Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-18
ON TO Deep WATER.
inter- State Dsep Water Committee
Created by the Denver Convention
Meats in Adjourned Session.
The Form of a Bill Adopted Providing
for a S1O,O0O,000 Appropriation to
be Expended on One Point.
She Locsii7n TO bs Selected by Cows, Dment
EaEiaeess After the appropriation
Hos BseE Made.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Oct. 1.-THE Inter
state deep water committee crea.sd by
the late Denver deep water Convention
met IN this City 70 .dsy in adj turned sgs-
sion" The following members were pres
ent..
Arkansas. 7. F. Ssrrels, P.ce Buff;
Wtiiam Elshosss, For. Smiin.
Colorado, Governor Avs Atsma..x-
Goy2rnor Evans, F. L, Dana CT Denver;
9; G. Dairs, Leadville; Sen.or Adsir OF
kansas, Howell jones and z. Mui-
vsne. Topeka; W. E. Hu,chison, Wichita,
sad L ". Emory and Marsh NJ. Muir
dock OF Lawrence.
Neb-a,ks-Hon. Champion c.; Case,
Herman Kountz snd Wlllis4' n. Mason,
o nsha, . E Goodell Of I!acoln. 'sW,
M Mexico-Frank C.Piune ottTaos
Ana o L H0GghSon OF Las Vegas =.
I)Is-A. ?. Clsmberis \ ii 34s
Moines. = ~
M,ssOur'-Ssnator D Fl Armstrong.
TEXT. A. Carroll CT Denton,
UsAh-E. Wilder and Charles p Touey.
The meeting WAS called TO order BY
werner ADAM, the Chairman, and
Mr.. F. L, Dams. the secretsry, wss az
MS pos. EE Governor EYnrs stated
:le Of 3ct CT the meeegg H-c1 is % visit
Texas and Transact Any business that
| night be brought mp Tor consideration.
Mi Mason OF Omaha remarked, that
knowing the hospitality Of the people Of
TexSs, ne supposed the committee would
oe called on to consider several ilvit.-
tons to accept and Ell 0Y the same, and
ADDED that the re representatives. OF lis sec
lion came long ways TO sid 10 the work
Tor which the body WAS cAlled together,
| sEd ne desired 10 see the business trans
| acted first, snd afterwards consider inyi-
| cations from the people OF rexse to par
take OF their hospitality
Judge Gresham OF Galveston, repre-
senting the municipality and citizenship
Of his city, extended the committee q
hesrty invitation 20 visit il, stating thst
free transportation would be furnished.
Sans'or Houston then extended the
hospitality Of the southwest to the COM
mit.ee.
Mayor Bud Connor thsn ste ped to the
front and said tast DC TIE committee
aad business TO transact he would
not burden them with & long
and formal speech, but IN the
nsme OF Dallas ne extended & hearty
welcome to ths commute
COsnel Mason thea read the FLOWING
resolutions:
Whereas, the government Of the Unised
States, under whose exclusive coutroI
The hsrbors of cur country nave been
placed By cur cnnstitu'i ion, has contrib
afed pearlv $4,000 go Of money and
nearly 20. 000. COO acres Of ouc natl onal
and to great railway lines tei9ug-
ng to nriVate corporations and
-unning scr SO the northern part Ct our
country, aud
Wn.re.s, the northern and
eastern hsrbors through which
which these railway lines empty their
E fl tn.o the lakes and OCEANS have had
Macy millions OF money appropriated
from time to time By the Congress to
nee: the past demands Ct iae YES. COM
nercs thus hui. up, sud
Whereas, there is an immense srea OF
cou2sry wing oetweeu tue Rocky noun
tsins and the Mississippi river copstitut-
lag nearly cue third OF our na.io0al de-
main and having nearly one
fourth CT our national pOpu-
lation the NATURAL outlet OF
which is the Cali OF Mexico, bat fer the
opening Of waoee hsr5ors the Congress
a.s appropriated am0aats totally in
Adequate, snd
Whereas, it ls nc. consistent with the
general welfare, nor csn we believ1 that
{. national sense Of justice and fair play
Of cur fellow citizsus who have been SO
greatly benefited By the appropriations
for northern AID eastern hsrpors will in
sist that TIE trs fl; CT this great region
shall be forced to be transported
half way across the continent,
thus imposing e burden
On our commerce which amounts Otter TO
& to:Al Introduction, and az ell times to
serioug charge upon Doth consumer and
| producer, therefore
r solved by this convention thstve de.
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