Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-15

CHICAGO, February 14.-The annual
meeting of the Associated Press was
held at the Auditorium Recital Hall, in
this city to-day.
The occasion was notable in this, that
it served to call together for the first
time in American newspaper history,
the representatives Of nearly every
leading newspaper ia the United States
in a national assembly.
At the preceding meeting Of the AS
sociated Press in October, 1898, the de-
cision was reached TO make the organi-
zation national in its scope, obliterating
sectional lines. As a consequence OF
the accession of the leading newspapers
of the East, which had formally been
allied With the New York Associated
Press or with the United Press and
which have severed their relations with
those ORGANIZATIONS to join the Associa-
ted Press, the session to-day became en-
tirely national in its scope.
The following newspapers were rep
resented:
San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Re
publican, Denver Times, Denver Rocky
Mountain Nel0S. Washington EUentng
Star; Chicago Daily NeWy, Chicago
Evening Journal Chicago StGCtS
Zettlulg, Chicago Fcete PresSe, Chica-
90 Record; Chicago Ddily Tri-
bune, Chicago Herald, Chicago
Inter ocean, Chicago EUening Post,
Evansville Daily Journal, indianapolis
Journal, Indianapolis NelOS, lndianapo-
lis Sentinel, Terre Haute Gazette, Terre
Haute Cypress, Topeka Capital, Topeka
State Journal, Louisville Evening Post,
Louisville Commercial, Louisville COltr-
icr-Jolundl. Baltimore american, Bal
timore EUening NGlOS. Baltimore Sun,
Boston TrdUCllcr, Springfield Unton
Detroit Euening NelUS, Detroit Free
Press, Detroit Tribune, Minneapolis
Journal Minneapolis Tribune, ST. Paul
Dispatch, st. Paul Globe, ST. Paul
Pioneer Press, Kansas City Journal,
Kansas City Times, ST. Louis
Amcrica, ST. Louis AHZeiger Des
IYestens, ST. Louis WestLiche Post,
ST. Louis Globe. Democrat. ST. Louis
Post Dispatch, Omaha Bee, Concord
Monitor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Buffalo
Commercial, Buffalo EUeniRg NeloS, Buf-
falo EUentng Express, New York World,
New York EUeniHq Post, New York
Stats Zeitlmg, New York Commercial
Advertiser, Rochester Express,
Syracuse Herald, Cleveland Leader,
Cleveland PLdindedlGr, Cincinnati VOlkS-
bLaH, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
Cincinnati Times Star. Cincinnati En-
oliirer. Columbus Ohio State Journal
Columbus EUeniHg Dispatch, Day
ton Ohio Journal, Sandusky
RcqistCr, Toledo Blade, Toledo
Commercial, Portland OregOnidn
nil CITY Derrick, PHILADELPHIA North
American, Philadelphia Bulletin, Phil
adelphia German Democrat Philadel-
phia Inquirer, Philadelphia Press, Pitts
burg Chronicle Telegraph, Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette, Pitts
burg Dispatch, Pittsburg Post,
Memphis Appeal, Memphis Aua-
ldnchc, Nashville american, Dal-
las NelUs, Galveston Daily EclDs, San
Az Mo Express, Seattle Post HtcIlL-
eer, Milwaukee EUeniRg Wisconsin,,
dwaukee Sentinel, Milwaukee Her
I'D: Wheeling Daily InteJJigeReer,
Wheeling REGISTER.
cPfesident William Penn Nixon
called the meeting to order, and
ina short address congratulated the
members upon the great progress which
had been made in carrying out the pur-
nose 10 make the Association national
and to widen its scope, and it was to-
day the greatest news organization in
the world.
Mr.. Victor T. Lawson, Chairman of
the Executive Committee, submitted
report detailing at length the negotia-
tions which mad proceeded with the
the United Press, looking TO the pro-
tsction of the interests Of tho newspa-
pers of the country by peaceful ad-
iustment of the contest between the
two organizations; the rejection Of all
fair proposals OK the United Press, and
the precipitation Of the struggle that
has been going on for the past i've
months and which is practically brought
to a close at this time, as was fully evil
denced by the presence of almost all OF
the daily papers of the country.
series of amendments 10 the By
laws we're submitted and after discus
sion. adopted. These provide for an
increase in the number Of the Board Of
Directors.
A committe, with Mr.. Charles P. Taft,
NJ the Cincinnati TimeS-S Star, as chair
man. was appointed and submitted
list Of FIVE directors to be voted upon
70 FL vacancies and expired terms. The
gentlemen recommended were elected
unanimously. The Board consists Of:
Victor E. Lawson, Chicago Record
and Dali NClCs; S. 5. Carvalho, New
York World: NJ. II. DeYOung, San
Francisco Chronicle; ClaytonMcMichael,
PHILADELPHIA North, american; Colonel
Frederick Driscoll, ST. Paul Pioneer
Press: f. b. Noyes, Washington Star;
Charles W. Knapp, st. Louis Republic;
Ell. Perdue, Cleveland Leader; A. J.
Barr, Pittsburg POST; James 2. Scripps,
Detroit Tribune and NelCS; L. II. But
Ter, Buffalo NelCS.
Mr.. Melville E. Stone submitted sat
isfactorv statement OF the finances Of
the organization. Although it was
deemed unnecessary for the purposes Of
the contest, = number Of gentlemen who
we're not present at the former meeting
when $500, 900 was subscribed TO q guar-
autee fund to carry on the fight, asked
to be included in the list, and the fol-
lowing subscriptions were made, bring
ing the guarantee fund up 70 total Of
S515. 600:
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