The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
BRYAN AND DEPEW
Both Are Delegates to the
Trust Conference.
To Be Held In Chicago Septem-
Der 1 8 to Is.
TWENTY-SIX STATES
Have Appointed Representa-
tives to the Meeting.
Seventeen Attorneys General
Will Be Present.

New York, Aug 2S.-The governors
of twenty-six states are announced as
having appointed delegations to attend
the conference on trusts, by the Civic
Federation of Chicago, and called to
meet in that city September Is to 16.
The call states the object TO be purely
educational and strictly non-partisan,
the committee on arrangements being
composed Of men of different political
faiths and representing all sides of the
problem to be discussed. The subject
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 COM
merce commission has also accepted
and will participate in the conference.
The states named as having delega-
lions, and the names of chairmen
thereof are here given:
New York, Chauncey NJ. DepeW; Ne
braska, Edward ROsewater; Maryland,
Charles J. BOnaparte; South Carolina,
J. H. Marshall; Montana, Martin Ma
ginnins; Kentucky, w q p Broken
ridge; Wisconsin, John Q. SpOOner; Mis-
souri,, F. NJ. CockreH; Michigan, Rus
sell A. Alger; Colorado, Thomas NJ.
Patterson; Kansas, W. ]. Bailey; Iowa,
James Q. Berrybill; Mississippi, ]. w.
Cutter; Alabama E. Dalner; South
Dakota, r. +. Pettigrew; Wyoming, F.
w. Monden; Oregon, NJ {. George;
Tennessee, T. E. Snodgrass; Indiana,
E. B. Martindale; West Virginia, z. s.
Hutchinson; Arizona, M. J. 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, Kan
sas and Nebraska, are:
Missouri. NJ COckrell, Warrens-
burg; E c. Crow. Jefferson City; JOS
G. Cochran, st. Louis; David R. Fran
els, St. Louis; F. w. Lehman, St
Louis; Emil Pretorius, St Louis; John
A Hockaday, Fulton; L. A Worries, St.
Joseph; c. G. Fuller, Mound City;
Frank P. Sebree, Kansas City; John S.
Haynes, Buffalo; L. F. Cotty, Edna;
Marsh Arnold, Benton.
Kansas-W. J. Bailey, Baileyville; J.
K. CubbisOn, Kansas City; George H.
Buckman, Winfield; W. A. White, EN-
poria; John E. Hessin, Manhattan;
Harry L. Pestana, Russell; Charles E.
Elliott, Wellington.
Observation-Disclosures Rosewater, -Oma-
Ia; Ex-Governor Lorenzo Crounse, Cal
houn; William V. Allen, Madison; r.
D. Sutherland, Nelson; William B. Bry-
an, Lincoln; A. H. Nipple, Omaha;
Frank T. Ransom, Omaha.
The following named governors have
accepted: Atkinson, West Virginia;
Stanley, Kansas; Shaw, Iowa; Pingree,
Michigan; Tanner, Illinois; Thomas,
Colorado; Smith. Montana; Poynter,
NeDTaSkds stephens, missouri, SEQ
field, Wisconsin,; Murphy, Arizona;
Fancher, North Dakota; Mount, In
diana.
Acceptances have also been received
from the attorneys general OF seventeen
states and the labor commissioners of
five states. Delegates are being named
by boards of trade, chambers of COM
merce, national labor and agricultural
bodies, the National Bar association,
the National Bankers association, the
National Underwriters association, the
American Economic association. the
American Social Science associati ton
and the American Academy of Political
and Social Science. The leading col
leges of the country will be represented
by professors of political economy.