The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-26
BESSEMER ID GIVE
 WAREHOUSE SITE
Citizens In Conference With
 Farmers Union
By J, F, LEE,

Bessemer, August 25.-(Special. )-Mem-
 bers of the board of trade and a large
 number of the business men of Bessemer
 met this morning at Rebie hall to confer
 with a committee from the stockholders
 of the Farmers Union Warehouse com
 pany. The committee was composed of
 T. F. Johnson, state secretary and treas-
 urer of the Farmers union; G. H. Smith,
 county president; w. NJ Glaze, l. 5. Acton and M. NJ Gwin. Two other stock
 holders, who did not come as committee
 men, but are much interested in the
 movement, were J. B. Reaves and k. Il.
 Long, were also present.
 Notwithstanding the fact that it was
 learned just last night that the question
 would come up today, goodly number of citizens were on hand, and much in- terest was manifested in the proposed building of a cotton warehouse, wherein the members of the Farmers union living
 within a radius of 15O miles of Bessemer can store their cotton.
 G. H. Stevenson, president of the board of trade, presided over the meeting. A committee of hve-W. W. Hollingsworth, J. B. Morton, l. A. Lewis, A. K. Murphy and Dr. William Waldrop-was appointed to confer with the committee from the
 Farmers union with regard to the se- lection of a site, and to report back to
 an open meeting at 2:30 this afternoon At the afternoon meeting it was stated that several locations for the site were | considered. and one location was specially suited for the purpose, 1t being very con-
 venient to three railroads, the Louisville 1 and Nashville, Southern and the Birming- ham Railway Light and Power company,
 but as the matter could not be closed up without first consulting the owners o>
 the property, it was agreed to leave the ] matter open until next Wednesday, when definite action will be taken, and It IS
 understood that a site will be donated by
 the city, the location being the main thing to be decided upon.
 It is believed by the citizens of Besse-
 mer that the establishing of warehouse here, which will no doubt also mean the
 building of a compress, will bring much trade to the city.
 Should the negotiations go through IL will probably mean the removal or the
 Farmers union headquarters from Bir- mingham to Bessemer, which VIII also
 mean much to the city.
 Why Delay? Says Benton. Have the law and order league people, the ladies and the other staunch pro- hibitionists been as busy in trying to get the anti-storage ordinance en1orceu dS they were to get it passed?' said Alder man G. P Benton today. T voted Tor the ordinance, and before it's passage the officers claimed that it was necessary that it be passed in order to enforce the
 prohibition laws already in enect, ana
 now that it has been passed, and duly
 published last Friday in the Bessemer Workman, l do not think 1t right that the police officers should be instructed by
 the chief executive of the city, nor by any other member of the city administra-
 ton, to refrain from doing their sworn
 duty, especially since a special ordinance
 has been passed to aid them in carrying
 out the law
 Chief of Police Wallace, when asked why certain people who are supposeu .o be violating the ordinance had not been
 gone after, said:
 q was instructed by the mayor not to take any action in the matter untll Tuesday or Wednesday of this week This morning l went to the mayor and asked him if he had any further orders as to the enforcement of the ordinance, and he said that he had promised the , people in question not to do anything for 10 days after the law went into effect I asked him if this meant that I was not to do anything in the mat ter until the 10 days was up, and ne told me it did, hence it will will prob ably be Friday before we will do any thing"