The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-12

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Arkansas Involving Insurance
Companies Leads to an Invita-
ton OF Such Companies to Send
Representatives to the Chicago
Conference.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE committee OF
arrangements for the conference on com.
| binations and trusts, called by the Civic
| federation to meet in Chicago, Sept. 13
| Is, has decided to hold the regular ses.
! sions in Central Music hail. with two
night mass meetings at the Auditorium
| OF the thirty-five state delegations be-
| ing appointed, fifteen have been reported
to the committee, the rest being promised
| before Sept. 1. Those received today
| were:
New York--Chauncey NJ. Depew, john
q; Carlisle. Bourke Cochran, Francis B.
Thurber George Gunton, Henry White
and Albert Shaw.
don Mcdonald Opelika; w ". Quarles.
Selma; Wallace Haralson, Fort Payne;
E. M. Ragland, Tuscumbia and B. B.
Conner, Birmingham.
Montana-Hon. Martin Maginnis and
eX-Gov. ]. K. Toole. of Helena; Hon.
Charles, S. Hartman, of BCzeman; Hon.
A. J. Campbell and ex-Gov. J. e. Rick
ards, of Butte, and DR.. II. II. Swain, of
Dillon.
The other delegations include William
Jennings Bryan, ex-senator Allen, eX-
Gov. Crounce, Edward Rosewater and
Gov. Poynter, of Nebraska; Gov. Thorn
as, Thomas Patterson, ex-Gov. Adams,
Mayor Johnson, of Denver and eX-MayOr
McMurray, of Denver, from Colorado;
Gov. Atkinson and delegation, from West
Virginia; Gov. Shaw and Congressman
Cpdegraff. from Iowa; Gov. Stangley and
delegation, from Kansas; Gov. Smith, of
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cation from Illinois; Gov. Pingree and
delegation from Michigan; Gov Scofleld
and delegation from Wisconsin,; Samuel
Gompers, president American Federation
of Labor, of Washington, d. c.; Prof
Ely. University of Wisconsin; Prof. Hen
ry c. Adams, of Ann Arbor; Prof. J. w
jerks, of Cornell university; Prof. John
B. Clark, of Columbia university; Arthur
Twining Hadley, president of Yale uni
versity; Cyrus Northrop, president Uni
Versity of Minnesota; President Draper,
of the University of Illinois; Martin a.
commission, and Senator Kyle, president
of the United States industrial commits
sion.
The attorneys general and the labor
commissioners of twenty states have
sent acceptaaces.
TARIFF ISSUES.
The Tariff Reform League of New
York asked that a special session be de .
voted TO the question of the relation Of
protective tariff to trusts. AS represent
atives from the Protective Tariff League
of New York and the Home Market club,
CT Boston, will be present to represent
the tariff side of the question, the COM
nittee Of arrangements will recommend
that the request be granted.
The recent litigation in Arkansas and
Missouri having given insurance COM
binations prominent place in the public
mind, the national board of underwrit-
ers and the National Association of Local
Fire Insurance agents have been invited
to send representatives, and Attorneys
General Crow, of Missouri; jefferson
Davis. of Arkansas. and Smith, of Texas,
are expected to discuss the question from
the antitrust side.
The answers to the lists of questions
that have been sent out to 10000 manu-
facturers, trust combinations. labor or
CARNATIONS. travelling mems organiza-
lions, contractors, railroad men, bank
ers, economists and lawyers are coming
into the control of the civic federation by
the hundreds.
a committee consisting of eX- Comp
troller James H. Eickels, ex-Comptroller
e. s. Lacey, A. @. Bartlett, wholesale
hardware merchant; Harry p Robinson,
editor of the Railway Age; D. X Cllnk,
representing the commercial travellers;
John M. Stahl, secretary of the Farmers
National congress; George Preston, sec
rotary international Association of Ma
chinistS; Paul J. Mas, ex-organiZer
American Federation of Labor and Prof
Graham Taylor is having the answers
analysed and the results put in form
by Prof. David Kinley, of the Illinois
State university.