies of the valley aud
ell those sections OF our comman country IN
terested in the question Of cheap trsnspor
tstion to send delegates to the convention,
II is all important that those who are sent
as delegates should fully comprehend the
necessity Of this action and posses ability to
represent the great interests at stake. The
basis Of representation in the convention
will be ss follows: Ten delegates-at- large
from each state and five from each territory
to be appointed by the governor from com
mercial bodies, each 100 members of said
bodies to be entitled to at least five dele
gates; from each corporate city, where no
exchange exists, three delegates to be ap.
pointed by the mayor. The president aud
vice-presdeut Of the United States, the
members of the cabinet, the senators and
representatives in Congress and the Cover
nors Of the states aud territories are invited
- guests Of the convention, and will be as
signed seats on the Aoor during the de-.
liberations.
As was foreshsdowed IN yesterdays
BULLETIN, the strife of the engineers and
Hremen on the Texas q 81. Louis road did
not change at all 10 its attitude during the
night, nor had it done 90 last night. The
psy.msster here had only the September
payroll, and started to pay OF the en-
ployes Of the road here for that month. But
when yesterday morning the pay car was to
start down the road from Birds Point,
none OF the engineers or 6remen could be
induced to take the engine. An engineer
brought up from New Madrid to take
charge Of the engine, upon learning that
the matters ct issue between the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers and the rail
road company had not teen adjusted, also
refused to 60 out, and the paymaster was
compelled to postpone the start again
Trains have not been running on the road
since Tuesday, and passengers have been
daily turned oyer To the Iron Mountain
road, The rolling stock Of the company II
distributed along the line, mostly on the
other end. There is only one engine here
which 10 to take out the pay car. 1t lie evil
dent that the company is completely at thu
mercy Of the brotherhood" aud must &C
cede to its demands before traffic of any
kind can be resumed. Yesterday closed
the third month for which the company Il
in arrears TO it's employees. Repeated de
msnds for settlement have been met will
promises which we're broken The "Broth
erhood" asks payment tor two months i'm
medistely, and the company has promised
payment for one month on the down trip o
the pay car and for the second on the re
turn trip; but similsr promise was mad
before and was not fulfilled, hence tn
brotherhood" declines to agree to it, TIL
demand of the "Brothsrhood" is very reas
enable, and will doahtiess DO met as 500
as the company can get the money, whic
will probably not belong. !