The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-07
A NEW PUBLIC BUILDING
MIR. OVERsTREET's BILL WILL PROB
ABLY PASS HOUSE TODAY.
Board of Trade Governors Thank the
Club Consolidation.

The following happy telegram from Rep
resentative Jesse Overstreet was read last
night at a meeting Of the governors Of the
Board of Trade:
FEB. Z and s have been set apart for
consideration Of the report of the commit
zee on public buildings. The Indianapolis
bill is scheduled to pass. The chairman of
the committee assures me that it will be sure
any Of you coming here.@ The 0ffndianapopliss
public-building bill was favorably reported
by the House committee yesterday.
The following telegram, expressing the
qualification of the board, was composed
and sent to Mr.. Overstreet without loss of
time:
Hon. Jesse Overstreet. Washington, D. c.
The Board of Trade and business men Of
indianapolis thank you most sincerely for
the active interest you have taken in the
passage Of our public-building bill, and con-
graduate YOU on the probability of the pass
age of the bill. Please, in our name, thank
the Indiana delegation in Congress for the
e. b. MARTINDALE,
president indianapolis Board Of Trade
After adopting the draft of the above ex-
preston of gratitude to Representative Over
street and the other Indiana congressman
the board turned to the disposal of the
other business on hand. C. c.. Perry pre-
sented a resolution providing that the presi-
dent of the board should appoint a commit
too to meet with a committee of the Com
mercial Club and discuss the feasibility of
uniting the two organizations. There had
been so much talk about this matter among
business men, he said, that il should be
settled once for all. His resolution looked to
determining whether or not the union should
be made. George w. Sloan at first opposed
the resolution, saying the Board of Trade
was a much older and more financially
healthful organization than the Commercial
Club, that it had already absorbed one Board
of Trade, and he did not think it wise that
the board should make a move that would
look like it were seeking to unite with, and
lose itself in, the Commercial Club. Presi-
dent Martindale and d. NJ. Parry. presi-
dent Of the Commercial Club, did not think
the Board of Trade would be put in the
light of a suppliant. President Martindale
said he did not see the use OF having two
organizations of the same object in one city:
Still, he would not advocate that the board
should take any further action in the mat
ter until the Commercial Club had also de-
cided to appoint a committee. Mr.. Parry
said the Commercial Club would appoint a
committee, and that it would not be a mat
ter of one organization swallowing the
other, but of the two uniting on an equitable
basis. The Commercial Club was in no con-
dltlon to do any swallowing, he SAID. Inc
motion was adopted, with the addition that
the committee should be of five members
and should not be appointed until the Com
mercial Club has taken action similar to
that of the Board of Trade.
In connection with the proposed union Mr..
Martindale, who said he had thought a
good deal about the matter, suggested d
plan. He said he admired the members OF
the Commercial Club for being so active in
taking up matters after the Board OF Trade
had given them the cue, holding a smoker
and taking decided action in view or all the
people. The Board of Trade had no place
on the Commercial Club building, either as
to location or construction, as better fof
the purpose of a board of trade than the
Board of Trade building. 1t would be adj
visable. he thought, for the two organiZa-
lions to sell their property, buy new ground
and put up a building. From the sale OF
the properties each member of the two or
CARNATIONS should receive a dividend in
stock in the new neutrality-suspicious.
to his interest in his own organization. He
referred to the fact that the Board OF Trade
was out of debt and the Commercial Club
was not. He also considered the insurance
feature of the Board OF Trade IN the hght
of the proposed consolidation. He regarded
this feature as one of the most admirable
of the organization. If the two commercial
organizations consolid ated, he suggested, the
members Of the Commercial CluD should De
admitted to the insurance department, pro-
viding they could pass the necessary phys
zeal examination and had the inclination.
This feature of the Board of Trade should
be no-obstacle in the road to the union, he
thought. Mr.. Perry's resolution was unan-
imOusly adopted.
Thu railroad committee was directed to file
a protest with the chairman of the inter-
s"tate-cOmmerce committee of the national
House of Representatives and the Central
Traffic Association against an unfair dis
elimination that, it is alleged, is about TIC. be
made by trunk-line railroads in carrying
grain from the West to the seaboard at
rates from y to 2 cents a hundred pounds
lower than -four and in carrying grain and
grain products from the Mississippi river
east at . cents on the hundred pounds less
than from Indianapolis. Some sarcastic
comment was made on the helplessness that
was SAID TO be characteristic Of the Inter-
s-tate-commerce Commission.
The Indiana State Board of Commerce will
meet in this city Feb. 10. Following are the
delegates from the Board of Trade: d. p.
Erwin. A. A. Barnes, ]. b. Conner, w. +.
English, E. H. Evans, ]. l.. Griftiths, w. B..
Holton, j. e. McGettigan, c. c. Perry, j. a.
Wildman, Albert Sahm and M. b. Wilson.