Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-14
Y. M. c. A., WORKERS MEET.
Report Of international Commute
Shows $4,000 Members.

8 Shows $4,000 Members.
Just fifty years ago thirty-seven men,
representing twenty-three associations,
gathered in Buffalo for the purpose of
organizing a federation to promote the
interests of the Young Mems Christian
association. To celebrate the achieve.
ments of half century and to note
the progress from that first meeting is
one of the chief purposes of the present
convention.
Original signer Still Living,
Oscar Cobb who signed the call for
the original convention, is still living
in Buffalo, and his name heads the list
of signers to the call for the present
convention Questions affecting the
policy ofrthe organization will come up
for discussion and settlem ent A spe,
cial committee OF twenty-one promi-
nent business men, representing all
sections Of the country, was appointed
three years ago to study the question
and report to this convention. Cyrus
H. Mccormick of Chicago is chairman
Of this committee Other members
from Chicago are John " Farwell, Jr
Edwin Burritt Smith, w. H. Holcomb
ana LIT. ira LanQrlCn.
The committee has presented two re-
ports, majority signed by thirteen and a
minority signed by eight members. The
entire sessions of Thursday afternoon and
Friday morning are to be set aside for dis
cussion Of these reports. The following
important questions are involved
Is the international committee becoming
so centralized that the rights of the local
associations are abridged? }~i''
IJnr,< Nttrt t, Fat, cI,n,,
Of the work of supervision in their own
fields? 4ss.ats.,@. 90 e @
Shall the international committee have
priority over state committees in the sup
ervisfon of interstate railroad work?
" Compromise is Favored. 4'E
Each report has strong supporters. while
there is evidence. that a goodly number ia
yor compromise.
| A show of relative strength was made in
connection with n vote on whether the
delegates should be seated in conventions
according to states or be seated as repre-
| sentatives of local associations without re
! gard to state affiliations. The vote showed
the friends of the minority report slightly
stronger.
| The Illinois delegation, sixty strong. un
der the leadership of State Secretary ]
f. Brown. is strongly in sympathy with
the minority report.
| Some of the men who will be heard IL
debate are Edwin Burritt Smith and DIR
Ira Landrith. of Chicago. Judge Sheldor
P. Spencer of st. Louis, III. Il. Rosevear OF
| Kentucky. Il. Z. Sickels of Buffalo, ant
Jennings of Pittsburg.
| H.2 3. e.. Mcfarland Chosen President
| AT the afternoon session yesterday H. B
+. MacFarIand. commissioner of the Dis
trict of Columbia, was elected permanent
president of the convention. II. W.. Stone
! of Portland, Oregon, was elected secretary
addresses of welcome were made by III. II
Bingham, member of the board of council
mon representing the mayor of Buffalo
I the Rev. H. b. Masters. on behalf of 'thi
Echurches of Buffalo. and ]. ]. Nc
| Williams, on behalf of the Buffalo associa
| ton.
(, The triennial report of the internationa
| committee, presented by DR.. Lucien p
| Warner. or New York. showed 1880 asso
Citations. enrolling 100000 members. q
Last evening a banquet was given in thu
:convention hall at which over 1,400 dele
! gates sat down.