The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-12
WITH GEORGIA SEED
COTTON CROPS ARE To BE PLANT
ED IN TEXAS.
300 TONS OF GEORGIA SEED
PURCHASED BY SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURE WILSON.

Seed Will BE Distributed by the
man AdamsOn Busy Pushing Mat
tcrs for His COnstituents-Bm In
trOduced to Divide South Carolina
Into Two Judicial Districts.
By r. NJ. Larner.
Washington, Nov. 11.-Secretary
Wilson has purchased 800 tons of Geor-
gia cotton seed for early planting in
Texas.
The Secretary of Agriculture talked
interestingly and earnestly to-day of
his recent trip to Texas. to investigate
the cotton question and the ravages of
the boil weevi1.
The Texas cotton growers" said
Secretary Wilson. ARE great sufferers
from the weeviI. and as the weevil
does not attack early maturing cotton,
the Texas planters will have to try
their luck at planting their crop earlier
than heretofore. The up country of
North Georgia raises a very superior
grade of cotton seed, and the depart
ment has purchased a large quantity,
about 300 TONS for distribution exclu-
sively in Texas. We are going to try
to help the Texans get ahead of the
weevil by sowing early the finest grade
of North Georgia cotton seed. If we
can obtain any better, or as good else
where, we will buy it.
North Georgia and South Carolina
plant early and gather their crop earl
Ter than some of the other cotton grow
ing states, and for that reason we are
able to get the seed to send to Texas
at this time"
Secretary Wilson says in Texas there
is plenty of room for the planting of
more cotton and diversified crops, and
there is also admirable natural advan-
tageS for the raising of more cattle
than are now raised in that great state
of almost unlimited resources. He
would have liked to stop off in Georgia
and South Carolina on his return. but
he was pressed for time, besides he
knows what kind of cotton they are
raising in those two states. He has
very high regard for the quality and
the quantity of Georgia grown cot
ton.
1t is not difficult to imagine Repre-
sentative Adamson's enthusiasm to-
day when he returned from a visit to
the Agricultural Department with the
information that the secretary had just
purchased thousand and thousands of
trict, "the glorious and prosperous
Fourth"
Adamson Kept Busy.
Representative Adamson is now en-
gagged in an effort to induce the va
rious railroads running through his
| district, especially between LAGRANGE
and West Point, to abandon the dis
eliminating rates which operate to the
disadvantage of his constituents.
Judge Adamson called at the Depart
ment of Justice to-day to plead for
! pardon in the case of DR.. r. D. STALL
ings of Carroll county, now serving out
| a thriteen-months' term in prison for
counterfeiting.
In addition to making a general
round of the departments Judge
Adamson also called at the Postoffice
Department and made strong and,
perhaps, successful appeal in behalf
! of the underpaid clerks and employees
in the postoffice at Columbus. He rec
commended an increase in the salaries
of all the clerks, and also the transfer
clerk, who does duty at the railway
| station.
A. S. Hardy Of the Gainesville News
is here as the representative of the
| Chamber of Commerce to supply Rep
resentative Tate with certain data in
connection with Mr.. Tates proposed
bill, providing for a postoffice at
Gainesville, for which an appropriation
| of 100000 will be asked.
Two Judicial Circuits.
Representative Croft, one of the new
members of the South Carolina delega-
ton, is rapidly becoming familiar with
the machinery of national legislation.
| He is a good mixer, and has already
made a number of valuable acquaint-
ances on both sides of the House. To-
day he introduced several bills. in
which his constituents are interested.
Among them was the bill to divide
South Carolina into two judicial dis
tricts, so that federal courts will be
held as follows:
Eastern District-Charleeton. Spar
tanburg and Aiken.
Western District-Columbia, Green
VILE and Chester.
Mr. Croft also introduced bills pro-
viding for public buildings at Aiken
and Beaufort.