New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-16
FUTURE FOREIGN POLICY.
c,,p1EcTs TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE
SARATOGA CONFERENCE.

Many PROMINENT MEN WILL SPEAK AT THE
coratoca. ~ Y, Aug 15.-Henry Wade Rogers
.rd Ralph NJ Easley. the chairman and secre-
.arv respectively. of the Committee on Arrange
,rents for the National Conference on Foreign
policy 20 be held here on Friday and Saturday.
arrived to-day. and arranged to make their
h,alouarters at the United States Hotel
Among the subjects to be discussed at the
.onforonce are The Future Colonial Policy OF
the United States" THE Nicaragua canal
International Law" should the Law Permit
ting Prize Money Payments BE Repealed? and
o,ber questions growing out Of the late war
The committee tonight announces the pro-
canine as not completed. but the following
won have consented TO speak Carl Schurz, or
wsw.York; Judge P. S Grosscup. United States
n,s,r,c, Court. Of Chicago Patrick A. Collins. Of
poston. cx-Consul- General to London: W. F.
Unson. the managing director of the Com
r,crcial Museum of Philadelphia Warner
miller Of New-York Samuel Gompers. pivsi-
don't OF the National Federation OF Labor;
charles 4. Gardiner one Of the counsel Of the
No,bottan Railway of New-Yo Albert Shaw.
., New-York; William Writ Howe, president OF
,ho National Bar Association. Of New Orleans;
willis J. Abbot, Of Ncw-York; Congressman
Frederick H. Glllett Of Springfield. Mass
Moorfeld Storey. of Boston: H. a. Garfield.
nresidcnt Of the Chamber Of Commerce. OF
cleveland. Ohio; A. ]. Beveridge Of Indianapo-
lis and Henry Wade Rogers. president or the
Northwestern University. Of Chicago The san
Francisco Chamber OF Commerce will also be
represented on the programme
WESTERN MANUFACTURERS TO MEET.
THE PRESIDENT cANvAssING PUBLIC SENTIMENT
LETTERS SENT TO GOVERNORS.
Chicago. Aug 15-Arrangements are being
roode for a conference OF the leading manu-
facturers and business men Of this State for
the purpose of securing an expression OF repre-
sentative opinions on the question as to what
Ground the Government ought to take for the
furtherance and development of its trade and
commerce In the formulation Of the treaty of
peace with Spain. The conference will be held
under the auspices of the Illinois Manufacturers
Association at the Union League Club in this
city. on August -. at informal dinner. This
action was decided upon at meeting OF the
Board OF Directors Of the Association to-day at
the Grand Pacific Hotel.
John Wanamaker OF Philadelphia Senator
Cushman Davis and Senator c. W. Fairbanks
of Indiana have been invited 10 be present and
express their Views.
1t developed after the peace protocol was
signed that President Mckinley was canvassing
public sentiment TO ascertain the desires OF the
manufacturing and business interests OF the
country as TO how the treaty o. peace should he
concluded. and It is with this end in view that
leading manufacturers took hold OF the matter
The secretary Of the Illinois Manufacturers
Association has been directed TO write every
Governor in the Union and to obtain from him
a statement TO what the Government should
do In the matter. and also to ask each Governor
the sentiment In his state is 'or 'r against
the retertion Of the territory that has fallen
into our hands through the fortunes Of var.
The answers to these letters will be read at