The Water Ways Convention.
At the Water Ways Convention at Cincinnati, September 5, the committee on resolutions presented its report through its chairman, J. H. Murphy. The resolutions declare that the welfare of the entire country demands that the Mississippi river and its navigable tributaries be so improved by the general government as to secure easy and safe navigation, as well as cheap transportation. The convention regrets the failure of Congress to make the necessary appropriations at its last session for continuing the improvement of Western water ways. “ We call upon Congress,” the report reads, “ to protect these great water ways, upon which it is expending large sums of money, from further injury or ruin through the construction of faulty or defective bridges, with numerous piers, and while we recognize the undoubted right of railroad companies and others to bridge a river, the right must be exercised without injuring its value and without impeding or periling its use. As the competition the river affords is the only guarantee of the people against excessive rates, the river must be free and unrestricted.”
The convention approves the scheme of connecting the waters of the upper Ohio river with the lake system, through the waters of Lake Erie, by the construction of a ship canal, if upon a survey the same be found practicable.
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