Moneyed Men To Meet

Washixgtos, Jan. 1. - The National Board of Trade will meet in this city Monday, January 19, and following days, when a number of important subject will be discussed. The principal ones will be the Agriculttiral Bureau reports, and the necessity for the bureau reporting on the acreage as soon as it is definitely ascertained, and on the yield of grain and cotton only at the end of the year; that Cougross be memorialized to make the central system the lawful standard of grain measure in this oountry ; that the national adulteration act drafted flve years since be enacted, it being the beet act to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs; the enactment of an equitablo and uniform bankrupt law; the consideration of commercial credit, with a view to abandoning the poliey and abolishing the system ; the establishmeut of a National railway commission and making of a just and proper law for the regulation of inter-State commerce ; the prevention of navigable waterways f rom obstruction ; the improvement of the Ck)lumbia river; the eucouragement of American shipping interests; the extensión of the osefulness of the post-offlce in the direction of telegraphic communication; an enactment of a law making it unlawful for common carriers to limit their liability in any receipt or bill of lading issued for the transportation and safe delivery of property from onc State to another, eithcr by land or water, statutory exemptions of navigation only excepted; the validity of bilis of lading; thenecesity for legislation to control and suppress oontaftious diseases in animáis ; 8 revisión of the coinage Iaw9 and the suppression of the coinage oí standard silver dollars. A basis lor national banking ; the appropriation of any part of the excess revenue toward strengthening the coast defense9 and increasing the power of the navy until botb shall be in more efllcient condition, and anj remaining surplus to be devoted to educa.ional purposes and needed internal imrovement; the promoting of. recv rocity treaties with Canada, Mexco and San Domingo, provided that hey are duly reciprocal in their rovisions; revisión of the tariff and the ibolition of all taxes now collected by the internal Revenue Department, The defense of the harbors of New York and San Francisco; the abolition of exaction on commercial travelers by the different States and Territories; the relations between labor and capital, and the means to be adopted to harmonize them; the abolition of certification of invoices by the United States consuls; the amendment of the United States bonJed warehouse act; on return dutie9 on imported materials used in the manufacture of goods for export; permission to importers to swear to entries before any duly authorized notary, inBtead of personally appearing at the custom-house to do so; that the proposition to amend the constitution of the United States so as to allow the President to veto separate items in an annual appropriatioD bill is one which should be adopted, and that it is the duty of the Government to endeavor to make treaties with foreign governments that will secur the extradition of all fugitivo crimináis.