The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-22
WILL BOOM THE CANAL.
DELEGATES TO DISCUSS THE MICA
RA0UA PEOJECT


Some of the Men Who Will be There.
Manager Davis Details the Exact
Status OF the Work on the Canal.
The New York Board of Trades Rep
resentation.
NEW YORK, May 21.-On June Mica
ragua canal convention will be held in st.
Louis, and among the delegates who have
been named by the governors of the various
states to represent respective common
wealths will be O number OF the most noted
public personages in America. The con-
vention will owe its existence to the state
of California, in which a preliminary con-
clave WAS held some months ago and the
general gathering decided upon. The call,
which Is Issued in the name of committee
of nine Californians. is signed by such men
as Morris NJ Estee, recently Il candidate
for United States senator, and four years
ago the permanent chairman of the
republican national convention, and James
G.. Fair and Horace Davis, two western
millionaires who are directly interested in
the Maritime Canal Company. All the
states have responded with gratifying alac>
rity to the request Of the California COM
mittee New Hampshire sends such men as
Z. G. Cheney, B. A. Klmball, Irving " {.
Drew, Stilson Hutchins, Dexter Richards,
John A. Spalding and A. J. Pilsbury.
Gov. Brown Of Kentucky has gone step
further and has named delegation of two,
gressional district in the state.
From Louisville Albert s. Willis,
George M. Davil, Thomas +. Hargis, John
| ID. White, Lucien Adkins and A. E. Wilson
| will 60 Ohio sends ex~Speaker ]. Warren
Keifer of Springfield and Amos Townsend.
| South Dakota sends delegation of eight
| Minnesota, Wisconsin and, In fact, every
western state has named a larger delegation
| than that requested In the original call. All
the eastern states have named the delegates
| requested.
The call itself, which has not yet been
generally published, is a unique document.
| 1t is addressed to the American people and
says among other things: IF the American
people would make water transportation be-
| tween the eastern and western side of the
| continents a successful competitor to land
| transportation the Nicaragua canal must be
| constructed, aud it should be built by
| American capital and controlled by the
| American people.
"Commercially nothing within the range
| of thought will accomplish 30 much for our
country as the building of this great water
WaY, liz Will shorten the distance DY SET De-
| tween the two sides of our country about
| IL, 600 miles, and from the Pacific coast to
Europe about 1000 miles. 1t will create
greater commercial possibilities between the
| different sections of our country and Ii will
| largely increase our trade facilities with all
| foreign countries. 1t will make a compet-
| ing route for transportation by water which
| will neutralize the combinations of land
transportation companies, and yet it will
| tend to increase the very business Of tue
| companies it completes with. 1t will make
secur to this republic much Of the
commerce of the Pacific ocean, now drift
ing into foreign channels. IL will bind to-
gether by the ties of a common interest all
OF the states of the union. 1t will open the
commerce of the Pacific with the valley Of
the Mississippi. The Gulf states aud the
far west will feel the vitalizing forces OF
the new and better markets for the prod
ucs of the soil, because cheaper transpor
tation will increase prices and thus greatly
benefit the interior and producing states Of
the union, while the north and east will
grow strong under an increased demand
for American shipping, and the manufact
uring industries Of these sections will bt
greatly benefited by an improved home and
foreign market.
at will give renewed and stronger ex-
lpression to On American policy Of a main