The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24
p1xIE,s DEVELOPMENT.
Resolutions Reported by the Commit
tee on Plan and Scope.

/ New York, June 23.-At the business
meeting Of northern and southern men,
held at the Fifth Avenue hotel in this
city on June q, committee on plan and
scope was appointed. The following
members of the committee were present:
Hugh r. Garden, attorney at law, New
York city; r. I. Wilson, of II. T.
Wilson & Co., Bankers, New York
city; Stuyvesant Fish, president of the
Illinois Central railroad, New York city;
Hamilton Disston, Henrys Disston 81 Sons,
manufacturers, PHILADELPHIA; G. S. May
nard, of Hubbard, Price lS Co., cotton
merchants, New Y ork city; S. NJ. Jarvis,
of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Company,
New York city; Henry Sanford, presi-
dent of the Adams Express Com
pany, New York city; George H.
Sullivan of Sullivan & Cromwell,
attorneys-at-law, New York city; James
Swami, of Inman, Swami & Co, cotton
merchants, New York city; Hon. j.
Hemphill, South Carolina; F. B. Gordon
Georgia; H. M Caldwell, Alabama Bar
ton Myers, Virginia; Judge Charles +.
Fenner, Louisiana; Col. d. B. Dyer,
Georgia.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The committee unanimously reported
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this con-
vention that the development Of the CONNER
ciaL industrial and agricultural interests OF
the south imperatively require cooperation
and organized effort on the part of all who
are interested in accomplishing this great
purpose
3 That a permanent committee be APP
pointed by the convention, which shall be
charged with the duty of perfecting an organ
lzation Of business men of the north inter
ested in southern development, and, of south
ern 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
to take the necessary steps to provide the
ways and means for ascertaiuing, advertis-
ing, and in all ways advancing the develop
ment of the whole south
g. That the committee shall consist of
twenty-five members, one from each of the
southern states, and with ten from the north
and west.
Z. That nine members of said
committee shall constitute a quo
rum to do business and that said
committee shall have power to fill vacancies
in its membership and to increase its mem
bership when deemed proper.
A COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
The report of the committee was
adopted by the full meeting and the fol-
ton was appointed:
Alabama NJ. Caldwell.
Arkansas Clifton r.. Breckenridge.
Florida-D. II. Elliott
Georgia. B. Dyer.
Kentucky-R. H. Courtney.
Louisiana-Harry Allen.
Maryland-R. H. Edmonds.
Mississippi G. Yerger.
Missouri-W. r. Nelson --
North Carolina-Julian S. Carr.
South Carolina-Alexander c. Haskell.
Tennessee. f. Peters.
Texas-Walter Gresham.
Virginia-Johu Shelton Williams,
West Virginia.. B. Fleming.
AT LARGE.
District of umbia-Body Smith.
/ Massachusetts-T. Jefferson Coolidge.
Michigan-Russell A. Alger.
New Jersey-Theo F'reylinghausen.
New York-John Clahin, Charles De-
shon, Stuyvesant Fish, H. r. Garden,
John H. lnman, Samuel NJ. Jarvis, Sam
uel Spencer and George H. Sullivan.
Pennsylvania Disston.
The above committee will meet Thurs
day, July IL, next at II o'clock a. M, in
the Office of its chairman, Hugh r.
Gardner, No. 80 Nassau street New York
city, to consider all plans submitted by
its members and others, and to create a
permanent organization. Correspondence
Is invited by the committee from all par
ties who feel an interest in the movement.
Communications will be addressed TO the
chairman.