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Show STRIFE APPARENT ASTOBOITIDIS City Commission's Appropriation Appro-priation of $5000 for Convention Con-vention Purposes Vexes. DIVISION IS ' PROBLEM' Plumbers Insist That Half of the Funds Should Be Spent for Them. Just who shall have first chance nL the ?5000 appronrlatlon made by tho city commissioners for decorating the city during the several national conventions to be held here this summer Is a problem prob-lem that Is sorely vexing the various commlttoci and boards of control having charge of the respective gatherings, It may become necessary to request tho commission to Increase Its appropriation to a sum .sufficient to meet the dccoratlvo Ideas of each convention committee. This was the fooling that prevailed following fol-lowing a meeting between representatives of the Plumbers' convention, the National Irrigation congress and the Trnns-Mlssls-slppl Commercial congress at I he Commercial Com-mercial club yesterday. .Joseph E. Calne, secretary of the club, presided as chairman, chair-man, ' Plumbers Want Half. I. M. Iligley and John Dudley, representing repre-senting the plumbers, declared that It was their understanding that ?2o00 of the ?5000 decoration fund should be spent by the plumbers In preparation for their convention Representatives of the Irrigation Irri-gation congress and tho commercial congress con-gress insisted that such a division would be out of the question, and that If the plumbers are given tho sum they demand de-mand decorations for the conventions to come later Avill be Impossible. It was explained to tho plumbers representatives rep-resentatives that thfl $5000 appropriated by the commission was intended originally orig-inally for the irrigation and commercial congresses and that the plumbers should have arranged for a separate appropriation. appropria-tion. After a lengthy but fruitless discussion dis-cussion of the situation the meeting adjourned ad-journed with the expression that a larger sum is needed for decorations If the Ideas of all three committees are to be compiled com-piled with. Plan Not Approved. The idea of spending most of the money for tho first convention, which happens to be the plumbers gathering, and then maintaining the same decorative features throughout the conventions that come later la-ter In the summer, mot with general disapproval from all hut the plumbers, It waa held that new features would be necessary for the later gatherings. Present at the meeting were: 12. J. Becker of the Trans-MlsslsslppI Commercial Commer-cial congress; Oscar It Cox and F. F. Stelgmeyer of the Irrigation congress; Mr. Higloy and Mr. Dudley of the Plumbors association, and Joseph E. Caino. George D. ICeysor, city commissioner, was unable una-ble to attend. |