The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-15
CHICACO'S RIGHTS WILL Be TESTED
Proceedings of the, Joliet Meeting
of Yesterday.
run Report OF the Joliet Convention Minus
the Endless Talk of Delegates
Committees Appointed.
THE PROCEEDINGS,

THE PROCEEDINGS.
JOLIET, Feb. l2,-[Special. THE
anti-sewage convention was held pur.
suant to call in this city on this after.
noon. Agreeable to the call, the del.
egates assembled at the rooms of the
Joliet Business Mems Association
Immediately after the noon hour.
At 1870 o'clock the meeting was
called to order by Mayor Kelly, of
Joliet, and J. G.. ElwOod, of Joliet,
was selected as temporary chairman:
NJ. II. MolOney, Of Ottawa, was elected
temporary secretary: and Ebin j.
Ward, of Marse,lles assistant secre-
tary. These officers were afterwards
made permanent.
a committee on credentials was
chosen as follows: Geo. Brown, Nor
ris; Judge Snyder, Ottawa; Mayor
Means, Peru: f. NJ. Shipman, Mar
settles: y. j. Rullison, Seneca.
The Mum resolution, passed by the
legislature in 1881, giving authority to
the city of Chicago to erect pumping
works at Bridgeport was then read.
At this juncture, owing to the
crowded condition Of the room, the
dious quarters in the county court
room.
Immediately after converting in the
new quarters the committee on Gre
dentials reported. The report showed
delegations present from Morris,
Joliet, Ottawa, Lockport. Seneca
Peru, Marseilles and Peoria. The OF
taWa delegation was as follows:
VIM. Cullen, E. A. Nattinger, Jas.
Briggs, II. G. Jordan, w. j. Dwyer
John Madden, VIM. Thomas, Judge
Frank Snyder, M. II. Moloney, w. J.
Dawell.
On motion committee on resolu-
tions was appointed by the chair, con-
sisting Of one member of each dele
cation present.
The chair named Col. Taylor, of
Peoria; Gen. II. G. Hayes, Morris: VIM.
Cullen, Ottawa: Henry Rheam, Peru;
). ;. Stowe, LockpOrt; ThOS. II. Riley,
Joliet: Alex. Naughey. Seneca, and
|. n. Trowbridge, Marseilles, as such
committee.
The committee on resolutions pre-
scented their report. Upon motion the
preamble was first taken up and, after
some discussion, adopted. The reSO-
buttons were then taken up as follows:
WHEREAS, The city authorities of
Chicago propose to add greatly to the
injury and discomfort now Occasioned
to the people of the Desplaines and
Illinois valleys by increasing the filth
now sent from the Illinois & Michigan
canal by pumping from the South
Fork (the stock yard diStrict) of the
Chicago River; and,
WHEREAS, The city of Chicago has
never complied with the Mum resO-
luton of 1881, either as to the time of
providing the Bridgeport pumping
works or as to the amount of water
pumped; nor has said city maintained
for any considerable period volume
of water not less than $4,000 cubic feet
per minute; nor has she maintained
such a volume as has remedied the
evils complained Of: and,
WHEREAS, We regard any provision
for the sanitary relief Of Chicago. by
which the sewage Of said city is
turned into the Desplaines River, as
violation of law: therefore, be it
RcsOlred, BY the people of the valley
represented in convention here assem-
bled, that we protest against the max
ing of tributaries to the Illinois &
Michigan canal through which any
new source of filth shall be pumped
into said canal or any devices by
which any of the sewage of the South
Fork shall be carried to the pumps,
pumping into said canal, otherwise
than that which now reaches there
through gravity source, or by any in
crease of water through said canal eX-
cept as may be furnished by the cree
ton of additional pumping machinery
at BridgepOrt upon the canal lands,
1881.
2. That the canal commissioners
are hereby requested to comply with
the terms of the Mum resolution by
providing the feeders therein mention
ed, and that said feeders be operated
so as to exclude the Chicago sewage
from the canal entirely whenever Chi
cago fails to provide the requisite
volume Of water at Bridgeport.
,. That we recommend that the
mayors and presidents of the cities
and towns along the Des PLANES and
Illinois rivers be appointed a commit
tee to see that the provisions OF the
law as they now stand on the statute
books be complied with on the part of
the city of Chicago.
Immediately after the adoption of
the above resolutions the convention
adjourned.
As recommended in the resolutions
adopted. the Mayors of the several
cities, and the Presidents of the
Board of Trustees of these several
towns, will meet in Ottawa on Feb.
&c. to discuss the questions involved
and arrange some definite program
for further action.
The Mendoza Bulletin claims, on the