Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-24
THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION.
Resolutions Adopted-COmmittee on Per
manent Organization.

NEW YORK, June 23-At a business
meeting of northern and southern men,
held at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel in this
city, on the Dist instant. a committee
on plan and scope was appointed. The
following members OF the committee were
present: Hugh II. Garden, attorney at
law, New York city; II. T. Wilson.
banker. New York city: Stuyvesant Fish.
president Illinois Central railroad. New
York: Hamilton Disston, Of Henry Disston
q Sons, manufacturers, Philadelphia; c.
$. Maynard, of Hubbard, Price * Co.,
cotton manufacturers, New York; ). M
Jarvis, of Jarvis-C onklin Mortgage Com
pany, New York: Henry Sanford, presi-
dent Adams Express Company, New York
city; George ii. Sullivan. OF sullivan ~
Cromwell attorneys at law, New York;
James Swami, of lnman, Swami * Co..
cotton merchants. New York city; Charles
A. Deshon, OF William Hildreth, Field &
Deshon, attorneys at law, New York;
William IL. Edmonds, Maryland: Hon.
John j. Hemphill. South Carolina; +. b.
Gordon, Georgia; II. NJ. Caldwell. Ala
bama; Barton Myers, Virginia; Judge
Charles +. Fenner. Louisiana; Colonel ID.
Is.
mously reported the following resolu-
tons:
Resolved. First. That it is the sense
of this convention that the development
of the commercial, Industrial, and agri-
cultural interests of the South impera-
lively require cooperation and organized
effort on the part of all who are in.
terested in accomplishing this great pur'
pose.
Second. That a permanent committee
be appointed by the convention. which
shall be charged with the duty of per-
fecting an organization of businessmen
of the North interested in southern de-
velopment and of southern business men,
in such form as they shall deem best,
with full power to prescribe the rules
and conditions OF membership, to elect
first officers and directors, and then take
the necessary steps to provide the ways
and means for ascertaining, advertis-
ing, and in all other ways advancing
the development of the whole South.
Third. That the committee shall con-
sist OF twenty-five members, one from
each OF the Southern States. and with
ten from the North and West.
Fourth That nine members Of said
committee constitute a quorum 10 do
business and said committee shall have
power 10 FIJI vacancies in its membership
and 10 increase its membership when
deemed proper"
The report of the committee was adopt
ed by the full meeting and the following
committee on permanent organization ap-
pointed:
Alabama. II. NJ Caldwell
Arkansas. Clifton Il. Breckinridge.
Florida, ID. III. Elliott.
Georgia, II. Il. Dyer.
Kentucky r. II. Courtney.
Louisiana. Harry Allen.
Maryland r. IL. Edmonds.
Mississippi. William G.. Yerger.
Missouri. w. r. Nelson.
North Carolina, Julian S. Carr
South Carolina. Alexander c. Haskell
Tennessee. l. +. Peters.
Texas, Walter Gresham.
Virginia. John SHELTON Williams.
West Virginia, A. Il. Fleming.
At large-District OF Columbia, Boyd
Smith: Massachusetts,. 7. Jefferson Cool.
idge: Michigan. Russell A. Alger: New
Jersey. Theodore Frehlinghuysen; New
York. John Cladl.n. Charles A. Deshon,
Stuyvesant Fish. Ii. r. Garden. John III.
Inrnan, Samuel NJ. Jarvis. Samuel Spencer,
George III. Sullivan: Pennsylvania, Hamil-
ton Dlsston.
The above committee will meet Thurs
day, July 18th next. at IL o'clock A. NJ,
In the Office OF It's chairman, Hugh r.
Garden. No. 30 Nassau street, New York
city. to consider all plans submitted by
its members and others. and to create
a permanent organization. Correspond
ence Is invited by the committee from all
parties who feel an interest in the move
ment. Communications will be addressed
10 the chairman.