The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-23
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF,
COMMERCE BEGINS
Fifth Annual Sessions Will be Held
iu Boston for Several
Days
SIGHTSEEING IS FEATURE
Forty Foreign Countries are Send.
ing Representatives and Amer
lea Has Many Present
SIGHTSEEING IS FEATURE
Associated Press Dispatch.

Boston, sept. 11.--COmmeTcldl,
industrial, judicial and civic SUBJ
jects of far-reaching interest will be
discussed by delegates from all parts
of the world who will assemble in
Boston this week for the sessions OF
The Fifth International Congress of
Chambers of Commerce. Forty for
eign countries, including Russia and
several Central and South American
republics never before represented
will have a part in the congress.
Seven hundred delegates of national
and international prominence, and
nearly all leaders in the commercial
life of their home cities, will attend
Programs for their use have beer
prepared in sixteen languages and
notes taken on all discussions will
be transcribed in many tongues.
The first three days of the con
gress which will open Tuesday, and
continue through Saturday. will be
devoted to business; the latter par
of the week to local sightseeing
after which a tour to nearly a score
of cities will be begun, Charles Ma
gel, secretary of the Department o
Commerce and Labor will represent
the United States on the openint
day and will deliver an address o
welcome and on Thursday evenins
President Taft will be the speaker
at the congress banquet.
The establishment of fixed da
for Easter. previously discussed by
the congress, will be among the mat
ters considered. The congress at
Milan in 1906, disclosed a Wild
range of opinion on the subject TIL
commercial bearings of the mobilit-
of certain holidays will be recurret
to and more definite views on Ions
agitated calendar reforms will be
heard, Especial interest is indi
Gated in the proposition for a calen
dar year of precisely equal divisions
and subdivisions, with each day O
the month always the same day O.
the week, made possible by estab
fishing News Years as day outsid
the regular cycle of dates, and thc
following day as January 1st.
Discuss Living Cost.
These subjects will be presented
in communication from LouiF
Canon-Legrande of Mons, Presiden'
Of the Congress, The cost of living
and the desirability of an interna
tional conference on the subjec
will be advanced in a report b.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale Uni.
versity. Other subjects for consid
Grafton include:
The establishment of an interna
tional court of arbital justice fo'
suits between individuals and for
eign states; the unification of legis
lation relating to checks; interna
tional postal reforms in view of thu
next conference of the Universe
Postal Union in 1918; commercial
statistics and the immediate institu
tion of an international office; thu
desirability of an international con.
ference upon the validation o.
through-order-notify bills of lading
and of legislation and other means
for making the system more effec
tive; the desirability of interna-
tional uniformity of action in the
matter of consular invoices.
Official recognition was extended
to the Boston congress by resolu
tion of congress. Under this reso
luton the United States sent invita-
tions to the governments of the
world. in addition to the business
organizations. Appropriations to
taling $150,000 have been made b,
the state of Massachusetts, the city
of Boston and individuals, for the
entertainment of the visitors.
Will Tour Country
Starting on September so the for
eign delegates will visit Buffalo. De
troit, Chicago. Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh. Philadelphia, Washington
and New York. On October 20 the
party will sail for home from New