St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-05

ley; not only in the Mississippi valley, but
III the states Of the South and East, and all
the people of the nation. Most of the ques-
tions which have agitated the republic have
been disposed of and the vast capital and
population Of the country has made it pos
sible to realize the hopes and wishes of the
fathers of the republic and turn our atten-
tion to the internal improvement of the
farm of Uncle Sam. He pleaded for COM
prehensive view of the subject, and was
sorry for the spirit of some Of the remarks
OF the last speaker, and saw in that spirit a
reason why the river and harbOr bill was
defeated in the last congress. He wanted
to know how the interests of the country
could be better helped than by uniting
together the Mississippi and the lakes.
Then the Mississippi would not only flow
unvexed to the sea- but there would be an
inland waterway connecting all the cities of
the Mississippi valley with the city of New
York. Any view of internal improvements
that ignores this is sectional and narrow.
| Applause from Illinois. Illinois
ALREADY HAD A CANAL
which it proposed to give as a free gift to
the country, if it would only improve it.
Cut through the Hennepin canal and you
practically move Chicago 160 miles
west of where it now is. Not so
much applause from Illinois). He wanted
to get Missouri out of this narrow view Of
looking at things. This canal would be in
| the interest OF St. Louis Kansas City,
Omaha, and every city on the Mississippi
and of all the country tributary to them.
Illinois comes to the convention with no
narrow feeling. 1t wanted to be generous,
! and more, too, to the interests of the South
ern Mississippi, and merely asked that the
convention do the same for that state.
| CONGRESSMAN JERRY MURPHY
rose to question of personal privilege and
took the platform. He was sorry that it
was necessary to defend himself by answer
| ing the gentleman from Missouri. He
wasn't here to go into detail, but would say
that when the gentleman took the liberty of
questioning the historical facts in his own
paper concerning the convention of 1S45, he
would only say he was sorry for and ashamed
of the ignorance of the gentleman from
! Missouri.
GOV. BRoSS
objected to and repudiated Mr.. Hatch's in
sinuation that he and Congressman Murphy
had fixed their speeches together. But
they of Chicago were used to such. things
from Missouri and especially from ST.
Louis.
There were calls for Gen. Henderson of
Illinois and GOV. Stannard, but neither of
them were present
A delegate from Minnesota said that they
had heard about the washing of dirty linen
between Minneapolis and st. Paul. He
moved that Chicago and st. Louis have
also an opportunity to wash their dirty
linen.
the chairman stated it would be so OF
dered unless there was objection.
The convention then adjourned for din
| ner.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
1t was 2:34 in the afternoon when the
chairman'S gavel fell and the resolutions
prepared by the committee and unani-
mously Endorsed by it, were read by Gen.
Beadle of Dakota.
Mr.. E. r. Boutor of Iowa, the chairman
of the committee on resolutions, moved the
| adoption of the report. There We're cries
for question" and the rules being sus-
pended they were adopted viva voce with a
shout, followed by much cheering and clap
ping of hands.
Mr.. Oltgeld Of Illinois proposed an addi-
tional resolution, but point of order was
made that it should be referred to the COM
mittee on resolutions. For the purpose of ad-
mitting the resolution, motion was made to
discharge the committee, and the motion was
| lost
JUDGE FRY.
At this point Gov. Bross introduced Judge
Fry. He said the last speech he made was in
New Orleans two years ago on the Florida
ship canal. This he said was the outlet
of all the produce that had come to points
the other side of the gulf. First, this
shortens the route from Europe and Eastern
cities 800 miles each way to New Orleans,
and that of the most dangerous navigation
on the high seas. Second, this would avoid
4l<@
ernment reports showed that in ten years
the loss of ships by reason of this had been
over So 900, 900. Since the war
the destruction has been less be-
cause of steam and the placing
of signal lights. The extra insurance on
ships that navigate this water was annually
IS, 900, 000 The Florida ship canal would
| save this expense. 1t was the natural out
let for the richest producing country
that the sun ever shone on. Again,
it had been supposed by many
that canals had gone out OF use. Briefly he
went into history, showing that EngIand's
experience had proven that canals were to
be worked together with the railroads.
After trying the railway system exclusively
English statesmen had turned to the canals.
which were built by private capital, and
purchased all that could be had at any price
The result had been the Strengthening of
the whole system of traffic. These can ais
are all on a paying basis. In
Germany, and in Holland particu-
Iarly, the canals and railroads work
most satisfactorily. In Holland the canals
have been built by private capital, the
government backing them to the extent of
& per cent. per annum on the stock in
vested. 1t is true all over the world that
canals pay larger per cent. On cost of
construction than railroads. This is recog-
nized in European countries and they Are
constantly building others. The Suez, pay
ing 1S per cent. dividends, and seventeen
others are now in successful operation or are
being made so. All this he urged as argu.
ing favorably to the Florida ship canal
He believed the cost would be S25, 900, 600,
more or less A syndicate of London
capitalists had been formed and it was ex-
pected that the work would be rushed
through in eighteen months. He favored
improvements OH the Mississippi and said
dwelt at considerable length on the neces-
sity of such transportation rates being
secured that the grain could be got into the
| markets of Europe.
At this point time" was called on Mr..
Fry, but by unanimous consent he was al
lowed to 90 ON, which he did, touching on
the tariff and other topics until time was
again called.
THE CLOSE.
Mr.. Donnelly moved to discharge the
committee on resolutions, saying that under
the rules adopted so long as that committee
was in existence it muZzled the convention,
and they should either release the commit