Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-01
COMMITTEES NAMED.
Representative Men Who Will Enter
tain Tropical Visitors.
MACHINERY HALL is OFFERED.
The Right Of Uncle Sam to Establish
Riparian Lines Secuted.
COL. ThOS. NJ. BAYNE ASKED TO EXPLAIN

The directors of the Chamber of Com
merce met yesterday afternoon, with Presl-
dent Sehmertz in the chair.
Mr.. Ricketson, of the Committee on Man.
ufacturers, offered a resolution indorsing
the International Maritime Exposition,
which is to be held in Boston from Novem-
Der 4, 1889, till January 4, 1890, and calling
the attention of Pittsburg manufacturers to
it as favprable opportunity for display
of their articles of manufacture. The reso-
luton was adopted.
The following letter from Arthur Kirk,
the powder manufacturer, addressed to the
President of the Chamber, was read and filed: {:
PITTsBURG, September IS, 1889.
VIM. E Schmertz:
In the published minutes of meeting of the
Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, on the 10Th
instant while the subject of riparian rights was
under discussion. the following appears:
Colonel Bayne asked permission to make a
few remarks on the subject, which was granted.
"Mr. Bayne then stated that the work of
establishing water lines was supererogation on
the part of the State of Pennsylvania, and she
has no legal right to do it" The work of:estab-
fishing such lines belongs distinctly to the ma
tonal Government which has supreme juris-
dIction in such matters. He advised the
Chamber of Commerce not to commit itself on
the question.
1 remember that back in the seventies law
was presented by the United States Engineer
for the approval of your Chamber, and to be
passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
granting authority to the United States to
construct the Davis Island dam, and at the
last session of the Legislature the Western
PENNSYLVANIA River Improvement Association,
after great trouble and expense, got an act
through the Pennsylvania State Legislature
authorizing the construction OF the HHerrs
Island dam by granting the right to the United
States to erect dams on all the navlgable waters
of the State.
But / do not know of any law or right the
United States has to establish riparian lines.
aud it will be great public benefit if Hon.
Thomas NJ. Bayne will at your next meeting
inform the public where the authority can be
found for saving the work of establishing such
lines belongs distinctly to the national Gov
ernment, which has supreme jurisdiction in
such matters. ARTHUR KIRK.
MR.. LYON EXPLAINS.
In a conversation with DISPATCH re-
porter, concerning Mr.. Kinks letter, Dis
trict Attorney Walter Lyon said that he be-
Geved that Colonel Bayne meant that no
matter what the State might do, the United
States would not consider it binding as far
as natural high and low water marks were
concerned; that in the case of the Davis
Island dam, the enabling act was passed
through the Legislature simply because
some adjacent territory, outside of the high
water mark, had to be taken That was
also the case with the Herr's Island DAM
The idea, as expressed by Mr.. Lyon, is that
the United States has absolute eminent
domain over high and low water mark
property on any natural waterway.
A communication from the National
Board of Trade, announcing the annual
meeting to be held in Louisville on Octo-
Der 16, was received and filed.
A communication from the directors of
the Western Pennsylvania Exposition So
ciety, offering Mechanical Hall for their
use during the visit of the delegates to the
International Congress, was referred to the
Committee on Entertainment.
The Oil Well Supply Company was
elected to membership.
President w. E. Schmertz announced the
following committees to look after and en-
tertain the delegates to the International |
Congress during their sojourn in Pittsburg: |
WHO THE GENTLEMEN ARE.
RECEPTION CoMMITTEE-w. F. Scehmertz.
Chairman: George A. Kelly, John A. Rickett-
son, Reuben Miller, Hon. John F. bravo, Rev.
T. NJ. Bayne, Hon. William Mccall, Hon
F. T. Pearson, n. B. Ford, George L. Holiday
James H. Lindsey, James Hunter. John Har-
General c. l. Fitzhugh. W. D. Wood |
A. NJ. Beyers, n. P. Reed Alexander Bradley,
Joshua Rhodes, Alexander Nimick William |
McConway. Henry Phipps, Jr., George W. |
Morris, A. l. Griffin. William G. Park, Joseph |
Walton, w. w. O'Neil, George A. Berry |
Samuel Brown. ]. S. Wightman, William Rose |
burg, 7. B. Atterbury, E. NJ. Ferguson, J. B. |
Ford, Jesse H. Lippincott, Charles ]. Clarke, |
A.Groetzinger. William Lauffler, William Ray, |
Or. u. NJ. Anderson, George Westinghouse, |
Jr., James Hemphill, Charles Able Charles /
Lockhart, M. w. Watson, S. Beymer, w. w, |
Lawrence. Baron J. F. Lagerfelt, Wilson |
Miller, William Weihe. ]. N Mccullough.
Il. b. TAYLOR, J. Morton Hall, S. L. McHenry'
John y. Mech, W. A. Magee John NJ KeIIv
I. W. Neyin, Thomas ]. Keenan, John H Dal.
zell, Z. NJ. O'Neill, A J. Barr, Hou Morrison
Foster, Henry Holdship, Hon. Samuel Wicker
sham Colonel I. B. Roberts, Oliver McClin-
took. w. P. Herbert, Gilbert Folansbee
Judges Stowe, White, Ewing, Slagle, Over,
Hawkins and Collier.
COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMED b Scott
Chairman, Robert Pitcairn ]. V Patton
Thomes 2. Watt, Calvin Wells H, H Bvram'
H. w. Oliver, Jr., D. c. Ripley Colonel ]. M
Schoonmaker, NJ K. Moorhead
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE-H c. Frick
CHAIRMAN: h. h. Porter, S. B. HARRISON J. j.
Nandergrift NJ. Atwood, George W. Dilworth.
John A Wood. H. Sellers Mckee, ]. e.
Schwartz, Walter Chess
COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT-C W
baochelor. Chairman; Hon. George H Ander-
son, w. 2. De Armitt Charles Meyran. A. F. |
Heating, Robert Monroe d. C. Rerbst- I p
Bernq. Peter Dick, d. McCargo ]. D. Weeks
John Blndley, b. L. Wood, Jr., Ralph Baeley' |
John b jackson, James A Chambers AIex.
ander Dempster
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