Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-06-07
INTERSTATE CONGRESS.
In Behalf of industries and Immi
grafton.

SouthernInter- State Immigration
and Industrial Congress has been
full of speech making, and has
dispatched considerable amount
of work besides. After the
morning session was begun the
regular order was the report
Of the Committee on Resolutions
and the following report was
adopted:
We, the Subcommittee on
Resolutions, after a careful con-
sideration of the several plans
presented deem it highly desir
able that some uniform method
Of action be adopted and recon-
mend the following:
First-That wherever county
and State organizations have not
already been formed they be at
once perfected, and that the Of
fees of such county organizations
constitute a State Board of Immi-
grafton.
Second That the officers duly
authorized in such State Conven-
ton shall report results of their
efforts at least twice year to the
Secretary of the Southern Immi-
grafton Congress.
Third-That the Southern I'M
migra ton Congress urge the CO.
operation of all roads, State and
county officers. and the citizens
at large in the furtherance of the
plan proposed.
Forth-That this Southern I'm
migration Congress earnestly
recommend to the Congress OF
the United States the establish
ment Of a permanent exposition
at the National Capitol, in which
the product and resources of the
several States of the Union may
be fifty and properly displayed,
and we urge upon the Legisla-
lures of the various States an ap-
preparation Of money to estab
lish and maintain this most prac-
tical method of bringing to public
attention the resources Of ou1
| common country.
Fifth-That the Congress o1
the United States is earnestly re
quested to make such appropria
tions as may be needed to carry
into effect the recommendation
of this Congress.
Sixth-That this Congress APP
/ point a committee of five of its
| members to devise some practi
cal plan to lay before the better
class of immigrants from Europe
the manifold advantages of the
| South and direct this immigra
ton to the Southern States
which committee shall report t(
the next meeting Of this Con
gress.
WHEREAS, It is the sense o
this Congress that the exhibition
Of the products OF the farms
) mines and forests Of the South
ern States in the Northern, New
England and Northwestern
States and foreign countries i
an excellent mode of advertising
therefore be 1t
Risolred, That we endorse tn
work of the Executive Committe
Of this association and their eff
forts to make exhibits in tn
, Northern, New England an
Northwestern States, and in tn
Dominion of Canada, and earn
l estly request Southern editors
5 landed corporations, emigratio
associations, boards of trade
? railway lines and progressiv
business men of the South to &C
operate with the Executive Con
: mittee in enlarging this mode 0
5 advertising by establishing
a train of cars in which will be e1
S hibited the products of tn
South, said train of cars to b
carried to every section of sal
Northern, New England an
| Northwestern States, and to th
Dominion of Canada and tn;
similar advertising shall be dor
in foreign countries as soon {
n practicable, the details of the e.
. hibit being left to the executiN
= committee, as it is composed {
5. one representative from eac
IS Southern State.
ResolUed, That committee
five, with Gov. Northen.
Georgia, as Chairman, be a
le pointed to confer with officers
# the Southern Railway al
Steamship Association in regal
to rates on Southern products.
Resotued, That in the opinio
of this Congress one of the co
ditions which has greatly +
tarded the material developmen
of the States here represent
and which serves to discoura.
immigration is the deplorat
condition of our public road
Second, that this Congress urs
upon the Legislatures Of the Sc
eral States the great importan
of adopting better methods
building and maintaining o
public roads under intellige
engineering supervision. Be
Resotued, That this Congre
urge most earnestly the NOV
ment towards direct trade, bo
in the matter of exports and i
ports between the ports on t
South Atlantic and Europe, viii
has already been successfully
augurated by loading lar
steamers with grain and Weste
products from the South Att;