Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-01

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 public men, and to divert this idea perma-
 nent representative body should be organ
 ized.
 Mr. Barrett of West Virginia thought
 that delegates to the permanent conven.
 ton should be appointed by commercial
 and industrial bodies and farmers' organ
 izations.
 MT. Clayton of Florida said that from the
 moment the governors of states made ap-
 pointment of delegates to the convention
 the movement would be political one.
 Applause. He thought the business men
 should take hold of the idea and exclude
 politics.
 That part of the resolutions as to the es-
 tablishment of permanent bureau of exhi-
 bition in Washington was adopted.
 w. R. Irvine of Alabama offered an
 amendment providing that the permanent
 exhibit should be supported by annual con-
 tributions of S10 each from all southern
 business aud other bodies, instead of by
 such southern states as take part in it's es.
 tablishment. This amendment was lost.
 The remainder of the first section was then
 adopted in it's entirety, and the secoud sec
 tion YVES agreed to witho opposition.
 The section providing that the governors
 of the several southern states and the board
 of district commissioners shall each ap-
 point ten delegates 10 the adjourned con-
 vention was adopted with the elimination
 of the clause giving preference to members
 of the present convention, and the addition
 OI du duleuuI16ub Juab Du5lueSS IDen budll
 have representation in the adjourned meet
 ing, but that the voting power of each state shall be equal. The section provd-
 ing that the convention adjourn to meet in
 Washington was also adopted, as was also an amendment requiring the governors to appoint as delegates men representative of the industries in their several states. MT. Irvine of Alabama offered an amend ment providing that before any industry be listed it shall be indorsed by the state bureaus, boards of trade, town councils or three banks. It was laid on the table. The report as amended was then adopted, and recess taken until 3 o'clock. At tbe afternoon session number Of papers were read.
 Dr. William 0. Day of the United States geological survey told the convent ton about the mineral resources of the south. He told of the wonderful deposits in the mountains of all the southern states, and
 his talk proved 80 interesting that a special | resolution of thanks for his information was adopted.
 Virginia and her resources was told of by William Catlett. He called particular attention to the great fields of marble and slate which were overlooked by builders in | the city of Washington, who brought these | things from Vermont and Pennsylvania at double freight rates.
 Mr. Claude Bennett of Georgia, private secretary to the secretary of the interior, told of her resources.
 More about the mineral resources of Vir- ginia was told by w. s. White of Fred ericksburg. The south had produced no Debs and no riots. It did not give birth to Coxeyism, and when the Coxeyite tramps crossed the Potomac and camped on Vir- | ginia soil they were taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown out. The vast min eral deposits of the state were not in the wilderness or the desert-they lay close to the heart of civilization. Another rece ss was then taken until SD. m.
 The evening ses ion of the convention was given up principally to a lecture by Hon. Richard H. Clarke of Mobile, repre- sentative in congress from Alabama, on the
 navigable waterways of Alabama and the influence of their improvement upon the commercial development of the port of Mobile. When MT. Clarke concluded some business was transacted, and the conven- tion adjourned sine die.
 The chairman announced the committee to formulate plan for permanent organ ization as follows: Alabama, T. c. Gar
 rett; Arkansas, J. c. Littlepage; Florida,
 Mississippi, L. Q. c. Lamar; Missouri, O. H. Mansur; Maryland, c. 0. Magruder, Jr.; Kentucky, 0. M. Force; Texas, L. L.. Lipscomb; Virginia, w. s. White; West Virginia, r. F. Barrett; North Carolina, !, ". $. Beasiey; South Carolina, T. storer Farrier; District of Columbia, Robert w. Hunter.
 A resolution presented by Judge J. T. Goolerch of Fredericksburg, Va., indors- ing the bill introduced In congress by Representative Kyle of Mississippi for the free admission of cotton machinery, and expressing the hope that every member from the southern states will vote for it, was referred 10 the committee.
 The chairman, Samuel Blackwell of Ala bama, announced the sudden death of Col.
 John M. McKleroy of Anniston, leader in the industrial progress of the south, and resolutions of regret were adopted. MT. Clarke in his address spoke in part as follows: "The government is now inn proving in Alabama the Tombigbee, War rior and Coosa rivers to B feet at low water for tug and barge navigation from Mobile 10 Columbus, Miss. 390 miles; to Tuska. loosa, 237 miles, and to Wetum pka, 366
 miles. It is opening by locks and dams on the same scale the Coosa river between From the latter lock to point 105 miles above Rome, Ga., 293 miles in all, the river has been improved by the rovern- ment and is now regularly navie sd by
 steamboats. Upon the opening of e116
 miles there will bs uavigable watch way
 775 miles long, from northwestern Ge. -gia
 to salt water at Mobile. IL will l,ass through rich agricultural region of Geor- gia, through the very richest of Alabama, and will cut though the coal, iron and
 marble deposits of the Coosa field. Looks
 and dams at TuskaIoosa, costing $750, ,000,
 will be completed in the fall of 1885," He predicted that In ten years the ordi- nary steamboat on the Alabama, Tombig' bee and the various rivers would be super seded by tugs and bsrges, carrying at one half present rates. Much of his speech was devoted to showing Improvements made by the government in Alabama waters and consequent increases in trade growth, particularly in regard to fruits. while the benefits of Mobile as a cheaper port for cotton carriers than New Orleans and other points received attention. The speaker elaboratsly portrayed the advan- tages of Mobile by reason of the Alabama