The news & observer., 1905-12-20
Lowering Must've Thought
So Yesterday.
TABLE IT, THEY CRIED
Not One Voice in Favor of His Resolu
ton. Webb Told Him Plainly He
Should Not Ask the Govern
meat to Cheaper Cotton
for Him.
BY THOMAS PENCE.


Washington. ID. c., Dec. 19.-The
Lowering resolution calling for a new
cotton estimate January tenth. was
put to sleep for all time this morn
ing by the House committee on ag-
riculture which was unanimous in its
decision to table the measure In
the defeat of this resolution. which hes
been a bear asset since it's product
ion, Representative Webb took prob
ably the most effective part. He con-
cluded the argument at the meeting
OF the committee today.
Representative LoVerino who open
ed the discussion with remarks ex-
tending over a period of nearly an
hour, had predicted favorable report
| by the committee earlier in the day.
He admitted that he was a large tex
| tile manufacturer and that he wanted
cheaper cotton.
you don't mean that Mr.. Webb
retored What you want is to get the
| government to help you cheaper the
| price of cotton"
This was the first fire from the
| opposition and afterwards Mr.. Low
ering was kept busy.
Clayton, of Alabama followed Low
| ering. and to use his language he con-
| fined his remarks largely to 'the dense
| ignorance displayed by the author of
the resolution" with respect to the
! sbject at issue BurleSon of Texas
who followed. spoke in defense of the
| estimate and the ginners report.
Representative Webb, who conclu-
ded the argument, declared that
another estimate was unnecessary and
| unwise. The fact that two more gin
ners reports are to be made before
January tenth, he cited as an evidence
that the resolution is unwise. That 1t
! is unnecessary, he made clear in an
exhibit of kilograms from leading
| textile manufacturers in the South
protesting against the passage. These
| kilograms. which were read, came
! from President Miller, of the American
Cotton Manufacturers Association. ID.
A. Tompkins, David Clark and 9TH
erS
Mr.. Webb said he represented the
! largest cotton manufacturing district
! in the South, as well as a large cot
| ton growing district, and that he
thought as q result of this situation
he was enabled to pass with fairness
on the merits of the Lowering prop
oSition.
In speaking of the injustice of the
bill, Mr. Webb said:
"In my opinion this is not a bill
for the benefit of the honest manufac-
turer, and certainly will not benefit the
honest cotton growers. It's passage
would hammer down the price of cot
ION two or three cents per pound. In
deed, it is admitted by the gentleman
from Massachusetts that its object is
to make Il bearish report, and there
by lower the price of this great staple.
Mr Chairman and gentlemen of the
committee, this bill should be entitled
a bill TO benefit the bears and pro-
mote gambling and speculation in the
farmers product. The gentleman as
sumes that the ginners' report is cor
rect, and argues that it is correct, and
Iif he is right in this assumption, let
him and his friends buy cotton on the
basis OF the ginners report and dis
card the agricultural report entirely.
THE gentleman who is no doubt
short on cotton, and does not wish to
pay II cents a pound for it, should
not run to Congress and ask its aid
| in bringing down the price so that he
can buy more cheaply.'
EX-Congressman Thomas Little had
a lengthy interview today with Attor-
Iney General Moody Which is supposed
to have related to the game of politics
being played by Republicans in the
Western district
Chief Justice Walter Clark is here
visiting his son. Walter Clark, Jr.,
who is taking a law course at George
Washington University.
Ex-Judge E. w. Timberlake and
Col John S. Cunningham are here.
Senator Simmons recently called on
Acting Second Assistant Postmaster
general G. F. Stone relative to the
establishment OF mail service on the
line of the GoldSboro Lumber Com
pany between Dover and Richlands.
N. c. A letter from Hon. Josephus
Daniels, of North Carolina also urg-
ed the establishment of this service.
In reference to this matter Senator
simmons has received from MIR. Stone
letter in which he says:
In referring to your personal call
and the letter of Hon. Josephus Dan
lels | have the honor to state that
the case fC.- the establishment OF
this service has been under consldera-
ton, and that under date or the 24th
ultimo. an offer was submitted 10
the company at the rate OF $S0.0O per
mile per annum for the residue of
the present quadrennial term, for the
service.
'"The offer made involves an unu-
sual payment to the railroad COM
pany of S763.50, and probable ad-
ditional cost of $4,000 per annum for
messenger service. 1t also involves a
possible saving of some $4,000 per
annum for star service that might
be discontinued, leaving the net in
crease in cost to the government, for
annuno if the service is put on the