El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-08

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Unjust Discrimination In
Freight Rates Against FL pdso =
Some Discussion As To the APP
pointment Of the Other. Com
mittees
The board of directors of the Cham
| Der of Commerce met in the rooms OF the
Ell Paso club yesterday afternoon and
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, s. J. Freudenthal; 1st vice-presi-
dent, w. G. Wall; -2ud vice-president,
Felix Martinez; secretary, @. j. Ennis:
treasurer, Horace B. Stevens. All of
these officers were elected unanimous
ly.
| The matter of the appointment of
committees of the organization was dis
cussed at length. In spite of the Sc
creoy enioined upon the Hard Times
reporter about this discussion, he pos
| ing as the only reporter there, the HER.
AID reporter, who was also present,
was not enjoined and heard nothing
that could not be printed.
Some of the directors thought it would
be good idea to adopt a bylaw pro-
viding that the cha Der in open SEES
sion elect the chsirmen of these COM
mittees, of which there are nine, the
chairman of each committee being
member of the board of directors, the
committee chairmen constituting the
| board. This plan was open to the
objection that members OF the cham Der
would be likely to be biased in voting
| for the chairmen of committees by
personal considerations, and would not
| selectthem for their q qualifications.
One director suggested that the
majority voting would never
have an interest in the committes
chairman being voted for. and that
each interest was better able to sci sct
| it's own representative, or that the
board of directors as at present elected
| is better qualified to elect Mt men Tor
| the committees.
This plan of constituting the boar d
kof directors of the chamber was finaHy
shelved. 1t was thought, however,
| that it would be good plan to make
the chairmen of committees eX-officiO
members of the board of directors.
This might increase the membership
of the board to eighteen, but since
| some of the chairmen of committees
of directors also, this is not likely.
The plan of electing each member OF
| the board of directors chairman of one
of the committees was also discussed,
but this wassthought unwise. 1t was
the consensus of opinion that the
chairmen and memb ers of committees
should be selected with regard to their
and those of the board of
directors vary widely. The board is
responsible in q general way for the
entire business of the Chamber Each
committee is responsible only for the
] work of that Individual committee.
| The idea of having committees is to
specialize the work and get it ap-
| L.,
| tend to it. Sever al members thought
that member of the board of directors
should bs on each committee as sort
of steersman. Since this is likely to
happen in the ordinary course of events
| it was decided to be unnecessary to
make any special povision for it.
The idea of.making the chairmen of
committees ex-officio menb ers of the
board of directors met with the most
favor.
1t was thought best to defer the ap-
point ment of committees until the
mem bership of the cham Der is full in
order that the best material possible
to obtain may be placed upon them.
President Prudential thought that
the transportation committee should be
appointed at once since it's need is
pressing. 1t should get to work at
once, he said, to remedy the unjust
Discrimination against Ell Paso in the
matter of freight rates out of this city.
His view was concurred in and the
committee was appointed. Should all
the committees be formed OF as good
material as this one the influence of
the chamber is bound to be great. The
seven members OF the committee re-
present almost every important ship
ping interest in the city and each has
weight with the railroad companies.
The committee is composed of @. W.
Brown, A. Matthias, T. II. Springer,
E. Moye, B. M. Payne, o. G. Section.
and w. N. Small.
1t was ordered, as matter of pre-
cedent, that the secretary and treasur
err Of the chamber be required to give
rectors. The secretary will begin at
once to collect the Initiation fees and
the first quarters dues, SIS in all.
Each director present appoin ted
himself q committee of one on mem ber
ship OF the organization to assist the
secretary to fill the roll. In this way
at least 200 active memb ers can be Sc
cured.
Mr.. Wall said that numerous inquir-
les had been received from business
men in other cities already asking in
formation in regard to the business in
terests of Ell Paso. This is an indica-
tion of the work that the chamber will
be able to perform. Applications have
also been received from outside bust
ness men for membership and they
will be received and acted upon by the
chamber.
The board adjourned to meet at the
call of the president, it being thought
that another meeting will be necessary
in about two weeks.
Albert Won the Cane.
At the annual "cane rush. at the
New York university, Albert Wilcox.