The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-27
NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION
 ENDS IN UTMOST HARMONY

eliminate the speculator from the mar ket. The report was adopted. The report of the Committee on Per- manent organization followed. 1t pro- vides for the creation of the Southern Cotton Association, embracing all the cotton producing States and Territories. to regulate cotton production, cotton, supply and financing and especially cot ton marketing. using every effort to secure broader markets and to limit the production to the demand at remunera- tive prices and to reduce to a minimum all expenses of handling cotton and it's products from the time 1t leaves the field until 1t reaches the consumer. There are to be State and Territorial. county and parish and sub-divisional associations. all related in the parent stem Officers are to be elected once year. The executive committee of the main association is to consist of twenty-seven members. apportioned as follows:
 Alabama, B Arkansas. 2; Florida, 1: Georgia, 3: Louisiana, 2: Mississippi, :: North Carolina, 2; South Carolina, 2 i: Tennessee, 1; Texas. $; Oklahoma, 1; {; Missouri, 1; Indian Territory, l.
 Each State and Territorial Associa- ton Is to be composed of one member from each cotton growing county, and LO tltCt representatives tO lAc uidiA body Each voting precinct Is to have two cotton producers in the county organization. The president and vice. president of the Southern Cotton Asso- ciation are made x-off1cio members of its executive committee.
 The committee recommended Harvie Jordan for president and E. S. Peters for vice-president and provided a pro- visional executive committee. The funds for the organization and it's operation are to be derived from initia- ton fees, annual dues and a charge on each bale of cotton produced by its membership.
 The report was unanimously adopted and MT. Jordan expressed his thanks for the confidence in him.
 The following resolution was offered by the Resolutions Committee through ex-Senator McLaurin of South Carolina and was adopted:
 That a special committee be appoint ed by this convention to confer with the President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the manufacturers of cotton goods to obtain such concerted action as will en- large our trade in cotton products in foreign countries"
 J. A. Brown. of North Carolina, of- fered this resolution which was adopt ed:
 That the officers of this convention be requested and instructed to imme- diately formulate plan to pool two million bales of the present cotton crop and retire the same until after October 1, 1905"
 resolution by E. c. Smith of South Carolina was passed providing for the appointment of an inspector by each county in the interest of the effective carrying out of the pledge to reduce acreage.
 There had been very little in the way of criticism of the government re- ports during the convention. and a resolution offered by J. A. Brown, of North Carolina was unanimously adopt ed thanking Hon. s. N. D. North, for the information and courtesy he had extended to the convention in furnish ing the ginner's report requested and expressing 1t as the desire of the con- vention that the government reports on cotton statistics should be continued.
 A resolution offered by John Bost- wick of Georgia was passed asking land owners who have their land rent ed to agree to take as part payment for rent corn, wheat, oats or any other staple products at market prices pro- vided the tenant will reduce his cotton acreage.
 After listening to an address on the importance of the convention by Gov ernor Vardaman, the convention ad- journed until night in order to com pIete the odds and ends of business remaining.
 At the night session President Jordan amed as the committee to visit Pres ident Roosevelt in the interest of an enlargement of the cotton trade. ex- Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, John M. Parker of New Orleans and E. Ashcraft of Alabama.
 A resolution by c. H. Jenkins of Texas, was adopted declaring the re- port of the Committee on Statistics Is not intended to criticize the work of the Government bureaus, expressing confidence in them and asking Con- gress for appropriations to make the service more efficient.
 A number of telegrams from bank CTS and business men and one from ex- Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, congratulating the convention on it's work and expressing sympathy with 1t, were read.
 A resolution was passed warning far mers not to accept the propositions which are being plausibly made to them to turn over their cotton to warehouse men and others at $25 bale with an agreement that they may receive the balance thereon at any time before September l, 1905. at the then market price.
 The convention then listened to an address on diversification by R. E. Smith of Sherman, Texas. and after benediction by Rev. MT. Sublet of South Carolina it finally adjourned.