The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
TARIFF CONVENTION
DELEGATES ARE ARRTvxEG IN IN.
 D1ANAPOLIs.
At Thls Cenyentien . M0vement Will ne Launched fer the Appeinf- saezg es c ReK@anent
 TaE1a Coenznaseien.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 1S.--Leaders in tine movement for . permanent tar- if commission which takes form to- morrow in the opening of the National Tariff Commission convention in 1n- dianApolis, arrived in the city today and talked optlmisticaiIy of the na- tionel interest arouaed by the oonven- tion.
 U. ". vanC1sawe, of St. Louis, who probably will he permanent chairman of the gathering; former Governor Cur tis 0uild, IT,, of Massachusetts: Henry n. Towne, Pfehidsnt of the Merchants Association of New York, and D. A. T0mpklns of Charlotte, N. C., were
 snong the more prominent of the ar-
 rivals.
 Temporary Chairman Risenberg as-
 serted that forty.two States would be
 represented by defegMte9 The attend
 ance will saii below the estimate of
 3.s0o anticipated, but the nature of the
 organizations represented is indicated
 hy oficials of the convention as prov-
 fnR it's thoroughly national scope.
 Probability of ffiction on the floor
 Of the convention was lessened today
 by the announcement that the reserva- tion of AuAxssrs in . hotat Rgaged by eeeFstAry ". F.1 WakemAa. or the
 Annerfoan RroGeatiye Earifx League, had
 been eanceiied.s Tne7 c&ncsllation fol-
 lowed . positive announcement of offi-
 ciais ofs the convention that any at-
 tempt to inject stand pat argumeNts
 into the delihefattons of the body would ba followed by summary election of the
 uninvited speakers.
 In connection with this it was inti-
 mated today that the proposed speech
 of Congrsssman-slect W. A. cullop. of
 Indiana, must be revised or the iRvita- kion to the speaker be recalled. Mir. Cuilop's tentative speech Is said to ops pose the selection of tariff commls- sion and demand immediate tariff re- vision by Cougres.
 The attitude of President Van Cleave and H. B. Miles, Chairman of the Tar
 tn Commtttes of the National Associa-
 ton of Manufacturers, relative to the proposed tariff convention, was the aubject of a special meeting of the executive committee of the National Association of Manufacturer, today, in
 which the work of both officials was commended and endorsed, although the
 body dlsavowed responsibility for the
 submission or a schedule by Mir. Miles aa an individual The resolutions also averred that the organization had not eeceded from its position upon the prin- ciple of an adequate protective tariff while heartily in favor of the creation A sntIfc method through which proper sarIGr ieRlslRtioE can Do attained. The enforced absence through ill., mAaa of Labor missioner c. P, Neiu. who has been looked upon as the representative of President Roosevelt, was announced today.
 The program as now arranged Is: February Ie---Invoeation. addresses of welcome by Temporary Chairman Marshall and Mayer 'Bookwaliar, report Of commit" tees.
 ,sThe Neutral Line" Henry R. Towne Prssident of the Merchants Associa- lion of New. York; '%rariR Commission n p,abiic Necessity" Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska; ''The investigation oe incoaaistsncy." Former Governor Guild of Massach husetts.
 At the afternoon session H. E Miles will speak, on "Protection and The RelIare Deal;" Senator owen of Okla. he1na on "A Tariff ComnnIssion;" Con- gressnaan Fowler Of New Jersey on sTaPiR Changes by Evolution Instead of Ravoiution;" Congressman RansdelI af Louisiana on "The Southern Farm ers' Interest in a TarIH Commission ;' President J. M. Stahi of the Farmers
 National Congress on ''The Unheard
 Majority" Congressman-e n-elect Barnard ty on Tarie, Views" and Alexander SAlmar of New York on Devotion ir Tine of e Given Protection"
 Tha spaakeFa of the succeeding dayI l include Senator BeverIdge, Congress man -Alece CuIiop and Congressmar an WAtson. Commissioner Barret of thC l International Bureau of Republic; D A. ,rompkins and Thad.. Snow, an In
 diAha farmer.