Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-02-21
MEETING OF BUSINESSMEN.
Iieruse. and TsI.Payers Urxsd 10 PAY Their
Due. 10 the state In noneJ Instead OF
Coupons.


and foregoing any temporary gain that
may be made by paying in coupons,
which cannot be done without entalling
great loss upon the State and making
the State debt again an issue IN poll
ties"
In accordance with this request. Mr..
r. T.. Blankenship, president of the
Chamber Of Commerce, called meeting
for II II. yesterday in the rooms of the
Chamber. At the hour appointed-one
when many businessmen are engaged
the rooms were well filed, and the gen.
tlemen present represented the iron,
Touring. publishing, tobacco. banking,
railway, insurance, and mercantile and
manufacturing interests generally.
ORGANIZATION.
General Peyton Wise, the inspector
of the Richmond Tobacco Trade,
called the meeting to order. and on
his motion President Blankenship was
called TO the chair. The petition and
call for the meeting having been read, on
motion the Chair appointed the follow
ing Committee on Organization Messrs.
Thomas Potts. Of Potts. Stokes Co.,
wholesale groccrs; J. II. Montague. of
Montague & Co.. insurance agents,
and Archer Anderson, treasurer OF the
Tredcpar Iron Company. This COM
mittec. after brief retirement, re-
ported the following gentlemen for off,
GERS. and their report was adopted
President, r. +. Blankenship.
Vice-Presidents Joseph X. Ander-
son, Francis NJ. Boykin. Otis ii. Rus
sell, James b. Pace. A. Y. Stokes, A..
S. Buford. John A. Curtis. Phil. IlaX-
all. Charles +. Wortham. Charles f..
Whitlock. ii. Seldom Taylor, Abner F..
Harvey. General Williams G. Wickham,
L. /. Bass. p. II. Mayo, Henry &. Can
non, Mark Downey, James II. Dooley,
Colonel John Il. Cary. General Peyton
Wise. Edward Cohen. W. j. Johnson.
J. TAYLOR Ellyson. John II. Montague
+. T. ID. Myers. &. r. Barksdalo. An
drew pizzini, Lewis Ginter, Thomas g..
Peyton. John OFT, Charles II. Talbot,
Alexander Cameron. Il. II. Nash. WI
liam Lovenstcin. Peter c. Warwick.
Samuel Il. Paul.
Secretaries H. h. EllySon, Richard
F. Biernc. L. B. kasey. W. j. Chester
man.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
On motion, the Chair appointed a
committee on resolutions. as follows ::
Nessrs. ". r. Quarles. Of Warren d
Quarles. brokers and bankers; e. :.
Stringfellow, of pegram & Stringfellow,
attorneys and counsellors at law: F. T..
Glasgow. superintendent Of the Tredc-
gar Company: George A. Barksdale
treasurer of the Gallego-Mills Manu-
featuring Company. and A. :. Buford,
president Of the Richmond and Dam
Vile Railroad Company.
These gentlemen retired, consulted,
and returned with the following report,
which was presented 10y Mr.. QuarleS ::
Whereas the principle involved in the
recent decision OF the United States
Circuit Court for the Eastern district of
Virginia in the case Of Parsons IS. Au-
ditor Marye, &C., is, as Judge Hughes
declared in his opinion, of " sweeping
importance 10 the State" manfcstly
tending 10 einbarraSS its finances and
seriously interfere with the administra-
ton of its affairs by intercepting its
revenues and preventing their appEca-
ton as prescribed by law to the cduca-
ton Of its children, the support of the
deaf and dumb. the blind and insane.
and the payment o. its Otlcers-cXecu-
tive, legislative, and judicial-and thus
in every department lettering its hands
and interfering with the prompt eXecu-
ton of the laws designed to promote
the general veal and public good;
And whereas this and other decisions
of ike character and import have ere
atcd in the mind of the people at large
the suspicion. if not the settled convic-
ton. that outside of the bOndholdcrs.
whose money was invested in the bonds
of the State at or near their face value.
Spectators are by concerted action
invoking the jurisdiction and powers Of
said court Whose decisions are, unhap-
PLY. final in great majority of the
cases brought before it, for their own
selfish ends. subversiyc alike OF the
public welfare and the settled policy Of
the State approved at the balloi-boX by
a majority Of the voters, and now. after
a full consideration Of all the difficult
ties that surround us. adopted by our
people. irrespective of party asSOcia-
ton;
And whereas these persistent efforts
of the holders and spectators in our
bonds. which have become the mere
sport Of judicial decisions, may bring
about unseemly conflicts between the
Federal judiciary and State authorities,
thus engendering secret discomfort and
open animoSitie> greatly to be deplored,
and directly antagonistie to the harmo-
ny. good order. and kindly feelings cs-
sential to the proper development Of our
social and material interests, and in
their ultimate result sure to beget in
the heart OF the people such bitter and
determined resentment as may eyentu-
ate in the utter reputation of all bonds
whose holders reject the settlement Of
fered in the Riddleberger bill, to the
enforcement whereof all parties now
stand solemnly pledged;
And whereas, further, this continued
agitation Of the question involved in the
adjustment of the State debt keeps
alive divisions amongst our own people.
and perpetuates dissentions which be-
coming regard 10 our mutual interests
and the development Of our manufac-
turing. agricultural, and commercial re-
sources imperatively demand should be
settled at once and forever therefore,
Resolred. |. That we, citizens and
taxpayers of the city OF Richmond. in
public meeting assembled, at the call Of
the President Of the Chamber of Com
rnerce.. do hereby declare that we will
not paw. or offer to pay, the taxes as