The herald., 1898-02-10
TO ENTERTAIN DOLE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
THE HAWAIIAN PRESIDENT
Resolution Supporting the Loud Bill.
The County Exhibit at the
Omaha Exposition

The board of directors of the chamber
of commerce met yesterday afternoon al
S:15. The following directors were pres
ent: Duque, Forman, Croft. Hooker
johnson, KlolSke, Mathuss, Mckinley
Newberry, Patterson. Slauson. Story
vetter and willard. President Forman
occupied the chair.
Director Croft, to whom was referred
the communication from the Manufac-
turers' association of Brooklyn, N. Y,
with reference to the Loud bill, made the
following report:
Whereas. There is pending In congress
bill known as III. r. $3.50. introduced IN
the house of representatives December II
1897, by Mr.. Loud OF California, to amend
the postal laws as to second class mail
matter; now, therefore, be II
Resolved, BY the board of directors oil
the chamber of commerce of Los Angeles
California, that 1t is the sense of said
board that said bill should receive the
support of the representatives and sena-
tors representing the state of California In
congress, and that they should use all
honorable means to secure the passage
of said bill; and the secretary of the cham
ber is hereby instructed to send copies OF
this resolution to said representatives and
senators.
The report was received and the res
olution adopted.
A communication was read from the
state board OF trade with reference to
joining with other counties to make a
state exhibit at Omaha. The secretary
was instructed to notify them that ar
rangements had been completed where
by Los Angeles county would make an
exhibit Independently, as the chamber
of commerce had called on every section
in this site to join them and offered
every inducement to assist in making a
state exhibit, but no section gave fav-
orable response. At this late date ar
rangements can not well be changed.
A communication was read relative to
a lecture tour throughout the east to be
made by Miss Helen Keller, the subject
entitled Picturesque California" ask
ing the chamber to favorably consider
the proposition. The same was referred
to the committee on immigration.
A communication relative to the anti
scalping bill was read and referred to
the committee on law and legislation.
A communication was read from the
proprietors of the South Pasadena
ostrich farm, offering to supply the
members with tickets to visit the farm
on Washington's birthday. The invi-
ttion was accepted and the secretary in
structed to inform the proprietors that
tickets would be distributed from the
office of the chamber to all members de-
string them.
Director Newberry announced that
President Dole would visit Riverside in
few days and be given a public recep-
tion while there, and suggested that 1t
would be well to invite the president to
visit Los Angeles. 1t was decided to ap-
point a committee from the chamber to
wait upon Mr.. Dole at Riverside and ex-
tend to him a cordial invitation to pay
Los Angeles a visit on his way north.
The president announced that he had
appointed the following committee to
confer with like committee from the
Minneapolis colony to arrange for the
reception to be given the Minneapolis
excursionists in the chamber rooms
February 14th: ]. r. Newberry, ]. F.
Francis, w. R. Bacon, Frank F. Davis
F. B. Sherwood, Thos. Pascoe.
Director Klokke announced that the
work of the banquet committee was pro-
crossing with indications that the ban
quet would be grand success.
This being the last meeting of the
present board, President Forman
thanked them for their courtesy to him
as executive officer during the past year.