Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-11
THINKS CHICAGO TRUST CONFER
ENCE A REPUBLICAN SCHEME.
CURT LETTER OF DEcLINATIoN
COCHRAN AND BRYAN ARE TO BE
AMONG THE SPEAKERS.
Conference Is to Be Held This Week,
Beginning wednesday-Gover
Sayres' ST. Louis ANTITRUST
Conference Billed for
Next Week.

CHICAGO. Sept 1o.-Ex-Governor John
P. Altgeld has returned to Governor Tan
ner the commission appointing Mr.. Altgeld
delegate to the trust conference, to be
held in Chicago September 13 AS to his
reasons for this step, Mr.. Altgeld says:
THE fact is, 1 haven't much confidence
| in the proposed trust conference 1t looks
| TO me as If il We're going to be more of a
trust love feast than anything else
The letter returning the commission was
as follows:
| The Hon. James A. Rose.
| Dear Sir:-I am directed by John P. Alt
! geld to return the commission appointing
him a delegate to the trust conference to
be held September 13 Mr.. Altgeld not be-
ing able to serve Yours truly,
'WILLIAM 7. GROWER"
| 1t is understood that the reasons Mr..
| Altgeld had for refusing to serve We're
| that he considered the trust conference to
be Republican scheme, and that he did
not care to commit himself in a matter
| which might have a serious effect on the
Democratic party.
The absence of Mr. Altgeld, it is said,
| will be a great disappointment to some of
the representatives of the antitrust fac
! of the star speakers.
| Preparations have been completed for
| the approaching trust conference, which
opens next Wednesday morning and will be
| in session four days. After the first day
| the programme will be arranged by the
| delegates themselves, as a committee on
programme will be appointed for this pur
pose. The members of the Civic Fedora
tion who have been in charge of the prep
| arations for the convention decided that
it would be impossible for them to map
out a complete order of discussions, and
that it would be better to leave that matter
TO the delegates. The difficulty in making
out the programme was that there have
been large number of acceptances to at
tend the convention from prominent men,
but the committee in charge could not
state a definite time for them to deliver
their addresses.
AT the opening session the first business
to be transacted will be the selection of a
temporary chairman, and then Governor
Tanner will deliver the address of well
come. Mayor Harrison will follow the
governor and Professor jerks. of WASH
ington, D. c., and Professor Henry c..
Adams, of the University of Michigan. will
outline the questions which will come up
during the debates. The last day OF the
conference will be devoted to a discussion
| of the legal phase of the question.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Charles Foster, of Ohio, will read a paper
on Tho Desirability of Trusts" Professor
Charles P. Weaver will read a paper on
Economic Limitations of Trusts" and
Congressman Thomas Updegraff, of Iowa
will talk of Legal Remedies for the Sup
preston of Trusts"
Every possible phase of the subject of
trusts will be taken up, and all sides will
be given an opportunity of being heard
The promoters of the conference believe
that the discussion viii result in much
, good, and they look for a number of val
liable suggestions regarding methods for
! remedying the evils caused by industrial
combinations. 1t is believed that at least
400 delegates will be in attendance.
The most prominent speakers will be
William ]. Bryan and Bourke Cochran II
is understood that Mr.. Cochran will be
present during the entire four days of the
session, while Mr.. Bryan will attend one
. day and deliver an address. Mr.. Bryan
d probably will speak the last day of the
q convention.
More than fifty speeches will be hearG
from the various classes represented, and
the orators will include public officials
lawyers business men, bankers manufac
turers, travelling men, merchants and rep
resentatives of all branches of organized
labor. Among the features will be a Sc
ries of five minute speeches in which every
one present will have the privilege of tax
ing part. The delegates are to be permitted
to ask questions of the speakers at tht
- conclusion of the more extended addresses
| The different subjects to be taken vi
4 after they have been dealt with by the
= speakers, and are TO be discussed by the
| different members.
Among the acceptances received at the
\ headquarters of the Civic Federation to-da,
to attend and speak or read papers al
the conference are:
Senator William Lindsay of Kentucky
ex-senator Blair, of New Hampshire: Gov
s ernor Hazen S. Pingree, of Michigan
e Frank w. Taussig. head of the politica
n economy department, Harvard university
Rev MIR. Washington GLADDEN., Columbus
o.: The Limits Of Compettion"; Henry
White, secretary of the United Carmen
Workers of America, New York city; Pro
fessor John B. Clark, professor of politica
: economy, Columbia university; y, ". ,'Necessit!
ing Trusts: John NJ. Stahl. secretary o
the farmers national congress: ''Tht
l ". Atkinson, of West Virginia: THE Trus
ie Problem: T. S. Smith. attorney general o
g. Texas: The, Texas Antitrust Law; NJ
ie ts Trust league: 'The Suppression c, o
'i Trusts: Professor John Graham Brooks
Harvard university: Are the. New Com
lie Gompers president American Federation O
8 Labor: 1.-The Trusts and Organized Labor
i, Professor II. r. Newcomb, United State
/ agricultural department: Railroad Com
r binations and the Farmer; jefferson
l. Davis, attorney general of Arkansas: "Th
is Arkansas Antitrust Law; William c.
Sc Breckinridge. kentucky; Alexander G
ofs Cochran. general solicitor of Missouri Pa
cifc Railroad Company, Missouri; Gov
y, ernor William f. Stanley, Kansas; Edwar
r Rosewater, editor Omaha Bee, Nebraska
s, w jerks, professor of political econom!
No. Cornell university, and special expert Q
to the United States industrial commission
I'D New York; Henry c; Adams professor pc
litical economy. University of Michigan
is R. T Ely, professor political economy, Uni
IL versty of Wisconsin: Senator John "
s; Quarles, Wisconsin; Senator john II. Geal
ed Iowa; H: W. Seymour. publisher Chron
ce Gle Chicago; Ex-Governor David I
r Francis Missouri; c. ]. Smith, attorne
us general. Nebraska; James Hamilton Levi.
ch NJ c. state of Washington; L. C. Grow
O. attorney general OF Missouri: "Insuranc
r Combinations"
The New England Free Trade League, c
on Boston, sends Byron W. Holt. and tn
H. Tariff Reform League, of New York, send
Lawson Purdy. both asking that a specis
day be devoted to the question OF the re
lation of tariff to trusts.