When was it published?

October 1, 1889 in The Daily Morning Astorian

Domestic News October 1, 1889

The Daily Morning Astorian

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Infrastructure, Politics, Economic

Q: What keywords are associated?

River Navigation, Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio River, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Waterway Improvements

Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon

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What is this article about?

A convention held lately in Cincinnati aimed to secure improved navigation on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers. Resolutions urged the federal government to enhance these waterways and tributaries for easy, safe, and cheap transportation, protect them from excessive rates via competition, and remove obstructions by private entities or corporations.

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A convention, having for its object the securing of improved navigation on the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers, has been held lately at Cincinnati. In general terms the resolutions adopted by the convention call upon the general government to so improve those rivers and their tributaries as to secure to the people easy and safe navigation, as well as cheap transportation. The convention called upon congress to protect these waterways, for the reason that "the competition offered is the only guarantee of the people against excessive rates," and asks that where private individuals or corporations have assumed or secured, by state action or otherwise, privileges on such waterways to the injury of commerce, such obstructions be removed.

What sub-type of article is it?

Infrastructure Politics Economic

What keywords are associated?

River Navigation Convention Cincinnati Ohio River Mississippi River Missouri River Waterway Improvements

Where did it happen?

Cincinnati

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Cincinnati

Event Date

Lately

Outcome

resolutions adopted calling for government improvements and removal of obstructions.

Event Details

A convention focused on securing improved navigation on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers and their tributaries. It called upon the general government to improve them for easy, safe navigation and cheap transportation, protect the waterways to ensure competition against excessive rates, and remove privileges or obstructions by private individuals or corporations that injure commerce.