Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-08
Deep Water Convent "a.

The following report from the CorI- mittee on Resolutions of the Deep Water Convention held at Denver last week was adopted by that body:
 WHEREAS, It is the sense Of the States of Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Ne braska, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Cal flo. mia and Nevada, and the Territor- ies of New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah Arizona, Dakota and Indian Territory, in convention assembled at Denver, Colorado, under the call of His Excel | lency, Ava Adams, Governor of the State of Colorado, that the commer- cial, agricultural, mining, manufacture ing and stock interests of all that part of the United States lying west of the Mississippi river, and the commercial and naval advantages of our country generally, demand permanent deep water port on the northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexico, therefore, he it
 RESOLVED, that the Senators and Representative in Congress from the States hereinbefore referred, to, and the delegates from the Territories here in set forth, be and they are hereby most earnestly requested to procure at once permanent available appro- priation of the amount necessary to secure deep-water port on the north west coast of the Gulf of Mexico. west of the ninety-third and one-half de- grees west longitude, capable Of admit ting the largest vessels, and at which the best and most accessible harbor can be secured and maintained in the shortest possible time and at the least cost
 RESOLVED, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing res , olations, committees, to consist of five members from each State and three from each Territory represented in this convention, be appointed by their respective delegations; that it shall be the duty of said committees to see that the object of said resolu- tons be properly presented and vigor- Ously urged before Congress, and to that end with the view of cooperation and concert of action the chairman of the respective committees shall be, and they are hereby constituted and cre- ated central committee.
 RESOLVED, That the states and Ter ritories and commercial bodies repre- sented in this convention approve the idea of securing deep water on the Gulf coast of Texas, by private capital, and they do hereby respectfully re- quest and urge their Senators, Repre- sentatives and delegates in Congress to lend their united support to such bills as may be introduced for such purpose, with proper safeguards for the protection of the Government, pro vidcd that the port or point suggested be one desirable for the location of 6 deep-water harbor.
 PREAMBLE.
 WHEREAS, The need of a deep-wa
 ter harbor on the coast of the Gulf o
 Mexico directly and vitally affects
 nearly one fourth of the people of the
 United States, we deem the requests contained in the foregoing resolutions ! of such great and paramount impor tance as to justify their reference tt
 official notice of the President of tn,
 United States, in order that he may b, duly and fully informed, and be able as contemplated in the Constitution of the United States, to give to Con gress information on the state of tn , Union, and recommend to their con
 sideration such measures as he shal
 judge necessary and expedient There fore be 1t
 RESOLVED, That copy of the fore : going resolutions be transmitted t the President of the United States, an, that he be requested to make, in hi next annual message to the Congres of tine United States, such recommend
 ations, with reference to the location of deep-water harbor on the north west coast of the Gulf of Mexico, as l. shall deem proper and expedient. Reference having been made to tn report of the Statistical Committee al
 pointed by the Fort Worth Deep-Ni
 ter Convention, it was on motion It
 ferred to the permanent Executiy ,. Committee without recommendation