As this subject now stands, the undersigned will take the liberty of again urging upon the Executive Council the importance of keeping this subject prominently before the National Board of Trade until the object aimed at in the original proposition shall have been attained. The need of the reforms contemplated in the proposition is so obvious and generally confessed by those who have given it intelligent consideration, that there can be but little doubt of its successful and satisfactory working whenever it shall have been instituted. An embarrassment in reference to this and all kindred propositions, is that the members of constituent bodies are too much occupied with the exactions of their daily business, to give matters which are not of a directly personal character the attention they may merit. Evils are long endured by public organizations merely because of the fact that but few individuals can give the necessary time calculated to remedy them. A patient urging of measures requiring the co-operation of constituent bodies must be persisted in, and in conclusion, recommendation is made that this subject be pressed until practical results are achieved. CINCINNATI, December 5, 1871. Respectfully, JOHN A GANO. INDEX. Abatement of Duties on Shipping... Able, Mr. B. Remarks on Southern Levees..... the Postal Telegraph..... Abuses of Railroad Management and Losing Freights. Accumulation of Interest, Table of.... Address of Welcome... Adjournment.... Admission of Members... Allen, Mr. G. N. Remarks on Southern Levees.. Amendments to the Constitution... American Forests, A Warning..... Annexation, The Result of the Zollverein.. Annual Meeting, Alteration of the Time.. Annual Statistics.. Appendix Arkansas, Debt of.. PAGE. ... 70 ..148 .103 205 .2, 4 .314 36 45 .37, 38, 39 228 146 38 .9, 316 ..316 62 Bigelow, Mr E. B., on Freedom of Internal Trade.... Board of Trade Reports and Resolutions: Baltimore, on Chesapeake Canal. Boston, on Revision of the Tariff. Buffalo, on Canal Enlargement.. Chicago, on Niagara Falls Canal.. St. Louis, on National Pacific Railroad. Bonded Goods and Freedom of Trade.... .294 183, 195 .199 .119 .241 .237 .238, 244 284 .274 11 .118 .309 .114 .112 75 233 224 |