The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-27
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The President pro tem.-Does the gentleman consent to be interruptedf
 Wr. Long (Walker)-Yes.
 Afr. Morgan M. Smith-Do you mean 4o gay that if there was a tax of five dollars a ton on guano and 1t was taken on that 1t would sell at the same price?
 Nr. Long (walker)-No sir. the kitty would be larger. and the farmer would get ssme reduction in that event. But with fifty cents, he does not.
 The chemical department in the State of Georgia, as I started to say, has no connection with any school of the State of Georgia. It Is located in the Capitol at Atlanta The Georgia Leg islature annually appropriates out Of the general fund seven thousand col lars to maintain 1t. You therefore see that Alabama, while 1t appropriates nothing. has a laboratory at Auburn that should be a pride to every Ala hamian. Why. sir. 1t Is noted all over this country as one of the best schools, and the best equipped school almost in that department. south of Harvard University. Whenever they get up a dispute over the analyses in the State of Georgia, they almost always tn- variably refer Che matter to the Chem sical Department at Auburn. Alabama merchants pay no more than the ner- chants In South Carolina for their goods, and the tax there is five cents c ton. Guano is sold for either so much currency or it is sold for so much cot ton. but who ever heard of farmers buying guano for two hundred and ninety pounds of cotton? It Is either two hundred and seventy five pounds ton, or three hundred pounds, or some rn hot hAu mt buy guano for $1S.65 ton; they buy it for twenty dollars a ton, or twenty one and half, or twenty-two. or some sven amount like that.
 There isn't a merchant in Alabama that sells more than one grade of Sua- no, but what has three or four that cost him less, yet he will quote 1t all at the same price. a dollar and half, or one seventy-five, or two and a quar- ter a sack, or twenty-two or twenty dollars a ton. It has been stated up- on this floor that Georgia has a guafan- teed analysis. I state that it is not the fact Alabama has, and every farmer in this State that buys sack of guano. or a car load, can send to Auburn. and if it does not come up to that guaranteed analysis, he can re- fuse to pay one penny for 1t. and the merchant cannot collect one farthing for 1t, and the expense of 1t Is free to him. That Is not the case in the State of Georgia.
 MT. Malona--You say that Georgia has no guaranteed analysis?
 Mir. Long (Walker)-That Is wha: bfated.
 Mfr. Malone-Is 1t not fact that you cannot sell it in Georgia unless it has twelve per cent. available matter
 MT. Long (Walker)-Yes. sir, but there is a difference between an an- nIysis and a guaranteed analysis. The gentleman I understand is in the gua nc business. and he knows there Is good deal of difference between the enc and the other.
 Mr. Malone-I want to show yoW that know what am talking about. Is 1t not a fact that in Georgia YOU can not sell guano of any kind unless 1t has twelve per cent. and that you have to furnish with every shipment you send there a statement of what the analysis Is, and if 1t does not come up 10 this analysis, that you release your claim for pay?
 ! Mir. Long (Walker)-I vii, answer the gentleman.
 Mir. Malone-And is 1t not fact that when that is so, they send man there into the fields and sample the stuff themselves. And another thing-I want to ask one more question: will aek no more. You say man in Alabama pays no more. than in Georgia. Dent you know that 1t Is a fact that right below the Georgia prices it says add forty cents for Alabama?" Don't you pay that7
 Mir. (walker)-No, sir. don't pay any more than any merchant fin Geor- gia, and have this year had Georgia manufacturers to refuse to furnish fl at the same price as Birmingham. AL abanaa, on a nine, two and two per cent. goods. And, Mir. President, while Georgia places upon 1t her analysis. it is entirely different from the analysis placed upon 1t by the State of Alaba- ma. Their commercial value placed upon a sack in the State of Georgia will not stand, and 1t does in the State of Alabama, They are always about two to three dollars per ten higher in commercial values in the State of Georgia than they are in the State of Alabama, but it Is a fictitious value, and while Il may stand the test so far as Georgia is concerned. 1t will not stand a just test anywhere on earth, and there is no forfeiture if it does not come ur to it.
 Now, MT. President, it Is true that a few years ago the State of Georgia and the Carolinas led in the fertilizer business. This was So because they had the majority of the phosphate rock and until the phosphate fields were discovered in Tennessee they furnished nine-tenths of the fertilizer in the south, but that is no longer the case and Tennessee phosphate rock today stands higher than any phosphate rock of South Carolina, and for that reason there can be no just cause whatever for the statement, and 1t is unjust tc get up here and say that merchants in Alabama pay more than the mer- chants in Georgia do for guano. Il is not the fact. and you may tak1 of the tax if you will. but the farmer will not reap one penny of benefit from 1t.
 I come from a county that has nc agricultural schools, nor any guanc factories, and I tell you our farmers are satisfied with the law just as 1t IS. 1 have never heard any clamoring foI It's repeal, although they use a great Heal of fertilizer in my county. Ii seems that there is a class here who are not farmers themselves that want 10 legislate something into the Consti- tuition for the poor farmer, and they sump behind the poor farmer to get something into the Constitution that will stand for ages. like a snag in a water pool for boy. It has no bus mess in the Constitution. We cannot put all the legislation in the Constitu- fion that is needed. The delegates on this floor seem to ignore the fact that everything we leave out of the Con- ,r,a IaaUa for the raOnIa