The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-28
GOODING DROPS
STEWART FROM
HIS COMMITTEE
SnubS Utah Wool Man Who
Opposed His Deal Fa-
vOring Chicago.
STEWART STILL A FACTOR
IN STORAGE MOVEMENT
WILL PROBABLY BE MADE UTAH
REPRESENTATIVE TO ACT
WITH COMMITTEE.

Utah wool growers are specializing as
to the cause of the action of President
Fred w. GoodinG of the National Wool
Growers association. in dropping G. r.
Stewart. secretary of the Utah Wool
Growers association. from the COM
mittee which is to have charge of the
management of the national storage
movement. Mr.. Stewart was omitted
from the committee il is said. after
Mr.. Gooding had publicly announced
that he WAS to be made member. As
Mr. Stewart had the management Of
the storage movement of the Utah wool
growers, and is probably better in
formed than any other man in Utah
concerning the work of handling such "A
movement, II IS understood that Mr.
Stewart is TO be made the Utah COM
missioner. to act with the committee
As there will be thirteen of these COM
miSsioners, with power equal To that
of the committeeman appointed by
President Gooding. il is expected that
the men appointed by the state asso-
Citations viii be in position to oppose
efforts to have Chicago made the GEN.
trail storage point until pledges are OBJ
tanned from the CHICAGO bankers and
business men that the promises of Will
liam II. Manss. the commissioner from
Chicago, VIII be fulfilled II is limited
that Mr.. Stewards energetic work i'm
opposition to the selection of a storage
point until written pledges were OBJ
tained had something 10 do with Pres
ident GoOding's failure TO place him
upon the committee of six.
Stewart Is q Fighter.
Mr.. Stewart is known 20 be n hard
fighter and perfectly fearless in follow
ing what he believes to be the right
course. and as a committeeman would
not only have demanded a full ex-
PLANTATION Of all propositions. but would
have required documentary guarantees
that all promises would be fulfilled
When President Gooding appointed
the first committee to prepare a plan
for the national storage movement, Mr..
Stewart was made a member II was
not expected that any changes would
be made in this committee All of the
members Of the committee thought that
their duties would not end until the
work of preparing the plan of the great
movement was completed. At the
meeting of the committee on Tuesday
night the men who wanted Chicago
named as the storage point asked that
a report be made i'm favor of that city.
Others. who were unwilling to act with
out careful consideration, urged that
the propositions Of all the cities asking
for the wool shipments be investigated
Mr.. Stewart was one of these. and pre-
vented the advocates of Chicago from
carrying their point.
Cooling Changes Mind.
At the meeting of the wool growers
the next Gay il was decided 10 make
some changes in the committee and to
increase its powers. Even then Presi-
dent Gooding said that Mr. Stewart
was TO remain upon the committee. but
when the list OF names was given out
Mr.. Stewards name was missing. Tim
Othy Kinney, president of the wyoming
Wool Growers association, YVES also for
some reason dropped from the list
The wool growers who remained in
Salt Lake yesterday devoted much of
their time 10 discussing the various
propositions made by the commission
erS of the cities represented at the
gathering of Tuesday and Wednesday
1t seemed the general opinion that the
sheepmen acted wisely in postponing
the selection of a storage center until
pledges could be obtained that the
promises of the commissioners would
be carried out.
Will Chicago Make Good?
The offers of Mr.. Manss of Chicago
were carefully gone over Mr. Manss
told the wool growers that the Chicago
bankers would advance so per cent of
the market price of wool upon all ship
ments to that city, and that the bank
ers were prepared to tie up hundreds
of millions of dollars in the wool placed
in storage. He said that the business
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