The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-22
RIVER MEETING OVER.
Resolutions Passed and Demand. Upou
Congress Made.

congress Made.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE Mis-
siouri river improvement convention
closed their meeting yesterday after pass
ing resolutions and electing a permanent
organization
| Among the resolutions adopted are the
/ following:
I'm view Of the national Importance Of
the Improvement of these WATERWAYS. we
refer with peculiar qualification TO the
declaration o: President Harrison that
1t II better policy when a work has once
been determined To be of national sicniti-
canoe that the appropriation should be
sufficient TO bring 1t speedily and without
loss TO a conclusion and commend
with the highest approval the cnuncia-
Ton OF such policy on the part
oil the national executive. We commend
10 congress policy of adequate and con-
t'nuou> appropriations, To DC placed at the
disposal OF the Off, e.S OF the government,
Tor such application Is in their scientific
Judgment viii most surely, speedily and
permanently open these great waterways
10 the commerce of the country
The appropriations for the imorove-
ment of the Missouri and M.ssiss ppi
rivers should lie separate from the river
and harbOr bill, the magnitude of the in
terests dependent thereon being such as to
entitle them to national recognition and
the peculiar fostering attention of the gov
eminent"
we urgently represent that the neces-
sites of the situation demand appropria-
ton by congress of the sum of 8, 900 90
FOR the Missouri river and of e. ,OO0.O o for
he Il
priations should be continued until these
rivers are made safely navigable from the
headwaters of the Missouri TO its mouth
and from the mouth of the Missouri TO the
gulf"
THE efforts for the improvement of the
Mississippi river in the past ten years
have proven that the contrO. of the flood
waters of that stream by means of levees,
whereby its wat-rs are kept within the
channel and the present location of the
river maintained is essential TO the i'm
provement of the river for navigation, no
less than for the protection of the lower
valley from the enormous damage re suit
ing from annual inundation, such Ievees
should be recognized by congress as
part OF the necessary Improvement of that :
stream and be adequately provided for in !
appropr ations."
"The pope OF the states bordering on !
aud travcrsed by the Missouri and Miss
iSsippi rivers are urgci TO appeal to the |
of congress representing their !
districts and the senators from their states J
10 make the Improvement of these rivers |
by continuous and adequate appropria- |
tons the object of their earnes, and united (
efforts"
After the adoption of the resolutions,
permanent organization was effected, with ,
an executive committee as follows: Col :
orado, Colonel \. C. Fisk and W. VI. Green
Df Chamberlain and Z. j. Crawford of
Pierre; Missouri, Isaac VI. Mason of ST
Louis and 6. F.. Putnam of Kansas City;
Iowa, F. p. Murphy of Sioux City and
Jonas NJ. Cleland of Sioux City: Ne
Draska, James Stephenson Of Omaha
md Il. $ Ramsey of Plattsmouth;
c. l. Robinson and
w. \. Evermore of GreenviIle: Arkansas.
B. Waddle of Helena and H. D. Kelly
If Fort Smith; North Dakota, Matthew
+. Edgerley of Bismarck and Robert
Tracy of Steele; Louisiana, F. l. Max
we'll of Mound and A. NJ. Cooke of New
Orleans; Illinois, II. C. Hull of Prophets
own and T. W. Halliday of Cairo; Kan
as. T. Dwight Thatcher of Topeka and
George w. Martin of Kansas City, Kan.
On motion of Colonel ~ c. Dawes a res
'lution indorsIng Kansas City for the Dem
'cratic national convention was adopted
With hurrah.
The executive committee met later and
ected George F. Putnam of Kansas City
S chairman, j. NJ. Cleland of Sioux City
nd W. A. Evans of Nebraska as vice
Presidents and W. II. Miller as secretary
nd chose as an executive board G.. w.
lartin Of Kansas, Robert Gates Of Mem
his, l. NJ. Mason OF St. Louis and James
stephenson of Omaha Is