The age-herald., 1902-04-05
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL HEREAFTE
 MET AT NIGHT Changes Time for Holding SeS- Sions from the Ar
 terno0n REVISION OF CONSTITUTION Board of Directors Cut Down and Changes Made In Committees.
 Election of Officers to
 Be Had Soon.
REVISION OF CONSTITUTION

Beginning next month meetings of the Commercial Club will be held in the evenF ing at 8 o'clock instead of in the after noon at o'clock. and it is the intention of the club to introduce more social feat ures than in the past.
 Both these changes were made at the meeting yesterday afternoon. the social feature being included in the revision of the bylaws and constitution reported on by the special committee, of which MT. Sterling Wood was chairman. The com mittee also reported a change in the nam ing and chasing of the standing commit tees.
 The new committees will be transporta- ton and railroads real estate and insur- ance, banks and banking, wholesale and export trade. press and advertising re- tall trade, immigration, agricultural in terests, education and schools, miscel- laneous matters and grievances, informa- tion and statistics, legislation social features and periodicals, finance and tax ation and public policy.
 - The chairmen of the committees and the members will be named by the new president to be elected at the next meet ing of the club. In making the report of the committee Chairman Wood sug- gested that the tax committee take up the matter of licenses paid by the mer- chants of Birmingham, aiding the Board of Trade in it's fight for lower rates.
 Cut Down Directors.
 One of the changes is to be in the number of men comprising the board of directors. In the past the chairman of each standing committee was an ex-of- ficio member of the board, which was composed of the president, twelve vice presidents and nine directors. In the future only the president, twelve vice presidents and nine directors will com pose the board of directors By the re- vision of the bylaws the secretary will have more power. He will have entire control of the rooms of the club and shah devote his entire time to the club.
 Mr. M V. Joseph made a short talk just before the close of the meeting urg- ing the members of the club to go to work with renewed energy trying to se- cure new enterprises .or the B,rming- nam ulSIT1Ct. I1e attcHtioii to 'AS unity of the club in seeking industries during the hard times which lasted sev- eral years, and asked the members to cling closer together now that the dis trict was attracting the attention of manufacturers all over the country.
 The speech was made after Chairman Malone of the Mining and Manufacturing had made bis renort In regard to the sew CT pipe and terra cotta plant to be erected soon, and the wagon and car shops for which the committee has been searching for grounds.
 For New industries.
 MT. Malone said there were gentlemen now here looking into the district with view to putting in a furniture factory, a glass manufacturing plant and sheet mill. These men live in Pennsylvania and MT. W. H. Morris will go as represen- tative of the Commercial Club to talk with them regarding the favorable op- portunities offered Aby the district
 A committee of Mir. Joseph, MT. Jemi- son and Mir Malone was appointed to raise funds to pay MT. Morris expenses.
 The letter of Connally and Ritter, of Chattanooga, wanting to publish the next city directory was referred to the press committed The letter from the Civic Federation asking the club to look into the work they are doing to get more uniform rate of taxation was referred to the committee on public policy. The letter requesting the support Of the club to have the consular service placed on civil service basis was referred to the same committee.