The age-herald., 1898-09-13
COMMITTEE OF FIFTY
 FROM GULF STATES To Go to Washington to Extend Formal
 Invitation to the President FOR THE SOUTHERN JUBILEE Will Be Most Representative Men in
 This and NeiShbOrinS States. "CAN RAISE ALL MONEY NEEDED" Said MT. Steiner of the Finance Com mittee-Maj. Anderson Talks of the
 Expense of the Whole Jubilee
 Endorsed in Chicago.
'CAN RAISE ALL MONEY NEEDED"

A meeting of all the committees of the Southern Peace Jubilee was held last night in the Commercial club building, especially to hear the report of the invitation con- mittee which was sent to Washington last week to invite the president, informally to hear the report of other committees and to form some plans for further action
 E. w. Barrett and pr. J. W. Hughes both repeated what they stated in interviews before.-that the president received them most courteously, expressed great pleasure at receicing an invitation from southern city, and said that 1t was his intention to visit Birmingham, but that just at present he could not name the time Both of these gentlemen stated that they thought the president would come without a. doubt if the proper influences were brought to bear upon him. e
 ADelegation of Fifty
 After discussing at length the question of how the iyitation should be extended, the following plan was agreed on. The presi- dent and his cabinet should be included in the formal invitation which was to be en- bossed in handsome style. Chairman Lowe of the invitation committee said that he knew of at least fifty men, prominent men, in this and neghboring states, whom he could get to go to Washington when the in- vitaion was presented. He said that he had received by mail more applications to go than he could answer.
 Such delegation as this could not fail to have great effect on the president, es- pecialy as he is very desirous to make the trip south. He has accepted the invitation to the National Peace Jubilee in Chicago, the Western celebration at Omaha, and cer- tainly, it was agreed, he cannot afrosd to refuse the invitation to the Southern Ju- bilee.
 The committee which extended Chicago's formal invitation consited of only four men, and Omaha's delegation was also a very small one. As some expressed it last night: We will bring him down bodily if he re- fuses to come any other way.'
 Chairman Anderson, of the arrangement committee, reported what estimates he had made on the cost of the whole celebration for the erection of arches, for the reviewing stand, for the entertainment of the presi- dent and other guests and for incidentals.
 .'All tho Money You Need"
 MT. Steiner, of the finance committee, in the absence of Chairman Aldrich, reported that his committee would not have the slightest difficulty in raising the whole amount just as soon as the president &C., cepted the invitation. He said that he had only obtained two subscriptions yet, be- cause he had not tried, but one of them from MT. Aldrich was for $25 and his own was for S100.
 The question of transportation was brought up and it was decided that trans portaion committee should arrange with the railroads to have a special train for the president and party from Washington, or whatever other place the president might be, to Birmingham and return. Chairman Skaggs, of committee on ra- tional relations, reported that he had re- ceived most encouraging reports from Chi cago in relation to the Southern Jubilee Prominent men to whom he had written as- sured him that the industrial and scEool organizations would appoint special com mttees to receive the committee from Bir- mingham. They also assured him that if the Southern Jubilee was held after the Chicago celebration, they believed that two or three thousand people from the north would come down to Birmingham.
 
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