New-York tribune., 1908-04-23

The invocation of the dinner was said by
Bishop Frederick Burgess.
Besides the speakers at the guests table were
Charles H. Grasty. general manager OF the
Munsev newspapers Colonel William Hester OF
| The Brooklyn Eagle: c. Fl. Clark, OF Fhe
Hartford Times; James NJ Beck General
Stewart L. woodford, Melville F. stone John
w Hays first vice-president of the 1nterna-
tonal Typographical Union; Medill Mccormick
of THE Chicago Tribune: James +. FTeel,
president of the Stereotypers' Union; II. n kel-
logg George C. Berry, president of the Press-
mems Union: E II. Baker of The CleEeland
Plain Dealer; General W. r. Nelson, OF Inc
Kansas CITY Star" and Rufus n. Rhodes. Of
THE Birmingham News
SOUVENIRS OF DINNER.
The dinner. as the first joint affair of the two
big organizations was generally agreed TO De I"
good forerunner of many more to come AS
reminder the guests carried away three appro-
pirate souvenirs. Two of them were VelIuh
bound menu and e similar brochure on Inc
Newspaper" written by Melville E Stone. gen
eral manager of The Associated Press ihe
other was 9 box in which the ices were served
with plaster relief of nCwsboy.
AT the business session that began in the state
spsrtments of the Waldorf yesterday morning
the matter of the cost of white paper was taken
up and as a result telegram was drafted TO De
sent by each member of the association TO the
Congressman representing his district. The tel
egram follows:
The American Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation in convention assembled protests against
the s1lhterfuge designed by Payne, Dalzel and
Cannon to prevent the relief from the eXtorfions
of the paper combine We ask that the Stevens
bill throttled in the Ways aud Means Com
mittee. be put to a vote on the moor OF fne i
House We represent the seventh largest IN
dustry in the United States and have rights thsi
Congress is bound To respect.
A resolution was adopted thanking President
Roosevelt for his kindly and courageous mes
sage in favor of free pulp and print paper.
In the absence Of President Herman Ridder
publisher of THE Stats -Zeitung," EicePresi-
dent MediU Mccormick, of The Chicago Trlb-
une occrrpied the chair John Norris, of The
New York Times" and member of the white
pa per committee in discussing the situation
said that the alleged excessive demand for paper
" hich was reported to have existed last fal hao
decreased and the price of the paper was grad
UalJv declining 4 vote of thanks was given
Mr. Ridder chairman Of the committee II
WAS also decided that the committee would con-
tinue its protests at Washington
During the day reports were read from the
treasurer. the manager. the board of directors
and the advertising agents committee. There
will be morning and afternoon sessions to-day
and tomorrow. when the annual election will
be held MANY interesting topics are slated for
discussion and to-day that of labor will come
I'D. President James NJ. Lynch of the Inter
national Typographical Union is expected to be
among the labor union officers who will take
part All the topics, however, are not so serious,
and one that will tighten the business sessions is
put on the list as The Elimination of the Press
Agent"