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Show TELEGRAPHIC connEUCE. I'lie Forelitu Trade Couveuilon Chicago, 12. The national aDti in-ernational in-ernational contention hfld for the nirposa o( exlending our foreign ,rntie and especially to encounK6 ft :etiprooal trade on tbo Ameiicim continent between Canada, the United Slatee, South Americtvn Statea, Mex-,co Mex-,co aud Cuba, and also with the far west, met ut Farwell hall at noon :o-day. Over three hundred dele atea were present, nearly every city in the Union being represented. The largest delegationa were from St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Colum-bus, Burlington and Chicago. Tho following delegation was also present ' from San Diego, California: William L. Wilman, A. B. Hotchkiaa, D. Fitzgerald, W. A. Begole and H. 0. Green. The Mexican minister ana a number of congressmen were also in attendance. Secretary of State Harlow Har-low made the welcoming address and Hon. Emery A. Storra made a epeeeh He alluded to the propitious character char-acter of the times which now invite an extension ol our reviving trade and industry. He Baid we have lenrned that we cannot cut ourselves ofl from the rest of the world, or regard re-gard them as our enemies. It iB much more profitable and infinitely more pleasant to trade with them than to fight with them. Your purpose pur-pose U to secure direct trade with such as our geographical advantages would command. It is ordained that wo are to possess this continent, and we will not fully aud completely do this unless, from ocean lo ocean, we bind it together with bauds of eteel and iron. From the Golden Gate ou tbe Pacific slope we look across that peaceful Bea to the far ofl" China opening her gates to our commerce. I We cannot Blretch our bands of iron across those waters, but we mny surely devise some moans by whict our Bbips, sailing under our own flag, shall traverse them. The committee on credentials, : numbering eighteen gentlemen from various sections of the country, was then appointed. Hon. Henry Watteraon being loudly called for, made a brief address. He . said it ill befitted him, a man not eugagtd in commerce, to attempt to instruct so intelligent a body of the mofct prominent representatives ot this country, but this eubject was fraught with the profound-est profound-est interest to every man in this broad Mississippi valley, and he believed a new era was about to open in American commerce, now that eectional controversy is dying away; for be believed it was, in spite of what politicians tell usl There was about to come a broadening and lengthening lengthen-ing out our nation's commercial power. He anticipated an early reunion re-union of the lately divided sections of our country and hailed this convention conven-tion aa a significant omen of such re-union, and a strong power to crush out tho agrarian monster which sought the demolition of all individual property and rights. Ho wished the delegates success in their attempts to dnvisA means wherebv the beneficent end sought lor might be accomplished. The committee on organization, then made the (ollowinc repoit, which was unanimously adopted; Chairman, Hon. George W. Morris of Kentucky; first vice president, Hon. William Wendom of Mmuesota, and vice preaident, from the various atatov Among tbe latter are Marshal O. Roberts, New York, William H. Stephens of Colorado, John Cjcden, Pennsylvania, John J. Gasper, Arizona, Ari-zona, Daniel Felsenheld, California, and James Park, jr., Pennsylvania. The secretaries are: J. N. Ryckman, Chicago, John Oabill, Missouri, and F. H. Tinker, New York. Mr. Morris, in tukiog the chair, briefly thanked the convention. The following committee com-mittee on resolutions was then appointed ap-pointed by the various state delegations: delega-tions: Massachusetts, C. C. Collin; Colorado, G. C. Bates; New Jersey, A. G. Darwin; Kansas, G. T. Anthony; Tennessee, J. C. Birch; Ohio, 0. W. Roland; Michigan, T. D. Gilbert; Iowa, A. G. Adam?; Louisiana, Cyrus Bussey; Illinois, D. H. Mason; Indiana, Indi-ana, Green Smith; California, David Felsenhelt; Missouri, J. M. Kerwin; Pennsylvania, Cyrus Eider; District ot Columbia, John Pope Huduett; Arizona, J. J. Gasper; North Carolina, Caro-lina, W. F. Bearsley; Kentucky, J. B. Bowman; Wisconsin, S. T. Merrill. Mer-rill. A number of resolutions of diverse character were introduced and referred, without debate, to the1 cnmiuitteo on resolutions. Oue ol the resolutions was offered by the Indiana delegation and looks tj fostering fos-tering our Mexican commerce, it proceeds further: "Tue results of a Keneroua competition in freights east wurd are, to-day, the tonne of our prnpppriiy, to a ureal extent. W'v have implicit Inilh in the fulure benefit that would arise from a corresponding cum petition to H o Pacific, as was contemplated in the common paternity of the three grand trunk lines of the milw.iya westward. That accident by which ouly one wan achieved should give it no rights ol oreckaure upon tho now incomplete enterprises of the Northern and Tex .w Pacific road-'." John Pope Hodnett, District ol Culumhiii, introduced a reaolutiou demanding large outlays in various partB of tbo Union and that tbe present mompoly of the Central, Western and Union Pacific railways shall be broken and the corabiuatioua io keep up rates of freight be destroyed -r tbe completion of tbe coiiPtruction 'the Northern and Texas Pacific ds. -tinnrned till to morrow. |