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Show B'NAI B5R!TH ASSEMBLE I Ifj filHTH CONVENTION I Most Important Jewish Gather- H ing in Many Years in H AVashingtoiu H By Leased "Wire to Tho Tribmie. WASHINGTON, April 2. The moat Important Jewish gathering In many years will convene here tomorrow, when delcwtes representing tho -10.000 members of the B'nal B'rlth nssembto tor their ninth annual convention. One hundred delcKatcs, represent lnp all section!) 01 tno United States, will be In attendance, and many of them arrived today. Political nlfrnHlcaiice in attached to tho conven-Uon. conven-Uon. for the delegates will take stops to huve tho Jmmlgratlon laws altered and Improved, the supprf hhIoh of the "whlto slave ovJl" and the education of foreign-era foreign-era In tho United Statcu. A plan will bo advocated to tench newcomers in tho United States tho principles of American citizenship. Honor not often conferred win bo be-stowed be-stowed on the delegates. Invitations tr llio banquet on Wednesday evening havi niroadv been accepted by President Taft. Vice President Sherman, Speaker Cannon. Senator Rayner and a grwit number of congressmen. Tho nddrena of welcnino tomorrow will bo delivered by Commia-h-ionor Rudolph of tho District of Colum-bla. Colum-bla. Tomorrow evening I. X. Solomon of San Francisco will deliver nn address. Tho delegutcK will bo taken to Mt. Vcr-non. Vcr-non. where a wreath will be placed on the grave of George Washington. Threo of the delegates present arc from Europe. It wis the n'ntil B'rlth thnt preocnti President McKlnley with tho famous pell-lion pell-lion after the Klshineff massacre, which Secretary Hay declared wan second only to the Declaration of Independence, and which he ordered preserved among tin; lmporlunt documents In the archives of the state deparlmetil. |