Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-09
MANY BUSINESS
men AT MEETING
4 MATTER OF BETTER INSUR.
ANCE CREDITS AND OTHER
N MATTERS DISCUSSED.
4 REPRESENTING 81 NATIONS
Il Holding Three Days Session
Delegates from Many Coun-
.77oAt} ss' ties on Program.

Paris, June S.-Many thousands OF
~ millions Of dollars engaged in indus
- try and commerce in the leading ma
tions of the world are represented at
- the Sixth international Congress OF
Chambers of Commerce and CONNER.
+. cial Industrial Associations, which
= was called together here today. Its
business sessions are to last from
( June s to June lv and during that
IT period are down for discussion many
questions of prime interest and para
m mount Importance to the trade and
= commercial, relations of the entire
"a globe, ,aiI5r
The widespread range Of the acti-
! vities Of the congress is shown In the
Z fact that delegates from no fewer
{ than thirty.seven nations answered
& the rool.call, while 369 associations,
q including 81 in the United States, re-
- presenting nearly every state and
~ territory in the Union, are affiliated
to. the congress.
Many Countries Attend.
The countries from which delegates
" were announced are Argentina, Aus.
q tra1ia. Austria, the Bahamas, Bel.
il GUM, Bermuda, Brazil, British India,
1t the British Isles, Bulgaria, Canada,
- Chile, China, Cuba. Denmark, Eaua
II dor, France, Germany, Greece, Hun.
u gary. Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Next.
co, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Peru, Portugal, Roumania,
Russia. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, the United States and Uru-
Il quay.
Among the American members of
i the permanent committee are Edward
"A. Filene. Boston, Mass; Bernard J.
I Shoninger, president of the American
K Chamber of Commerce I'll, in Paris;
II Harry A. Wheeler, Of Chicago, presi-
~ dent of the Chamber Of, Commerce Of
1.-THE United States; John II. .Fahey,
n Of! Brooklyn. Mass. and George s. At
7 wood, secretary of the American As
~ sociation of Commerce and trade,
(. Berlin.
Canada Has Delegation.
Canada is also strongly represent
b. ed with delegates from NJ 1ntreal.
EMonckton. Ottawa, Belleville, St.
q GATHERINGS, st. John, Sherbrooke and
j. Toronto.
The subjects on the agenda ard on
. which reports are to be made and
81 resolutions to be presented to the
= Congress include:
Fixed Easter; Calendar reform:
= Unfair OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES inter
IN national action; Customs statistics,
= Penny postage; Unification of laws
concerning checks: Postal transfers
y, and clearing; UnifictionS of laws con.
y corning arbitration n procedure for
- regulating litigation between citizens
T. OF different nations; Unificatjon OF
81 laws relating to warehouse cortifi-
g Gates with the view of facilitating.
= extending and better guaranteeing
r. credit on merchandise; gold reserves
) to prevent financial panics; Advance
z ment of time in summer; - hour
% day; Customs stamps for affixing to
a postal consignments; Projected nri.
i form type of bill of lading, AS far at
Al regards general conditions. 10" sub.
IA sidized or regular steamship lines, in
10 order to avoid contradictions, sur
~ prfses OF uncertainties. and 2 study
II OF assurance policies in internati IA!
y trade in order to improve their draft
d ing. 49,,
t%,5. New Yorker Has Plan.
Charles l.. .Bernheimer. chairman
10 Of the committee on Arbitration OF
u the Chamber of Commerce of the
2 State of New York, submitted a plan
Il for international commercial arbitra.
= ton and DR.. Roberto Pozzi, of Milan,
I Italy, moved a resolution approving
" of the reference to arbitrators of con.
! %troversies between citizens of differ.
= ent countries and adding that the
' various, legislatures should clothe
I foreign arbitrators with powers to
: fulfill their functions and should pro.
y vide for them the protection of the
/ law and give executive force to the
4 Judgments pronounced by them.
Unfair competition was a subject
it to- which the attention of the Cong
= ress was called in a report by Max
! Ieclerc, of the Chamber of Commerce
. OF Paris. He laid on the table an ex,
II haustive report on legislation on the
: subject in various countries.