Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-19
DELEGATES REPORT
owans at Good Roads Convention
Issue Resolutions.
ENDORSED BY LOCAL MEN PRESENT
j. A. PalIister, Calvin Manning and
Thomas Reiner Represented ottum-
wa and WapelIo County at ST. Louis
Report by Harper and TomIinson.

The Iowa delegates to the good roads |
convention recently held at st. Louis have |
recently made their report The Ottumwa
delegates were J. A. Pallister, Calvin Man
ming and Thomas Reiner. The report Is |
as follows:
We the delegates of the national and in
ternational good roads association, ASSEM-
bled in the city of st. Louis, April p, %
and 20, 1903, impressed with the great ne
cessity of improving the highways of our
country, hereby declare it as our unalter-
able judgment:
/. That the building of good roads in
the United States is now of paramount
Importance to national prosperity and com
mercial supremacy.
,. That we recommend the harmonious
cooperation of township, county. state and
national government in furtherance of this
great end.
3. That the association believes that the
appropriation heretofore made for the
building of railroads. canals the improve
ments of rivers and harbors has been wise
and beneficent, but an appropriation for
the improvement of our common highways
has now become necessary to extend the
blessings of intelligence and to promote
high order of citizenship among all classes
of people and to meet the ever-growing ne
cessities of the agricultural interests.
4. That we recommend the establishment
throughout the United States of a complete
and perfect organization from the nation
down to the township, which organiza-
lions shall interlap each other and make n
complete national association
/ To this end we recomend that the dele
gates here assembled on their return to
their respective states proceed as repre-
sentatiycs of the national organization oil
the good roads association wherever such
! a. Il SAINT n1rfS In
| organize their states, counties and town
| ships along the line herein suggested, and
| where state organizations now exist to give
4 our earnest support and influence to such
local state organization.
Your committee on resolutions respect
! fully reports the following resolutions and
recommend their adoption:
J. That we indorse the work of the Of
| flee of public road inquiries, United States
department of agriculture with sufficient
appropriation Mt its disposal to extend its
work into all the states, and that we es-
pecialy urge the senators and representa-
tives in congress to vote for such increased
1 appropriations.
. Whereas the greatest progress in the
| Improvement of public highways has been
made in the states which have adopted the
4 principles of state and local cooperation.
/ Resolved. That this COM cntion hereby
declares itself in favor of state aid in the
Improvement of public highways.
/ s. That we believe that it is now as i'm
portant that the national government as
4 sist in the improvement of the common
q HIGHWAYS and post roads of the country
as it is for it to care for the rivers and
harbors and we therefore demand, in jus
q tice to the agricultural classes. federal ap
\ preparations to highway construction.
That these resolutions faVOring nntiona
aid shall be presented to the congress OF
the United States by committee compos
ed of one person from each state of the
union to be selected by the secretary OF
the national good roads association. who
shall arrange the date and place of meet
ing in Washington and for the presenta
\ ton of said resolutions by the said com
mittee to the committees Of congress hay
/ ing charge of the bill, provided that repre-
sentatiyes of the commercial and industry
MI organizations interested in highway I'M
proyement may be included in said com
mittee. to be selected in like manner.
D. That we favor the organization OF
road associations by states, congressional
districts and counties, which shall have fo
: their object the improvement of public
l highways, the naming and Identifying o
the same, and the numbering of the coun
+ TRY houses. 50 as to facilitate travel AM
N the rural free delivery of the mails.
Whereas. There is Il growing demand OIL
+ tic mart of the people for the cooperation
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states and the civil subdivisions thereof II
81 the work of public road building, and
). Whereaas Thomas Jefferson, on Marc
: % 1906, approved an act for laying ou
. and building a public road from Cumbel
land. Md, to Ohio, thereby establishing
Q precedent for the undertaking by the go,
ri eminent of the United States of the wor
Il of public road building and
g Whereas, The Jefferson memorial roa
: association has begun the construction c
II a memorial road to connect Monticello, tn
d home and tomb Of Jefferson, with the I'm
), yersity of Virginia, to serve as nation'
. / object lesson road, therefore, be 1t
;, Resolved. That the national and intern;
= tional good roads convention heartily el
Y dorses and approves the construction {
n the memorial road to honor the memoi
n of Jefferson and at the same time promo1
t. a great public reform. of which he was
la consistent and wise advocate, and 1t theT
- fore urges all advocates of road improv
= ment to aid in it's completion.
e G. We heartily endorse and approve Il
lei untirinc efforts of the officers of the ass
IS citation W. ii. Moore, president, and IL.
Richardson, secretary
9 T. We desire to express our appreciate
= for the generous cooperation of Hon.
'eI r.. Francic and the other officers of II
III Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Il
n members of the local committee.
~ Resolution.
Mt
al At a meeting of the delegates from loN
10 to the national and international good roa
- convention. the following resolution W
- adopted:
a. Whereas, at the recent state good roa
" convention held at Des Moines, sta
m organization was affected, but in viii
there was no provision for county II
township organization.
Therefore, be it resolved, by the dele;
tion from Iowa to the national and int
national convention at st. Louis, that
at said state organization be requested to
rect the different yice-presidents of S;
state organization, to as speedily as pos
ID bic, arrange for permanent county a
ct. township organizations in each county
or his respective district, and that each VI
~ president be empowered to name cha
49, man for each county In his district to
~ sist him in effecting such county organi
he tons.
up. That in order to expedite the matter
rs local organization and in order that u
,lv form system therefor may be adopted,
N, said president is requested to call Z
10 erul meeting of said yice-presidents at
Ii early date, and at such time and place
~ he may see tit.
lie Passed at ST Louis, Mo, April %. II
led r. G. HARPER chr. Iowa Delegation
rm J. IL. TOMLINS0N, Sec. Iowa DELEGATE
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