Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — MEET TO URGE REFORM. [ARTICLE]

MEET TO URGE REFORM.

National Monetary Conference Called to Order in Indianapolis. The monetary conference which opened in Indianapolis' /Tuesday afternoon was the result of a movement started by the Indiahapolis Board of Trade a little more than one year ago. This commercial body took upon itself the inauguration of a movement whose primary purpose was monetary reform. Without any assurance that the object of its endeavor would be realized in a nutional sense, the Board of Trade issued invitations to commercial organizations of the central west, which brought together the nucleus ou which Tuesday’s national convention rests. The cities sending representatives to the first conference were Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Rapids, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Toledo. This conference determined to call a general convention of the trade and commercial organizations of the country, to meet in Indianapolis Jan. 12, 1897, to consider the currency question in a non-partisan way. In response to this ca’d there assembled in Indianapolis on the date named 300 delegates, representing tike business interests of 108 cities in 27 States, Following the instructions of this convention a committee of eleven was selected to formulate a currency reform plan. After months of evidence and discussion in Washington this committee completed its report, which was made public Jan. 3. Tuesday’s convention, which was much larger than the first, was called for the purpose <if suftfuitting the plan and securing its adoption. The convention was welcomed to the State by Gov. James A. Mount. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa presided, and C. Stuart Patterson submitted the report of the committee of election.