Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . i for the purpose ofconsidering the improvement of navigation on the Ohio convention remained in session two days, and appointed com-mittees on statistics, legislation, water supply and available reser-voirs, and an executive committee with power to act in the inter-vals of the regular sessions. Mr. Thurston, one of the delegatesfrom Pennsvlvania, prepared and submitted an exhaustive memo-rial covering every phase of the subject, urging the States con-cerned to contribute funds for making necessary impr
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . i for the purpose ofconsidering the improvement of navigation on the Ohio convention remained in session two days, and appointed com-mittees on statistics, legislation, water supply and available reser-voirs, and an executive committee with power to act in the inter-vals of the regular sessions. Mr. Thurston, one of the delegatesfrom Pennsvlvania, prepared and submitted an exhaustive memo-rial covering every phase of the subject, urging the States con-cerned to contribute funds for making necessary improvementson the river, and also inviting the attention of Congress to the 444 Gearvs Administration ciiterpvisc. (lovenior (icary was entliiisiastic over tlio matter,and he spoke of it in liis message of January S. 1873. as follows:The claims of this suhject to your prompt and favorable con-siileratiou and that of Couijress will hardly be questioned when itis remembered that it is presented by gentlemen who representone-hall nf the population of the eountrv; that the people who. Old Mifflin Mansion Residence of Pennsylvanias first governor would be directly or indirectly benefited by the contemplated im-provement possess one-half of its cultivated lands, raise sixty percent, of its agricultural products, breed sixty per cent, of its livestock, over tifty per cent, of its capital invested in farming imple-ments and machinery, and have, heretofore, paid thirty-five percent, of its internal taxation, and contributed a correspondingshare toward the payment of the national deljt. There was but little disorder within the borders of the Stateduring Gearys administration. In 186S. there was a strike of 445 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal the anthracite coal miners for an eight-hour day; but it was notsuccessful. It resulted, however, in a strong organization of theminers, which exists to our own dav, having onlv recently demon-strated its power in the greatest coal strike of all histo
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