New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-26
| SOUTHERNERS ADJOURN.
Members of Industrial Parliament
Praise Mr.. Roosevelt.

1.resbtnoton Nav 25.-After adopting resolu-
.,ons ON subjects of vital interest to the SOUTH
the Southern Industrial Parliament ad'oulheu
! to-day TO meet in some Southern city at d ua'e
in october to be designated later by oNei"0'
Glenn of North Carolina. chairman OF the GA
ecutive committee. Owing to the amount VI
business necessary to be concluded, the parlla-
ment was compelled to abandon its programme
Except brief address by Clifford Plnchot' chlet
of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department Vi
Agriculture, who advised the conservation OF
the forests of the South, no papers were read
Resolutions were adopted urging the govern
ment to construct inland waterways IN the
South Atlantic and Gulf States. and to improve
the rivers and harbors of the South; requesting
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to make
immediate efforts TO relieve the depressed condl-
tons existing in the cotton milling INDUSTRY
urging the esta blIshment by each Southern state
of bureau OF immigration, thanking the rail-
roads of the South for their efforts to develop
the resources of that section, authorizing the
president of the parliament to appoint COM
mttee of five, of which he shall be chairman TO
prepare a general statement setting forth the
advantages products. resources and present
needs of the South, and directing the executive
committee. together with the permanent presi-
dent, to formulate plan of permanent organ
tobacco, indorsing the proposed Pan-American
college to be established in the South, urging
Congress to make appropriation for the eradi-
cation of tick fever among Southern cattle, In
dorsing the bin to authorize the Commissioner
Genera! of Immigration to establish at Ellis
island. New-York. a bureau of information for
immigrants urging the formulation of some
plan whereby cotton may be marketed as the
world needs ii, and commencing bonded ware
house system, and commencing the Bureau OF
Forestry of the Department of Agriculture for
its valuable work and urging the people of the
South to save unnecessary denudation of their
forests.
The parliament was thrown into disorder In
the morning session over the question of the
adoption of a number of resolutions prepared by
the Committee on Resolutions. and also a
resolution, introduced by w. A Irwin. of Dur
ham, n. c., commencing President Roosevelts
zeal in pressing forward the construction of the
Lsthmian Canal. which promises "incaleulable
aid III the extension and upbuiIding of
port trade for cotton manufactures and other
products and calling upon him TO lend his aid,
through the Department OF Commerce and
Labor, in relieving the present depressing con-
ditions surrounding the cotton industry. Dele
gates bitterly protested against a motion by
Secretary Murphy to postpone action all
liamert and charged that effort was being
made t. gag the members ami sidetrack imper-
tant matters The motion was voted down, and
after a stormy debate the parliament recessed
until the afternoon in order that the delegates
might cal! upon President Roosevelt. Address
ms the parliament upon his resolution, Mr..
Irwin said the South needed help at this time,
and the parliament here to call for help.
The man OF the hour TO whom the delegates
should look. he declared amid applause.
President Roosevelt, whom he believed could
and would help. President Roosevelt he said,
was the greatest in the country to-day,
who had not only the power but the mind and
the viii to help. The South, he said, needed
something else besides immigration of labor
and that to encourage and extend to the
marts of the world cotton manufactured goods.
But what was needed more than anything else
the guarding of the trade already estab-
lished in the Orient, which now seemed 10 be
threatened with dire disaster account of the
laws prevailing in this country. Further COM
mepding the President, Mr.. Irwin said he
who had way of doing things, and" he
added. amid more applause, "he is our President
of the South we'll Of the North, or the
East the West, and to him we are looking
for help"