Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-28
TwENTY-SIx GOVERNORS HAVE
APPOINTED DELEGATES TO 1T.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW NAMED
OBJECT PURELY EDUCATIONAL AND
STRICTLY NON-PARTIsAN.
Among the Governors Who Have Sig
nifed Their Intention of Being
Present Are stanley, of Kan
sas; stephens, of Missouri;
POynter, of Nebraska.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2I-The governors of
twenty-six states are announced as having
appointed delegations to attend the con-
ference on trusts, by the Civic Federation
of Chicago, and called to meet in that city
September 13 to 16. The call states the
object to be purely educational and strict
ly non-partisan, the committee on arrange
ments being composed of men of different
political faiths and representing all sides
of the problem to be discussed. The sub
ject for discussion is trusts and combina-
tions, their uses and abuses, railway, labor,
industrial and commercial.
1t is stated by the promoters that the
United States industrial commission has
arranged to attend the conference in a
body and that the interstate commerce
commission has also accepted and will par
ticipate in the conference.
The states named as having delegations,
and the names of chairmen thereof are
here given:
New York, Chauncey NJ. Depew: Nebras-
ka, Edward Rosewater; Maryland, Charles
]. Bonaparte; South Carolina, ]. H. Mar
shall; Montana, Martin Maginnins; Ken
lucky, w. C. P. Breckenridge; Wisconsin,
John c. Spooner; Missouri, +. NJ. Cockrell;
Michigan. Russell A. Alger: Colorado,
Thomas NJ. Patterson; Kansas, W. j..
Bailey; Iowa, James C. Berrybill; Missis-
sippi, ]. W. Cutrer; Alabama, Z. Damer;
South Dakota, r. F. Pettigrew; Wyoming,
f. w. Mondell; Oregon, NJ. G. George; Ten
nessee, T. Z. Snodgrass: Indiana, z. B..
Maftindale; West Virginia, E. S. Hutchin-
son; Arizona, NJ. ]. Eagan; Ohio, John
Sherman: Pennsylvania, NJ. NJ. Garland;
Indian Territory. James Staples; Utah.
George w. Bartch; New Mexico, Frank
Springer.
The full delegations of Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska are:
Missouri-F. NJ. Cockrell, Warrensburg;
f. C. Crow, Jefferson City; Joseph A. Gra-
ham, st. Louis: Alexander G. Cochran. St.
Louis; David r. Francis, st. Louis; f. w.
Lehman, st. Louis: Emil Pretorius, St.
Louis: John A. Hockaday, Fulton; l.. A.
Worries. st. Joseph; C. c. Fuller, Mound
City; Frank P. Sebree, Kansas City; John
S. Haynes, Buffalo; L. +. Cotty, Edna;
Marsh Arnold, Benton.
Kansas-W ]. Bailey, Baileyvile; ]. X.
Cubbison, Kansas City; George II. Buck
man, Winfield; W. A. White, Emporia;
John f. Hessin, Manhattan; Harry l.. Pes
tana, Russell; Charles L. Elliott, Yelling
ton.
Nebraska-Edward Rosewater. Omaha:
ex-Governor Lorenzo y Crounse, Calhoun;
William V. Allen. Madison: r. D. suther-
land. Nelson; William J. Bryan, Lincoln;
A. H. Nipple, Omaha; Frank T. Ransom,
Omaha
The following named governors have ac-
cepted: Atkinson. West Virginia: Stanley,
Kansas; Shaw, Iowa; Pingree. Michigan
Tanner. Illinois; Thomas. Colorado; Smith,
Montana; Poynter. Nebraska; Stephens,
Missouri Shofield, Wisconsin: Murphy,
Arizona; Fancher, North Dakota; Mount.
Indiana.
Acceptances have also been received
from the attorney generals of seventeen
states and the labor commissioners of five
states Delegates are being named by
hna rIc nf tro do rh1 1y11ha Of
national labor and agricultural bodies, the
National Bar Association, the National
Bankers Association, the National Under
writer's Association, the American Eco
nomic Association. the American Social
Science Association. and the American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
The leading colleges of the country will
be represented by professors of political
economy.