St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-09
EXTENDING OUR COMMERCE..
New Proposed Relations With Mex
icO.-ROard of Trade DOings.

icO--HOard of Trade DOings.
The important feature of the meeting of
the board of trade yesterday morning was
some correspondence and resolutions IN re-
latiOn to the permanent commercial and in
dustrial exposition to be established at the
City of Mexico. Judge Atwater reported
the receipt of letter from NJ. NJ. De IcaZa,
the Mexican commissioner, now at New
York. Mr.. Bracket said he had received
letters on the same subject and offered the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That this board expresses its
hearty sympathy in the object proposed in
the communication of The Mexican COM
mission and will cooperate to further the
enterprise to the extent Of its ability.
Resolved, That as it is understood that
Judge Isaac Atwater, president of the
board, and Messrs c. M. Loring and Loren
Fletcher, members thereof, are about to
visit the City of Mexico, they be and
hereby are appointed delegates on behalf of
this board to confer with the Mexican
authorities as to the best manner of aiding
the enterprise and also of arranging, if
practicable, for an interchange of commodi-
ties between the said exhibition and the
general products of the valley OF the Mis-
sissippi river and the Northwestern states.
Mr.. Bracket and Maj. Bassett each made
which was that America must look to the
Central and South American states for its
future markets and none too soon would it
be for negotiations looking to that end to
begin. Mr.. Blakely expressed the general
objection that no American bottoms were
used in that trade. Mr.. Loring said that
bottoms for that purpose were now being
laid in Roach's shipyard. and he was salts
fed that in five years America would wrest
the South American trade from England
and Germany.
FREE TRADE AND FREE SHIPS.
Maj. BasSett said he did not wish to
fling fire-brand into the board, but he did
did think it was high time this board
expressed itself on matter of vital i'm
portance to American commerce. That was
the matter of free ships. Itwas well-known
fact that ships could be builded in other
countries cheaper than in America, and
vet. under the American law, none other
than American-built ships can be registered.
This was an outrage and death blow to the
commercial interests of America and he
thought ships. if nothing else, should be
admitted Free Mr.. Barton wanted to know
if the matter of subsidy were not at the
bottom of the difficulty, but President At
water ruled this discussion out of order al
this time. The Bracket resolution was
unanimously adopted and the secretary In
structed to prepare their credentials for the
gentlemen named.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Maj. Bassett of the committee on nayiga
ton and water power reported the ex
pressed desire of p. B. Walker (now II
Washington that the board adopt resolu
ton asking congress to make appropria-
tons for the survey of the Mississippi iron
st. Paul to the falls of ST. Anthony. bu
none this year. for improvement. Tht
matter was referred back to the committee
with instructions to report next week.
AS the special committee to consider Ger.
tain railroad matters, the chair appointed
Messrs. j. 7. Wyman, j. B. Bassett
George A. Bracket, w. S. King and D. S.
Gilmore.