The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-17
Commercial Club
News Bulletins

The committee on nominations for
officers Of the Richmond Commercial
Club met Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock. The matter will be q difft-
cult one and members having sugges-
tions are urged to give them to Fred
Bartel, chairman of the committee.
Demas Coe, Everette Alderman. o. D.
Bullerdick or w. F. Bockhoff. The
committee will meet again Monday
afternoon at o'clock.
Pamphlets on Delicious Products
of the Dairy" have been mailed into
the Commercial Club by the depart
ment OF agriculture and anyone wish
ing to see them may do SO.
Portland is planning a membership
campaign for this week. Secretary
Carl Ullman, Of the Commercial Club,
will speak Wednesday night and he
suggests that representatives from
jobbing houses go to the meeting In
order to meet Portland men.
The following resolutions have been
adopted with regard to the railroad
and telegraph lines:
Resolved: That the best interests
Of the nation will be served by the ul-
innate return of the railroads to their
owners.
Resolved: That the railroads ought
not to be returned to their owners
until congress shall have considered
and enacted constructive legislation
to provide for the highest permanent
efficiency Of railroad operation and
utilization of railroad properties and
equipment, and for the adequate COM
pensation of the capital invested in
the railroads, sufficient to protect
railroad credit and to insure the ex-
tension Of transportation facilities to
meet the commercial needs of the
country.
Resolved: That such constructive
legislation should be passed by con-
gress as speedily as possible in order
that the period of government opera
ton shall not exceed one year and
nine months after the signing of the
peace treaty, as Is provided in the act
under which the railroads were taken
over, and in accordance with the
presidents message preceding the
same, and that, to permit Of such
constructive legislation, congress
should, in the meantime by joint re-
colution, require that the operation
of railroads by the government be
continued.
Resolved: That the Richmond Com
mercial club is opposed to ownership
and permanent operation of public
utilities by the government and be-
lieves that the telephone and tele-
graph systems should be returned to
their owners.
Resolved: That the telephone and
telegraph systems of the country are.
in their essential features, national
in scope and that the business and
social welfare Of the nation will be
best served by unified telephone and
telegraph systems, supplying nation
private corporations under suitable
Federal laws and subject to suitable,
preferably federal public regulation
and control.
Resolved That congress is respect
fully urged to undertake at the earll-
est practicable date adequate lnvestl-
CATION of this general subject, based
upon such investigation, to enact as
as possible such laws as will
permit and promote maximum utili-
cation of facilities and maximum effic-
iency in service and provide for a
far return upon the capital employed. !
Resolved: That congress is respect
fully requested to direct by joint re-
or otherwise, that the time OF
retention by the government OF these
utilities shall be extended until con-
gress shall have fully studied the en-
tire question and shall have enacted
suitable legislation in reference
thereto
These resolutions will be submitted
to the directors and later to the mem
bership. Should there be any marked
to them, members are ask
ed to communicate with the secretary
of the club.
An industrial project will be consid-
cred Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock
in the Commercial club rooms when
the board of directors of the club will
meet with the trustees of the Rich
mond Industrial Development COM
pany.
The merchants of the city will meet
Monday evening at $3.50 o'clock for
dinner at the Arlington hotel. Offic-
ers will be elected Members are
urged to be on time.