Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — A CONFERENCE ON TRUSTS. [ARTICLE]

A CONFERENCE ON TRUSTS.

Four Days’ Session to Be Held in Chicago This Summer. A national conference on trusts and cpmbinations will be held in Chicago during the coming summer. The Civic Federation of the city has been fostering the scheme for some time. The plan is to gather together a body of men from all sections of the country who will reflect the views of labor, commerce, political economy, law, trade, and in fact of all the varied industrial, educational and professional elements on the latest and greatest of national questions. The intention is to hold a four days’ conference, one day being devoted to railroad combinations, one to labor organizations, one to industrial combinations and one to remedies and to methods of procedure. One of the most important questions to be discussed will be that involving the jurisdiction of the various States and the Federal Government in the disposition of this issue. The courts have held both ways, and if light is needed on any point the investigators of the trust say it is this one. For this reason the Governors and Attorneys General of all the States will be asked to be present to give their views.