The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-14
CROPS AS COLLATERAL.
DIR. M'CUNE AGAIN BEFORE THE
HOUSE COMMITTEE.

Agricultural Depression Declared the
Prime Cause of all Financial Troub-
les - All the Alliancemen Repre-
sented as Standing Shoulder to
Shoulder in the Great Fight.
WASHINGTON, May ia delegation
representing the farmers alliance appeared
before the ways and means committee this
morning to advocate the passage of the
Picker bill TO create sub-treasuries in diff
ferent parts of the country for the reception
of staple crops produced by farmers. The
spokesman was C. W. McCune, chairman
of the legislative committee of the alliance
and editor Of the National Economist,
paper devoted to the objects of the or
ganization. Others present were Alonza
Wardell Of South Dakota; Benjamin Ter
rell of Texas, national lecturer; L. +. Liv-
ingston, president of the Georgia State
Alliance; R. NJ. Humphrey, general
superintendent of the colored alliance, and
J. J. Rogers, of the Virginia State Alliance.
In addition there were present a number Of
members of congress, principally from the
southern states
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.
DR.. McCune began his address by de-
scribing the depressed state of agriculture,
which, he said. was the prime cause of the
trouble In other pursuits. III the existing
conditions continued he warned the COM
mittee that labor would become desperate
and great revolution ensue. History
showed that wealth had always lacked the
intelligence to meet in time the necessities
of labor, and, on its part, labor had never
adopted proper means to remedy the faults
it complained of. The object Of tho
farmers alliance was mental, social and
financial improvements
ALL THE ALLIANcEMEN IN HARMONY.
The republicans in the north and the
democrats in the south were working in the
same direction, and the result had been to
place them shoulder to shoulder, black and
white, who were engaged in the cultivation
OF the soil. Harmony OF purpose character
lied the concentrated efforts of the alliance,
and the prejudices OF generations had been
sunken in the pursuit of the common veal.
At the St Louis convention 1000, 900 FARM
ers had been represented, and they had
proposed as a remedy this bill as the
first step in the right direction. IL ir was
rudely framed and the ideas indistinctly ex-
pressed they relied upon the wisdom OF the
committee to give it proper form, but they
believed that they had found remedy for
their ills.
NO CLASS LEGISLATION ASKED.
The farmers asked no favors and no class
legislation. They we're now suffering from
the latter. They did not ask the enactment
of any inconsistent measures, but as the
| great debtor class, as the men who had gone
| out in the west after the war and laid the
soil under contribution with borrowed
noney, they protested against contraction
| of the currency at a time when their debts
became due, and asked that the conditions
| be restored to what they were when the
money was borrowed. They asked justice,
| pure and simple. The committee adjourned
at this point, and DIR. McCune will continue
his argument tomorrow.
MORE SPEECHES TO COME.
The ways aud means committee we're late
| in meeting to-day and the committee had
| to adjourn at IL o'clock because the House
met at that hour, so that the alliance rep
| resentatives have to wait for their hearing
until tomorrow, Dr. McCune having only
| gotten through with the introduction to his
| speech. Tomorrow Col Livingston will
speak, as well as DIR. McCune. Col. Liv-
| ingston is going to run for Congress against
| Representative Stewart in the Atlanta dis
trict Alliance candidates are to be put up
in all the other Georgia congressional dis
tricts, except those of Representatives
Lester, Crisp and Turner.
The other alliance candidates will prob
ably be, it is said, Nesbit against Blount,
| Watson against Barnes Harris against
Grimes, and James Smith in Cartoons dis
| trict -