The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1915-01-20
BUSINESS MEMS LEAGUE REso.
LUTON REVISING CONSTlTU-
TlON MEETS FAVOR.
MAY MEAN CONSOLIDATION
Changes the Executive Committee OF
the League to a Board of Governors
of Nine Members and Provides For
Nominations Of Rival Tickets.

Action taken voluntarily by the
Business Mems League last night
points to an unity Of tais organization
and the Chamber of Commerce in the
near future to the end that all the
commercial interests of Hot Springs
may in future work through a single
organization.
The matter came up when Chair
man Strauss Of a special committee
composed Of G. n. Rix, Hamp VII.
hams and DR. A. L. Williams pre-.
se0ted a revised constitution to the
league for adoption.
Under the charter Of the League
the matter must lay over ten days
before it is passed on. but the man.
ner in which the report Of the com
mittee was received last night indi-
Gates that the revision Will meet with
unanimous favor, and that within the
near future THE constitution of the
League viii have been SO revised as
to contain the main element Of the
Chamber Of Commerce constitution,
after which Of course there will be no
barrier between the unification OF
the TWO organizations
The report OF the revision commit
tee as submitted by Chairman
Strauss provides that the constitution
OF the League shall be so changed
that the executive committee shall be
set aside and a board of nine govern
ors shall be elected by the member
shin to have full authority now con
ferred on the executive committee
which in substance is the authority
Of the organization when the body is
not in session
Another point in the revised con
stitution is that there shall be ap
pointed by the president of the
League two nominating committees
Who shall nominate rival tickets
among the membership. the two
tickets to be nominated in ample
time for a campaign to be waged in
their behalf by friends. and assuring
competition in the matter of election
of the officers of the League in the
future
But one change was made in the
original report of the committee on
that point Secretary Belding be-
lieyed that i'm the event any other
ticket or name should be desired to
be offered for voting other than such
as nominated by the committees, on
the petition Of Is members such
name or ticket could he put out, and
this motion, seconded by Gilbert
Hogaboom, was carried.
There are other changes in the con
stitution Of the League which makes
it sufficiently broad to meet all the
demands Of a commercial organiza-
ton of this class Of city
President Callahan of the Chamber
of Commerce authorized the state
ment that in the event the changes
were made, he believed that every
member of that organization would
blend the efforts of this organization
so as to make it effective in restoring
Hot Springs to the patronage it once
enjoyed, and also of course looking to
the further developing of the patron
age of the resort
President NJ A. Fisele of the Bust
ness Mems League has been an active
figure in working out the changes in
the constitution of The League SC
there may in the future be but one
organization. He with other mem
bers Of the League, had declared in
favor of any changes that would help
to consolidate the working forces Of
the city so that better results could
be achieved
Secretary Bedding of the League re-
ported on the matter of necessary
improvements to the building because
of leakages in the rear of the build
ing, and a committee was appointed
to take up this matter
The new League booklet issue will
be 100000 in numbers. and will be
done by the new process Of photo
erayure which will make it by far the
most handsome thing the city has
ever done in this line The booklets
will be ready for distribution soon
and are being purchased at very