Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-19
INTERESTING MEETING
Of the Commercial Club Held
 Yesterday Afternoon.
AN ABLE SPEAKER COMING
To Address the CIub-ReCom- mends Favorable Action on
 the Rolling Mill Question.

The directors of the Commercial club met yesterday afternoon at o'clock in the rooms of the club, with MT. Sig Steiner presiding. The meeting was interesting and many matters for the good of Birming- ham were discussed.
 The secretary had very large number of letters, showing the increasing attention which Birmingham is attracting in indus trial centers and the work which the Com mercial club is performing in keeping the city and it's advantages before tue public. A number of these letters were from enter prises seeking location in the south, and it is quite likely that several of them will ultimately be secured for Birmingham.
 The following letter from Col. A. K. Mo- Cure was read, and at the next meeting of the club proper action will be taken to give Colonel Mcclure such reception as is due so distinguished friend of the south and of Birmingham especially:
 THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES,
 January 15, 1895. MT. N. F. Thompson, Commercial Club, Bir- mingham, Ala.
 My DEAR FRIEND: I have your kind in- vitation to address the Commercial club or ny PlOcpSSIiNo Nioit in the south this spring. If all goes well l shall be in Birmingham sometime about the 10th of March, and shall be glad to comply with your request to deliver an address to your club. When my depart ure and route ere definitely fixed 1 will advise you as to the particular day on which can be in your city. -y- I have watched the growth of Birming- ham with unusual interest, as 1 visited 1t fourteen years ago and saw 1t in it's in- T,,x Ia fr fh,. ln faft of manhood has been so rapid and so sub stantial as to make it the most conspicuous monument of industrial success in the southern states.
 Again thanking you for your kind re-
 A. K. MCCLURE.
 A letter was also read from Mr. M. V. Joseph, who is on the Cuban trip with the Alabama Press association. He states that in Key West there is an industry which is likely to move here If favorable oppor- tunity is presented.
 Capt. W. H. Graves offered motion that a committee be appointed to select man to go to Lowell, Mass, and other eastern cities in the interest of Birmin gham to try and secure some of the cotton nllls which are coming south.
 This motion brought forth very general discussion, some favoring the secretary as the man to be sent, but the board seemed to think that the secretary could not now De bDdEeQ IOE luab LEipt dDh AcuSC bhS NOIA- mittee was instructed to find some other person if possible and report their action to the next meeting oS the board. The following is the committee: w. II. Graves, J. A. VanHoose and E. F. Moore.
 The committee on real, estate was iu- structed to procure from various land com panies and individuals list of property that could be had as manufacturing sites free, and file same with the secretary of the club.
 hx,t ha hot meeting of national manufacturers would be held at Cincinnati on the 22d instant, ; and they desired a representative from this club. Col. T. T. Wright of Nashville, who would attend that meeting, was requested to represent Birmingham, and the secre- tary instructed to notify him of the same. The matter of the bill pending in the leg islature in regard to the rolling mill and Sloss and Alice furnaces came up and evoked very general discussion. The com mittee heretofore appointed to obtain a copy of the bill and report on its provi- sions was given further time in which to make it's report.
 Captain Graves introduced a resolution which favored the club, in general terms, standing by it's former action.
 resolution was presented as a snbsti ute for Captain Graves resolution by Rufus N. Rhodes, and the same adopted as the sense of the board of directors and re- ferred to a meeting of the club to be called
 
 The following is MT. Rhodes resolu. tion:
 Whereas, The Commercial club has here- tofore pledged itself-to- wit, at g meeting of the club held on January 5, 1s94-to re- quest law permitting the city limits Of Birmingham to be changed so as to leave the Birmingham Rolling Mill company out of said limits; and
 Whereas, We desire to show our good faith in the action then taken, more espe- fall 1oi1 Rn1I Iiprr nny, iu posing to make additional improvements to their property of great value to Birming- ham; therefore be it
 Resolved, That the board of directors of the club hereby expresses itself, as being the sense ot this board, that law favoring the letting out of the city limits of the rolling mill property be passed by the leg islature.
 Resolved. That it is the further sense of this board that the Alice and Sloss furnace properties should not be included in said bill and the board of directors is opposed to these properties being included therein. Owing to the fact that the directors wanted the matter finally settled by the club the entire matter was referred to the club, to be acted upon at the next meeting. The report of the committee on the 2 per cent special school tax will come up also at this meeting, which is called for Monday afternoon, January 21.
 Some of the legal fraternity do not agree with the conclusions reached by the conn., mittee, and at the meeting it will be dis cussed thoroughly. Mondays meeting promises to be very interesting.
 Does the tariff effect wages? Under all tariffs sales of Dr. Price's Baking Powder increase.
 THE GREAT COTTON MILLS MUST GO
 SOUTH.
 New York Herald, 17th.
 The remarkable movement of cotton mills from New England to the south, which has recently attracted so much attention, con- tinues and is likely to continue until the cotton industries of the country center, as they should do, in the sunny home of the cotton plant.
 On the 23d ultimo the Herald reported the decision of two of the strongest cotton