The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-21
WORK FOR FAIR RITFl
Commercial Associat;ou
Passage of CulIom p;, ge
MEMORIAL Is ADOpTr,
MORE POWER ASKED Fo,
MERGE COMMISSION W.

St Louis. Nov. 2O.-DeIa,s.
senting thirty-seven indusrrfsIl repre-
cations, local. and nationsI '-ssa.,
gether to take action looking ,'-11 io'
passage Of senate bin No. 900 J'a
known as 'CulIom's Bill d. ,r.,- 's,,sr
Interstate Commerce Ian. The
adopted a memorial 90 conqr,.- .o1ay
says: Which
rms IS a measure in which .,
business interests of the countr-. NE
largely more concerned than ~ are
otheF Ihat mas recently been br,-,a4g
TO the attention of congress .4--51sa,
enactment will more dirarfr,. anu us
larger number of citizens ~. -''eJ
other now pending. The hin r-lu any
before the public during +LI oae1
twelve months and has been r-..r past
cusSed IN the public press win ~ U.S.
unanimous approval Il h ''t'S,
formally indOTsed by nearly an '--1
commercial bodies of the .1,,-.--. NE
any Importance and the dausr5 - %
immediate enactment from an 800. us
OF the country seems To be- frri-,.l.S
Ihis convention therefore a.~,.,,S.--
desires that your honorable. ba5fa.
give this measure the ure.adan.. ".A
Wnlch ITS Importance seems To ar,;.,
II, and afford speedy relief '...-
puollc from prevailing evils in ~.
transportation of the country rL Jug
the present law has proved frs5s-.1..e.a
to remedy by the early enarfn,ani+ 1a.5
the aforesaid bill" u
Delegation Going to Lobby
Resolutions We're adopted provi5,-
that an executive commitraa of -s
members be appointed bv the ~ l,E
man with fun power To take sl,.L al --
ton as it may deem best TO carry l..
the purposes of the convention M T.-'
resolutions also recommend thar ..-z
body represented in the re7,-a,,t--L
send one or more delegates to VS.
ingtO upon the reaSsenlbIiDe af ---
gresS for the purpose of exerting tba.-
personal influence and secure rbs |
operation OF the senators and ranra-
sentatives from their respective ST..
in the early enactment of the chi
bill. All the commercial and fndustrf-f
organizations throughout the COMMIT,
are invited to unite in this movement
Ex-Governor f. O. Stanard Of -
Louis was unanimously made pr4sf4i--
ofhceT of the meeting with II n
DOuseGan Of Chicago as vice urasi.
dent, and Frank Barry Of NHwaul-ss
as secretary In taking the chair On
Governor Stanard said there was
difference of opinion in St Louis as n,
the apparent necessity for the inter
state commerce commission and ha
supposed that a similar condition ay-
listed elsewhere. What the people NJ
the country want, he declared. is effha-
an interstate commerce commission
with the power 10 act, or the repesI of
10 mr. l.
ing. He said that under present con
ditiOns, with the railroads discrimfnst-
ing, for instance. in favor Of wheat
which can be shipped to Europe at a
lower rate than -four, the miIIprS If
Germany and England can turn ont
with American grain a product cheag-
eT than milleTs of this country can out
in the market there. Nj. Sranard said
the farmers must be looked after. but
thought that the interests of thou
sands and tens of thousands Of manu-
facturers should be taken care Of too.
Some Opposition Is Met.
When the committee ON resolutions
met it developed that there was some
opposition to the purpose for which
the meeting was called. F. B. Thur
Der. president of the national board
of trade, a member Of the committee.
1t was known, was against the pro-
posed amendments TO the interstate
commerce law. When Chairman E. p,
Bacon of Milwaukee presented for
adoption the memorial 20 congress
urging the passage Of the CUuOm bill,
+. c. Simmons. president of the Sim
mons Hardware company of this city
and one of the members of the COM
mlttee, made q short address agaLuS.
any such action He declared De was
opposed to the purpose of the meeting
MIR. Simmons then withdrew from The
committee, saying he had misappra-
hended the purpose of the meeting
which he supposed was to- discuss in q
general way the proposed admeu1-
mentS embodied in the CuIIJm bill and
not to urge its passage. The memorial
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