Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-06
SECOND DAYS SESSION Of the Grain and Trade Congress
 at Mobile.
CHARLBSTI> WAS SELECTED
As the < ext Meeting Place. Exec, e Com mlttee Named.
 : sh Progress Noted.

C. LIE, April 5.-The second day's ses- sio 3f the south and west grain aud trade congress began at 10:31 o'clock. The com mttee on credentials reported seventy five delegates from ten states present.
 The committee on permanent organiza- ton nominated N.B. Thistlewood of Cairo, Ill.,, for chairman, and w. T. West of Mo- bile and II. Il. Smith of New Orleans sec- retaries. The nominees were elected by exclamation.
 Captain Thistlewood, in taking the chair, spoke of the object of the congress-the en- couragement of trade between the south and west. This is the age of railroads. Rivers serve as regulators of freight rates, but the bulk of the business is conducted by rail. We should seek, therefore, the hearty Cooperation of the railroads which unite these grand divisions of the union.
 Nlce-presldents were then appointed at the suggestion of the several delegates, as follows: Alabama, G ston A. Robbins; Florida, s. k. Mallory; Georgia, A. W. smith; Louisiana, Robert McMillan; South Carolina. John Reeves; Mississippi, A. J. Russell; Nebraska, L. P. Young; Indiana, E. Coghill.
 The following committee on resolutions was appointed J. 0. Rich, Alabama; William St. John, Georgia; J. F. Bishop, Nebraska; ,: F. c. Ernest, Louisiana; 5.
 
 Carolina; William Williams, illinois; Thomas Lyle, Mississippi, and E. Coghill, Indiana.
 Papers were then read as follows: "State Legislation and It's Effects on Commerce, A. w. Smith of Atlanta; "Mobile,' A. s. Benn of Mobile; "The Development of the South Means the Enrichment of the Nation" John A. Smith of Charleston.
 Resolutions were read and referred as follows: By H. Austill of Mobile, indorsing n a Ron al ha mi In of Florida; by w. M. Williams of Cairo, to allow to be incorporated in the report or the proceedings of this congress a statisti- cal report of Cairo's trade with the south; by 5. K. Mallory of Pensacola, to memo- riallZe congress as to the importance of the speedy completion of the Nicaragua canal; by J. F. G. Ernest of New Orleans, urging on the national authorities the importance of the speedy inauguration and completion of a navy yard at New Orleans; by J. M. Se1gniores Of Charleston, to hold the next meeting of the trade congress at Charles ton, $. o.; by L. l.. Gilbert of Montgom- cry, for appointment of permanent com mlttee on transportation.
 The convention then took recess until o'clock D. m.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 At the afternoon session all the resolu- tions mentioned above were adopted, in- cluding the selection of Charleston as the place for the next annual meeting. A special session In Atlanta during the ex- position will be called by the executive committee this fall
 The congress resolved upon the appoint- ment of permanent conn mitsee on trans- portation to take steps to put stop to any discrimination against southern points in favor of eastern points; also resolved that each city in the south organize bureau of transportation to assist the transportation committee in the performance of it's du ties. The chair appointed on said con- mittee John A. Smith, s. R. Mallory, w. H. Matthews, A. J. Vanlandingham and w. T. West.
 A resolution was adopted advocating that the southern and western importers give the preference to southern ports, in order to provide return tonnage for transporta- ticn lines; also resolution in behalf of direct trade.
 The following were appointed as the ex- ecutive committees: H. k. Class, Alabama; s. A. Jones, Florida; A. w. Smith, Georgia; B. Smith, Louisiana; J. w. Seignors, South Carolina; J. $. Reardon, Illinois; c. w. Robinson, Mississippi, and George w. Fuller, Missouri.
 Kansas and Nebraska were temporarily passed. Adjourned until tomorrow.