Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-10

lions OuefeQ 70 Tue COuNoueoA - -II:.,
remedy the dangers of navigation resulung
from Improper bridging on the western
rivers, and also to the imperfect ana on.
daneered barbors In the friable banks =!
Vicfsbarg and other towns and cluss VI
the lower Mississippi. Your comml!tee,
however. deem the matters embraced In
The frst set OF resolutions to belong 70
The Police Power Of the Goveramehs'
II should be earnestly invoked to remove
spy artificial distractions to the naViga-
tiCn of our rivers, while the latter resolu
tiops ne rtain to matters clearly embraced
Within the lawful powers Of the River Com'
mission. to be exercised as soon Is pfacu-
cable. Your committee consider most fay
orably the suggestions contained III potn
sets Of II solutions, but do not deem lheh
appropriate matters for action BY way OF
general resolutions, preferring 70 cal sPe-
cisl attention to them in this supplement
tai report, and not doubling that the prop
or officers of Government will take appro-
pirate steps in relation to the same.
kdopted Unanimously and Enthu.
siaSticalIy.
At the conclusion OF tie reading q dele
gate from Illinois arose and moved thst
both reports bs adopted Sy reclamation:
As quick as a flash Governor Stannard put
dissenting vote, the members rising ana
cheering in the meantime
Judge Honk's Address
Judge Houk, of TED nessee, addressed the
convention after the adoption of the re-
port. He was gratified he SAID, To see tue
ilr suiuity OF opinion on the great uesuon
OF in! proving the Mississippi river and its
trlbutaries. He believed that every navl-
gsble stream should be improved to tost
lie commerce of the land. 1t had always
been his pleasure to vote for the River and
RsIbor bill in Congress He was more
dian pleased with the tenor OF the fesolu
lions, as he had expected from resiiug
Nne of the newspapers that the conven
ton was local in its character and that 1t
had assembled simply in the interest OF
The Missis sippi river. He was glad that
the scope If the resolutions was so wide as
q take in other streams than the Father
Of Waters"
General Tarner's speech.
General G. P. NJ. Turner, OF Memphis
Tenn, was enthusiastically called for by
the convention. He responded from the
platform in q ba!fhour speech, replete
With singularly eloquent and enchanting
sentences. General Turner congratulated
he American Government on the pres
ence at its capital OF body OF men so IN
telligent and representa- and he con-
erat1lated the members of the convention
on the excellence of the work performed.
He saw, as the effect this conventions pro-
ceedings would have on Congress, the ap-
proach of the
Rainbow Of Hope.
He said that the time was rapidly ap.
proscti ing when the sect ORAL issue would be
~ nj q.
fionsl sentiment prevail in its stead. de
aid that whatever may have been the diff
terence heretofore existing between the
peCpIe of the different sections OF the coun-
Iry thew had been reconciled, and now the
American people in truth, as in theory,
worshiped one God under the folds OF their
s,srIed and spapgled flag.
General Turner paid handsome tribute
10 The people of the various parts OF the
country, and invited every body to pay
visit to his city of Memphis, where he as
>uTed them II h. sp'tabte reception from the
business men sud ci liens generally, VINO
we're noted f., their iiuerai'y and clever.
ncss. General Turner said many nice
'hipgs that won for MIN place In the
htarts of AL present, and when he con-
III ded he was Cbeered with enthusiasm
nd CONGRATULATED by all rs the silver
tel gued orator Of the whole country.
g.pre>eriative Hatch. OF Missouri,
n,de a ringing speech, in which, after con-
.rstulatiug the convention for the expedi.
tious manner in which it had transacted
the business fer which it was called, he
laid that Congress would, in his opinion,
heed the wishes Of the convention. He
ike Judge Houk, had always voted for q
river and harbor bill, and he would con.
tinue to do it. No greater interest could
come before Congress than the improve
ment Of the Mississippi River and its triou-
tsries. Despite the clsmor raised in some
nuarters against the passage OF the River
At d Harbor bill, lie had never known one
of the bills TO come before Congress that he
didn't believe was honest and right.