The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE BOTH HERE AND ABROAD Thirteenth Annual Meeting of Lake Mohonk
 Conference. TARIFF POLL RESULT Fate of Irish Bill Depends Largely on Dubli"
 Convention.
TARIFF POLL RESULT

Many prominent educators and statesmen will gather at Lake Mohonk, N. Y, on Wednesday to take part in the three days session of the thirteenth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration. Among thse who will address the con- ference are Enrique c. Creel, Mexican ambassador to the United States; Igna- cio Calderon, Bolivian minister to the United States; Stewart L, Woodford, former American minister to Spain; Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia university; Francis B. Loomis, former assistant secretary of state and John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American republics.
 The National Association of Manu- facturers which will begin it's conven- tion in New York Monday is to hear the result of a poll of it's three thous- and members on the tariff question, which has been taken during the past year at the direction of the 1905 con- Nentfon. The tariff committee sent out several questions intended to discover if possible not only how much revision is desired, but also when and how the revisionists want the problem under- taken. The committee has kept the result of the poll to itself, but is ex- pected to announce it with it's annual report.
 Other subjects to be discussed with the names of the chief speakers on the different topics will be:
 Further Railroad Legislation Charles A. Prouty, Interstate com merce commissions
 "The Consular Service" Francis B. Locnis formerly assistant secretary of state.
 Foreign Trade" Charles M. Pepper, special agent of the department of com- merce and labor.
 'aThe Child Labor Problem. Dr. Charles F. Neill, commissioner of la bor.
 On Wednesday night at the annual banauet addresses will be made by Secretary Straus, Senator Deliver of Iowa. Read Admiral Sigsbee, and Ma for General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the army.
 The biennial convention of the Srwitchmen's union of North America will ibe held at Detroit beginning Mon day
 The postmasters of New York state will give a banquet to George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury and formerly postmaster general. at the Hotel Astor. New York, on we'd nesday evening. Among the speakers will be Charles Emory Smith, former postmaster general; First Assistant postmaster General Hitchcock, James T. McCleary, the second assistant, and Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the state republican committee
 The fate of the Irish bill introduced in the British house of commons May [ will largely depend on the attitude taken by the Irish nationalists' conven- tion, which will assemble at Dublin on Tuesday. All the Irish city corpora tions and the borough and city rural councils, irrespective of politics, have been invited to send delegates and the branches of the United Irish league in Ireland and England also will be rep resented
 The appeal of Count Boni de Castel- lane against the decision of the court which on November 14 last granted a divorce to the Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould, of New York, will come up in Paris on Tuesday.
 On Thursday the Venezuelan con- gress will convene, and it has been re- ported that President Castro has chos- en that day on which to retire from office, being succeeded by First Vice. President Gomez.