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through the formality of reading it to the convention. The committee was called to meet In the Century Club rooms immediately after adjournment. Evans Woollen, on i ''half of the Commercial Club and Board us Trade, invited all the delegates to attend the reception at Mannerehor Hall. The convention adjourned to meet this morning at 10 o’clock. - THE COMMITTEE’S HE POUT. C. Stuart Patterson’s tddrexs in l’re- \ seating It. In picrcr.ting the report of th monetary commission to the convention, which has been called for the Important duty of receiving and passing upon it, Mr. Patterson ■aid: “Mr. Chairman—l have been charged by the chairman of the monetary commission with the duty of presenting to this contention the report of that commission, it is only fair to say that if that report has m rited. and shall receive your approval, that result will be in large measure due to the wise counsel and skillful guidance of Senator Edmunds, the honored chairman of the commission. I regret, for your sakes. that imperative professional engagements have forbidden Mr. Edmunds to make the journey to this meeting, and that you must hear me when you ought to have the pleasure of hearing him. “Our report sets forth, with as much brevity as we could find possible, our conclusions, and our reasons for these conclusions, but there is somewhat more to be said as to our manner of work. “At. the outset we unanimously resolved that we had nothing to do with questions of expediency, and that it was our only duty to report to you that plan for the remedy of existing financial evils which, to us, seemed without reference to the jHissibility of Its enactment into law this year, or next year. We all have faith In our free Institutions; we all believe in popular government by representation, and. so believing, we have an assured confidence that, sooner or later, that cause which Is founded on the eternal principles of Justice will triumph. “We then accurately informed ourselves *s to the exact facts with regard to the nature and amounts of our various forms of currency. We next endeavored to discover what the people regarded as the evils of the existing system, and what the people recommended as the remedies for these evils. To that end we scattered broadcast throughout the land carefully drawn interrogatories, which were so 1 tamed as to invite the fullest jKissible suggestions from men of every shade of opinion. When those voluminous, if not always luminous, replies came in. we carefully put to one side all our preconceived views and prejudices, and we set ourselves with impartial minds to the careful study of those replies-, and to the patient consideration of the great subject you had committed to us. When we came to the formulation of our final conclusions, we subordinated, so far as possible, all differences of opinion, for each one of us recognized the fact that, given tqual opportunities of knowledge and reflection., the verdict of ten men is more likely to be right than the verdict of one man, and the only recorded dissent from the conclusions of the majority of the. commission are dissents upon two several points by two of our colleagues, who, after honest efforts could not conscientiously modify their views upon the points severally dissented from. “We have not spared ourselves, either In time or pains or effort. In the discharge of the duty you committed to us, und we present to you, as the result of our labors, a plan of currency reform which, while susceptible of modilicatlon in details, is based upon principles which are fundamental and unchangeable, and which never have been and never can be departed from without disaster. WHY THE GOLD STANDARD. "We advise the continued adherence to the gold standard, because It is the standard of civilization, because no legislation can overthrow it, because it means that every dollar of currency shall continue to be as good as gold, and because only under that standard can public and private faith be kept and labor receive the full reward of Its toll, We advise the utilization of the silver currency in subsidiary silver coins. in silver dollars and in silver certificates In denominations of Jl, $2 and $5, as the only small note currency, for in that way the demands of the country for a change In retail trade will keep the silver currency In circulation. “But we also recognize the fact that the Silver coins and their representative notes were issued by the government for full face value received, and that every consideration of honor and honesty requires that the •liver dollars should be redeemed In gold. “We advise the gradual retirement of the TTnlted States notes and treasury notes of 3W)O, for they are a constant menace to the national credit and a source of weakness to the government in its international relations. We advise the’ establishment and maintenance of a gold reserve adequate for that redemption. “We advise the separation of the always distinct and sometimes conflicting fiscal and currency functions of the treasury. “We advise such modifications of the national bank system as will bring into its membership the strong state banks, will offer inducements for the issue of a banknote currency which shall be as adequately secured as the existing bank-note currency, which shall possess expansiveness within the limits of safety, and which shall furnish to the States of the West and the Mouth those needed facilities of credit which the existing system denies to them. “And, lastly, we advise a system of bank issues by which temporary deficiencies of revenue can be supplied and under which it will be possible to place government loans by a real popular subscription, and thereby to furnish the only safe system of government saving funds. “Such is our plan. It iS\for you to pass Judgment upon it. “Our work is done. Your work has but begun. An appeal must now be taken from the servants at Washington to the masters In their homes on the hills, in the valleys, on the plains and in the towns of this great land, and you must prosecute that appeal. “It is no time for cowardice. It is the time for courage. It is no time to retreat. It is the time to advance. Then bring up the colors to the front and march forward in the assured confidence that our cause is right and that the tinal victory must be ours. “But there must be leaders, you say. Then—- “ God (five us men! A time tike.this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready „ hands; .Men, whom the lust of office docs not kill; Men, whom the spells of office cannot buy; Men. who possess (pinions and a will; Men, who have honor; men who will not lie.

'Pall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking; For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn r reeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife. k! freedopi weeps. "Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps." AN I.\l RANGE PRESIDENT. Speech of Jacob L. Green, President of the t'onneetteut Mutual. Governor Shaw Introduced Jacob L. Green in a few brief words. In part Mr. Green said: “You and I just at this moment stand something in the relation of the boys and the frog itt the fable, and 1 am the frog, (laughter.) I wa informed that I might possibly at a later sttigo of the proceedings be called on to make an Impromptu speech. I desired to prepare myself, but that speeeh was to come in its due order and not at the demand of such a riotous assemblage as this is." Colonel Greene at this point produced a manuscript from his pocket', and as he had been called out by the audience this proceeding was amusing. He proceeded as follows: "We have pledged ourselves to keep all our dollars of various intrlnsie values equal to each other as far as lies in our power. Hut we have not said to our creditors which value of the dollar they would have to take if wo should not succeed in so keeping down the number of 40 or 45-cent dollars that wo could keep them passing for a hundred cents. Nor have we said to them that we would keep the cheap sliver dollars for our own domestic use only and not force them upon our creditor, and who can use them at only their bullion value, and this prime element in the situation has all Its malign possibilities brought unblushingly to view, and is put sharply at issue by the r> solutions now before the United States Senate, having passed Its Hintnce committee, declaring our public debts to be honestly and honorably due In silver dollars worth only 45 cents, which would not only mean tlie upsetting of our present standard and a reduction of all our currencies to a sliver basis, but which must be held to precisely Intend the Immediate and certain debasement of all to the present bullion value of •liver. "While nation after nation has been in the last two years recognizing the irresistible force and contraction of the laws of trade and seeking safety by adopting the gold standard and adapting their transactions thereto we have been summoning the world to repeated conferences with u view to such an agreement on our own or even on a cheaper coinage ratio, and we have as repeatedly failed each time more definitely* and at last so completely that the leading man of the present bimetallic commission suggests uu approximation of the legal to the market ratio, a confession of fatal significance to the whole lft-to-1 bimetallic scheme, and withdraws from the commission. Nothing could more definitely and embalm Ucalu mark the hopelessness and the

utter futility of the attempts to give silver an essential and comprehensive monetary value other than that given it in the world of trade than these repeated attempts and failures and the present situation following the last breakdown. Helpless and hopeless as it is now to restore any fraction of the silver dollar's value it is now to be crammed down the throats of public and private creditors at its cheap market value to which it would presently fall. The friends of silver and its producers in the Senate stand to-day as saying in effect to the world and buying and selling, borrowing and lending meji. We have tried to create a legal artificial value for our silver so you should not lose by its use. We have failed. The world w'ould not have it, and now you shall take It no matter how little its value nor how much you lose.’ “The greenback is a demand obligation of the government, while the bank note is tied into the time obligation of the government. The so-called bank currency amounting to the sum now of $2.10.000,000 is but a temporary affair. It Is not a currency bedded into our commerce, rooted in and growing with it and responding to it. It rests upon the government, debt and must disappear as that matures. In due course of events, in a future so near that wo cannot postpone facing it, the entire basis of our bank currency will disappear. Yet we ought at once to set about replacing greenbacks with a proper hank currency. Three choices lie before us in this contingency. Either we must refuse to pay our interest-bearing debt in order to continue the basis for the present bank currency, or as the debt matures, and the bank currency based on it, it is redeemed through payment of the debt, and the government must increase its demand obligations sufficiently to take the place of the bank currency entirely, or we must find another basis than the government debt for the bank currency, and one that shall be permanent in its character, automatic in its free action, adequate to every exigency of Its trade, and always completely responsive thereto. AH of which means that a thoroughly safe, permanent and n a eful bank currency must lie rooted and 1 .1 on all these properties for the subsisten ;>f trade, the credits of which are the as. of the banks, and that such a currency tan have no other basis.” —♦ THE RESOLI TIOXS. Will Hero in in end t'oniiiiuniiee of Executive Committee. The vice presidents and members of the committee on resolutions as furnished to Secretary Woollen by the different state delegations bust night were as follows; —Vice Presidents.— Arkansas—Charles E. Rosenbaum. Connecticut—O. Vincent Coffin. Georgia—R. J. Lowry. Indiana—Charles McCulloch. Illinois—Edward J. Parker. lowa—Nathaniel French. Kansas—E. Wilder. Kentucky—Harry Weissinger. Maryland—C. C. Homer. Michigan—George H. Russell. Minnesota —W. H. Dunwoody. Massachusetts—W. E. Adams. Missouri—E. O. Stanard. Montana—Henry Knippenberg. Nebraska—C. W. Lyman. Omaha. New York—J. Harsen Rhoades. North Carolina—Henry C. MeWueen. Ohio—Herman Goepper. Pennsylvania—Reuben Miller. Rhode Island—John W. Vernon. Tennessee—R. C. Graves. Virginia—S. W. Travers. Wisconsin—David Vance. —Committee on Resolutions.— Arkansas—H. L. Remrnel. Connecticut—Joel A. Sperry Georgia—Rufus B. Bullock. Indiana—H. H. Hanna. Illinois—Franklin MacVeagh. lowa-C. C. Nource. Kansas—C. V. Ferguson. Kentucky’—Thomas W. Bullitt. Maryland—John M. Nelson. Michigan—William H. Anderson. Minnesota—Joseph A. Wheelock. Montana —H. B. Palmer. Massachusetts—Henry L. Higginson. Missouri—C. J. Hubbard. Nebraska—C. H. Dietrich. New York—W. H. Dodge. North Carolina—C. H. Fogle. Ohio—Dennison B. Smith. Pennsylvania—John C. Bullitt. Rhode Island —Rowland G. Hazzard. Texas—M. L. Crawford. Tennessee—A. S. Caldwell. Virginia—William R. Trigg. Wisconsin —F. H. Magdeburg. The committee on resolutions after the adjournment of the night meeting met in the Century Club rooms at the Denison and effected an organization, electing Joseph A. Wheelock, of St. Paul, Minn., chairman. After the meeting it was announced that nothing definite had been accomplished and that a meeting for further deliberation would be held to-day. The New York delegation, through W. E. Dodge, its representative on the committee, presented a resolution providing for the continuation of the executive committee with power to reassemble the eonventton at a future date if it is found desirable. Inasmuch as much remains to be done toward monetary reform in the way of keeping the subject properly before Congress it is regarded as expedient that the work of the executive committee shall continue. While there was no discussion of the report of the commission, it is perfectly safe to say that the committee on resolutions will recommend its adoption. Other resolutions were presented, but what they were was not announced

TELEGRAMS POURING IN. Business Men Wnnt Commission's Plan Adopted. Chairman Hanna, of the executive committee, yesterday received a number of telegrams from the representatives of the commercial bodies expressing their sympathy with the movement for currency reform and regretting that they could not send delegates to the convention. John P. Irish, telegraphing from San Francisco, said: "Business men here want the commission’s plan entire and will support it. Regard any attempt to amend it as unnecessary and probably fatal." Charles Parsons telegraphed from St. Louis as follows: "The finance and currency committee of the National Board of Trade approve the monetary committee pan." James Sayre Higbie, president of the Newark Board of Trade, expresses the regret of that organization to he represented, but adds that “we are practically unanimous in favor of the purpose and main features of the bill and will work for its enactment.” The Board of Trade of New Brunswick. N. J., heartily commends the commission’s bill and assures the executive committee that it will do all in its power to secure the adoption of the commission’s bill by Congress. W. G. Fenner, president of the Paterson, N. J.. Board of Trade, writes that the general sentiment of that body is entirely in accord with the results so far obtained by the ecmmisslcn. and his telegt.’.m closes with a declaration that the sent ment for monetary reform is, in his opinion, general in New Jersey. A number of telegrams expressing sympathy with the convention’s work were sent by the representatives of the various commercial bodies in the South. Mr. U. A. Tavel, the superintendent of the Charleston (S. C.) Cotton Exchange, expresses regret that the exchange cannot be represented at the convention and hopes that the result of the convention’s deliberations w r ill be eminently satisfactory. Strong expressions of sympathy with the movement for currency reform were sent to the committee by the Board of Trade, of Columbus. Ga., and by the Chamber of Commerce, of Charleston, S. C. Similar expressions of approval reached the committee from a number of other commercial centers in the East and West. NATIONAL BANK BRANCHES. The New Yvrk Relegation Sets Out Its \ lews. The delegation from the Merchants’ Association of New York yesterday prepared the following statement, which they may seek to have the convention indorse: "1. The legal-tender note, commonly called the greenback, and the. treasury notes should he retired by the use of money in the treasury, and by the issue of long-time, low interest-bearing bonds. Bullion heretofore held as a basis for treasury notes will, by their retirement, become available as additional security for silver certificates still outstanding. "2. National banks should be allowed to purchase these bonds and use them at par as the basis for circulating notes, no notes to be issued of a less denomination than $lO. The features of the present iaw relative to the tax on circulation and the 5-per-cent, redemption fund to remain unchanged, except that the tax be reduced to one-half of 1 per cent., which will be ample to provide for the expenses of the office of the controller of the currency. "3. All national banks shall be required to redeem their notes at their own counters, and at the office of the treasurer of the United States, or any assistant treasurer, in gold coin, and all deposits for the 5 per cent, redemption fund shall be In gold coin. "4. National banks shall be allowed to establish branches In any part of the country. By means of these branches the surplus money now In many centers can be utilized for the moving of crops and the prosecution of general business. 'Phis system bus been tried for many years by the

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Canadian banks and in very small towns In the Dominion. By means of these branch banks the same financial advantages are enjoyed by’ the business men of the locality as by the citizens of the largest cities. By this means also merchants and other borrowers in the interior are enabled to discount their paper at home instead of being obliged, as at present in the United States, to send to money centers and seii through note brokers. This system of branch banks will inevitably cause specific reduction of rates of interest throughout the country, and this is the scientific answer to the demands of the South and West for more currency. It will also furnish facilities for borrowing money on mortgages or otherwise, and will bring the borrower and lender together at the borrower’s home.” OVER AOO DELEGATES. Anticipated Attendance Exceeded—A Complete Roster. The list of delegates in the city shows a great many’ more in attendance than was anticipated. Over 400 are here, making the convention much larger than the first one. The list of those who came is as follows; Akron, O.—Chamber of Commerce: R. H. Wright. Albany’, N. Y.—Board of Trade: Hon. Charles Tracy; Chamber of Commerce, V. H. Youngraan. Andersofl, Ind.—Commercial Club: George C. Forrey, Samuel D. Sears, James J. Netterville, John H. Terhune, Thomas B. Orr, John D. L. Forkner, George Lilly’, W. T. Durbin, John F. McClure, H. C. Ryan, D. F. Mustard, George F. Quick. Edmund Johnson, John R. Page J. J. Buffington, John W. Lovett. Ann Arbor, -Business Men’s Association: Profes' aylor and Judge Harriman. Anniston, Ala.- ommereial Club: T. G. Bush. Atlanta, Ga.—Chamber of Commerce: R. B. Bullock. R. J. Ix>wr> and J. Haas. Auburn. N. Y.—Business Men’s Association: Thomas M. Osborne, John E. Mclntosh, Charles P. Mosher, Herbert L. Ronig. Baltimore, Md.—Board of Trade: Eugene Levering, Charles C. Homer, John B. Rausey. Chamber of Commerce: A. M. Wiley, J. R. Loard, R. M. Wiley, H. Rieman; Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association, William H. Couplin, John M. Nelson, Aubrey Pearre. Belle Plaine, la.—Commercial Club: S. S. Sweet. Binghamton, N. Y.—Board or’ Trade: Jos. P. Noyes, L. J. Kingsley. Francis Curtis. Blocmmgton, 111.—Bloomington Ciub: L- H. Kerrick, J. J. Cowden, A. B. Funk. Booneville, Mo.—Board of Trade: C. C. Bell. Boston, Mass. Chamber of Commerce: Henry’ E. Cobb, Henry W. Peabody’; Merchants’ Association: Henry’ H. Hlggin n, Charles C. Jackson, F. W. Taussig. Brazil, Ind.—Chamber of Commerce, C. S. Andrews. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Manufacturers’ Association of Kings and Queens Counties: R. W. Bainbridge, Jas. Sherlock Davis. C. N. Chadwick, Thos. C. Smith, Alex. F. Chrichton, A. C. Shenstone, Alartin H. Day, H. B. Hill, W. R. Lynch, L H. Field, W. O. Shadbolt. Buffalo, N. Y.— Buffalo Lumber Exchange: J. N. Scratcherd, L. P. Graves, Alfred Haines, M. S. Burns. Buffalo Merchants.’ Exchange: S. M. Clement. Geo. B. Alathews, Geo. P. Sawyer, Jno. A. Kennedy’, Wm. C. Cornwall. Burlington, la.—Citizens’ Association: W. W. Baldwin, William Pilzer. Cairo, 111.—Board of Trade: W. P. Halliday and H. S. Candee. Cambridge, Mass.—Merchants’ Association: F. W. Taussig. Cedar Rapids. la.—Board of Trade: R. Vansickle, C. B. Mills, Robt. Palmer, G. S. Cheny, W. R. Boyd. Chicago, lll.—Board of Trade, W. F. Dousman, Wm. Dickinson, W. T. Fenton, Jno. Mitchell, B. A. Eckhart, L. W. Eckhart, L. W. Bodman, D. R. Forgan, E. A. Hamill, P. B. Weare. Commercial Club, A. C. Bartlett, Eugene Cary, Jno. M. Clark, Marshall Field, J. J. Glessner, Christ. Hotz, O. F. Kimbell. L. MacVeagh, M. Nelson, Franklin Head, H. 11. Porter, S. A. Sprague, H. H. Kohlsaat, L. G. Keith. Ohillicothe, O.—Board of Trade, Aleck Itenick und Richard Enderlin. Cincinnati, O.—Chamber of Commerce: Herman Goepper. Jas. D. Parker, S. F. Dana and J. Milton Blair. Commercial Club: Julius Dexter, Jas. E. Alooney, W. W. Taylor. A. G. Clark. Cleveland, O.—Chamber of Commerce: E. A. Angell, Virgil I’. Cline, E. R. Perkins, Chas. L. Peck, Thos. H. Wilson, Alfred A. Pope. Columbus, O.—Board of Trade, AI. D. Quinn. Connersville, Ind.—Business Men’s Club, Francis T. Roots. Crawfordsville, Ind.—Board of Trade, Chas. A. Tuttle. Dallas. Tex.—Board of Trade. Col. Jno. Al. Simpson and Al. L. Crawford. Davenport, la.—Business Men’s Associalion. Mayor S. F. Smith. Col. J. R. Nutting. Judge Nathaniel French and C. A. Fieke. Dayton. O.—Board of Trade: C. B. Wilt and F. Riebold. Des Moines—Savings Bank: J. H. Windsor. Commercial Exchange: J. P. Flynn, J. E. Kaunts. Simon Casudy, J. A. McKinney. Clearing House: M. Younker, J. J. Larsen, C. C. Nouse. Detroit, Mich.—Board of Trade: S. S. Smith. George N. Russell, George N. Brady, J. V. Right, J. L. Hudson, John S. Gray. Dubuque, la.—Board of Trade: W. H. Day. B. B. Richards, W. B. Lacey, W. J. Knight. Duluth, Minn.—Board of Trade: George Spencer. East Liverpool. O.—John J. Purrinton. Elkhart, Ind.—Century Club: C. H. Winchester, J. L. Brodrick. A. R. Beardsley. El Paso, Tex.—Board of Trade - Robert F. Campbell. A. Krakauer, Joshua Reynolds, C. R. Morehe;td. Elmira. N. Y. —Board of Trade: Seymour Dexter. George Doane. Evansville. Ind.—Business Men’s Association: A. C. Roseneraiiz, P. J. Kelsey, C. A. Hughes. Fall River, Alass.—Board of Trade: Chas. A. Bassett. Cornelius S. Greene. Fond du Lac, Wis.—Commercial Club: L. A. Knapp. F. S. Wiley. Fort Wayne. Ind.—Commercial Club: Henry M. Williams. Charles Knight. Chits. McCulloch, Samuel N. Foster, Henry C. Paul. William E. Beale. Fort Smith, Ark.—Commercial League: George T. Sparks, J. B. Williams, William Blair. Galesburg, 111.—Business Men's Association: Prof. J. P. Cushing, J. T. McKnight, Albert J. Perry, Fred McFarland, J. G. Vinson. Galveston. Tex.—Cotton Exchange: Geo. Sealey, B. Adone, T. J. Groce. Grand Rapids. Midi.—Board of Trade: William H. Anderson, N. A. Fletcher. J. C. Holt, W. R. Shelby’. J. S. Lawrence. Henry Idears. G. W. Perkins. Sidney Stevens, William Judson, E. D. Conger. Greenville, S. C.—Board of Trade: Frank Hammond. Hamilton, O.—Hamilton Club: R. C. McKinney’, L. P. Clawson. Samuel 1). Fit ten. Hannibal. Ain.—Business Men's Club: R. E. Anderson, John H. Marth. Hartford, Conn.—Board of Trade: Jacob L. Greene. Charles E. Gross, Louis R. Cheney. Frank W. Cheney, Charles Hopkins Clark, James AI. Thompson. Hastings, Neb.—C. H. Dietrich. Helena, Mont.—Beard of Trade: H. B. Palmer. Iloopeston. lll.—John L. Hamilton. Hudson. N. Y.—Board of Trade: R. A. AL Deeley. E. D. Smith. Indianapolis. Ind.—Board of Trade: H. H. Hanna, E. B. Martindale, George J. Tanner, S. O. Pickens. Commercial Club: D. P. Erwin. John If. Holliday. Albert E. Aletzger. Indiana State Board of 'X'rade: A. L. Mason. S. P. Sheerin, J. H. Crozier. Ishpeming, Mich.—Business Men’s Association: Peter White. Ithaca, N. Y.—Business Alen’s Association: Prof. J. W. Jenks. Jackson. Mich.—General Welfare Association: Eugene Pringle, Frank E. Palmer, William AI. Thompson. Kansas City. Mo.—Commercial Club: A. H. Keith. G. W. Putnam, C. J. Hubbard, Charles Campbell. Keokuk, la.—Business Men’s Association: Hazen I. Sawyers. E. E. Hawker. Kokomo, Ind.— Alayor George W. Landon. La Crosse, Wis.—Board of Trade: C. E. Bentley, L. P. Hixon, J. S. Medery. Lafayette, Ind.—Commercial Club: Austin L. Kunder, John F. AlcHugh- John O. Perrin, A rton Levering. ' Laredo, Tex.—C. G. Brewster, Max Deutz, AI. T. Cogley. Lebanon, Ind.—Board of Trade: Rush Daily. Lewiston, Me.—Board of Trade: A. B. Nealy, C. H. Osgood, J. T. Small. Little Rock, Ark. —Board of Trade: H. L. Remmel. Edmund Craig. C. E. Rosenbaum, Henry’ Al. Cooper. George J. Low. Lincoln, Neb.—Commercial Club: G. M. Lamberton, C. C. Wheedon, C. VV. Webster. Logansport, Ind.—S. F. AlcConnell. Rufus Magee. Business Alen’s Association, O. A. Alyers. Louisville, Ky. Board of Trade: S. B. Buckner, A. E. Willson, Harry Weissinger. AI. B. Belknap, Andrew Cowan. Logan C. Alurray, William T. Rolph, C. C. Alengei, jr., Thomas W. Bullitt. Lowell, Mass.—Board of Trade, Charles E Adams. Madison, Wis.—State Board of Commerce, James H. Crozier; Merchants’ and Alanufacturers’ Club. L. L. Powell. Manchester, la.—Business Men’s Club, J. F. Merry, M. F. l.e Roy. R. W. Turpirr. Marion, Ind.—Commercial Club, O. H. Keller, George A. Southall, James V. Sweetser, George Webster, W. C. Webster, E. P. McClure. Alassillon. O.—Board of Trade, W. R. Harrison. James C. Corns, L. S. Harrison. Memphis, Tenn. Merchants’ Exchange, A. S. Caldwell. Meriden. Conn.—Board of Trade, N. L. Bradley, M. B. Schenk.

Alichigan City, Ind.—Walter Vail, Charles E. Arnt. Middletown, Conn.—Board of Trade, O. V'. Coffin. Alilwaukee, Wis.—Chamber of Commerce. J. W. P. Lombard. F. H. Magdeburg, Robert Hill. C. E. Ijewis, F. C. Bigelow, Fred Kraus, John George. C. A. Chapin, David Vance. Alinneapolls, Allnn. Chamber of Commerce, W. H. Dunwoody’, E. J. Phelps, C. J. Pillsbury. Samuel Hill. Moberly, Mo.—Board of Trade. John H. Babcock. Mount Vernon. la.—Commercial Club, W. T. Rigby. Muncie, Ind.—Commercial Club, Edward Ball and J. C. Johnson. New Albany, Ind. Commercial Club, George B. Cardwill, E. G. Henry, W. A. Hedden. New Brunswick, X. J.—Board of Trade. Henry Janeway, H. G. Parker, James N. Nielson. New Haven, Conn. Chamber of Commerce, Edward E. Bradley, Charles E. Curtis. Arthur T. Hadley’, Joel A. Sperry, Herbert C. Warren. New York City—Board of Trade and Transportation: D. S. Ramsey, Alex. Gilbert, Francis B. Thurber, Dr. S. A. Robinson, Hon. Oscar Strauss, Coffee Exchange: A. A. Healy, F. T. Sherman, Henry Hentz. Merchants’ Association: Alva Trowbridge. Richard J. Cross. Janies McCreary, Ulysses Eddy, James B. Dill. New York Cotton Exchange: AI. B. Fielding. James Bloss, S. T. Hubbard Chamber of Commerce: John Harsen Rhoades, William E. Dodge, James Spey’er, Charles S. Fairchild, George Foster P :abody, ex-Mayor William 1- Strong. Andrew Mills. New York Produce Exchange: Evans Thomas, G. H. Schwab. Alfred Homer, Robert Graham, E. C. Loehr, O. A. Lescher. Oakland, Cal.—Board of Trade: Fred A. Leech, G. W. Calderwood, John A. Britton. Ogden, Utah—Chamber ol' Commerce: Lindsay R. Rogers. Omaha, Neb.—Board of Trade: H. W. Yates, C. W. Lyman, B. B Wood. Oskaloosa, la. —Board of ’Prude: George W. Seevers and J. K. Warren. Ottawa, 111.—City Club of Ottawa: R. C. Jordan. Ottumwa, la.—Citizens’ meeting: William Daggett. S. H. Harper. R. C. Jordan, William AlcNitt, J. H. Merrill, F. W. Grube. Paris, 111. —Board of Tiade: J. E. Parish. Peekskill, N. Y.—Board of. Trade: C. A. Pugsley. Peru, Ind.—Honest-money League: C. H. Brownell. Petersburg, Va.— Chamber of Commerce: August Wright, Stith Dolling, Simon Seward. Philadelphia, Pa.—Board of Trade: John C. Bullitt. Joel Cook, C. Stuart Patterson, William R. Tucker. Piqua, O.— Manufacturers’ Association: John T. Barnett and John J. Patterson. Pittsburg, Pa.—Chamber of Commerce: Reuben Miller, John J. Jackson, William Al. Kennedy, Thomas.P. Gay, Robert Wardrop. Port Huron. Alieh.—Board of Trade: W. G. Barnum, W. Canham, W. L. Jenks. Providence, R. I.—Commercial Club: ExGovernor Lippitt, John G. Vernon, R. G. Hazard, Herbert J. Wells. Quincy, lll.—Chamber of Commerce: C. H. Williamson, E. J. Parker, J. W. Gardner, J. L. Alorgan. C. A. Blamp. Reading, Pa. —Board of Trade: J. H. Sternburg. S. E. Ancona., James T. Reber, Isaac Hiesten, Thomas P. Alerritt. Richmond. Ind.—Commercial Club: C. C. Binkley, John J. Harrington, B. B. Johnson. Richmond, Va.—Chamber of Commerce: W. R. Trigg. Rochester, N. Y.—Chamber of Commerce: Rufus A* Sibley, George W. Thayer, Chas. E. Angle. Sandusky’, O.—lmprovement and Investment Company: A. E, Merrill, H. C. Huntington. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.—Board of Trade: Wm. H. Bockes. J. H. Derrider. Savanna.h. Ga.—Board of 'irade: Air. Tiedman. Cotton Exchange: Col. William Gordon, J. P. Williams. Schenectady’, N. Y.—Board of Trade: W. L. Hanson and C. R. Witbeck. Sioux City, la.—Commercial Association: O. O. Tollerton, James Noy, W. P. Alanley, N. L. Stetson. Soutli Bend, Ind.—Commercial Club: F. A. Aliller, Marvin Campbell, J. Wolverton. Springfield, 111.—Business Men’s Association: D. W. Smith, Churles Ridgeley, Logan Hay. Springfield, O.—Board of Trade: J. S. Crowell, H. G. Marshall, John Foos, James Johnson, jr. Staten Island, N. Y.—Chamber of Commerce: S. A. Robinson. St. Louis. Mo.—Commercial Club: Col. George E. Leighton. Henry' C. Harstick, W. H. Lee, Dr. William Taussig, George O. Carpenter. Merchants’ Exchange: F. N. Judson, Clark H. Sampson, C. H. Spencer, E. O. Stanard. St. Paul, Alinn.—Commercial Club: Win. P. Clough, E. V. Smalley, Joseph A. Wheelock. Chamber of Commerce: Charles P. Noyes, Hon. W. B. Dean, Emerson W. Peet. Tacoma, Wash.—Commercial Club: Geo. H. Stone. C. W. Griggs, C. P. Masterson. Terre Haute, Ind.—Business Alen’s Association: Frank McKeen. Ben G. Hudnut, Ray G. Jenks. Charles Whitcomb, I. H. C. lloyse, R. S. Jeneks. Toledo, O.—Produce Exchange: Frank N. Quale, Denison B. Smith. C. L. Cutter. F. T. King. F. J. Reynolds, J. L. Zohn, E. W. Tollerton. Trenton, N. J.—Board of Trade: E. C. Hill, Henry C. Moore. Utica N. Y--Chamber of Commerce: O. A. Myer. George L. Bedford, Charles B. Rogers, George S. Dana. Waco, Tex.—Commercial Club: E. Rotan, J. D. M. Lendon, W. W. Seley. Wichita, Kan.—Commercial Club: J. H. Black, L. W. Clapp, C. V. Ferguson, Dean Gordon. Wilmington, N. C.—Produce Exchange: H. C. McQueen. Winston. N. C.—Chamber of Commerce: J. W. Fries. R. J. Reynolds. H. Fogle. Worcester, Mass.—Board of Trade: A. M. Stone. York, Pa.— Board of Trade: Grier Hirsh. Youngstown. O.—Board of Commerce: R. McCurdy, J. C. Smith, C. B. Smith.

THE RECEPTION. Hospitality Extended to Visitors at Maemierclior Hall. The reception given to the delegates of the conference at Maennerchor Hall immediately after the adjournment of the evening session was a brilliant occasion, and one long to be remembered by every cyie there. The hall was deorated with palms and flowers and was lighted from top to bottom. Through the center of f the assembly room had been placed a long table, which was teeming with all kinds of cold meats and viands, as well as with cut flowers and smilax. On one side of the room was a cigar stand, where there were many boxes of fragrant Havanas. There was also, in a prominent part of the hall, an immense bowl of champagne punch, with the necessary attendants to ladle it out. The stage was buried in evergreens, behind which an orchestra rendered musical selections. The members of the reception committee were on hand, and as the delegates arrived they' were given a welcome and told to make themselves thoroughly at home. When about four hundred of the visitors had reached the hall Wiliam Fortune, president of the Commercial Club, called for attention, and after making a few remarks appropriate to the occasion introduced H. E. Kinney, president of the Beard of Trade, who had the pleasant privilege of extending a welcome on behalf of the commercial organizations of the city. “The Indianapolis Board of Trade feels like this were a return of Joseph.” said Air. Kinney. “He was thrown upon the world in a helpless condition, but returns to us with honor, with glory and a coat of one color only. Alany of you come to us for the third time, which should be the charm. Your mission, though not ended, is in a measure accomplished. You are welcome here this evening. Yea, more welcome than the prodigal son. We hope this slight token of our esteem will he accepted by you in the spirit in which it is given. Our organizations embrace all possible shades of political opinion, all ideas on monetary reform. but I vouch the declaration that no gentleman represented by me is of the opinion that a change to a safer and more elastic system is unnecessary to the needs of our commerce. Doubtless every’ one is of the opinion that a conservative business man would not sweetly one night w’ith three hundred or more millions of demand obligations resting upon him. Yet I am sure many whom I have the honor to speak for now differ with me as well as the commission upon detail and immaterial facts. “As I said before, you are welcome, and this informal reception is not to be considered as measuring our delight at having you with us, but Is only' a symptom of our esteem and gratitude for your return to our city of homes, after a sojourn elsewhere during your labors imposed by’ us. I again bid you a most cordial welcome here, and beg that w'e may be remembered in your future deliberations, and that you may recall with pleasure your coming and being among us.” When Air. Kinney finished his little speech the members of the conference lined themselves up along the table and fell to with a right good will. There was an entire absence cf formality and everybody helped himself. For an hour and a half they stood about the hall, eating and smoking and having a good time In general. The delegates were highly pleased with the hospitality accorded them. The committee in charge was composed of Evans Woollen, of the Commercial Club: Jacob Smith, of the Board of Trade; Bement Lyman and Otto Frenzel. It had been first proposed to hold a reception at the Commercial Ciub rooms.

but the unexpectedly large size of the conference and the inconvenience resulting from being compelled to carry the visitors up and down in an elevator led to a change of plans, and the Maennerchor Society very generously tendered the use of its clubrooms. A more suitable place for holding the reception could not have been desired. LITTLE IMPROMPTU TALKS. At about 11 o'clock in the evening the visitors felt Inclined to have a little speech making. Mr. Kinney rapped on the table for order and for an hour and a half the delegates were called upon for impromptu remarks. Mr. Dill, of New York, was the first to speak. He made a very felicitous talk, in which he took occasion to highly praise the address of welcome made by Governor Mount at the conference. Governor Shaw, of lowa, was next called upon and made a clever little speech about there being other people present who came hoping for an opportunity to speak, and as he appreciated what anguish an undelivered speech entailed and furthermore, as he had already said quite enough for one day. he gracefully made his bow\ and the delegates called for General Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky. The stalwart form of the gray-haired veteran made its way to the front amid great applause. He told of a former visit in this city, an involuntary visit that occurred during the war, when he spent some time in the prison on the third floor of the postoffice. He compared that occasion to this in a very happy manner. Speaking of currency reform he said as long as he had the ability to take part he w'ould be found ready and willing to do all in his power to further the cause. When the delegates called for Augustus E. Wilson, of Louisville, they were awarded with a true specimen of Kentucky eloquence. He took the entire audience off its feet and stirred up great enthusiasm. He began by saying, in the words of a famous statesman, he believed that a condition and not a theory confronted the gentlemen assembled. He had reference to those who had dined heartily at the board. He said: “My condition is to be described in a little poem that is current among the children of Louisville about a horse. It is as follows : “My horse was sick as he could be, I use the liniment mighty free, Says he to me, ‘What’s the use of doing that: It is down in my stomach where the misery is at.’ ” Continuing, Mr. Wilson said: “It is a great privilege to us all to meet each other here in Indianapolis and a great pleasure to know' that every good man who has participated in a movement that from beginning to end has been as uneslfish as this movement, is better for being a part of it. From the highest to the lowest there has been no case where we have seen a man trying to make capital out of the movement. I have in my mind a man whom everybody in Indianapolis loves; who has been the insipartion and soul of this movement; whose wishes I would violate if 1 mentioned his name; who has always been first in every part of this great work, and whose ability, integrity and devotion must be crowned with success.” At this jjoint the delegates set up one unanimous cry of “Hanna, Hanna!” Mr. Wilson, proceeding, said: “A movement that is right; that has but one-tenth the earnestness which this movement has developed. is bound to succeed, and we can go forward with more wisdom and more faith that our cause will triumph, and tnat the people will record in the journals of Congress the judgment which they rendered in 1896.” Mr. Williamson, of Illinois upon being called for, said that the object of a meeting like the present conference was to secure congressional action, but that if this cannot be accomplished it will not have been held in vain. He said that the conference will have a great educational influence. and that the business men composing it must go forward w'ith the fight, taking with them the great body of American people. He made a special plea for instituting a literary propaganda. MR. OVERSTREET’S OVATION. Representative Overstreet was the next speaker and was greeted with quite an ovation. He said he was not one of these individuals who feel that it is always advisable to let a sleeping dog lie, and that he believed in pressing the bill to a vote in the House, leaving the responsibility of the defeat to the Senate, if defeat should come. Ho termed the monetary reform movement a grand movement to build up the integrity of American money, and said that it must succeed. He also intimated that the Keystone State had moved from Pennsylvania to Indiana. 11. H. Hanna had not up to this time been in the hall, but as Mr. Overstreet was finishing his speech, some of the delegates noticed him enter. Immediately there were hurrahs for Hanna, and there w r as nothing for the chairman of the executive committee to do but to go through the ordeal of making a little speech. He spoke very briefly, saying: "We certainly have reason to felicitate ourselves because of the present status of our work, and the recognition it is receiving in Washington. Os, course, there are many difficulties in our path, some of which are serious enough, but we are gaining ground steadily. I congratulate you most heartily on the progress you have made. I do not intend to make a speech, but will say that lam glad to see you and thunk you for the assistance .and courtesies you have extended the executive committee.” John L. Griffiths next stepped to the speaker’s place and showed the Kentuckians that there are a few orators in Indiana, as well as south of the Ohio river. He said there had been a time when if a man registered from Indiana in any of the hotels of the East he was shown to a back room on the too floor, but that time has passed. Mr. Griffiths then‘extolled the record of the State made by her soldiers in the war, and by her literary geniuses. Riley and Wallace, of the present. He ended his eulogy of the State of Indiana by saying that he was proud of the fact that the initiative of the movement for sound money was taken in Indianapolis. Mr. Remmel, who was a Republican candidate for Governor in Arkansas last year, followed Mr. Griffiths. Taking up the theme about Indiana, he described the surprise which was his when he first saw the beautiful valleys of Hooppole township, Posey county. The same unjust odium, he said, has attached to Arkansas as once attached to Indiana. He then praised the appearance of his State and the quality of her citizens, and as an evidence of her advancement said that in the campaign of last year the voters for sound money had increased from 200 to 250 per cent, over the previous election. Among others who spoke at the reception were George H. Russell, of Detroit, and Mr. Thayer, of Ohio. It was midnight when the delegates returned to their hotels in a very pleased frame of mind at the enjoyment that had been theirs.

GOLD DEMOCRATS HERE. Simon Bolivur Buckner, Prominent Over All. General Simon Bolivar Buckner is one of tite most striking personages in attendance. on the conference. He was the candidate for Vice President on the gold Democratic ticket in 1896, having been nominated by the Indianapolis convention. Although seventy-four years of age, General Buckner is very erect of stature and agile in his movements. He is a typical Southern gentleman. He said last night that there was no wavering among the gold Democrats of Kentucky and that their strength was constantly being augmented, their vote at the last election having been nearly doubled. While the general is the most prominent gold Democrat in the gathering, there are a number of others from various States. The low'a delegation has five, C. B. Mills, of Sioux City: Ralph van Veehden, of Cedar Rapids; S. S. Sw'eet, of Belle Plain; J. C. Cherry, of Cedar Rapids, and Robert Palmer, of Cedar Rapids. J. Lawrence Laughlin, of Chicago University, who is a member of the commission, said yesterday: “I cm quite surprised at the very great unanimity with which the report of the commission has been received in the country, and the speech of Mr. Shaw seems to show unmistakably a stronger feeling of approval of the report in the West than i anticipated. I think that if it is an indication of the sentiment in the West, the hopes of legislation are goodi The number and quality of the delegates of this convention surpasses any convention I have ever known. Its conclusions ought to have tremendous weight with Congress and with the country as a whole. I wish to add emphatically that I heartily approve the report of the commission as a w'hole. and that the objection I raised to the reissue of United States notes in purchase of bonds is comparatively a trivial objection.” Minnesota Xever Falters. W. B. Dean, of St. Paul, a large wholesale dealer in hardware, who is a member of the commission, said yesterday: “The Minnesota delegation of ten members represents a State that has never faltered in its devotion to the cause of sound money. The year before the last presidential election Governor Nelson, now United States senator, made his campaign as a candidate for Governor solely upon the sound money issue, disregarding the tariff and all subordinate questions. He was elected by the people by an overwhelming majority. The !*>opie of the country are now fully awake to the necessity of aggressive action that will settle for ull time to come

the true standard of value—gold, and place us in line with ail civilized nations of the world. If our political leaders in Congress only had the courage they should have as leaders of the people, we would have this money question very quickly settled anil with this settlement would come such an era of prosperity as this country never knew before.” Xoles of the Convention. H. H. Koihsaat. editor of the TimesHerald. of Chicago, is one of the members of the Chicago delegation who is taking an active part in the discussion among the delegates as to the reforms embraced in the commission's report. E. O. Stannard, of St. Louis, who took a prominent part in the last conference, is at the head of a delegation of half a dozen from St. Louis. He said bis delegation was in favor of adopting the plan of the commission without alteration. O. Vincent Coffin, who was Governor of Connecticut in 1895 and 1896, is one of the delegates in the conference. H<* says that the convention surpasses all his expectations, and that the cause of monetary reform is making very substantial progress among the people. George E. Lighton. of St. Louis, vice chairman of the commission, is attending the convention. While he says it would be perhaps assuming too much to say the report would be adopted in all its details, he believes that the report commends itself in its essentials. The more the report is studied the more sound-money men will assent to it as a wise, safe, efficient and conservative means of correcting the monetary evils. With proper attention given to the subject and proper efforts, he believes that the commission s report will pass the House and that it can be passed in the Senate with some modifications.

THEOLOGICAL SUPPLIES RISSIAX BIBLES FOR MEM.LEK Tl RXEI) OUT TO BE RIFLES. How LeontiefT, tlie Czar’s Agent, Deceived Diplomat* and Carried Arms to Abyssinian F'ng. V + London Letter in New York Press. It now' appears that Leontieff has been making a fool of the English all the time that they thought they were making a fool of him. Leontieff is one of the world’s visionaries who fall into a niche where the methods of the visionary are practical, while ordinary practical methods are visionary. Nobody knew' anything about this man until after the victory of Menelek and his Abyssinians over the Italians. Then his name was mentioned as the head of a Russian expedition of five priests and civilian follow'ers which was going with several boxes of Bibles to pay their respects to the black conqueror, whose religious creed is closely allied to that of the church of which the Czar is the head. The English government -ent to its St. Petersburg embassy to find out the manner of man Leontieff was and his exact intentions. “Oh, he’s perfectly absurd,” replied the embassy. “He’s a fifteenth century swashbuckler, a Don Quixote —a man who dreams, formulates one great project to forget it the next moment in another. Once ho w’as a Buddhist. Now he has become a most ardent Christian and rides his new hobby with customary enthusiasm. He thinks if he takes one hundred Bibles and prostrates himself at Menelek’s feet the Abyssinians will join the Russian Church in a body. It is impossible to think that the Czar would trust a fellow of so little discretion on a diplomatic mission.” “The Czar is bringing you many books.” was the word that the guardians sent forward by runners to Menelek, “along with holy men who come to felicitate a coreligionist.” "Humph, books!” exclaimed Menelek, thinking of the guns he needed to complete the outfit of. his army. “Well, let them come. It will amuse my Queen to look on a foreign priest.” At his first audience with Menelek, when, with the priests standing by without a suspicion of a smile, the King gave a start aim then grinned. "You Russians have a very fine taste in Bibles,” be said, as he caressed the goidmounted pistol LeontiefT had placed in his hands, and ran his eyes approvingly over the layers of Martini rifles. Then, bowing with the grace of a fif-teenth-century courtier, Leontieff presented the Queen with a fan of marvelous bauty. THE HIDDEN TEXT. “If you will allow' me, your Majesty,” he said, “1 will open your Bible to a text.” He pressed a spring and out came a needle dagger of the finest steel. “The poit is poisoned,” Leontieff added, and the two priests looked straight ahead, solemnly. The Queen was so delighted that she was tempted to kill a w'aiting woman on the spot. This prisent settled it, so far as the Queen was concerned. He had gained a place in her heart that no other foreigner may expect, and Menelek obeys her orders as faithfully as the soldiers obey Ills. Henri of Orleans might present her with French shoes and laces, and the English expedition with fine silks, but the Queen only says: “These others are not like my Leontieff, and their gifts are poor, indeed, compared to my Leontieff’s fan.” Moreover, she has proved that the dagger is equal to all that Leontieff claimed for it. She killed a waiting-woman, who aroused her anger, with a single blow—to say nothing of the babies she has stabbed to make blood to bathe her face. “We’ll treat this English expedition as you say, my good friend, Leontieff,” said Menelek. So he did. Leontieff withdrew some little distance from the court. Menelek mentioned him to Colonel Rodd as an odd Russian who had come with Bibles and gone again. He covered the English with flattery, and said of course he wanted to be on the friendliest terms with Queen Victoria. Rodd departed under the conviction that all the talk of Russia and France having made Menelek a puppet was sheer nonsense. Then Leontieff returned from his retirement and with the King and Queen had a good laugh over how they had fooled the Englishman, who was chuckling to himself over the fiacso of a certain Russian clown. Leontieff has been in England this week to remove the embargo placed by the port authorities on more boxes of Bibles which he had bought in Birmingham. In thi he succeeded, because he said if Birmingham refused his trade he could just as well buy his Bibles of England’s hated commercial rival, Germany. Ho got the first cargo out of port and made arrangements for another. THEOLOGICAL SUPPLIES. London reporters have been asking him if Bibles were not really a polite name for rifles and ammunition. “Sir, why should 1 want rifles?’ was the injured reply. “I am no soldier. Os course, they are Bibles. Truly. What object should I have in deceiving you?” He is buying a large number of field guns in France. At present he is staying in Paris, where he has for friends Frenchmen as mysterious as himself. The English have awakened to the meaning of his work. The papers admit now that he is no clown, but a fearless, cool adventurer. It is his ambition to have Abyssinia extend her domain as far as the Nile and over territory which the English have long claimed as belonging to Egypt. He is importing Russians to train Menelek’s soldiers. The Abyssnian army numbers 100,000 men. Fully armed and organized—their courage was proven in their battles with the Italians—they are a force which can give England any amount of trouble. Leontleff’s ambition to move them against the English whenever England and Russia come to blows flatters at once his violent hatred of Englishmen and all things English. except good English rifles, his love of his own country, and his peculiarly mediaeval talent and disposition. Thus he has suddenly sprung into great importance. If Russia and England clash in the far East this mounteback, whom the English embassy described as being perfectly absurd, will become the Czar’s trump card. The semi-barbaric life of Menelek’s court is more pleasing to him than that of a civilized country. His fifteenth century manners and methods are naturally congenial to Menelek’s. He is the ideal man for the work he is doing. Menelek and the Queen trust him everything, and they will trust no other European in anything. Whenever a traveler wants to take the King’s photograph, the King always says: “You must take LeontiefT s, too!” LeontiefT often sits on the King’s left hand, with the Queen on his right, when the King receives his vassals. in short. LeontiefT is the dictator of Abyssinia’s foreign policy—Menelek’s Bismarck. TO Cl BE A COLD IX OXE DAY Take Laxatlv* Bronio Quinine Tablets. All drug, gists refund money if it falls tu cure. 25c. The cenula* has J— B. 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