Evening star., 1905-11-10
PRESIDENT INDORSED
HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS ON
RATE LEGISLATION.
Association Discusses Consular Reform,
for the Next Meeting.

The Association of Hardware Manufac-
turers in session at the New Willard, to-
day passed q resolution indorsing the Presi-
dent on railway rate legislation. after a
stiff fight. 1t was as much a personal IN
dorsement Of the President as anything
else. and stood pat on his scheme for regu-
latlng rates without going into any details
of the plan. The resolution finally passed
was that known as 1.-The Pike resolution
introduced by E. B. Pike OF New Hamp-
shire. 1t said
THE ninth annual convention of the
Hardware Manufacturers Association mas
under considera ton proposed action OF var
ious kinds intended to promote and pre-
serve the interests OF the members as
manufacturers and shippers. and inclden-
tally the public at large, including the ap-
propriate amendment of the interstate COM
merce law that great statute which was
designed to redress all real grievances y.
shippers and consignees, and yet protect
the railway carriers in the exactlon OF JUST
revenue which has been shown by the test
OF long experience to be defective In Inn
portant respects, and especially so IN iali- @
ing to afford prompt and efficient remedies
to shippers for existing transportation
evils: and
whereas the amendment of this i'm
portant remedial law was given extended
treatment in the last message OF the Presl-
dent of the United States to Congress, ana
has since been publicly discussed by the
President In numerous addresses. wherein
the great leader of the people and advocate
of the endorsement of civil rights mas an
nounced the changes in the law, which.
after the most painstaking examination and
consideration by the Attorney General ana
other legal advisers, are deemed essential
to effect the purposes Of the act; ana
Whereas tt seems a prudent ana wise
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ship of our great President. rather than be
diverted by spec!ous arguments OF lnolVlo-
uals, therefore. be it
Resolved, That this assoc alton coruaiiy
indorses the plans for railway rate reguia-
ton proposed by President Roosevelt ana
recommends that such railway rate regula-
ton be enacted by Congress at its next
session.
Reform in Consular Service.
The question Of consular reform was
raised in a resolution by Mr.. F. P. hret-
singer, and was disposed Of In the usual
perfunctory manner common to CONNER
cial conventions in Washington. The reso-
luton as adopted read:
Resolved. That the American Hardware
Manufacturers Association. in convention
assembled at the national capital. ap-
service on business basis that 1t may
become more serviceable in the extension
OF our foreign trade by the creation OF
larger markets for our products
Choice Of Officers.
The election OF officers for the coming
year was held, and F. 8. Kretsinger Of
Cleveland, Ohio, was elected president: c..
w Ashbury first vice president: George
w. Corbin of New Britain. Conn. second
vice president: VIM. NJ. Pratt. Greenfield.
Mass. third vice president; F. P. Mitchell
secretary.
Executive committee: Robert Garland.
chairman: Samuel Desston, John E. Harbs-
ter, William II. Hayes, William Causing,
c. F. Carrier, Edward Ingalls, and E. NJ.
Kemp.
The next meeting Of the association will
be held six months hence at Hot Springs,
Va, and the next. which will be year
from date. has been referred to COM
mittee, which will take the names Of sew
eral cities under advisement. There has
been some suggestion that the meeting
year from now should be held at Chicago,
but this has not Yet been determined.
The members of the association will hold
an afternoon session. at which the final
business of the meeting will be transacted
and the meeting will close with q banquet
in the Willard Hotel tonight.