Show M A FOR RATE REGULATION LAT D Directors e tors Endorse Senti Sentiments ments and Bill V HELD of MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT LAS LASTS NIGHTS SESSION At a of th the directors of the Manufacturers Merchants association tion held last evening Man Manager ger G n H Place reported that copies of resolutions resolution tion recently adopted b by the M M MA MA A commending the sentiments ex expressed expressed pressed In Pr ells mes message message sage to congress regardIng railroad rate legislation and endorsing the bill had haa been heen sent to over ocr eighty commercial bodies of the west These organizations extend from Washington on on the northwest to Texas on th the southeast The text of the resolutions follows Resolved That the undersigned direct directors ors Is of the Manufacturers Merchants association do most he rUI endorse the expressed Jn in President Roose veIls message to congress bearing on the tho question and also his remedy for tor the present rebating and dl discriminating in freight rates by the enactment of StIlt sult laws and the tho creation of an Inter Interstate Interstate state commerce commissIon with full tull power to act on all 11 matters pertainIng to the adjustment of freight rat rates V That we heartily endorse the Each Eich Townsend bill blU which was passed by the tho lest last house of representatives end ond which will be introduced d at this session Bo Be it further resolved That a COpy ot Of this resolution be forwarded to our ten sen senators and r representatives In congress with a suitable letter Informing them or of orth th the desire of the Manufacturers Mer fer Merchants chants chant association of Utah that the they give their most hearty heart support to the bill or an any other suitable bill blU or satisfactory measure which ml may V be introduced in congress bearing on the freight and In harmony with the views of oC the president Other Cooperation Asked Be It further resolved That we Invite aU all the commercial bodies In the city of Salt Lake Inke and state o 0 to join us In I p passing similar resolutions endorsing the views of Roosevelt on the lie rate and asking that our senators and representatives ln In congress favor and promote an any legislation that ma may b In In favor of enlarging the powers of the present interstate commerce corn com mission and which will wili have hao a as Its ob the abolishing of the unjust vicious and illegal system of secret rebates and in hI freight rates I That a cOPY or of these I thins be ent to aU alt the commercial bodies I In the eastern and western states wit u a letter asking them to cooperate with us I in urging their senators am anti fa to favor an any reasonable affecting this very Important J ques question on with the IntentIOn of making the move merit flOut a national one find and conclusive I ly that the Merchants Merchant Manufacturers I find and commercial bodies or of the United States arc on record as endorsing the I presidents and Vand and on thE situation und anti for far relievIng the public from rein many ot of the existing evils I 0 It H Hewlett C O 0 Harris G n It I Leon SweM George 8 5 Mc Ic X N J 1 R B G ii A J 1 H E B Deardorf II H J Faust jr Theo X Austin Albert Alhert Fisher J R Valentine At the directors meeting last laRt night the tha packing house project In which are was the subject of some discussIon lon and the as association will wUl pro probably I ably i investigate it The directors changed Class Clas A to m in i elude merchants t to verdi therein at 00 annum this class g Included manufacturers rated ut at or over oTer V New members follow y Fur I company compau Rosenbaum Bros Coop Furniture company compall D De k Engrav In Inc company and aud Asier Neal company |