360 THE GROUNBSWELL. 



We demand the construction of railroads, and the improvement of 

 water communications, between the interior and seaboard, the same 

 to be owned and operated by the General Government, for the pur 

 pose of affording cheap and ample transportation, and to protect the 

 people from the exactions of monopolies. 



The third resolution, relating to home manufactures, was 

 carried. 



The fourth resolution, relating to the double-track conti 

 nental freight railroad from New York to Omaha, was con 

 sidered. A substitute was offered that it is imperatively 

 necessary that the people obtain from the National Govern 

 ment assistance for building a double-track freight railroad 

 from near the line of the Kansas & Nebraska, as nearly in air- 

 line as possible, to the city of New York. The substitute was 

 again read, put, and laid on the table. The fourth or orig 

 inal resolution was then put, and lost by a unanimous vote, 

 and the substitute carried. The fifth, the sixth, and the last 

 resolutions were carried unanimously. 



Mr. Lawrence, of Illinois, offered two resolutions recom 

 mending the State Farmers Association of Illinois to fur 

 nish such information to the Kailway Commissioners as 

 will warrant the prosecution of suits against the defaulting 

 companies, and advising the farmers of other States to ob 

 tain a similar law from their Legislatures. The resolutions 

 were adopted. 



Mr. F. C. Capreol, of Canada, President of the Huron and 

 Ontario Ship Canal, in an elaborate address presented the 

 merits of the great scheme for water communication between 

 the ocean and the West, by which sea-going vessels of 1,200 

 tons burden might pass directly to the upper lake ports. He 

 stated that the construction of the canal would lessen the 

 length of route by some 800 miles, and increase the value of 

 grain ten per cent, a bushel. He showed that almost all the 



