The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-18
RECEPTION
 TO VISITORS Railroad Commissioners in Montgomery. IA DISTINGUISHED PARTY shown Over Capitol and Re- ceived by Governor. Flu Route to Mexico, They spent several Hours Here and Were Eater tained at the Rooms of Com-
 mercial Association.
 

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 | At 4:3o o'clock yesterday afternoon, a special train of seven cars reached Nashville Raiiroad from Birmingham, National Railroad Commission, with their wives and invited guests. who are en route to the City of Mexico. The train was an unusually handsome one, comprising four of the most luxu- rious Pullman cars ever turned out of 0a sat snd RaIs. the car "Quantzirtecomat,"a a baggage car l and on the rear of the train sthe first open observation car ever seen in Mont nam roof and rows @ oa of seats as dIui in Keeping with the generally luxurious appear ance of the train, the sides being en- tirely open on the order of summer At noon yesterday the sixteenth an- nual convention of the Association ad- jouraed in Birmingham, where the con- iy before i o'clock the party started | on the long trip to the Land of the Aztecs. Montgomery was. the first tstop, six hours being spent here, a re. the State Capitol and later in the even ing reception by the Commercial and Industrial Association. having been ar- | ranged forvthe distinguished visitors. bama Railroad Commission, who for the | past year has been President of the National Association. with Associate bama Commission, headed the party.
 Members of the Party. Other members of the Association in the party were:
 Commission. James s. Neville. chair man; Arthur l. French, associate mem- Der; William Fitzpatrick. secretary.
 From Maine Railroad Commission, Benjamin F. Chadbourne, associate commissioner.
 From Minnesota Railroad Commis- sion. IraIB. Mills, chairman; c. F. Sta ples, associate commissioners.
 From Michigan Railroad Commis- sion. Thoron W. Atwood, commissioner. From Missouri Railroad and Ware house Commission. Joseph F. Rice. as-
 From New Hampshire Railroad Com mission, George E. Bales, commissioner. . From North Dakota Railroad Com mission, c. c. Hammond, secretary.
 From Pennsylvania Bureau of Rail-
 ways, Isaac B. Brown, secretary of in- ternal affairs; Theodore B. Klein, SUI perintendent of the bureau; w. w. Nor garidge. associate superintendent.
 From South Dakota Railroad Com mission, W. G: Smith. chairman: Frank LcCoFq. associate member; William H. Stanley. secretary.
 From Vermont Railroad Commission.
 Fuller c. Smith, chairman.
 From Virginia State Corporation Commission. John A. Upshur, clerk.
 From Wisconson Railroad. Commis- sion, John W. Thomas commissioner. From Association of American Rail- way Accounting Officers, J. o. Clifford. From Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. Judson C.. Clements. commission CT; William K. Connolly chief clerk.
 Several cars of the Montgomery Street Railway were in waiting at the |, iaAa hA oV.fx Nn6 kA the State Capitol where everything of interest was shown them. The masts of the Spanish vessels on the left of the approach and the Confederate Mon ument excited great interest and ad- miration. It was an impressive scene when the crowd started up the front steps of the building and saw the star sunk in the stone on the spot where of office as Chief Executive of the Southern Confederacy.
 In the Governors private office Pri- vate Secretary Jackson received the visitors as they came in a long line and introduced them to Governor Cum ningham. After this reception the vis-
 itors were conducted to the second floor and were shown to seats in the hall of the House of Representatives.
 Chairman Geo. w. Jones of the Re- certion Committee introduced Cover nor Cunningham.
 E Governor is Introduced.
 In introducing Governor Cunning
 ham MT. Jones was especially happy !.
 He said:
 Ladies and Gentlemen:
 Representing the Entertainment
 Committee of the Montgomery Com
 mercial and Industrial Association, it
 Is my honor and privilege to present
 to you, a man who will bid you well
 come in behalf of the State of Ala
 bama, and of her historic Capital City:
 a man who Is not only known and
 loved throughout the State of Ala
 are not circumscribed by the bounda-
 ries of this glorious country.
 Each State in the Union has Gov
 ernor endowed with some special att
 tainment of which the people of that State are justly proud. Some Cover nors are distinguished for their patri- otism, some for their conservatism. some for their chivalry, some for their statesmanship, some for their philan- thropy, some for their wit, some for their wisdom, some for their eloquence and some for their Republican princi- pies:
 a Governor who stands as the embodi- ment of all these attainments, except the last.
 T have the honor to present to you | the Honorable Russell M. Cunningham. Acting Governor of A1abarna. Speech of Cunningham. When the applause had subsided 1 Governor Cunningham. characteristic smile Illuminating his features began his address of welcome.
 Ladies and gentlemen he said. "I desire to give you a hearty and a cor dial welcome to the capital of the State of Alabama. You have already seen something of it's industries, its | commerce, and I trust. the hospitality of the State in the splendid city built to the north of us.
 T notice, gentlemen, in the papers this is your sixteenth annual gather ing. Inasmuch as you have only ex- isted as an organization for sixteen years and inasmuch as this is period and era of organization, I take 1t for granted that the genus and species of public officers, to which you belong. is would have had an association much longer. It is important always to try to arrive at the origin of all things and 1t Is a little difficult problem to say exactly whence came the railroad commissioner. Whether he is the pro- duct of civilization or of legislation, whether he was provided from the standpoint of diplomacy. compromise. or other reason may be, perhaps, not clearly known.
 "The truth of the business Is that an old adage tells us that the tree may be known by the fruit thereof, and sometimes we can determine what the fruit will be by the character of the tree. have no doubt, gentlemen, that when looked at In these respects, that the unit and basis of all your official action, 1t matters not what State you | come from, is one of equity and one Of | justice I tbink that can say to you ! gentlemen, and say it truly, that you I regard yourselves politically as nom 1 nartfzan and so far AS the discharge