The age-herald., 1897-09-09
MORE ABOUT ARMOR PLATE,
Meeting of Commercial Club
 Committee Called.
QUORUM WAS NOT PRESENT
Representative Underwood Suggests That the Committee Go to Washington and ln-
 yite Afmor Plate Board South.

A meeting of the Commercial club ar nor plate committee was called for yes terday afternoon at o'clock. On ae- count of the absence from the city of several of the members quorum was not present, and the meeting was post poned until Monday afternoon.
 Chairman Rhodes, Sol Haas, Pasehal Shook and Representative 0. W. Un- derwood were present. Tle question was. discussed. and the prevailing idea is that the committee should go to Washington In a body and invite the government board to visit Birmingham.
 On this point Representative Under wood said: q think it would be good Idea to have special car and take the whole committee to Washington.
 "Oh, think we should go, but not in a special car," said MT. Haas. "We should go on like country folks and bring the committee back in a special car"
 MT. Underwood said the Southern rail- way stood ready to furnish a car, and all transportation necessary. q am sat isfied the government committee will come to Birmingham" he continued. "In fact Roosevelt assured me it would. He Informed me he could not issue an order for the committee to come, be- cause it was appointed by congress and not by the navy department. If the committee comes here I have no doubt about our being able to get the best report in congress. Our advantages cannot be ignored. We can--show them the raw material in close proximity to the furnaces, figure out the price of la bor and prove to them we have the cheapest producing center in the world. My idea is to have all this information gotten together and put in pamphlet form, ready to hand around to them when they come.
 '"rhere are many people of the north and east pulling for the south as loca- tion for the government plant. We can safely count on 122 congressman to cast their votes in our favor and to win we only have to secure forty more To se- cure these we have the west and north west to draw on. Their point now is to get the best report before congress. Give the committee all the facts, figures and details desired.
 "It is we'll known fact that Carnegie has always been very close mouthed about giving congress any information. Every man in congress who favored Carnegie could always be silenced by demand for figures. Daltzell, who repre- sents the district in which Carnegie re- sides. was considered the steel king S right-hand man, and he was called down ipan md ot,a it, f1,fe f1,. best report before congress Birmingham will be the center of the discussion and, of course if politics are eliminated, we will stand the best show"
 PaschaI Shook has visited the steel plants at Homestead and Bethlehem since the movement to get the plant in the south.
 'nhey laughed at me when I talked Of the armor plant coming south," said MT. Shook. 'I pointed out to them that their plants wsre closed down, but they ridiculed the idea of the government locating plant here In the north and east there is a strong sentiment against the Carnegie'A An influential man in Boston, and many others in different places, expressed the hope that the plant would be located down s0uth.'
 President Sol Haas. of the Sloss Iron and Steel company, has just returned from Washington, and will make an- other trip there in a few days q think it would be we'll to have the govern nrent committee here in October" said he. "The heat would not then be so oppressive and we could guarantee the members a pleasant stay"