The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-18
All Business Scheduled for. Action Yesterday and Half of That for Today Is Disposed Of
TRIP OVER PLANTS
 OF TENNESSEE co.
 TO BE MADE TODAY
Oscar Wells and Dr. Charles
 Baskerville to Speak To- day-President Ives De- livers His Annual Address

Al tci HcdTlHE WelCOmeS from Qffl cials of Birmingham the nineteenth am nual convention of the Interstate Cot ton Seed Crushers association, con vened yesterday morning The busi- ness was transacted with such rapid ity that all the matters scheduled for action yesterday and nearly half of the work for the session this morning was disposed of. President Ives must be accustomed to operating in high" for he drove the machine yesterday with practical hand and developed an efficiency that is seldom a feature of conventions.
 The result of the speed yesterday is that the session today will close in time for the excursion over the prop critics of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company, 1t was announced yesterday. The two most interesting features for the attention of the dele gates today will be an address of Os- car Wells. president of the First Ma tional bank. and one by Dr. Charles Baskerville of New York. MT. Wells will speak on the federal reserve sys- tenn, while pr. Baskerville will dis cuss the refining of oils He is CT route here with an assistant and will demonstrate results of considerable re- search. He is an eminent authority and President Ives yesterday called special attention to his address. He suggested that the two addresses would be of great interest and that everyone of the members should be present
 Welcomed to City
 The meeting yesterday was opened by l.. M. Porter, chairman of the local committee. The meeting started promptly on time. The room was filled to it's capacity with number Of ladies present. There has never been lar ger crowd of convention attendants in the Tutwiler ballroom. The invoca- tion was pronounced by the Rev. Will loughby N. Claybrook. rector of St. Marys Episcopal church. The address of welcome for the city was delivered by James Weatherly. Mr. Weatherly told the visitors how pleased Birming- ham was to have them here and for a few moments gave them some very interesting facts about this city.
 ,1. Crawford Johnson. president of 1kf- Chamber of Commerce. in a few 1ois chosen words spoke for his or sanitation. He emphasized the fact fnaI Birmin gham was city that held gut can arms to conventions which vev attended by men of such char ,actee and business standing as those ieoms osing the cotton seed crushers' crean'1ation. His talk while brief was extremely cordial and made very marked impression on the deleg ates
 C. W Asacraft of F1loranee welcomed the crushers for the state and neigh | ofing cftsas He spoke briefly also ana vas warmly received. The reply to lhs welcomes from the city was civer hy ! l zalbertson of Paris, Tex, vice president Of the association. He said that the crushers had found Bir- mingham to be every bit as cordial and Interesting as was represented when the convention was invited to come here He said it was a great pleasure to hrre been welcomed so cordially i ,, t he felt sure the members Of t"o' ion would be long time ..s, ., the convention and this city's s' rm greetings,
 M es' Annual Address
 When NJ. Culbertson concluded the .eetif x g turned oyer to President Ives fo began his annual address Fssr % xS on as he requested the dele satsa rec to talk loudly in the conven- ton hall. During the reading Vice President Culbertson presided. MT. Ives the chair when he concluded | the address.
 MT. Ives said that while the season 1 just closing had been very trying one | the members had much to be thankful for. He pointed out that this country | had escaped the misfortunes attending | and as most of the members had been through trials before they | had been unafraid during the past few He said the export demand for the members products at the beginning l of the season had been cut of, but that | through the publicity of the press bu- reau of the organization Canada had | taken 1000 tons of cotton seed meal, a | product never used in that country be- | fore with the exception of small quan- titles for experiments.
 The warning nations" said MT. Ives, have assisted us in disposing of our cotton crop It is interesting to know that every time one of the great guns | Is discharged a bale of cotton or lint CTS is consumed"
 He commented upon the low price at the start of the season. but added that the advance in crushed cotton seed would total a value of $175,000. 900, or an increase of $20.0O0, 900 over the crop of 1914. He estimated this seasons crop at 5.500,O00 tons, or 100000 tons more than the preceding year
 MT. Ives spoke feelingly in his ad- dress of the assault upon Secretary Gibson. and said reward of $500 had