The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-11
Important Business Being
Transacted at the Clos
ing Session.
ACTION on REPORTS
of Chief Committees Being
Taken After Which Offic-
ers Will Be Chosen.

Reports OF committees were being
submitted and action upon them tax
en- at the closing business session OF
the West Virginia Board of Trade in
the assembly hall OF the waldo hotel
"Wednesday afternoon. At press
time. the report of the committee on
legislation was being read by Chair
man John w. Davis, OF this city.
The committee ON legisiationr
among other things, recommended
the action to be taken In support Of
the buliI sales law, the proposed bill
on conservation Of forests and the
proposed bin to prevent the waste of
the states mineral resources. The
committee recommended that the
board take no action on the question
OF taxa1ion or primary elections as III
was believed these questions are par
tfsan political matters and ought not
to be considered by this body. The
questions had been referred to the
committee at a previous session OF
the hoard.
Important Business.
Much important business will be
transacted at the closing session, III
eluded in 1t being action on the re-
ports OF the committees on leSislA-
ton, immigration and labor, trans
portation. waterways, manufactures
and others.
The board has before it for actiGri
at the closing session, the following
resolution introduced by Henry g..
Davis at the close OF his address DE-
lfvered at Tuesday nights session:
Resolved, BY the State Board of
Trade of West Virginia at its annual
session of 1908. that it invite and
VIII welcome capital and enterprlsinc
men into the State to aid in the de-
Sveiobment of its vast mineral and
other resources, and that the Board
viii use its best endeavors to encour-
age and foster present and future en-
terprises and to secdre for them fair
and liberal treatment in State mat
ters."
Mr.. Waraeid Presides.
In the absence OF President A B.
Fleming. who went to F'airmont 70
attend the funeral of DR.. John r.
Cook, vice-President H. R. Warfeld,
OF Morgantown, presided at the clos
ing session.
Following the report of the COM
mittee on nominations there will be
the election of officers and the intro
duction OF the president-elect. after
which the board will adjourn.
Tonight the annual banquet will be
held in the large dining hall at the
Waldo Elaborate preparations have
been made for this event.
DR.. d. w. Working, superintend-
ent OF agricultural extension at the
state university. makes an address a;
the closing session on Our 'Agricnl-
turai Opportunities"
Agricultural Legislation.
James 4. Stewart, of the state uni
toL lon n q
day afternoons session, submitted
the report of the committee on agri-
culture which recommended the sup
port of the following legislative ac-
tlon:
The establishment of a bureau of
proper legislation and appropria-
lions for the preservation of the for
ests.
More liberal appropriations for the
college of agriculture at the state
university.
settlement of the Anglo-Saxon farni'
crs.
More help for the geological sur
vey.
The report was adopted.
Parcels Post Condemned.
The report of the committee OF
commerce, presented by Chairman w
C McConaughy, recommended unitet
support of the bulk sales law, which
passed the senate at the last session
OF the legislature and which will BIT
again submitted to the legislature a
its next session. The committee
strongly recommended Arm stan
In favor of the patronage of Yves
virginia concerns by the public inst
tutions OF the state. The parcel
post bill was condemned.
Report on Trade Excursion.
w. Alfred Wilson, chairman of tn
committee on finance, submitted
report on the proposition of a trad
excursion to eastern cities by mem
bers of the board. The committe
estimated the cost of trip OF 10
members to Cleveland. Buffalo, Al
many, New York, Boston, Providence
hartford, Trenton, Philadelphia an
washington at $T5 each. The oil
4ect OF the trip is to have West VII
rfnIa business men meet with trad
Examinations and manufactnrers
these large cities and promote WEI
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