The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-27
The after of Gotten Statistics Cone
Over Carefully
CONES Win SECRETARY WILSON
Represe atives Of American Cotton
Manufiturers' Association hoIa
Confcreye With SECRETARY Wilson
and Asstant Secretary Hays, Rala-
tive to ls:ance CT New June Crop
Report.

Washington. Specal.-The commit
tee Of the Am.ican Cotton Manufac-
turers' AssOciapr had an hours con
ference with Sercary Wilson and As
sistant Secrcta5 days Mcnlay after
noon. After III mill men had taken
their departurerom the Department.
statement Wa Issued. announcing
that the qUcstie of issuing a new re
port ON acleagevas 20 te taken under
consideration the stats i"al board
and that fnaHec.s.nr will he reach
ed Wednesday.
The statemcnfO foil. ws:
The Departnnt Of Agriculture has
determined tha the statistical board
shall meet Wedesday, July 26. 10 con-
slider whether nis.on Of the June cot
ton acreage SHIELD he made from ex-
listing data or ON new inspection,
and to make Iblic their findings or
estimate at II clock on that date or
the earliest c0venient date hercaf-
ter"
In addition President Mille.. the
other members Of the committee Of
manufacturers present at the confer
ence were: T. ! Blythe. president Lin
coin Manufactrers' Association. Phil
adelphia; Geo. !. Hiss, president Rhod-
hiss Mills, ChslOttc: ]. w Cannon
president Cannn Manufacturing Com
pany, Concord s. B. Tanner. president
Henrietta Mill Henrietta. and G. 3.
Bryant, sccTetW Manufacturers AssO-
citation. Mr.. : J. Hickman, of the
Grant Mills Manufacturing Company.
of Augusta. Ga telegTaphed both Sec
retary WilsonFnl President Miller
that he was unble to attend Very inn
portant was II suggestion, advanced
by the visiting5ommittee, that the De-
partment issue weekly. in place of
the monthly. rpOrt. The committee is
unanimous in The opinion that the
weekly repOrtwOuld tend to prevent
violent illustrations in the price OF cot
ton and would -esult in a steadier mar
ket. It was pinted out that cotton
rose cent q : minutes on the
strength Of thdast report. resulting IN
a situation deloralizing to large pur-
chasers OF spo cotton.
Just how Secretary Wilson and Mr.
Hays acceptedthis suggestion for the
abolition Of thu monthly reports is not
known. Chairman Miller declined to
discuss what tOk place at the confer
ence, and referred the many newspaper
men who called him over the phone at
his hotel to Assistant Secretary Hays.
The committed agreed, before leaving
the Department, that Mr. Hays should
make public wat took place. Evident
ly Mr. Hays vas not impressed with
this assignment as mOuth-piece Of the
conference. H, talked rather vaguely
about the confidence and only in gen
erallties. Thereis good reason for be-
lIe7ing that seeral matters of much
to growers and manufac-
tuTerS OF cOttO1 alike were considered
and that statment reciting in detail
these subjects hay be made public Ia
ter. All Of the members of the COM
mittee had thei lips sealed, and would
not even discus this phase of the sit
uation. The meDbers felt that the task
Of making pubic such matters as
should be giventhe public having been
left to Secretary Hays. it would be dis
courteous for uem to discuss what
took place.
Assistant SeGetary Hays said. in
speaking Of the conference: "As / un-
lerstand. the c,mmittea came here TO
the f!cts with reference to
he Gotten situaion and that the de-
Sires Of the manufacturers are for
making the government reports as sta
Die as possible The attitude Of tie
committee WithIreference to the issu-
ance OF new report on acreage was
1eutral. | beliee many Of the manu-
.acturers are owners of cotton and
hey are also buers. They did not take
sides. They preented no facts bearing
IN the scandal, and that subject was
lOt considered
The committees object is to secure
IN accurate reprt and one that Will
establish confidmce. | have no hesi-
ancy in saying this is what they will
.et.'
Prior to the conference Mr. Miller
md the members of the committee had
IN interview with Richard Cheatham.
ecretary of the Southern Cotton Grow
RS Association. They discussed the