The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-21
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS
Adopted by Representatives Thirty
Seven Business Organizations.
WISH THE LAW MADE MORE EFFECTIVE
Resolutions Adopted 10 Send One or More Del
egates to Washington to Urge the
Ear'y Passage of the Bill
by Congress.
BY Congress.
(By the Associated Press.)


St. Louis, No. Nov 2O.-Delegates rep
resenting thrty-seven commercial and in
dustrial organizations, national and local,
called together to take action looking to
the passage of Senate Bill No. 1889,
better known as the Cullom bill, to amend
the Interstate Commerce Law. today
adopted a memorial to Congress as fol-
lows:
''To the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States in Congress
assembled
Delegates duly appointed by the
various commercial and Industrial organ
izations, assembled in convention at st.
Louis, Mo-, on the goth day of November,
1900, for the purpose of considering
amendments to the Inter State Commerce
Law, whereby it may be made more ef-
fective in accomplishing the results
sought in it's original enactment, do here
by respectfully but earnestly memorialiZe
your honorable bodies to speedily enact
Senate Bill No. 1439 known as the Gull
lom bill. now on the calendar of the SEN
ate, believing it to be a wise and Judi
cious measure, well calculated to remedy
the defects found to exist in the present
law and insure its most complete enforce
Iment in the interest of the public with
out infringing upon the vested rights and
privileges of common carriers. This is
a measure in which the business interests
Of the country are more largely concerned
than in any other that has recently been
brought to the attention of Congress. and
its enactment will more directly affect n
larger number of citizens than any other
now pending. The bill has been before
the public during the past twelve months
and has been freely Aeussed in the pub
lie press with alnrNst unanimous ap-
proval. 1t has been formally endorsed
by nearly all the commercial bodies of the
country of any character, and the demand
for it's immediate enactment from all sec
tions of the country seems to be unver-
sal. This convention, therefore. earnest
ly desires that your honorable bodies will
give this measure the precedence to which
its Importance seems to entitle it and
afford speedy relief to the public from
prevailing evils in the transportation SER
vice of the country, which the preS~nt law
has proved inadequate to remedy, by the
early enactment of the aforesaid bill"
Resolutions were also adopted providing
that an executive committee of five mem
bers be appointed by the chair with full
power to carry out the purposes of the
convention; that it shall be the duty OF
this committee to employ a suitable per-
son to- take the general direction Of the
work. bringing the influence of the COM
mercial and industrial organizations of
the country to bear upon members OF
Congress; that he shall also spend such
time in Washington as may seem neces-
sary to accomplish the purpose.
The resolutions also commanded that
each body representative in the conven-
tion send one or more delegates to Wash
ington upon the re-assembling of Con-
gress to work for the enactment Of the
bill. Commercial and industrial organ
izations throughout the country are in
vited to unite in this movement.
President stanard appointed the follow
ing delegates as members of the ex-
ecutive committee provided for in the res
olutions:
e. p. Bacon. Milwaukee; c. H. Seybt,
st. Louis; S. II. Cowan, Fort Worth,
Texas; J. E. Howard, Wichita, Kansas
R. S. Lyon, Chicago.
On motion Mr.. Stanard was made a
member Of this committee ex officio.