The age-herald., 1899-05-14
Extra session Certain, Says Chandler


 Senator Chandler thinks that an extra session will surely be called, but does not look for it before the first part of Novefn- ber The president, he says, is anxious to get the organization over by the time the regular session would open. Opinions alI- fer very much ais to the date the session may be called together. The Washington Post, which Is the representative or Seere- tary Alger in all things, says that 1t Will be called to convene about the middle of October. Senator Fairbanks thinks congress will not meet before November. But nearly all.men who have talked with the president recently believe that 1t is necessary to get congress in extra session in order to d-s- pose of needed business before the follow ing fall. The next session vii be a most exciting one and there is no telling how much business may be retarded by political and factional fighting With Reed out of the chair any old thing may happen.
 Wilson on His secohd Tour
 Secretary Wilson has started On his sec ond tour through the south. He has just returned from a trip through the Carolinas, where he has been inspecting the eXpeT.- ment of tea growing in this country. He expresses himself as greatly satisfied wi. tlie results so far, and expresses the belief that there is certain zone in the south where tea can be prohtably cultivated and become a big industry in the south. Ali ready one banter near Summerville has fifty acres of black tea under cultivation, which has yielded so far $500 pounds, and which he sold at the average price of $l per pound. The secretary believes that the department of agriculture is now in po- sition to be of great benefit to the south, and he intends to do all in his power to make It so. He Is especially interested in getting the planters of the south interested in breaking up their crops and planting in great ter variety EIe believes that If the southern farmer can be got to diversity his crop that he wil soon be in more pros porous condition than the farmers in any part of the country.
 The secretary's trip this time will take in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. He is going to try to induce the planters in the lower Carolina and in Louisiana to try planting new rice which he has imported from Japan. He believes. that by going into the farming districts himself he can induce the planters to ex-s pertinent with this new seed and that 1t will be profitable and develop a new indus try. He thinks the Bermuda or Easter lily can be grown in Mississippi as proiif-' cahy as in the Bermudas. He also has scheme to introduce the date palm into Texas.
 The secretary does not intend to confine himself to experimenting in fruits and flow CTS in the south, but he has great hopes of improving the fig product and substituting hardier orange than is now grown in Florida.
 q am going among the southern planters myself" he said, "and study with them they ground am practical, and they will find me so. I want to see the southern farmer raise products enough to live on so that he can wait to sell his cotton. The southern soil is rich and adaptable to so many things that it is pity to confine it to one or two.
 
 big staple products" Altogether the secretary is enthusiastic over his projects, and beyond doubt will be able to interest the southern people In such a way, just as he was the western, as to be of practical use to them A. w. B.