The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
HARV|E JORDAN IS
 FIRST ID ARRIVE Executive Committee Holds First Meeting Tomorrow COMMITTEE HAS POWER It Elects the Officers, Passes the Laws and the Gathering Thursday
 Is Only Huge Mass
 Meeting.
COMMITTEE HAS POWER

Harvie Jordan, of Atlanta, president of the Southern Cotton association, arrived in the city last night and is stopping at the Hotel Hillman. He is accompanied by Mrs. Jordan, who will remain with her husband in Birmingham during thet session of the convention.
 President Jordan will call tho annual meeting of the executive committee to- gether tomorrow morning and will take Up the business of the association. The executive committee which Is made up of delegates from the state divisions of the Southern Cotton association accord- Ing to production, Is really the South- ern Cotton association and when the business of the committee, so called. is completed the business of the associa- tion is done.
 Only a Mass Convention.
 The convention which assemblies Thurs day is, properly speaking. nothing morsi than a mass convention called to discuss matters of interest to the cotton grow CTS and others engaged in the cotton bus mess in any respect and has absolutely no power to make laws or elect officers. The officers of the association arc elected and all the business of the asso- ciation is transacted by the executive committed, or properly speaking, the Southern Cotton association, which meets tomorrow and Is due to adjourn Wednes- day evening.
 It is probable that the executive con- mittee will take a recess Wednesday un- til after the mass convention adjourns next Saturday for the purpose of elect ing officers and transacting such other mass convention.
 At the meeting of the Alabama divis- lon of the Southern Cotton association which was held at Montgomery January 2, a resolution was adopted instructings the three delegates to the national con- vention to instist upon this recess being taken by the executive committee be- fore officers of the association are flnas- ly elected It is believed that delegates from other state divisions have been so instructed and it Is quite probable that the recommendation will be favorably considered.
 Opportunity to Recommend.
 The object of the request is to give  portunity to recommend candidates for the various offices of the association. While the executive committee, 1t IS is said, is under no obligation under the constitution and bylaws to regard the wishes or recommendations of the mass convention. 1t Is believed that such ree- ommendation would not be dlsregarded.
 The executive committee, or Southern Cotton association. is made up of about fifty members and 1t is expected that most of the members will be present. when the meeting Is called to order bY President Harve Jordan tomorrow morn-l ing.
 Some of the delegates to the national convention are expected to arrive today and others will arrive tomorrow morn-l ing.
 The Alabama delegates are c. L. Gay,l of Montgomery county; w. l.. Jones, of Calhoun county. and J. H. Harris oei Chambers county. President W. H. Sey-I mour of the Alabama division is an ex-, oficio member of the delegation, but by al peculiar construction of tho bylaws is allowed a vote though Alabama Is only allowed the count of three votes in ths convention.