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Show NATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS. The republican senators in caucus have adopted a. preamble and resolutions resolu-tions on the transportation question, in which they assert thrower of cou-greea cou-greea to regulate iuter-stata commerce, com-merce, and to provide for the improvement im-provement or creation of channels of commerce; that anions the improvements im-provements now necessary are the improvements of the Mississippi river, including its connection with the lakes by means of Fox and iiiss-ouri iiiss-ouri river improvements and the Illinois Illi-nois and Hennepin canals; improvements improve-ments between lakes Superior and Huron, Erie and Huron, and the improvement im-provement of the Ohio, Kanawa and Tennessee rivers; and that the com mittee on commerce be instructed to insert in the river and harbor bill as appropriation for such sum, as in their judgment, having due regard to the recommendations of the chief engineers and of the commission appointed ap-pointed to report upon the mouth oi the Mississippi river.can be judicious ly and economically expended during the next fiscal year upon the improvements im-provements above indicated, looking to their speedy completion, and the wants of our rapidly increasing internal in-ternal commerce. It is evident that the democratic party could not afford, even were it to disposed, to Like ground a-iirft this tendency for the improvement of the water ways of the country, which legitimately follows fol-lows tho assumpiioa of "the right of connress to regulate interstate railways and other methods of transportation. trans-portation. Hence we may expect a new democratic departurw on tha subject sub-ject of internal improvements. If that party can manage to establish such national works for the benefit of commerce m the jner-.U public in terests may demand, on an economical economi-cal system, which snail reduce private stealing to its minimum limits, it may make itself a necessity to the nation. M-uailestly, the improvement of tho Mississippi river navigation and its connection with tho lakes is an enterprise that can ouiy be prosecuted Buccessfully by the United States government; gov-ernment; and there are certain other ' national objects which m:y be found equally worthy the attention cf the' government and within the scope of Ju authority. 1 |