12 KANSAS AND THE COUNTRY BEYOND.

Chas. H. Rogers, President of the Tradesmen’s Bank, Philadelphia, moved the
appointment of a Committee to draft resolutions expressive of the views of the
excursionists. The motion was agreed to.

The following Committee was appointed, viz. : . ;

Chas. H. Rogers, Chairman, Pennsylvania; W. W. Taylor, President Union
National Bank, Baltimore; J. B. Lippincott, Pennsylvania; Frederick Schley,
Maryland; Col. J. E. Schley, West Virginia ; Cyrus Yale, New Orleans; Hon.
Frank Jordan, Secretary of State, Pennsylvania.

During the absence of the Committee to prepare resolutions, an address was
delivered by the President, Hon. Simon Cameron. ;

Chas. H. Rogers, Esq., on behalf of the Committee on resolutions, presented
the following preamble and resolutions, viz. : ;

Whereas, An excursion party from the States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, New Hampshire, Maryland, District of Columbia, Ohio, Indiana, Ili-
nois, Missouri, West Virginia, Michigan and Kansas, have this day reached Fort
Harker, Kansas, a point on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, 1,525
miles west of the Atlantic Ocean, on the direct route to California and the shores
of the Pacific, and now desire to give expression to their views in regard to the
Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, and the courtesies which they have received
in the West; and

Whereas, They realize as their own belief, and that of the American people,
that our mission extends as a nation not only to the promotion of liberty, fra-
ternity and equality, but to the encouragement of great works of art, which shall
be as enduring as our national fame, and which shall bind together by the strong
ties of commercial interest the cities on the shores of two widely separated
Oceans; and

Whereas, Foremost among these works is a Pacific Railway, a project bold and
daring in its inception, and worthy of a people whose enterprise has already
studded the mountains and plains of a continent with the evidences of national
prosperity. Therefore we, the excursionists, assembled ata point almost in the
centre of the American continent, have

Resolved, That, as guests of the Union Pacific Railway Co., Eastern Division,
having travelled over fifteen hundred miles in the same cars, with every possible
comfort, receiving a generous hospitality, and enjoying a constant succession of
agreeable and instructive incidents, we hereby tender our acknowledgments to
the President, Directors, officers and agents of the Company, for the rare oppor-
tunity, the liberal provisions for our comfort, and all the realizations of this
remarkable journey from the seaboard almost to the base of the Rocky Moun-
tains.

Resolved, That we congratulate the President and managers of the Union
Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, upon the rapid and substantial progress of
their work, a miracle of labor, art and capital, and a splendid monument of their
energy and enterprise, and that we congratulate the nation upon the prospect of
an early completion of this magnificent avenue of commerce, which promises so
much for the rapid settlement of an almost boundless domain — for enlarging the
field of labor and production, and which will be at all seasons of such immeas-
urable value and importance to our country in times of war and of peace.

Resolved, That we commend to the fostering care of the Government and the
people of the United States this great undertaking as one that will materially
promote the development of the mineral, agricultural and commercial resources
of the extreme Western States and Territories, and as a great highway between
the oceans, believing that it will add immeasurably to the wealth and prosperity
of the nation, to provide the necessary aid for its early completion.

esolved, That our acknowledgments are also due to the citizens of St. Louis,
Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, Salina, Junction City, Tonganoxie, Hermann,
and the various cities and towns on our way, and to Gen. Hancock, U.S. A.,
commanding the department of Missouri, and his associate officers on the line of
the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, for civilities and courtesies grace-