People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Waterways Convention Adjourns. [ARTICLE]

Waterways Convention Adjourns.

Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 24.—The national waterways convention completed Its labors at 2 p. m. yesterday and adjourned sine die, after selecting Davenport, lowa, for the next convention. A resolution in favor of the Nicaragua canal was adopted by acblamation. The resolutions declare that the necessity for the improvement of the waterways becomes more urgent yearly, and that they should be treated by congress with great liberality. The fostering of the commerce of the great lakes is advocated and the work of the deep waterways associated is endorsed. Additional appropriations are asked for the improvement and deepening of the upper Mississippi river and the completion of the Mississippi and Illinois canal. The connection of the great lakes with the Mississippi and Ohio rivers is strongly commended to congress.