The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-11
KNOX NOT DOING
HIS FULL DUTY
Attorney General Censursd By
Coal Consumers.
WILL MOVE ON WASHINGTON
PEOPLE IN EARNEST OVER THE
FUEL SITUATION.

Chicago. Jan IA national conven-
ton at Washington for the purpose OF
impressing upon President Roosevels
the urgent need for relief from the
stringency OF the coal situation was
decided on today at a conference in
the Grand Pacific hotel The call for
the gathering viii be issued probably
Monday by Mayor Maybury Of Detroit,
acting as chairman Of the permanent
committee of the Detroit coal conven-
ton 1t was this committee which
today agreed on the necessity for a
meeting at the national capital
The conference opened at 10 o'clock
this morning and at an adjourned ses-
sion it was voted to reconvene the
Detroit convention al washington at
the earliest practicable date. This
decision followed a series Of speeches
in which Attorney General Knox was
censureds it being alleged in the meet
ing that he had not enforced the laws
by which, it was averred, redress could
be secured
On to Washington.
There was much divergence of opin-
ion at first as to the most effective
method to be pursued to obtain relief
from the present prices of coal. Sug-
Sestions were made that an open letter
be addressed to President Roosevelt,
that a convention be called at Detroit
or Chicago, or that congress be ap-
pealed to for action. The proposal 10
move on Washington in body final
~ prevailed, il being agreed that the
enforcement Of existing laws offered
adequate means of relief
The permanent committee of the De-
trOlt coal convention consists of w
& Maybury. mayor of Detroit: Rev.
+; A. White, Chicago: f M Lahiff,
Chicago; United States Senator Mason.
Judge Edward f. Dunno Chicago:
Father r. B. Condor. Reedsburg. Wis:
T. E. Tarsney. corporation counsel of
Detroit; w. c. P Breckenridge. Ken
lucky; George w Alexander, Provi-
dence, r. L, and Judge W. A. Bah
cock, Cleveland.
All We're present except NIessrs.
Breckenridge. Babcock and Alexander.
A Formal Statement
Following an executive session, May
or Maybury explained the action of the
conference in a formal statement
1t was the order OF. the convention
at Detroit" he said, that this COM
nittee should caH the convention to
reassemble whenever such course
Was deemed necessary The decision
Of the committee is that the cOnven-
ton be reassembled 1t WAS decided
TO select Washington as the place TO
meet, the gathering to assemble at the
earliest practicable date
The convention will not be confined
TO the delegates who attended the De-
troit session. though the gentlemen ac-
credited to that meeting will be members
of the convention at Washington by viz
tue of their credentials TO the first cor
VentiOn- In addition. it is the purpose OF
the convention to ask the chambers of
commerce, the boards of trade and other
civic organizations of the country to send
delegations IN such numbers as they see
fit In addition. the governors of all the
states and the mayors of all the larger
cities viii be asked to designate repre-
SentativeS to attend the convention, IL
being the desire to make the personnel
of the gathering as widely representative
as possible"
In conclusion. Mayor Maybury ex-
planned that the date for the gathering
al the national capital would be fixed
according to the developments that tele-
graphic corr CspOTdence would evoke with
relation to the convenience of those ex-
pected to take a prominent part in the
convention
The speeches made by Senator Mason.
Mr. Tarsney. Rev r. A. White and
Mayor Maybury indicated that the con-
Venti01 at Washington would he devoted
largely to the presentation of charges
that Attorney General Knox had failed
to grant the relief that the laws make
possible. IN fact. more than three hours
of speech-making were CONSUMED chiefly
with arguments to that effect