The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-16
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Official Announcement for Cot
 ton Growers Convention
POOLE TO MAKE ADDRESS
All Speakers Are Requested to Limit Their Remarks to 30 Minutes to Facilitate the Transaction
 of the Business.

New Orleans, January 15.-(Special.)- Following the preliminary announcement of the programme of the Southern Cot ton Growers Protective association's con- vention at New Orleans, January "A, 25 and 26, President Harvie Jordan has an- nounced the full official programme. MT. Jordan will open the meeting as tempor- ary chairman. Perhaps the most im- portant question at opening will be the permanent chairmanship. Col D. s. Pe- ters, president of the recently formed National Cotton association, also presi- dent of the Texas Cotton Growers asso- ciatlon, is prominently mentioned; also Congressman John Sharp Williams of Mississippi and Hon. Eugene Williams of Texas The latter is father of the Waco plan to hold and warehouse cotton, which will come up for discussion. A committee to formulate and present report on the Waco plan' will meet on January 25.
 The full official programme is as fol- lows:
 Assembly Hall New Orleans Progressive Union. Official Headquarters, St. Charles Hotel
 Tuesday January 24. Morning Session-Officers and delegates from the different states will register and file their credentials at the assembly hall and locate their hotel headquarters.
 Afternoon Session, 2 D. m.-Convention called to order by Hon. Harvie Jordan, Monticello, Ga. president Southern Cot ton Growers Protective association. Invocation.
 Election of permanent chairman and secretary
 Address of welcome on the part of the city of New Orleans, Hon. Martin Behr- mann, Mayor.
 Address of welcome on part of the New Orleans Progressive union, Hon. M. J. Sanders, president N. o. P. U.
 Response to address of welcome of Mayor Behrmann, Hon. J. Pope Brown, Hawl1insville, Ga, chairman railroad commission of Georgia.
 Response to address of welcome by President Sanders, MT. Walter Clarke, Clarksdale, Miss, state vice president Southern Cotton Growers Protective as- sociation.
 Appointment of committees on finance and credentials.
 Discussion on appointment of commit tees on resolutions to consider cottton acreage and commercial fertilizers, state bureaus of statistics, organization of producers, warehouse system and bank ing, state cotton exchanges and the pres ent crop and surplus.
 Night session, 8 D. m.-Address New Orleans, the Leading Cotton Exchange in the United States" Hon. A. Brittin, president New Orleans Cotton exchange. Announcement of committees to serve on resolutions and to cooperate with delegations of southern bankers, cotton manufacturers, warehousemen, merchants and the southern commissioners of agri- culture who will be in attendance on the convention.
 General discussion on present cottton situation.
 Second Day.
 Morning session. O clock sharp-Ad- dress, '"rhe True Solution; Storing Cotton at Natural Storage Points by Local ware house Companies, United Through General Storage Warrant Company" Hon. Edward K. Summerwell, New York. Discussion thirty minutes.
 Address, Cotton Warehouse Insur- ance," MT. J. H. Dargan, Atlanta. Discus sion 30 minutes
 Address. Farmers Attending to Their Own Business" Hon. M. H. Thomas, Dallas, Tex. Discussion 80 minutes. Afternoon session, p. m.-Address, "Closer Trade Relations Between the Producers and Manufacturers, MT. L. w. Parker, Greenville, s. C., cotton manu- facturer. Discussion 30 minutes.
 Address, Southern Bankers Financing
  Hillyer, cashier American National bank. Macon, Ga. Discussion 30 minutes.
 Report of committees.
 Night session, p. m.-Address, "Or- ganization of Farmers, MT. L. c. Mur- ray, Kingston, Tex, president Educa- tional and Cooperative Union of Ameri- ca. Discussion 30 minutes.
 Address, "'The Cotton Growers Rela- tion to the Business World" on. E. D. Smith, Magnolia, S. C., president South Carolina Cotton Growers Protective as- scciation. Discussion 30 minutes.
 Report of committees Third Day.
 Morning Session, o'clock, Sharp Address, Gathering Cotton Statistics by Southern Commissioners of Agriculture" Hon. R. R. Poole, Montgomery, Ala, president Association of Southern Com m,ssioners of griculture; discussion, 30 minutes. Address, The Agricultural Situation in the South" MT. T. B. Park CT, Raleigh, N. C., secretary North Caro- lima Farmers, Alliance; discussion 30 minutes. Report of committees.
 Afternoon Session, p. m.-Address. What We Should Plant Instead of Cot ton," Hon. R. E. Smith, Sherman, Tex, president Alfalfa Growers association; discussion 30 minutes. Address, 'The Cotton Plant, Its Friends and Foes"
 
 discussion 30 minutes. Report of com mittees.
 Night Session, p. m.-Final report of committees; general discussion; adjourn ment.
 Speakers are respectfully requested to limit their addresses to 30 minutes in order that the important business mat ters before the convention may be fully dispatched.
 Railroad rates from all points in the south will be one fare, plus 25 cents, for the round trip for delegates and mem- bers of their families. Hotels, both American and European plan. Rates, Rates, $1.5O to $S.5o per day and up- ward.
 All delegates are urged to reach New Orleans not later than 10 o'clock Tues day morning, January 24, and report at once to the assembly hall of she Pro- gressive union.
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