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Waterways Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
September
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Clevelaxd, Scpt. 26.- At the opening of the morning sossion of the deep i ways oonventiori a partía! report of the committee on oredentials was submitted, indicating the presence of 330 delegates from fifteen states and provinces. President Howland stated that he had received % communication frora Sir Mackenzie Bowell, premier of Canada, designating an eminent engineer, Mr. Munro, to represent the Canadian government at the oonvention. Mr. Howland then invited Lieutenant George P. Blow, who came to the convention as a representativo ,of the Unitod States governnient,and Mr. Munro to tako seats on the platform. He said the action of the two governments in sending representatives to the oonvention did not in any way commit them to the policy of the oonvention. After adopting a rule limiting speeches to ten minutes, discussion was declared in order, and Mr. Richard R. Dobgll of Quebec, and Mr. A. L. Crocker, president of the Minneapolis board of trado, gave abstracts of the papers whioh they had prepared on "Export Lumber and Timbcr Trade." Mr. Dobell, in closing, corilially invited the convention to meet next year in Quebec.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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