Evening star., 1915-02-05
NOTES OF THE CONVENTION.

! Joseph E. Davies, commissioner of
corporations. who is being mentioned
for the chairmanship of the new fed
| eral trade commission, soon to be
nominated by the President. spoke
briefly before the convention upon the
| powers of the commission.
The purpose of this legislation he
said, has been and is to convert the
| anarchy of our unlicensed competi-
tion into condition under law of COM
| petitive liberty
The commission. when inaugurated.
he said. would hold promise of great
aid to American business.
Robert D. Heinl, associate editor Of
The Nations Business, the official
organ of the Chamber of Commerce Of
the United States, is receiving many
compliments from visiting newspaper
men on the effective organization he
has established at convention head
quarters in the New Willard Hotel.
known as the press ROOM. He and
his stan of young women from ma
tional headquarters of the chamber in
| the Riggs building are successfully
answering every day hundreds of ques-
tions that seem to pop out of the clear
sky" so new are they to those behind
the desks.
Night before last when President
Wilson spoke. with the cooperation
of Rudolph Forster, assistant private
secretary to the President who sent
two White House stenographers to the
convention. Mr.. HeinI organized a
method of handling the Presidents
speech which resulted in the entire
long document being available for the
newspapers by as early in the evening
as 1O:1a O'Clock. He put on a force of
en,, eisna sienographers, ;L who took the
speech IN relays and continued to tran
scribe it in typewritten form as the
President spoke
J-'Stevens Ulman of New York, di-
rector of a number of railroad and in
dustrial corporations and a member of
the American chambers of commerce
OF Paris and Berlin, delivered an ad-
dress before the convention on 'sThe
Most Favored Nation Clause in Com
mercial Treaties" He urged the cham
Der to take up with the Department of
State the possibility of negotiations in
new treaties which will insist that all
American products are entitled to at
least the same treatment accorded to
those of competing countries.
Charles II. Sheriff., chairman of the
committee on foreign relations Of the
chamber, opposed the consideration at
this time of a resolution calling for the
readjustment of the most favored ma
ton clause in many treaties with Eu-
ropean nations.
Such action. If taken by us now,''
he said. would surely be misconstrued
by merchants of the sorely tried bel
hserent nations a desire on our
part to take advantage of the present
misfortunes being undergone by our
brothers across the seas. 1t would be
bad Americanism and it would be bad
business. While it is true that we are
not receiving fair treatment in regard
to the most favored nation clause
from several of the belligerent nations,
this resolution should be referred to
the appropriate committee and not ac-
lively pressed until after the war
the Senate press gallery, is acquainted
with every man in public life in Wash
ington. or at least his friends thought
he was until night before last. Mr..
Heinl. who has charge of the press ar
rangements at the convention, 10 as
sist in seating newspaper men. Night
before last. when the President spoke.
a man who was evidently perfect
stranger to Mr.. Preston walked into
| the convention room and calmly seated
himself in one of the Associated Press
seats. Mr. Preston was wroth and pri-
a few remarks concerning unlicensed
linterlopers." or words to that effect
One of them said:
"Whaddyemean, interloper? That
man?'
why. yes Mr.. Preston said. These
seats are for working men,
That man, my dear Jim one of his
friends said. 'is the Attorney General
| of the United States
Mr.. Preston said: "Oh.'
Many members of the National Lime
| Manufacturers Association, which
closed it's thirteenth annual meeting
at the New Willard yesterday. are dele
gates to the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, and as such re-
manned in the city today for the clos
ing sessions of the chamber Among
the officers who stayed are w. E. Car
| son of Riverton, Va, president of the
National Lime Manufacturers Associa-
| ton: Fred K. Irvine of Chicago, secre-
tary Of the association. and Lawrence
Hitchcock of Cleveland, one of the ex-
ecutive committee.