The record-union., 1897-02-19
TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
MEETS IN ANNUAL SESSION AT
CHICAGO.
Permanent Shippers and Business
Men From All Parts of the
Country Present.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-Representatives
Of the great commercial organizations
gathered at the Board of Trade to-day
to attend the annual meeting of the
National Transportation Association.
About twenty-five delegates We're pres
ent, prominent shippers and business
men from all parts of the country,
representing a membership of about
10000
The meeting, which was held behind
closed doors, was called to order by
President Frank Barry of Milwaukee,
who delivered the annual address
In his address President Barry said
the National Transportation Associa-
t1on had been in existence for nearly
seven years. 1t had accomplished
much, both directly and indirectly, for
those whom it represented. 1t stood as
a restraining influence for all who
viewed might as right, ready to act
forcibly and effectively in an emer-
gency. and ever agitating and striving
to accomplish needed reforms and ben
efits The association had ever been the
friend of the Interstate Commerce Act,
and had been frequently called upon by
the committee for advice and assist
ance. It had been persistently at work
for the establishment of a uniform
classification and bill of lading for use
by all transportation companies in the
country. 1t had advocated fair and
equitable car service rules, which
should not be one sided in operation.
but would give demurrage to the ship
per or receiver of freight who suffered
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part of the carrier, just as it gave to
the railroad company compensation for
tardy unloading of its goods. These
and other measures would be persist
emily followed until the purposes of the
association We're accomplished
President Barry was followed by
George J. Stone of the Chicago Board
of Trade Secretary Stones address
dealt with the Interstate Commerce
Act He said in part:
1.-The law itself was largely the result
OF evils which grew out of pooling. 1t
is now proposed not only to forbid pool
ing. but actually to install it in the
tcdy of the law itself. This is high
handed proposition and attacks the
very citadel of the law contemplating
practically it's overthrow. A part of
this proposition which gives it plausi-
bility is that the pooling shall be under
the control of the commission This
means but little in view of the history
of the commission, whose mandates
have in so many instances been set
aside or evaded by those who set up
this proposition. Let the railroad cor
rorations first obey the law and CO.
operate for its enforcement Let these
gentlemen cleanse their hands before
they raise them in petition at the bar of
this tribunal, remembering that they
must come into court with clean hands,
as only such can plead in the temple of
Justice"
Vice President e. L. Rodgers of
Philadelphia also made a short ad-
dress, and papers of interest were read
by Jerome Carly of Philadelphia, R.
S. Lang Frank A. Scott of the Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce. Chairman
l. G.. Lehart of the Chicago Freight
Bureau, L. Whitelaw of st Louis, rep
resenting the National Paint, Oil and
varnish Association: Colonel Rogers of
the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
and Dennis r. Smith of Toledo.
The meeting adjourned late this
afternoon.