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Show club iraif V oluntary Assessment PM) Evolved at Cornmerai Club Meeting. SJP PAYMENTS CLASSlMl Judge Powers Says Too M . High Priced Help H J V Been Employed, j .Regarding the Commercial clulvS Institution too valuable in promotlllfo welfare of Salt Lake and Utah to 'flL barrassed by a floating IndebtediS ( approximately 550,000. the membjB: ' that organization last night reaorMUi wipe out the amount by voluntary lng- themselves In various sums froW to $25 each. , F. S. Murphy, chairman of the W' committee of the board of goverrmH the club, presided at the meeting,7' was attended by about 250 memMfc the organization. After the cfij1 had stated the object of the mdeSjUi be to devise ways and means charging the floating indebtedness V club. Lafayette Hanchette niovedW ' tlon ot the resolution presented 'W! J board nf governors by W. M. wi which was as follows. 'tMT Resolved, That a call be madeMifl the entire resident mombershiiB'' the Commercial club to subs, i sums according to the following-W' slflcatlon. to provide funds ' liquidate present indebtedness: Cm 1 A members at SI 50, class "B merrB'J at S100, class C members atV class D members at I'lo. HX Judge O. W. Powers expressedjBr surprise that the club was bo bad t volved as it was, and he express r hope that a system of relrencW would be enforced. He assumedMvN there had been too much hlghWl help employed, and he desired to idT there was to be a mending of wM) this respect, or If the old policy fmu pendlture beyond Income was to tim tlnued. R (J. Richmond of the board oMlfl ernors, explained that the large fl edncss of the club was undcrtakenMt.i times were good and money was?U ful. When the club moved Into ItW hindquarters its floating IndebtJ'. was between $30,000 and 5-10,000, atLf had gradually been added to tljj1 failure to collect dues, very largolvMa year the club had spent a great dBT money on national conventions 'awe general publicity work In behalf city and the state. In behalf present board of governors he satdB: when Interest in the sum of $7500 1&1 due the members of the board haM sonallv gone good for the amountTMB banks, lie thought that with anjMt and paying membership such as waW enrolled the club, by economical cxmS ture, could be made to show an profit Instead of a deficit, as at pAg Praises Activities. a Colonel M. M. Kalghn said that fl lived in Salt Lake for thirty-sevenfflj and that during- that time he had! no agency so potent in the develoBj of the1 city as had been the ComaB club. lie considered it lo be thj of members to relieve the club frcE indebtedness In order that the orgft& tlon might continue and even inW' upon its former good work. D. S. Collett said that he hadiMj willing to subscribe In class D, butt he would double his subscription bi' ting Into class C. 'Mk B. W. Mendcnhall declared that m? unfair to allow to pass unnotloed thmd. sumption that new members gal-? the campaign of last year were mpB miss in payment of dues than well, members. He asserted that there; quite as many of the latter wh6M'i derelict as there were of the formem moved an amendment to the uiotiK. pass the Bowen resolution to theY that a monthly financial statemeMi Issued and distributed to membersiM Says Spirit Is Lacking. T Judge B. F. Colborn moved an aL ment to the amendment, providing!! a report of finances, Including det income and expenditure, since tlnSt moved Into Its new quarters, be that the original plolcy of forblddlnt promotion of private enterprise tm sumed; that the club devote ItselqW general welfare of the community, rmu less of politics or religion: that tnm ternal spirit of the club be cultivate that the club be made what It wjr tended to be, with its halls fllleomfc the spirit of brothorhood, Instead ;fl. sembling from day to day the drea bleak gulleys that are said to seajMi lava beds of hell." tf Judge Colborn's amendment wam fCSeecrelary Will G. Farrell exj that If the club had 1&00 paying mew it could show an excess of lncom. expenditure each year. provldol-. floating Indebtedness were disposed1 Upon being- put to a vote the resolution, with the Mendenhall aiU ment. was passed unanimously, ona of the members went up to the JBV tary s desk and signed tho contract notes, covering three quarterly .; ments to complete the total of tneiMj untary assessment's. The meeting adjourned with thoMi of governors and the finance coBA, exhibiting better spirit than w opened. JXL |