Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-06
THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.
second Meeting Hf the Chamber Of Conn
merce-A Large Attendance and
Great Interest Manifested.
Appointments OF am Executive Commit
tee-Sudge SWayne Elected seere-
fary-Address GO the Public.

The West Tennessee executive COM
mittee of the centennial commission,
met at the hall of the chamber Of COM
merce at half-past three O'Clock yester-
day afternoon, w. r. Moore, presiding,
and William Farris, acting secretary.
The chairman explained the object of
the meeting to be for the purpose of re-
ceiving reports of committees and other
matters pertaining to the interest of the
great national centennial exhibition to be
held at Philadelphia in 1876. Judge j..
L. Swayne, chairman of the committee
appointed to select proper committees,
ETC., submitted the following:
The committee appointed to report
what committees are necessary, and the
members thereof and persons therein,
beg leave to report that an executive
committee is the only one they think 1t
necessary to appoint at this time, whose
duties shall be, during the recess of this
West Tennessee centennial committee,
to attend to all the business Of this COM
mittee that may need attention, and re-
port the same, with their action, to this
committee for approval, modification,
or rejection; and in all respects to for
ward the interests and business in hand
tice Of a meeting, shall be quorum to
do business; and we report the following
names of persons to constitute said eX-
ecutive committee, and who, we believe,
will attend TO its duties: William r.
Moore, Amos Woodruff, L. A. Nelson,
w. H. Stephens, William Faris, B.
Fenton, f. A. Tyler, M. Burke, l.. B.
Eaton, NJ. J. Wicks, John Cubhins, w.
L ID d Z
n. McCampbell, O.. w. Walters, 8. i.
Warren, ]. g. Marley, "A. Gardner, John
Norman, William FARRELL, P. L. Jones,
H. l.. Bentley, w. II. McHaney, E. B.
Hall, James A. Rogers, w. F. Dough-
erty, Whitfield Tyler.
Judge SwaYne explained in regard to
the appointment of the executive com
mittee that the greater number should
be selected from the vicinity of Mem
phis, to facilitate the getting together
of quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness, but that one from each county had
been selected to represent their respect
i've local interests. The report was
adopted.
Judge Swsyne also presented q vol
luminous address to the citizens of West
Tennessee in behalf Of the great nation
al celebration of the one-hundredth an
niversary of American Independence.
We regret the great length of the docu-
ment prevents our giving it in full this
morning. 1t is an able paper, and will
be read with interest by the people of
West Tennessee when placed before
them, as the committee propose doing
at an early day.
An argument was sprung as to the
proper mode of publishing the address
which resulted in the appointment of a
committee of three from the executive
committee, with Judge ]. T. Swayne as
chairman, who were authorized to cause
the address Of the executive committee
to be published, altogether or in parts,
in all the papers of West Tennessee, and
that said papers are hereby respectfully
requested to publish the same.
Mr.. FentOn, of the executive commit
tee, made the following report with re-
gard to the appointment of permanent
secretary for West Tennessee:
The committee appointed to report a
suitable person as permanent secretary
beg to report that they have had the
subject under serious consideration,
deeming the office very important one
for the centennial interests of West Ten
nessee, to ill which the person selected
should not only be willing to serve, but
he should have the peculiar qualifica-
tiOns necessary to this office. We hsve
the pleasure to report the name of J. T.
Swayne as such person, and have OBJ
tanned his consent to serve.
The report was unanimously adopted,
and Judge Swayne took his seat as per-
manent secretary of the West Tennes-
see centennial executive committee.
A number of letters from committees
in different parts of the country were
presented by the chairman, which were
received and ordered filed.
Mr.. Green moved ''that the chairman
of this committee shall, by correspond
ence with the general officers Of the CEN
tennial exhibition, ascertain the facts
connected with the refusal to recognize
Hon. +. c. johnson as a commissioner
from Indiana, it having been published,
with the approval of Governor Heh-
bricks, that the circumstances attend |
ing the refusal indicate local influence
to the general commits
siOn.u
This motion sprung liXely debate,
and was finally lost.
The regular business being transacted,
the meeting was addressed by several
gentlemen, and then adjourned to meet
at Exposition hall on call of the chair
man.