The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-03
CINCINNATI.
National Board OF Trade in Session.
Interesting Proceedings.

/ -.
tional Board of Trade held its pre-
Council Chamber. being called to or
der at half past eleven o'clock by
/ Vice President John A. Gano. Fred
eriek Froley. of Philadelphia, Chair
man of the former meeting of the
The report Of the Executive Coun-
Gil Of the National Board of Trade
was presented and accepted, with a
few minor changes.
The Convention then began with
the nomination Of Mr.. Trolley as Pres
ident this year. and he having vacated
the chair. John A Gano, of the Gin
cinnati Chamber of Commerce, was
called to it. Mr. Gano's name was,
however, also proposed for President,
and ballot was called for, which re-
suited in SO votes being cast for Mr..
Froley and six for Mr. Gano The
nomination Of a Vice President was
then entertained, which was the sub
ject OF some discussion, and on which
the Convention took a recess for con
sideration. The Board, through their
President, sent the following dis
patch:
CINCINNATI, Dec. Z.
To Alfred Field. Birmingham, England:
The National Board of Trade of
the United States, assembled In Gin
cinnati. to the Birmingham Chamber
of Commerce greeting. Great Britain
and the United States of America
bound together for the civilization of
the world, by lineage, language and
customs; may they be at perpetual
peace, and their only rivalries be
those for the full development of ag
rlcu1tural commerce and manufac-
lures throughout the earth, and the
unity of the nations in fraternal
sympathy and love.
[Signedl FREDERICK FaoLEY,
President.
The following report Of the Execu-
tive Committee was read:
1t is almost six months to a day
since the representatives of thirty
two Boards of Trade and other com
mercial bodies of the United States
assembled in the city cf Philadelphia
for the purpose of organizing this
National Beard The result of that
meeting has been in the main fully
approved by the respective bodies in
whose behalf the action was taken,
and has been warmly commended by
the public at large, so far as the pro-
ceediBgs have been made known and /
have been understood.
Oar Constitution as it stands is cal
culaied to secure for the Board broad |
nationality, carefully selected repre-
sentation, full and fair discussion and
impartial elections. 1t guards against
everything special, sectional or politi- 7
cal. 1t aims TO bring thoughtful and |
practical men together once a year. or |
oftener, If necessary, to deliberate as |
buSisess men. and as American busi-
ness men, upon the financial and in |
dustrial capabilities and exigencies of |
the nation. These leading character |
istics of our organization no one we |
may be sure will desire to cLange.
1he Philadelphia meeting was con- /
vened, as has been said, for the par
ticular purpose Of bringing the Board /
into existence, and it did not afford /
opportunity for the examination OF /
many questions OF a general CONNER
cial character. Positive action, how ]
ever, was had in favor of few inpor- |
tant measures: First, the reduction of |
the tax ON whisky to fifty (50) cents a
gallon. Second, direct importations |
to inland cities. Third, the GENITAL |
measurement of all the products of /
the soil Fourth, the free aud unob- I
structed navigation through its entire |
length of the Mississippi River.
Memorials were duly addressed to /
Congress on each of these subjects, |
but no legislation followed, except in /
reference u the tax on whisky, which /
was reduced to the point indica ted by
the judgment of this Board. The en- /
couragement of direct importations to /
the interior appears on the official |
programme of our present proceed
iugs, at the instance of the St. Louis
Board Of Trade. Also the free navi- !
CATION Of the Mississippi, by the noti-
fication of the same body. /
The GENITAL measureme of grain
does not appear upon our programme,
and it is for ;he Board TO determine
whether any, and what further action
is desirable.
A bill (756) introduced by the Hon.
w. Pruyn,- Is now pending In the
House of Representatives, covering
substantially the recommendations Of
the Boston Convention which were
confirmed at Philadelphia on this
subject.
The proposition of the Cncinnati
Chamber of Commerce for general
system Of Genital measurements will
come up in the same connection
Other questions came up at the Phil
adelphia meetinr, (which were referred
to the Executive Council.
This is the third occasion during
the present year. when the represen
tatives of the Commercial Associa-
tions have been convened to take
counsel together in reference to the
great material concerns OF the nation,
| and two other conventions have been
held, more restricted in the attend
| ance upon them, but Of considerable
/ local importance. We meet for the
| first time, however, as a purely de
Lucrative body, and not as a popular
assembly.
In commenting upon the meeting
at Portland last Summer, the Com
naerciat Bullet Of Baston, used this
language:
we thus have another illustration
of the entire capability of our bust
ness men to discuss and to decide
upon great questions of commercial
policy. Indeed, we cannot recall a
single resolution passed at the Con-
ventious of merchants which, within
three years past, have been held at
Detro t, Boston. Philadelphia, and
Portland respectively. which, so far
as subsequent events have had op-
portunity to show, has not been emf
nent:y sound, wise, and worthy of
adoption on the part of Congress.
From the regular meetings Of this
Board, certainly results no less salts
factory may be anticipated"