Show FAIR H HI I Commercial Associations r t rge gt Passage of Cullom Bill Bin MElIOR AL IS I ADOPTED t MORE NORE POWER ASKED Pm io POR u C co 01 1 1St S St Louis Aul Nov Noy Delegates r enUng industrial local and cr a national called gether gather to take action looking t 1 passage aS pas of senate bill Xo i 1 In known as Bill BUI to t n 1 h Interstate te Commerce La j td a r memorial to i says congie s h 11 This is Isa a measure in business interests t of 0 the t H h COUntry COuntr largely more mor concerned ar r than m moth i in oth r that has recently a been to the attention of hr br congress ant an enactment will more directly s aff larger number of nt than L other now pending The bill n has K before the public during th twelve months and has been b n fr I cussed In the public press pres rt g ct w ih h aim im unanimous approval it has ha I Jo formally indorsed by nearly nearl all hn commercial bodies of or the r any Importance and the demand f If r l immediate enactment from all of the country seems t to tv tw is un This convention therefore desires de that your arn l b hidie di give this i measure the pr deme which filch its importance seems seeni to ent it and afford speedy relief f t 1 public from prevailing e evils ils in m 1 h n transportation of the country w h the present law has proved to remedy by the early arly t the aforesaid bill Ul u Delegation Going to Lobby Resolution Re were adopted that an executive commit tet Of members be appointed appoint by the rha ei r man with full tull power to take tak su sa h tk Uon n as it may deem best beat to carry carl ar the purposes of or the convention Th out resolutions also recommend that body represented in the i invention ai adl n s send nd one or more delegates to tu Wah upon the reassembling r If f n gress gresa gre for the purpose of th thir ir personal influence and secure the operation on of the senators and from their respective in the early enactment of the Cullom bill AH An the commercial and industry Organizations throughout the are invited to unite in this movement E B O 0 Stanard of or si St tt Louis was unanimously made presiding officer of the meeting with H F p Dou eman of Chicago o as vieS vice pres pr i dent and Frank Barry of 0 Milwaukee e as aa secretary In taking the hair chair ex 11 e Governor Stanard said there was a difference of opinion in St Louis as to tt the apparent necessity for the mt r state commerce commission and ard he supposed that a similar condition ex et isted elsewhere What the o othe the country want he declared is eith l eithan th than an an Interstate commerce commission with the power to act set or the repeal tf f the law under which it came into be ing In He said that under present nt con MD with the railroads ing for instance in favor of wheat which can be shipped to Europe at a lower rate than flour the millers rs Hf T f Germany and England can turn out with American grain a product rhea cItes er than millers of this country tan car put in the market there Mr Stanard Saul aid the farmers must be looked after hut biu thought that the interests of thou sanc and tens of thousands of manu should be taken are arc of t toj w Some Opposition Is Met When rhen the committee on resolution met it developed that there was soni opposition to the purpose fur for i ithe the meeting was called F B TIter Thur br her president of the national board of trade a member of the committe it was known was Has against the pro proposed proposed posed amendments to the interstate commerce law lav When Chairman E S i P Bacon of Milwaukee presented f fr r adoption the memorial to ingress urging the passage of the bill billE E K C Simmons president of the Sin Sim Simmons mona mons Hardware company of this uv city and one of the members of lh corn coir a mitte made a short address t tany any such action He declared be Itt wai ai opposed to the purpose of the meeting Mr Simmons then withdrew from h committee saying he had handed the purpose of the meeting which he be supposed was to s in a general way the proposed manIa ments embodied in the Cullom hill bill and ani not to urge its passage The memorial was then adopted |