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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives that our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their exertions to procure
the passage of a law authorizing the survey of a route for a rail or McAdamized road from the Wabash to the Mississippi river having in view the most eligible connexion of said road with the Indiana canal and the advantages of distance, convenience of ground for its location, and the fertility
of the country through which it may pass also making a donation of land on this route
to aid in the construction of said road
1Archibald Williams introduced a resolution regarding the construction of a railroad or macadamized road
from the Wabash River to the Mississippi River in the Senate on December 29, 1834. On December 31, the Senate referred the resolution to a select
committee. The select committee reported back the resolution on January 5, 1835,
with an amendment, which the Senate committed to the Committee of the Whole. The
Committee of the Whole recommending striking out the resolution and proposed amendment.
Cyrus Edwards moved to amend the amendment with this resolution, and the Senate concurred 12 to
11. On a 12 to 11 vote, the Senate indefinitely postponed further consideration.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 149, 161-62, 185, 186.
Handwritten Document, 1 page(s), Folder 279, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)