The New Haven Union

ORGANIZE AND GET TO WORK

Judge Parker Chosen President of Conference.

Washington, Jan. 18.—Discussion of the forest problem, banking laws, corporation laws and taxation, the election of permanent officers and the adoption of resolutions, occupied the time of this morning's session of the conference on uniform laws called by the National Civic Federation.

Judge Alton B. Parker of New York was elected permanent president; John M. Stahl of Illinois, president of the former Congress, was elected secretary, and John Hays Hammond, treasurer.

The resolutions committee presented a report recommending the adoption of negotiable instruments act, the warehouse receipt act, the sales act, the bills of lading act and the uniform divorce act; the appointment of commissioners on uniform state laws in every state not now represented and appropriations for their work; uniform laws to suppress the white slave traffic and the passage by all the states of a pure food and drugs act based on the national law.

A committee of nine was appointed to visit the conference of governors also in session here today, inform them of the passage of the resolution and request that they urge their respective states to act accordingly.

A unique resolution, calling for the appointment in all the states of a commission composed of "two married women and one married man," to report upon the stability of the marriage relation and the causes and cures of the divorce evil, was presented by Abigail Scott Duniway of Oregon, who said she represented the governor of that state.

The program met with a decided dash of cold water when Edward D. Page, president of the powerful Merchants' association of New York, announced that his organization could not support the various trades bills which have been prepared and recommended for passage in the various states.

Delegates say that strong opposition to the bills has developed in various states, and that there is little hope of action this year.