not forget that the principles of this Party are in their essence. immutable. Its adherents can be bound by no agreement, contract, convention or oath, to a Bourgeois individual or government, not dictated by force or expediency. No crime in furtherance of its policy is reprehensible. Virtue is an illusion and religion an object of destruction. The Communist Party has declared a war of classes, and upon the outcome of this struggle it stands or falls. Under these circumstances, the Executive Committee recommends the following resolutions for adoption: Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York urge upon the President and the Secretary of State, that no recognition be accorded to the Soviet Government so long as the Communist Party remains paramount in Russia; and be it further Resolved, That the President and the Executive Committee of the Chamber are hereby authorized and directed to take such steps as may be expedient and proper to lay the views of this body before the President of the United States, the Secretary of State and the Congress of the United States. Mr. BROWN. I move its adoption. The motion was seconded and unanimously adopted. REGULATION OF INTERSTATE MOTOR TRAFFIC BENJAMIN L. WINCHELL, Chairman of the Committee on Internal Trade and Improvements, presented the following report, which was adopted unanimously: To the Chamber of Commerce: The regulation of motor buses and truck transportation has been a subject of serious consideration for some time. This traffic is generally in direct competition with trolley lines and railroads. The rail carriers are subject to close Government regulation; competing motor vehicles are not. Your Committee on Internal Trade and Improvements feels. that the welfare of the public as well as common justice to all concerned with the transportation business, require that all competing carriers of passengers and commodities be placed under similar Government regulation, covering both state and interstate traffic. The earlier motor bus and motor truck traffic was largely state business, but interstate movement is now quite general. Efforts upon the part of the State Commissions to regulate this traffic, when conducted interstate, led to legal proceedings, as a result of which the Supreme Court decided in the following cases: Buck v. Kuykendall, 267 U. S. 307, and Bush Co. v. Maloy, 267 U. S. 317, that bus lines crossing state boundaries cannot now be regulated by the individual states. Steps are now being taken in Congress to regulate motor traffic. A bill, known as S. 1734 "to regulate interstate commerce by motor vehicles operating as common carriers on the public highways," which was introduced by Senator CUMMINS on December 16th, 1925, and referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce, has, in the main, the endorsement of the National Association of Railway and Public Utilities Commissioners, having been drafted under their auspices. This bill aims to retain as large a measure as possible of state control over this traffic. In brief, the purpose of S. 1734 is to give the State Commissioners authority to sit in such interstate cases jointly, or, if they prefer, to organize a joint board from within their own membership, to sit in such cases. Appeals may be made to the Interstate Commerce Commission and that Commission will have authority to hear and decide such appeals. In practice there will probably be few instances where the decisions of the State Commissions, or the joint boards appointed by them, will not prevail. Your Committee believes that the general principle involved is sound, and should have the support of this Chamber, and therefore offers the following resolution: Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York recommends to Congress the enactment of a law along the general lines of Bill S. 1734, which shall place the control of motor vehicles operating as common carriers on the highways under both the State Commissions and the Interstate Commerce Commission as outlined in this Bill; and, be it further Resolved, That copies of this report be sent to the members of Congress; and also to other commercial organizations in the hope that they may give this matter their serious consideration, and urge upon Congress the enactment of legislation of this kind. Respectfully submitted, BENJAMIN L. WINCHELL, Chairman R. A. C. SMITH CHARLES H. SIMMONS HERBERT L. DILLON FRANK PRESBREY FRANCIS H. SISSON NEW YORK, December 23rd, 1925. Of the Committee on Internal Trade and Improvements ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO BUSINESS SCHOOL OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOHN H. FINLEY, Chairman of the Committee on Commercial Education, offered the following preamble and resolution: To the Chamber of Commerce: Whereas, A request has been made by officials in charge of the Wall Street Division of the School of Commerce of the New York University that an advisory committee of business men be appointed by the Chamber to co-operate in the work of that school; and Whereas, Similar advisory committees exist in connection with the work of business schools in other prominent educational institutions, and have been found of benefit to such schools in their efforts to equip students for business careers; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York hereby grants power to the President to appoint from among its members an Advisory Committee to the Wall Street Division of the School of Commerce of New York University of such size and personnel as is practical and acceptable to the University authorities. Respectfully submitted, JOHN H. FINLEY, Chairman GEORGE F. KUNZ JOHN E. ROUSMANIERE NEW YORK, December 21, 1925. Of the Committee on Commercial Education Dr. FINLEY.-I may add that such a committee already exists in association with the School of Business of Columbia University. I move the adoption of the resolution. The motion was seconded and unanimously adopted. THE PRESIDENT.-Dr. FINLEY, have you any further report? INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM FOR NEW YORK CITY FAVORED Dr. FINLEY.-Mr. President, and gentlemen, you have before you a report of the Committee on Commercial Education with regard to a proposed Industrial Museum. I need not read this re port. The first portion of it recalls the part which the Chamber of Commerce had in planning for the establishment of such a museum, in association with a college or school of commerce. I think it should be added, however, that Mr. HEPBURN, the former president of this Chamber, was the most active spirit in supporting the project. It should also be said that Mr. MORTIMER L. SCHIFF brought the plan to its fruition. It is mentioned here that Mr. JACOB H. SCHIFF made a proffer of $500,000 for the erection of a building for a College of Commerce. Reference is also made to four gifts totalling $200,000 for the equipment of a museum, a commercial museum in that building. Of this sum Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN (the elder Mr. MORGAN) subscribed $50,000, Mr. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, $50,000, Mr. JACOB H. SCHIFF, $50,000 and Mrs. RUSSELL SAGE, $50,000. It is stated in the report that on account of financial conditions during the war it was thought best not to go forward with this project. The members of the Chamber, I am sure, will be pleased to know as this report recalls that the Chamber took the first steps toward the establishment of such a museum. I read from the closing paragraphs: "At about that time, however, there was established and incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York, an enterprise under the name of 'The Association for the Establishment and Maintenance for the People in the City of New York of Museums of the Peaceful Arts.' This Association had been organized by a group of public spirited citizens, many of them members of the Chamber, who were deeply interested in the establishment of an Industrial and Commercial Museum, similar to those which have been established at South Kensington, London, at Paris, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Vienna, except that it was proposed to follow, as to the Museum in the City of New York, the same general policies of mutual co-operation which have been so successfully carried out in connection with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History and supplementing these great Museums along the lines of Invention, Industry and Commerce." I think some of the members must have seen the wonderful Munich Museum. I made a pilgrimage to Munich myself for the special purpose of seeing it. Some of you met Dr. OSKAR VON MILLER, the Director of that museum, here a few weeks ago. I saw also the Vienna Museum, which has been developed during and since the war when, as you must know, the people have been in a very impoverished condition. We have in New York City the Museum of Natural History, which illustrates the history of nature; we have that other great museum, the Metropolitan Museum illustrating man's achievement in art; we still need this third great cultural museum illus trating man's conquest of his environment, and his industrial and commercial development. Your Committee, therefore, respectfully recommends the adoption of the resolutions at the end of this report: Report To the Chamber of Commerce: In the report of the Committee on Commercial Education of the Chamber on February 1, 1912, it was recommended that there be established in the Chamber a method of aiding the extension of Commercial Education in the United States, this method to be known as "The Commercial Education Council of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York," one of the principal objects of which was "to provide and establish at the Chamber of Commerce, or under its auspices, a Commercial Museum, which shall contain a library on Commercial Education and Commercial Education subjects." In the report of the Committee adopted by the Chamber on November 6, 1913, it was stated that "the attempt to form the Commercial Education Council has thus far proved unsuccessful" because of the difficulty in securing a sufficient number of subscribing or life members, and this plan was later abandoned. The Committee reported further, however, that it had given particular consideration to the question as to whether a new College of Commerce and Administration should be established in the City of New York, and stated that "the building in which the College is to be housed should provide adequate space for the installation of a Museum of Commerce, on the lines of the well known Deutsches Museum of Munich and also for a Civic Museum, which should, as one of its purposes, serve as a laboratory for young men who are preparing for public business. In the opinion of the Committee, this would prove one of the most valuable educational features of the College and would fill a much needed want." It was proposed that a fund be secured by the Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose of erecting, on a site to be provided by the City, a building to house a College of Commerce and a Commercial and Civic Museum, to be presented to the City on condition that the City assume the maintenance expense of the proposed College. It was estimated at the time that this building would cost about $500,000, and it was further stated that a member of the Chamber, Mr. JACOB H. SCHIFF, had offered to provide the entire amount on condition that four other subscriptions of $50,000 each, which had been secured for this purpose, should be made available to install a Commercial and Civic Museum in the proposed building and that the City of New York enter into a contract with the Chamber of Commerce providing for the perma |