Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-23
IT'S LABORs OVER.
Close Of the Session OF the West
ern Commercial Congress.

The Resolutions Cause q Very Lively De
Minnesota Delegates Withdraw
Congress Made Permanent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 1s.-Ths
western commercial congress closed it.
four days session at late hour las,
evening. The discussions and papers
read during the sitting were of a very
interesting character, many men of ma,
tional reputation taking part in the
proceedings. Before adiourning reso
luton was adopted making the con
gress permanent, the selection of the
next place of meeting being left to the
secretary. The report of the commit,
tee on resolutions resulted in lively
fight, the majority report being finally
adopted, which caused the Minnesota
delegates to withdraw. The great fight
was over the free coinage and tariff
resolutions. A substitute for the ma
jority report was first adopted by a vote
of 80 to II, but after number of dele
gates had left the vote was reconsid-
cred and the majority report adopted
Following are the resolutions:
MAJORITY REPORT.
]. Resolved, That this congress recomm end
to the congress OF the United States the
adoption of a law authorizing free unlimited
coinage of silver.
z Resolved. That the government should
issue a sufficient amount of legal tender
notes to be redeemable in both gold and
oliver, to restore the equilibrium between
money and all other products
8. Resolved, That we are unalterably op-
posed to the protective tariff principle, and
We favor a tariff for revenue only; and we
urge congress to enact laws to place the
tariff upon purely revenue basis at as early
q date as practicable.
Resolved, That the inter state commerce
Of the country should be controlled by the
people.
s. Resolved, That 1t Is the sense OF this
congress that theInter- state Commerce COM
mission be strengthened by appropriate
legislation, to the end that equitable rates in
the interest of the people may be estab-
lished and maintained.
6 Resolved, That the waterways OF a
country are natures arteries of commercial
circulation, and the peoples surest safe
guard against railway combinations and
railway pooling, and the best of all the
possible guarantees of cheap transportation,
and,
2. Resolved. That it is the duty OF the
national government to pursue a liberal
policy for the Improvement of the water
ways of the country.
8. Resolved. That the Mississippi river and
its affiuents should receive the special care
OF the government, and ample appropria-
tions from time to time should be made to
carry ont the Improvements already begun
under the Mississippi and Missouri river
commissions, the completion and perfec-
ton OF the levee system, and the mainten-
ance of navigable channels in all the tribu-
taries of said rivers, in far as the same
may be practicable.
g. Resolved. That we indorse the action of
congress in making an appropriation for the
construction of the Hennepin canal con-
Meeting the northern lakes and the Mfssis
sippi river, and recommend that congress
make ample appropriations to complete the
work already begun by the government
10. Resolved, That we recommend the pro-
posed canal connecting the Tenn sSee and
Mississippi rivers. provided the survey now
soon to be made by the state of Tennessee
establishes the practicability of the same
II. Resolved, That indorse the action
of congress in making appropriations for
deep water at Galveston, and urge the exer-
else of the same liberal policy as to all such
other harbors on the gulf coast as may be
that all the ocean outlets possible may be
afforded to the vast and growing commerce
of this great valley
IL. Resolved, That favor the construc-
ton Of ship canal connecting our northern
lakes 18th the Atlantic ocean. provided the
same be found practicable as to the expense
and the business interest involved
13. Resolved, That we favor and urge upon
congress the protection of our harbors. and
such of our nuvigable rivers, the Mississ ppi
river especially. discharge their waters
into the oceans that belt our vast domain;
and the establishment of navy yard at
some eligible point on the Mississippi river
near its mouth.
IA. Resolved, That in the Judgment of this
congress the Mississippi river can be and
should be made navigable for ocean steam
ers as now enter the port of New Orleans,
for a considerable distance above that port,
and that without attempting to name point
or fix limit to said ship navigation,
earnestly recommend to the national con-
gress the yearly passage of a measure SINH
lar to the one known as the Burroughs bill,
which provided the appropriation of 10000
0t0 to be used in the construction of levees
from st. Paul to the gulf, thereby deepening
the channel of the river and protecting
millions of acres OF the richest land in the
world.
Is. Resolved, That the chairman of this
congress appoint a committee of three from
each state represented here to lay these res
olutiOns before the next national congress
and urge the adoption of the policies herein
recommended.
16. Resolved. That we recomm end a system
of canals and slack water navigation to con-
meet the waters of the Tennessee with the
Gulf of Mexico. southwark by way of Mobile,
thence eastward by way of Savannah; also a
ship canal from the head waters of the Ohio
to Lake Erie and ship canal from the head
of Lake Superior to the Mississippi river and
that congress is hereby petitioned to ap-
point a commission TO examine into and re
port as to the most feasible means of attain
ing these ends.
IL. Resolved. That the second greatest
river in the country, the Columbia. which
the government is now improving by tetty
at it's mouth and a canal around the cas-
cades should be further improved, if prac-
ticable by a canal around the Dailes and the
removal of the obstruction at Priests Rapids
and other points in order that the vast wheat
product of eastern Washington and eastern |
Oregon may so to the sea by the natural |
of that region.
Is. Resolved, That the construction of the |
canal is matter of vital conse- |
Quence to the United States, especially to the |
Pacific coast thereof that there are important |
and political reasons why this |
great interoceanc highway should exist as a |
American work, under Ameri- |
can control: and that our capitalists and |
merchants are earnestly requested to give |
their friendly aid and countenance to the |
of the Nicaragua canal, a |
work which will greatly benefit the south |
western and western states and territories of |
the United States, affordiny to a considerable |
extent the solution of the great question of
and securing to the republic
the DOlitical and oil inf |