New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-26
CANAL MEN IN CONTENTION
RESOLUTIONS REGARDING THE sTArE's WATER
wAYs-pEMANDs on THE LEGISLATURE.

WAYS-DEMANDS ON THE LEGISLATURE
Buffalo, Sept 25 ,sreciaD.-when Captain Depuy
called the convention Of the Canal and arbor Pro-
tective Union to order in st. Stephens Hall to-day he
remarked AT there any railroad spies who have
sneaked into this hall under the gulse OF boatmen or
farme g. they requested to retire. No one retired
and Captain Depuy proceeded. He believed that the
farmers passed anticana resolutions at the behest OF
tho railroads. He believed Chsuncey NJ. Depew to be
the most colossal confidence man OF the age He also
attacked the Canal Improvement Association, none OF
whose members were present. A letter was read
from O. B. Potter, Of New York. sympathzing with the
objects of the union far deepening the locks and
improving the canals are concerned but deprecatrg at
tacks on the elevators and railroads and rcgrettng his
inability to attend. Captain Clarke offered resou-
ton demanding that the locks on the Erie and Oswe9o
canals be heightened and that the depth be increased to
nine feet. 1t was adopted
resolution calling on the Legislature to appropriate
not less than s25OOOo for the repair Of the locks OF
the Black River Canal unanimously adopted. 1t
VIVA charged that so much water daily drawn nom
tho canal through the tunnel Of the Hydraulic Power
Company of Lockpo that at times the current created
made navigation impossible. The convention demanded
that this tunnel DO closed These resolutions wero also
adopted:
Resolved That the canal from North Buffalo to West
Troy ia being used at many places mill race as well
az the various feeders which tapped to run private
Mills and manufactures, to the serious detriment Oh
canal navigation,
Resolved That the increasing number OF mills and
factories being erected along the chief canal route and
the driving I'D OF the feeders 10 said canal call loudly
for the unqualified repeal Of all water grants or prVi
eos. heretofore granted by the Legislature, the Canal
BOARD or canal authorities, including the repeA OF inc
water right granted the city Of Syracuse at the last
.oo of the Legislature 10 tap 6kAneateies Lake iof
= water supply for said city.
A resolution passed, ndorsing the ACTON OF the
Northeru Boatmen's Association In asking the Legs
,ature for An appropriation Of s6o,000 for the I'm
of the Champlan Canal also one calling TOR
the building of State elevators at NewYork and Bur
milo. Another resolution was adopted demanding tho
enactment OF State law providing for the maintenance
and ouerston Of free PIERS wharves and bulkheads In
New.York CITY and Brooklyn. Tho Legislature was
caed on TO relieve canaboat owners from Ono neces-
,tty Of ipsunng their cargocs Congress WA ssked TO
declare the Delaware and Raran and Chesapeake ana
Delaware canals public highways in order to get rd OF
un,nst canal tolls Another resolution which was passed
demands that tho Legislature OF 1891 make Immediate
provisions by law for the reopenlng to commerce OF
the abandoned lateral canals known ~ the Chensngo'
The Cbemung tho Crooked Lake and the Gcnesee Val
low c.na,s ana arain to establish system Of State
wsterways reaching a near as possible 70 tho Goa.
momntalns a well to the new-found oil regions ana
.t deross The resolution also calls upon the States
~ pennsyysna and Maryland to Join hands with Now
Vork and again reopen free to commerce tner eoan-
Ca.tsin pepuy presented . resolution requesting
tina at.te Legislature not to postpone action on the
sfions of the Railroad Commissioners regard
ne nnimst determinations G0r over 600 years longer.
Trss vas adopted, and the meeting adjourned.