The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-18
CHICAGO TRUST CONFERENCE
Delegates From All Glasses Prom
Use to Attend.
MEETS SEPTEMBER 10 TO l6.

CHICAGO Aug. 12.-The committees
of arrangements for the conference
on combinations and trusts called by
the Civic Federation to meet in Chi
cago September 1916 has decided to
hold the regular session in Central
Music Hall, with two night mass
meetings at the Auditorium.
OF the thirty five state delegations
being appointed, fifteen have been re-
ported to the committee. and the rest
are promised before September. Three
received yesterday were:
New York-Chauncey M. Depew,
John G. Carlisle. Bourke Cochran,
Francis B. Thurbcr, George Gunton,
Henry White, Albert Shaw.
Alabama - Eyre Damer, Mobile;
Gordon Mcdonald, Opelika; w. w.
Quarles, Selma; Wallace HARRISON,
Fort Payne; e. M. Ragland, Tuscum-
bia; B. B. Conner, Birmingham.
Montana Martin Maginnis and ex-
Governor j. X. Toole, Helena; Charles
S. Hartmann, Bozeman; A. j. Camp
bell and ex Governor j. Z. Richards,
DutIe, LIT. H. IL. oWdiu, blilOu.
The other delegations include Will
lam jennings Bryan, ex-senator
Allen, ex- Governor Crounce, Edward
Rosewater, and Governor Poynter, of
Nebraska, and Governor Stanley and
delegation, from Kansas; Mayor
Samuel Jones, of Toledo, Ohio; Gov
ernor John R. Tanner and delegation,
from Illinois; Governor Pingree and
delegation, from Michigan; Samuel
Gompers, president American Fedora
tion Of Labor; p ]. Mcclure,
general secretary United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Join
ers; p j. Morrissey, grand
master Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen; M. R. Grady, organizer
Bricklayers and Masons' Information
al Union; Samuel Donnelly, president
International Typographical Union;
James A. O'Connell, president Inter-
national Association of Machinists;
John w. Hayes, general secretary and
treasurer knights of Labor; Father
Huntington, Knights of Labor; ex-
Congressman Howard, president of
the Farmers National con gress; Aaron
Jones, grand master of the National
Grange; p. E. Dove, president
Commercial Travellers National
League; Joseph Nimmo, Jr.; Will
lis Young, president Travelling
Mems Protective Association; d.
X. Clink, past councillor Union
Commercial Travellers; Professor Ely,
University of Wisconsin,; Professor
Henry c. Adams, of Ann Arbor; Pro-
fessor j. w. jerks, of Cornell univer-
sity; Professor John B. Clark, of Co.
lumbia university; Arthur Twining
Hadley, president of Yale university;
Cyrus Northrup, president of Univer-
sity of Minnesota; President Draper,
of the University of Illinois,: j. Ster-
ling Morton, Nebraska City; Martin
A. Knapp, president interstate COM
merces commission, and Senator Kyle,
president of the United States indus
trial commission.
The attorney general and labor
comm issioners of twenty states have
sent acceptances.
The Tariff Reform League of New
York asked that special session be
devoted to the question of the rela-
ton of protective tariff to trusts. AS
representatives from the Protective
Tariff League of New York and the
Home Market Club of Boston will be
present to represent the tariff side of
the question, the committee on ar
rangements will recommend that the
request be granted.
The recent litigation in Arkansas
and Missouri having given insurance
combinations a prominent place in the
public mind the National Board of
Underwriters and the National Asso-
citation of Local Fire Insurance agents
have been invited to send representa-
tives, and Attorneys General Crow of
Missouri, jefferson Davis of Arkansas
and Smith of Texas are expected to
discuss the question from the anti
trust side.