The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-30

Washington, May 25.-After ABORT
frg resolutions on subjects of vital in
terest to the south, the Southern III
dustrial Parliament adjourned today
to meet in some southern city at a date
in October to be designated by Gov
ernor Glenn, of North Carolina, chair
man of the executive committee. n
days discussions were spirited ana
personal. Before adjournment, how
ever, all feeling had vanished and
many delegates rose and declared that
the parliament had been a success and
that the foundation had been laid for
Il gigantic organization. Owing to the
amount of business necessary to be
concluded, the parliament was COM
PEELED to abanon it's programme. Ex-
cept a brief address by Clifford Pin
Chot, chief Of the bureau of forestry of
the department of agriculture, who adj
yised the conservation of the forests OF
the south, no papers were read. The
resolutions adopted were as follows:
Urging the government to construct
inland waterways in the South Atlantic
and gulf states, and to improve the
rivers and harbors of the south; re-
guessing the secretary Of commerce and
labor to make immediate efforts to re-
lieve the depressed conditions existing
with tho cottop miUipu industry. I1ro..
ing the establishment by each state of
q bureau of immigration; thanking the
railroads Of the south for their efforts
to develop the resources of that sec
8iOn; authorizing the president of the
parliament to appoint a committee Of
five, of which he shall be chairman, to
prepare a general statement setting
forth the advantages, productions, re
sources and present needs OF the
south, and directing the executive coHl-
mittee, together with the permanent
president to formulate a plan of per-
mIanent organization; urging Congress
&c reduce the tax on tobacco; endorsing
the proposed pan-American college to
be established in the south: urging
Congress to make appropriations for
the eradication of tick fever among
southern cattle; endorsing the bill to
authorize the commissioner general Of
immigration to establish at Ellis Is
land, New York, a bureau of infOrma-
ton for immigrants; urging the formu-
1atiOn of some plan whereby cotton
may be marketed as the world needs it,
and commencing a bonded warehouse
system; and commencing the bureau of
forestry of the department of agricui-
ture for it's valuable work and urging
the people of the south to save unnec-
essary d%enudatiOn of their forests.
Invitations were extended by Ra-
leigh, and Asheville, n. c., Savannah,
Ga, and New Orleans, La, to hold the
next meeting of parliament in those
cities.
The parliament was thrown into dis
order at the morning session over the
question of the adoption of a resolution
introduced by w. A. Erwin, of Dur
ham, \. c., calling upon President
Roosevelt to lend his aid through the
department Of commerce and labor in
relieving the present depressing condi-
tionS surrounding the cotton industry.
Delegates bitterly protested against
a motion by Secretary Murphy to post
pone action on all resolutions until the
next meeting of the parliament and
charged that an effort vas being made
TO gag the members and side-track im-
pOrtant matters. The motion was
voted down and after a stormy debate
the parliament recessed until the af-
noon in order that the delegates might
call upon President Roosevelt. The
program called for the reading of sew
seral papers bearing on manufacturing
interests of the south. but Mr.. Erwin
was recognized to address the body
upon his resolution. He said that he
had been unable to secure a meeting of
the committee on manufactures to
consider it. The cotton question he
declared was a vital one to the parlia-
ment, and cotton milling could not be
S~ide-tracked in interest to the country.
He inquired if the question was to be
ignored. The south needed help, he
said, at this time, and the parliament
was here to call for help. The man Of
hook, be declared amid applause, was
President Roosevelt, whom he believed
could and would help. President
Roosevelt, he said, was the greatest
man in the country today who not only
had the power but the mind and the
will to help. The south, he said, need
ed something else besides immigration
of labor, and that was to encourage
and extend to the marts of the world
cotton manufactured goods. But
what was needed more than anything
else was the guarding of the trade al
ready established in the orient, and
which now seemed to be threatened