Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-23
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ..-7sas ta ttf. t-' - Turned Out in Greater Force at .aaa. g. Yesterdays Meeting. Gs -s 5is. -a
 JAPAN IS WORRYING THEM
 t Congress Asked to Find Out the Cause of the
 Menace. i
SUBSIDY RESOLUTION ADOPTED
chant Marine, the Completion of the Nicaragua Canal and Develop ment of Internal Waterways.

Chicago, Jan 22.-There was largely increased attendance at today's meeting of the national convention of American manufacturers. The delegates to the conference of textile manufacturers at tended in body. When the convention had been called to order a report was presented by Charles Hobert Clarke of Philadelphia. It set forth that Japan
 was fast becoming a bold and large com- petitor in the trade of the world in cot- ton fabrics. Agencies for the product of the Asiatics were rapidly being estab- lished in this country, rivaling and crowding out American goods. The menace offered to American manufac- turers by the products of cheap Oriental labor, to determine the cause of this menace and what means should be adopt ed to arrest the threatened injury to do- mestic products were discussed. An
 amendment by Hon. Warner Miller of New York, to address the request to the
 house of representatives, was discussed and the report adopted.
 From the committee on resolutions
 came report recommendin a judicious system of subsidies for the development
 of the American merchant marine, fla Voring the construction and operation of
 the Nicaragua canal by the federal gov
 ernment and the development of interior waterways; urging the enactment of a
 national bankruptcy law for uniform op-
 eration in all states This portion of the
 report was adopted unanimously. There was spirited discussion, however, on a
 resolution reported without recommen- dation setting forth that inasmuch as many of the states, of the union have
 passed certain laws to the effect that all foreign corporations shall file with the secretary of state a certificate of incor- poration and. pay into the treasury of
 said states certain fees and imposing cerr tain objectionable features; that, .therel fore, the executive committee be empow-
 cred to take such action as in their jude4 ment might seem wise to secure uniform
 ity and removal of objectionable feat
 ures Warner Miller objected to the vagueness of the resolution and urged
 that the convention should be told clear
 ly what the objectionable features were
 He contended ,ithat wildcat concerns
 claiming to do op paper an immense bus-
 mess in charters from other states and thereby seeking to evade the tax, ought to be brought under the laws of the states in which they did business.
 Charles Davis of Cincinnati, who intro
 duced the resolution, repudiated the sug- gestion that 1t was framed in the interest
 of wildcat concerns and delegates from corporations doing business in Ohio,
 Michigan and other states told of the hardships that were involved in the spe- cific compliance with the laws of those states regarding foreign corpora tions At Col. A. l.. Conger's instance the reso- lution was sent back to the committee
 to be remodeled. The convention then
 took up a lengthy revision of the consti-
 tuition of the organization submitted by
 Thomas McDougall of Cincinnati, which
 occupied the remainder of the morning
 session. s4i
 There was long debate upon majority
 and minority reports from the committee on revision of the constitution. The ma-
 jority report, presented by +. s. Fish of
 Indiana, favored depriving manufactur- ers' clubs or state clubs of representa-
 tfon, thus allowing only those individual ma ufacturers, firms or corporations to have a voice or vote in the.organiz tion.
 It was contended by the majority of the
 committee that it's plan would make a
 greater success of the organization, while
 the continuance of the present method of
 membership would make the organiza-
 ton a "howling" success. The minority
 report, reported by MT. McDougall of
 Cincinnati, favored a continuance of the present system of club and society rep
 resentation with a few unimportant mod ifications. The convention, however
 agreed with MT. Fish, and the minority
 report was not submitted to a vote. This
 afternoon Professor Warehouse of
 Washington university. St. Louis, deliv-
 cred an address upon the Nicaraguan ca
 nal. This evening the delegates of the
 manufacturers club of Cincinnati gave a
 dinner at the Auditorium to President
 Thomas Dolan, Hon. Warner Miller, Pe-
 ter Stakeholder of South Bend, Ind, and
 few others of the leading spirits of the organizatio