The evening times., 1896-01-13
WILL PETITION CONGRESS
Measures Discussed by National
Board Of Trade.
TO MEET SOON IN THIS CITY
Recommend Creation of an Expert
Monetary ommissiOn, Enactment
of Torrey Bankruptcy Bill, Shorten
Ing of Presidential Campaign and
Other Important Action.


The twent y sixth annual meeting of the
National Board Uf Trade will be held at the
Shoreham In this city beginning Tuesday.
the 2Sth instant, and continuing until the
business before the body has beeu disposed
OF. ,-4et
This will be The fifth consecutive meeting
OF the organization in Washington. In al
dition this city has been favored with the
assembiage on many other occasions, and
out OF fthetweDty-fivem meetings already held
has had tue generous privilege OF enter
tanning at least q 'siozen of them.
There are about. fifty cities represented
In the national board by membership of
approximately 800. A fixed scale of rep :
resentatiou for each organization has been
made.
II the representative business society or
societies OF city have a membership OF
90 they are entitled to 1 delegate; for
100 members, delegates; 800 members.
8 delegates, and each additional 200,
delegate.
LOCAL DELEGATES.
Five delegates have been selected by
the local board OF trade. They are Messrs
S. W. Woodland, A. T. Britton, b. II. War
ncr, FL Moore and John b. Wight
There are but three offices, embodied in
two Officers, in the national board. These
are the president, Mr.. Frederick Fraley Of
Philadelphia and the secretary-treasurer,
Mr.. William Il. Tucker of Philadelphia.
The remaining routine business affairs
of the board are in the hands of an eXecu-
tive committee composed of the following
members: Mrssrs. John A GanO, Cincin-
natl; g. waldo Smith, New York; Blan-
chard Randall, Baltimore; Jonathan A.
Lane, Boston; II. F. Dousman, Chicago;
E. o. Standard, st. Louis; A. C. Raymond,
Detroit; Robert r. Hefford, Buffalo, and
A X. Miller, New Orleans.
One OF the most important matters TO
come before the board, upon recommended
ton and resolution, is the currency ques-
ton. This is not a new subject, how
ever, as for many years past the body has
protested against the continuance in cir
culation indefinitely of currency Issued
to meet war emergency, and intended to
be replaced at a later favorable period in
our national finances by the ordinary pro-
visions of u general national banking sys-
tem''
The recommendation of the President in
his last message will he indorsed by the
board.
The New York Board OF Trade and Trans
portation will again lay before the national
body its resolution in favor of the creation
OF an expert monetary commission, to in
vcstigate the subject and recommend such
legislation as will establish for the United
States the best financial system possible.
RESOLUTIONS TO CONGRESS.
Several commercial organizations will
present resolutions urging Congress to en-
act the Torrey bankruptcy bill, las the
only measure that can give permanent bene-
ficial results to he material interests of the
United States.''
The objects Of the International Deep
Waterway Us Association will be approved at
the coming meeting. The board viii COM
mend the recent act of Congress authoriz-
ing the President TO appoint n commission
TO examine and report upon the feasibility
ofopen:ng deep water channel between the
great lakes and the Atlantic ocean, and will
recommend liberal appropriations to that
end.
In addition to urgent requests on Con-
gress for the passage OF legislation relating
TO inland waterways. the national board
will consider the following resolution, which
will be introduced by the Philadelphia board
of trade:
Resolved, blythe National Board ofTrade.
That the time has fully matured when the
OF The NicaraSuan Canal should
he undertaken by the United States Govern
mentor the proper development and protec-
ton OF her own interests, and for the econ
omies which would accrue therefrom to
the commerce OF the world, That we re-
spectfully commend to the members of
Congress the due consideration OF such bills
as relate to this important subject that are
now or may hereafter be before them
"a Department OF Trade and Commerce."
the general object OF which shall be to ac-
quire and diffuse among the people OF the
United States useful information upon SUBJ
jects connected with domestic and foreign
trade and commerce, as well as preserving
all such information as matter of perma-
nent record, will be recommended by the
board to Congress.
BOARD OF ARBITRATION.
Another. important resolution will be in
in the following language:
Resolved, That the National Board OF
Trade urges the creation OF a National
Board OF Arbitration of controversies be-
tween employees and their employers and
indorsers, and recommends the passage OF
House Bill 1927, Fifty-third Congress, in
troduced by Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, to-
gether with the amendments recommended
by the Committee on Labor OF the House Of
Representatives.; and as promoting this pro-
posed legislation, the Chicago Board OF
Trade hereby recommends the passage OF
House Bill s713, Fifty-third Congress, pro-
viding for the publication of a bulletin of
the Department OF Labor"
Among other matters to be discussed and
recommended are the shortening Of the
Presidential campaign to period Of
three months; the suppression by State and
national legislation OF the liquor traffic;
laws against the adulteration of food; pro-
motion OF the civil service laws; readiust-
ment and reduction OF postal rates; arbitra-
tion and reciprocity as policies of the ma
tional government, and Interstate COM
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