The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-13


INVITATIONS EXTENDED.
After the appointment of the commit
tees Capt. Purse informed the COMMITTEES
I on resolutions that there was a room pre-
pared for them downst airs and that they
could meet there before the afternoon
session and draw up whatever resolutions
they desired.
The invitations to the congress, extend
ing the privileges of the following clubs
and institutions to the delegates were
[ then read:
Telfair Academy Of Arts and Sciences,
/ Barnard and State streets, at a special
| time agreeable to the congress. 1t was
| announced that the Telfair academy
would be open for them during the car
/ riage drive Thursday afternoon.
Georgia Historical Society, Whitaker
and CASTOR streets, o'clock a. m, to 9
| O'Clock p. m, daily.
Savannah Board of Trade, Bay street,
o'clock a. m, TO 5 O'Clock p. m, business
days.
Savannah Cotton Exchange, Bay street,
! 9 o'clock a. m. to o'clock p. m, business
days.
Guards Club, Bull and Charlton streets,
| 9oclock a. m. to IL o'clock p. m, daily.
/ ladies days, Thursdays, 3 o'clock to .
! o'clock p. M
Hussars Club, Bull and Liberty streets,
| 9 o'clock a. N. to II o'clock p IN, daily.
Harmonic Club, Bull and Jones streets,
/ 8 O'Clock a. N. to II o'clock p. m, daily.
! Savannah Yact Club, Thunderbolt, 0
! O'Clock a. IN. to 10 O'Clock D. m, daily.
! Greenwich Park Association, Thun-
| derbolt river, 9 O'Clock a. m. to O'Clock
p. m, daily. Grounds open to delegates
and committees.
THEY WILL ACCEPT WITH PLEASURE.
| Capt. Purse said a few words to the
| congress with regard to the entertain
ment features of the programme. and
while they were here for work he said he
| believed that could be done with dispatch
| and done well, and he urged upon them
! to accept the features of entertainment
which the citizens of Savannah had pre-
pared for them.
| Col Needham moved that these enter
| tainment features be accepted by the con-
| vention with many thanks, and that on
account of the trip down the river on the
| City of Macon this morning, when the
| convention adjourned at night that it ad
| journ until tonight.
Mr.. Cunningham, of South Carolina,
was the only one who didn't look with
| favor on this part of the programme. He
| said he had been appointed by the gov
/ ernor of South Carolina to come here and
work, and he believed in doing the work
and getting through with it before allow
! ing any pleasure to intervene.
1u1S Stubl W DIS llOb luuUIStu ny buC
| convention, and in fact member from
the delegation of almost every state rep
resented spoke in reply to it. Col. Need
| ham replied very forcibly and said that
the delegates had met as much for social
intercourse as for business, and that after
| mingling together they could do their
work better Several other delegates
| spoke on the same line. The motion of
/ Col. Needham was then adopted receiv-
! ing but one dissenting vote, that of Mr.
! Cunningham, of South Carolina. The
congress then adjourned until 2:30 O'Clock
p. m, standard time.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
! The afternoon session was called to
| order at 2:30 p. m. by Vice President
! Purse. The first business taken up was
! the introduction of resolutions. Resolu-
tions approving Of improved water ways
and rural free mail delivery were read
and referred to the committee on resolu-
| tionS. Also a resolution upon business
association by farmers for mutual interest,
by President Clute, Of the Lake City
! (Ela) Agricultural Institute.
A resolution as to the relation of farm
ers and railroads was offered by G. w.
Slaughter, Of Tennessee, deprecating the
disposition often manifested by farmers
to antagonize railroads, and to encOur-
| age legislation intended to hamper and
The first address before the congress
was delivered by Col. Daniel Needham, Of
Boston, Mass, upon the "Interdepend-
ence of Business Relations Between the
States"
Col Needham began his address with a
message of good will from the extreme
north to the extreme south. He first
touched upon the extent of, area and of the
agricultural resources of Georgia, which
state, he said, was capable of producing
everything that can be produced in any
other state except, perhaps, Colorado.
GEORGIA AN Ell DORADO.
'I can remember" he said, "wher
Georgia was considered the Ell Dorado oil
which De Soto and his comrades were il
search when they made their great tour
of this section. "Placer Diggings in
Georgia" would make strange head line
in the daily press now, but in 1S43 the
production of gold bullion of Georgia
amounted in value to $500, 900 There is
reason to believe that something of this
kind may again occur, produced by the
enterprise of those who are now explorins
its fields and valleys"
Col. Needham referred to the immense
production of naval stores of his state
which find their outlet at Savannah
which port he said, fixes the price o.
these products for the civilized world.
Entering upon a discussion of thi.
theme of national interdependence Col
Needham discussed the necessity of facil
tiles for transportation for the exchange
of the products of one section with thost
of another.
GOOD ROADS PRIME NECESSITY.
Good roads he dwelt upon as the first
step toward civilization by the settlers o
the colonies, and are still the prime neces
sites for the proper development of ever,
section of this country. He gave a brie
, exposition of the development of theil
, highways by the colonists of New Eng
land. For the last twenty years there
had been no incorporated turnpike or toll
bridge in the state of Massachusetts, anC
there are few remaining in any of thu
New England states.
Even the national government
l he said, considered it neces
sary in its early history Il
assist in the development of highways
and this was much discussed subject il
congress until the interior development
p of railways and rivers rendered such as
sistance by the government unnecessary
> THE HISTORY OF CANAL TRANSFORMATION
Still water or canal transportation wa
a next touched upon. The great Erie cana
: and the immense benefits to the countr,
, which have resulted from its construc
, ton, was instanced as an illustration o
+ the value OF such transportation. Canals
, in other sections of the country, includ
, ing the Savannah and Ogeeohee canal