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Show Ends' Scheme of a. Ship Railway. St. Louis, November 5. About fifty leading lead-ing and representative citizens met at the Southern Hotel last night to consider the question of building a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, according to the plans proposed by Captain James B. Eads, of this city. A dozen speeches were made, all heartily endorsing the project. Resolutions were unanimously adopted, cordially cor-dially endorsing the railway project and the Tehuantepec route as the one to be adopted; declaring the commercial interests, not only of the Mississippi valley, but of the whole country, demanded the Isthmus barrier be removed, so that the Paoifio Coast and the Orient may be brought within easy reach of the Atlantio seaboard; urgently commending the railway enterprise to the present Administration and to Congress; asking that support and assistance both be given it, and calling attention at-tention of the active business men of all sections of the country to the immense commercial com-mercial importance of the railway and requesting re-questing them to co-operate in bringing the matter to the consideration of the government govern-ment and of Congress. A committe of six leading citizens, headed by ex-Congressman Stanard, was appointed to personally present pre-sent the resolutions to the President and to Congressmen generally. |