The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-09

adopting a resolution indorsing Rich
mond for appointment as regional
reserve city.
The boys were in session in the
Chamber of Commerce hall when the
adult crowd began filling in at
o'clock for the night meeting The
organization, which is said to be the
only one Of It's kind in the United
States, had just elected officers for the
new term and was preparing to adj
journ when the presiding officer called
upon Business Manager Dabney for a
speech.
Mr. Dabney. who speaks on short no
tice with equal ease to bankers, school
girls and Sunday school excursions, re-
sponded with an enthusiastic talk in
which he commended the purposes Of
the organization and Its value as a
training school for citizenship, winding
up with his ever-insistent appeal for an
Endorsement of Richmond as a regional
reserve point
Wont ono of you boys offer reso-
luton asking your Senators and Con-
gressmen to help secure Richmonds
appointment as the location for a
regional reserve bank?" asked Mr..
Dabney. winding up his appeal
John Koonce. still in the knicker-
booker stage rose to the occasion. He
hesitated minute about the wording
or the motion and then said:
move, Mr.. President, that they let
Richmond be it."
The membership approved in a body
while the distinguished assemblage or
business men. bankers and LAWYERS ap-
plauded. The resolution will be for
warded to the Washington authorities.
in the exact language In which il was
offered
Besides passing the resolution
recomm ending Richmond for appoint
ment the executive committee OF the
Bankers association appointed spe-
ciai committee TO GO to Washington
on January is to join the Richmond
Of Joseph G. Brown, Raleigh: j. Ell
WOOD Woo Cox High Point; Cole II. Fries,
l Is. j j {: Braswell, Rockingham;
lanes r. Sawyer. Asheville; George 4.
d hoiderness; Tar6oro;, W. a Hunt lien
ton.
Speeches were made before the
BANKERS executive committee at the
W. jackson, II. Z. Litchford. Thomas
%; McAdnms and Congressman Non
tIague- These. accompanied by a Ra-
ieIeh delegation, called In the morning
upon governor Crai x at the Capitol and
we're cordially received. The Governor
h f,aue no Go, comment on the mission which
orought me Richmond men to Raleigh
Applause for McAdams.
Thomas Is. McAdams, of the Mer
chants chants National Bank, drew the APP
statement that he will upon his return
70 richmond make thorough inves-
,,.f,a LOT; into the rate difficulty, and
VIII enlist Richmond business men in a
movement TO remove any Injustice to-
wards North Carolina that is attrib-
utable TO Richmond
AT Goldsboro the Richmond do1ey,
tlon was received by a Chamber Of
Sor1m cree meeting of good proportions.
WIN one or two exceptions the speak
ers expressed the conviction that Rich
inond was the logical point for the To-
catlon or reserve bank, but the feel
, ing, between i,,e North Carolina and Vir-
brought prominently to the foreground.
Leslie We'll, voicing the rate griev-
anGe. oifered a resolution committing
Goidsboro to a hands;off policy. neither
indorsing nor prejudicing Richmond's
cause It provoked a warm debate, in
y Th Babne .ne AID persuasive persuasive power of w:
to their severest test. a substitute
resolution. offered by j. NJ. Allen. pres
ident of the Peoples Bank of Colds
6oro, indorsing Richmond as the only
logical location. was carried with only
TWO opposing votes at the end OF a
two-hour discussion. Among the strong
Were w: r. and ]. *. Borden. Charles
Dewey. Henry We'll, w. S. o. Robinson
and l.. NJ. MicheauX.
AT the night meeting in Raleigh the
resolution indorsing Richmond was of
Tered by L. l.. Cox and later seconded
by Judge Winston and passed by a
unanimous rising vote. The resolu-
ton went on record for Richmond
heartily and unreservedly," and au-
thoriZed President Drewry OF the
Chamber of Commerce to appoint a
special committee to present the ac-
ton OF the body to the authorities in
Washington. Mr.. Drewry appointed
a; l.: Cox. Joseph G. Brown, Colonel
Charles e. Johnson, Z. b. Crow, w. b.
Drake, John A. Mills and w. w. Vass