The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-15
VIII Work for Location Of the
New Treasury at
Birmingham
LARGE MASS MEETING
WAS HELD YESTERDAY
Campaign and Finance Committees
Are Appointed-W. p. G. Harding
Heads Delegation to Go
to Washington.

At an enthusiastic mass meeting of Bir-
mingham bankers and business men held
at the assembly room of the Commercial
club yesterday afternoon at o'clock a
strong committee was appointed to con-
duct the campaign looking to the location
of the new sub-treasury of the United
States at Birmingham.
Perhaps twenty members of this dele
CATION will proceed to Washington to-
night to take the matter up with the
congressional delegation to whom has
been assigned the power to determine the
location
ms campaign committee is composed
of a number of the most prominent bus
mess men of the district and is headed
by w. 2. G. Harding, president of the
First National bank, as chairman.
A finance committee was also appoint
ed to raise funds for the expense of the
campaign that will be conducted Wig
orouly from now until the sub-treasury
is finally located
At the opening of the meeting yester-
day afternoon a telegram from Congress
man o. w. Underwood stating that the
conference of senators and representa-
tives to whom had been left the selection
OF the location of the new sub-treasury
which had been called for next Tuesday
night, had been postponed until January
Z The states interested in the location of
the sub-treasury are Alabama, Tennes-
see Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Secretary Shaw of the United States
treasury announced several days ago that
a sub-treasury would be located in one
of these southeastern states and indicated
that the matter of location would be left
to vote of the senators and representa-
uves of those states.
The Alabama delegation is solidly in
favor of locating the sub-treasury at Bir-
mingham, and it is believed by many peo-
pie of this city that the votes of enough
of the members of other delegations can
be secured to bring the institution here
Motion Made Chairman.
The mass meeting yesterday afternoon
was called to order by Secretary j. B.
Babb of the Commercial club T. II. Mol
ton was elected permanent chairman and
Mr.. Babb secretary.
Mr.. Motion called on w. P. G. Harding
who made a short address in which he
explained some of the benefits that would
be derived from the location of the new
sub-treasury at Birmingham. Among the
advantages he named is clean money,
quick call money and a material expan-
sion of the financial business of the dis
trict. He said that the location of the sub
treasury here would make Birmingham
the money center of the southeastern
states and that the people of Birmingham
should exert every effort to secure the
institution.
I. o. Smith made short address in
which he spoke enthusiastically of the
movement and expressed confidence in
Birmingham's ability to land the prize,
if the proper effort is made in a sys-
tematic manner.
Other enthusiastic speeches were made
by j. II. Frye, Mayor George B. Ward,
James Bowron, e. w. Barrett, Wilson
Brown, Judge S. D. Weakley, F. w.
Dixon, James ]. Smith, Robert Ewing,
j. T. Blakemore and others.
e. w. Barrett made motion that a
committee of five be appointed to retire
and formulate a plan for the campaign
and report Immediately to the conference.
The motion was carried and Chairman
Motion appointed the following committee:
E. w. Barrett, w. P. G. Harding, Will
son Brown, 4. o. Smith and j. H. Frye.
Committee Makes Report.
After an absence from the assembly
room of few minutes the committee re-
turned and submitted a report, in which
the appointment of a finance committee
and campaign committee were recon-
mended. 1t was recommended that the
finance committee take charge of the mat
ter of raising funds to pay the expense
of the campaign to be conducted in an eff