The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-20
SOUTHERN GOVERNORS.
important Business Transacted
II The Richnaond Meeting.

XIII NhSSSstSs
RICHMOND. VA, April 13.-The Con
yention of Southern Governors complet-
ed it's labors at O'Clock this evening
and adjourned. After day Of prelim-
inaries the convention met at an early
hour today, and, settling down to the
practical work that had called them to
gether, transacted large amount OF
business. There was no dellying with
any matter and no unnecessary waste OF
words. Only such measures as were
deemed for the general good were ac-
copied. The address to the public,
which is to supplement papers prepar-
ed by each Southern Governor, is re-
garded as the most important work OF
the meeting. Setting forth as it does
the true condition OF the section, Wlth>
out establishment, and having the sane
ton of the executives of fourteen States
of this Union, it is expected to result IN
good and do much toward building up
the sparsely settled communities.
WORKING BOARDS IN EACH STATE.
The most practical suggestion adopt
ed by the meeting, and one that met
with a hearty response from the whole
convention, and which is expected to
result in much good, came from Cover
nor Carr, of North Carolina. This was
a resolution to establish working boards
in each Southern State to take charge
of such matters as will tend to the pro
gress and material advancement OF the
section Governor Carrs resolution pro-
vides for the establishment OF bureaus
in the several States that will co>oper
ate as q whole for the development of
every resource that will be conducive to
the promotion of immigration, thrift and
enterprise The bureau in each State
is to consist of six members. There will
be one member to look after the exports
and imports and to enlarge the CONNER
cial relations, one on mining, one on
manufactures, one on agriculture, one
on advertising and one on health and
climatic conditions.
The convention adopted a resolution
requesting the several Governors to pres
pare brief paper setting forth the
physical, social and religious condition
in each Southern State. These papers
are to be forwarded to secretary Bigger,
of the convention, who is to have them
DrlnUCu Ill DOOh lOIlA III SCAIOut1Ou
Chicago during the Worlds Fair. The
papers are to be sent in by June and
the cost OF printing is not to exceed $50
for each State. By this method it is
expected that advantages of the South
can be made known in widely distrib>
uted territory and will reach many in
vestors and home seekers.
THE CONDITION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
'sTo show the necessity for greater
population in the Southern States"
said Governor Tillman, of South Carroll
ma, SIT is only necessary to take my own
a million and half of population while
there is room for six millions. This con-
dition necessarily leaves much of the
land untitled and gives portions of the
State the appearanceof being barren and
unproductive. The most thriving coun-
ties in South Corolina are those in which
the white population predominates. We
have few mineral products and can ex-
pect but little from developement in that
direction. The cotton industry is our
chief resource, and to develop this we
require more intelligent labor and a
greater amount of capital. There has
been but limited immigration to the
State, there being but $4,000 foreign
born citizens among the entire popula-
ton. l look for good results from this
convention, as any intelligent concert
of action for common good never fails
to bring lasting benefits. One thing
necessary is to overcome the impression
that the South is a swamp and a mos
quito and malarial- ridden section"
GOV. FIsHBACK's ADDRESS.
Governor Fishback presented the follows
ing, which was referred: ITO His Excel
lency the President of the United States:
The Governors of the Southern States in
convention assembled, begs leave re-
specially to call your attention to a
condition, not theory, which confronts
and effects our entire country, but more
particularly the southern half of it, and
what are known as the Southern States,
are unquestionably superior in climate,
in soil, in natural resources and in their
capacity for greater diversity of agricul-
turul and horticultural products to the
northern half of the Union, if not, indeed,
to any region of the world. while their
system of laws, their social amenities,
their love for law and order and their
general refinement, though differing in
some respects, are not inferior to those
of any portion of our country, yet the
fact stares us in the face that in mates
rial advancement these States are far
behind their sisters of the North.''
Believing that you appreciate the sit
uation, and that your patriotism is
broad enough to cover all sections of this
great country, over which you are called
to preside, wes respectfully ask you to
award to the South a larger share of
representatives, especially in those for
eign points from which most of our I'M
migration and capital come, than has
heretofore been permitted to us, to the
end that the mind of mankind be disa-
which have been so sediously, systems
atically and injuriously spread abroad
through the civilized world"
The above was endorsed by Governor