The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-08
RIVER CONVENTION.
Its Lsbors Finished This Morning.
Valley States Speaking In NO Uncer'
tata vsies for Their Rights
Views In Harmeny With
the Presiasnt's.

WASHINGTON, Bsb. y.-The business Of
the MissisMppi River Convention was con.
cludsd. A series Of resolutions rejecting
the sentiments o. the people Of the Mis-
sissippi valley, deoiaring the importance Of
liberal appropriation for the improvement
Of navigation In tue Mississippi and Its
tributaries, approving<hs views expressed
by the President In bib message to Con-
gress respecting the Mississippi river i'm
prsvemeut and the orestion Of the Missls-
sippi River Commission. and urging the
application Of the plans Of that
Commission not ssly 10 the Misss.
s!ppi but TO IL great tributaries were re.
ported ana adopted uaAnimously without
debate. Abssches were made by Repre-.
sentstives Hsuk, Of Tennessee; Hon. Mark
II. panneil, Of Miopssotsi Gen. Turn er,
Of Tennessee, and others.
"FRAUD AND IMPOSITION.
Representative Sunset Cox says the
House will not grant tho appropriation to
maintain the Ciui Service Commission,
that 1t Is fraud and an impositio and
Democrats have determined to sit down on
It.
BILL CHANDLER sNUBBRD.
Secretary Chsndler considers the refusal
OF the House Appropriation Committee to
bill, or neaser his estimate than IS, 900, 900,
as a direct snub. A member OF the com.
mittee says the reason for not giving Chan.
dIer more was the lack Of confidence the
committee has in Secretary Chan
dler's political integrity. A sim lr
snub was given int the Senate, the
other day. when The House bill appropri-
sting money for the Greeley relief party
was ame ended TO take the control from
Chandler BY substituting volunteers for the
regular naval men. The House refuses 10
concur In the Senate amendment, aud the
Senate refuses 10 recede, and so the bill
hangs fire. MePherson asserted on the
foor Of the Senate that the people have not
that confidence In the Secretary of the
Navy that would justify Congress in pass
ing on any bill giving him untrammeIed
power over anything.
the VEST BILL.
JIG ulltbIy CUmullttCC Vi tuu CCudtC MAS
had under consideration the Vest bill to
authorize the Secretary OF the Treasury to
examine certain vouchers filed by the State
Of Missouri for payment TO the officers Of
militia for military services, as evidenced
by proper pay rolls heretofore fled with,
accepted by and paid upon the bill Of the
Government OF the United states aud re.
port to Congress. The committee have
favossbly considered the bill, and will soon
report on 1t.
TIE RESOLUTIONS.
The Mississippi River Convention, re.
assembled this morning, when resolutions
Of thanks 10 the press Of the District, the
Commissioners and others were immediate.
ly agreed on. VIM. Hitchcock Of ST. Louis,
chsirnon Of the Committee on Resolutions,
presented the unanimous report CT the
committee az follows. Your Committee on
Resolutions, having carefully considered
the various resolutions referred TO them, re.
'pectiuly soemit for your consideration the
following:
WHEREAS, convention representing
the broad area Of eighteen States and Ter.
ritorries, the people Of which are inteusey
interes ted in cheaper transportation from
the producer to the consumer Of all the
products OF the country, whether from the
soil, mine or factory, has assembled at the
National Capitol to expressly give utter.
ance Of the popular desire for the contin.
uous improvement and extension Of thu
great Western waterways; Therefore be 1
Resolved, /. That the interests fo
which this convention is authorized tC
speak are entitled to the highest degree .
consideration from the National Legisla
ture, to which Is intrusted by the Constr
tullon, a. we'll the regulation Of commerce
between the States, IS the promotion o
the general welfare. The domestic com
merce affected IL already one. half of that o
the whole United States, and mor,
thsn twelve times greater thar
the total foreign commerce Of the
nation, and larger than the total commerce
Of the world. Upon this vast commerce
has been levied year by year direct ant
wsstetul tax, enormous In amount, by way
Of increased freights; insurance, demur.
rage, wrecks and repairs caused by sand
bars, snags, treaohsrous banks and othel
obstacles to the safe aud easy navigation
Of the Mississippi river and its navigablt
tributaries. No exercise Of the power OIL
Congress can be more legitimate or more
Just, than the relief OF that commerce
and Of the immense and varied
industries which support II
from such needless burdens, by removing
those obstsoles to navigation. To acquire
these great waterways and the vast terrific
ry they drain was & triumph Of early Amer
lean statemanship; to restrain their mighty
floods and direct their resistlsss energies il
the achievement Of its latest science. 1t 1
for ststesmsnship to complete that triumph
by calling that science permanently to IL
aid