The Washington herald., 1911-02-13

countries in the south as they will be
affected by the shipping that will pass
through the canal. Unless they do this
they will find the canal providing OF
greater advantage to the manufacturers,
exporters. and importers of Europe, and
even of Japan and the Orient, than to
those Of the United States. 1t is, there
fore, fitting that the large and growing
commercial interests of this country
should participate in q conference which
will discuss in a most practical way what
should be done now to get ready for the
canal"
The list of officials, authorities, and
commercial experts who have promised
to speak or take part in the discussions
include the following specially desig-
mated by the State Department: Thomas
G. Dawson, Minister to Panama; Charles
H. Sheriff., Minister to Argentina; Will
bur J. Carr. director of the consular
service; Isaac a. Manning, United States
consul at La Guaira. Venezuela; pr.
Frederic w. Cooling, United States con-
sui at Montevideo, Uruguay; Julius G.
Lay, United States consul at Rio de ia
neiro; Charles NJ. Pepper and NJ. H Da-
Wis, of the Bureau of Trade Relations;
Henry l.. James, assistant chief of the
Division of Latin-American Affairs, and
Alexander Benson, secretary of the
united states LSSduOH dI Id
Some of the commercial experts include
w A Graham Clark, expert to the tariff
board on textiles; A. B. Butman, expert
on boots and shoes; John H Turner,
general expert of the Department of Com
merce and Labor; DR.. Frank Rutter, ex-
pert on tariffs, Bureau of Manufactures,
and c. S. Donaldson, Bureau Of Manu-
factures.
Here for Conference.
Among other prominent officials and
persons who will take part are William
E. Curtis, o. P. Austin, chief of the Bu-
reau of Statistics; Bernard n. Baker,
of Baltimore; A. H. Baldwin, chief Of the
Bureau of Manufactures; Col E H.
Crowder. Lewis Nixon, of New York;
Prof. Paul S. Reinsch and Prof. Williams
r. Shepherd, members of the United
States delegation to the Pan-American
Conference at Buenos Ayres; DR.. l. s.
Rowe, president of the American Acad-
emy of Political Science; Z. B. Moore.
Commissioner of Patents: Lotenzo Dan
iels, of the Lamport & Holt Steamship
Line; A. G. Robinson, expert on Cuba;
DR.. W. P. Wilson, director of the Phila-
delphia Commercial Museum; Joseph B.
Darling, expert Of the American Trading
company, L. A GTeen ana = IL. HuIule,
experts on credits from R G. Dun & Co;
Franklin Johnston. editor of the Ameri-
can Exporter; Forbes Lindsay, expert on
Panama; Harrison G. Lewis, expert on
newspapers and advertising; n. de Mo-
reira, expert on Brazil; w. A Meyers and
the MeSsrs. Carpenter, experts on Chile;
Ernesto Nelson, expert on Argentina; ].
c. OakenfUl, expert on Brazil; Prof Hi
ram Bingham, of Yale, expert on Vene-
Zuela; r. J. Yanes, assistant director of
the Pan-American Union; Franklin Ad-
ans. of the Pan-American Union, expert
on the Dominican Republic and Haiti;
w. P. Montgomery and DR.. Albert Hale,
Of the Pan-American Union, experts on
Ecuador and Paraguay, and on Costa
Rica and other Central American coun-
tries: J. Y. Noel, expert on Peru: Alberto
NJ Carreno. expert on Mexico; A: B.
Filsinger. president OF the Foreign Trade
Association. of St. Louis, and ]. L.
Schaefer, OF W. R Grace G &C.
Washington's commercial interests will
cooperate in providing social features.
Tomorrow afternoon the Commercial
Club will give q reception to the dele
gates in their quarters in Madison place
specially arranged musical programme
will be given.
On Wednesday. at 1 o'clock, the Cham
ber of Commerce and Board of Trade
will be hosts at a luncheon to be given
at the New Ebbitt-
The evening sessions of the conference
will be taken up with illustrated lectures
to be given by Mrs Harriet Chalmers
Adams, Prof Hiram Bingham, of Yale,
and DR.. Albert Hale, of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, dealing with Latin America