Official Report of the Proceedings of the Mississippi River Improvement Convention: Held in Saint Louis, Missouri, on October 26th, 27th and 28th, 1881 : Including Letters from Distinguished Men Throughout the Country, and Press Comments : Together with a Memorial to Congress Prepared by the Committee of Twenty-one, as Authorized by the ConventionGreat Western Print. Company, 1881 - 244 Seiten |
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Seite 164 - Guildhall ; also for consenting to preside over the meeting, and for the able and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of chairman on this occasion.
Seite 59 - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans •and estimates 'as will correct, permanently locate and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi river; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade and the postal service...
Seite 96 - Bay; drawing its first waters not from rugged mountains, but from the plateau of the lakes in the center of the continent, and in communication with the sources of the St. Lawrence and the streams which take their course north to Hudson's Bay ; draining the largest extent of the richest land; collecting the products of every clime, even the frigid, to bear the whole to market in the South, and there to meet the products of the entire world.
Seite 59 - First. To direct and complete such surveys of the Mississippi River between the Head of the Passes, near its mouth and its headwaters, as were then in progress; and to make such additional surveys and examinations of said river and its tributaries as might by it be deemed necessary.
Seite 186 - OF STATE. I thank you for your kind invitation to be one of the Vice Presidents of the Second National Peace Congress to be held in Chicago, May 3-5, 1909, and regret that my engagements are such that it will not be possible for me to attend.
Seite 96 - Connected with seas by the head and by the mouth, stretching its arms towards the Atlantic and the Pacific — lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson's Bay— drawing its first waters not from rugged mountains, but from the plateau of the Lakes in the centre of the continent, and in communication with the sources of the St.
Seite 96 - Wonderful river, connected with seas by the head and by the mouth, stretching its arms towards the Atlantic and the Pacific, lying in a valley, which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson's Bay, drawing its first waters, not from rugged mountains, but from the plateau of the lakes in the centre of the continent, and in communication with the sources of the St. Lawrence and...
Seite 100 - ... -was not published in the volume of session laws for that year, it is declared that the legislature re-affirms its confidence in the importance to the country of the early completion of this work, already undertaken by the general government.
Seite 164 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to the Hon.
Seite 69 - I now write to say that it will be impossible for me to be with you on the 26th inst.