The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-03
President Wilson Begins a
Series Of Confer
enceS
WILL MEET VARIOUS
INDUSTRIAL CAPTAINS
Matters of big Business
to Be Discussed-Henry
Ford Next Visitor

| Washington, July ID, 4. morgan
had an engagement at the White House
yesterday to discuss general business
conditions with President Wilson.
Ii was the first of several informa
conferences the president plans to have
with industrial and financial leaders
within short time.
II was said at the White House that
Mr.. Morgan had asked for the engage
ment and it was explained that the two
men are personal friends.
Another version of the meeting was
that Mr. Morgan had been invited
through friends to give his view to the
president.
Next week the president will have an
informal conference with Henry Ford
the Detroit manufacturer, who will be
entertained at luncheon at the White
House.
1t was said the president had invited
Mr. Ford.
| Officials close to the president said
Mr.. Wilson would take such an oppor-
tunity to outline this views to the heads
of big business in person. Mr.. Morgan's
engagement was more or less OF sur
prise to those who have observed the
course the president has taken since
he entered the White House in having
conferences with captains of industry.
II had been pointed out that Mr.. VIII
son was receiving the big business men
OF the country less frequently than his
predecessors; in fact. had not been ask
ing their advice at all on legislation sf-
l.. L. ff.s,a
dents have done. When the currency bill
was in passage through Congress, the
president even declined to receive some
members of the Morgan firm
White House officials said yesterday
that one OF the features which had en-
tered into public discussion OF the adj
ministration's trust policy and what the
president had characterized as a "psy
Geological depression caused by a cam
paign to halt the trust bills in Congress,
was an inference that Mr.. Wilson did not
care to meet the big business men Of
the country face to face and discuss
with them personally the issues in which
they are so vitality interested,
BY series OF informal conferences
with leaders of industry and finance,
OF which those with Mr.. Morgan and
Mr.. Ford viii be the first, it is the idea
to show that the president is approach
ing the subject with an open mind,
willing to hear the views of big business
at first hand and outline his own views
in return.
Although there are other subjects in
teresting Mr.. Morgan at present, in
which the government has part, it was
said yesterdays talk was to be person
al one on business.
The Interstate commerce commissions |
report on it investigation OF financial |
affairs of the New Haven road is near |
w ready for submission to the Senate |
and the time is drawing near to July Is, |
the date which President Wilson and At
torney General McReynolds have agreed |
upon the filing the antitrust suit for
the dissolution of the New Haven mer-
ger unless the Massachusetts legislature
-akes certain action which is necessary
20 a dissolution and which has been rec
by the attorney general and
Chairman Elliott Of the New Haven
BOARD. Whether those subjects were to
inter- into yesterdays conference was
rot known.
Morgan and President Wilson had
Yearly an hours conference. Mr., Nor
AN refused to disclose what had taken
lace.
"Thcre is absolutely nothing I can
ay," said he.
As he stepped into his carriage Mr..
forgan said: "Mv visit with the presi-
ent was very cordial. You will have
o ask him what we talked about"