The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-26
(By the Associated Press.


Washington, May 25.-After adopt
ing resolutions on subjects of vital in
terest to the South, the Southern In
dustrial Parliament adjourned today
to meet in some Southern city 1t a
date in Octoberyt to be designated later
by Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
chairman of the executive committee.
The days discussions were spirited
and personal Before adjournment.
however, 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
a gigantic organization. Owing to the
amount of business necessary to be
concluded the parliament was COM
PEELED to abandon it's program. Ex
cept brief address by Clifford Pin
chot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry
of the Department of Agriculture. who
advised the conservation of the forests
of the South. no papers were read.
The resolutions adopted were as fol-
lows:
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-
questing the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor to make immediate efforts
to relieve the depressed conditions ex-
listing with the cotton milling industry:
urging the establishment by each
Southern State of a bureau of immi-
grafton: thanking the railroads of the
South for their efforts to develop the
resources of that section; authorizing
the president of the parliament to ap-
point a committee of five, of which he
shall be chairman, to prepare gen
Il atx.R,, Il
VantageS, productions, resources and
present needs of the South, and di-
recting the executive committee, to-
gether with the permanent president,
to formulate a plan of permanent Or
ganization; urging. Congress to reduce
the tax on tobacco; endorsing the pro-
posed pan-American college to be es-
tablished in the South: urging Con-
gress to make appropriations for the
eradication of the tick fever among
Southern cattle; endorsing the bill to
authorize the commissioner general of
immigration to establish at Ellis Is
land, N. Y, bureau of information
for immigrants. urging the formula
tion of some plan whereby cotton may
be marketed as the world needs it, and
commencing a bonded warehouse sys-
TEN. and commencing the bureau of
forestry of the Department of Agri-
culture for its valuable, work and
urging the people of the South to save
unnecessary denudation of their for
ests.
Invitations were extended by Rail
eigh and AsheviIle, n. c., Savannah,
!. Ga. aud New Orleans, La, to hold the
next meeting of the Parliament in
those cities.
Erwin Arouses the Delegates.
The parliament was thrown into dis
at Al,
question of the adoption of a resolu-
ton introduced by w. A. Erwin. of
Durham. n. c., calling upon Presi
dent Roosevelt to lend his aid through
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor in relieving the present depressing
conditions surrounding the cotton in
dustry. Delegates bitterly protested
against the motion by Secretary Muir
ply to postpone action on all reSolU-
tions until the next meeting of the
parliament and charged that an effort
was being made to gag the members
and SIdetrack important matters. The
motion was voted down and after a
stormy debate the parliament recessed
until the afternoon in order that the
delegates might call upon President
Roosevelt
The program called for the reading
of several papers Bearing on the man.
ufacturing items OF the South, but Mr..
Erwin was recognized to address the
body upon his resolution. He said
that ne had been unable to secure a
meeting of the committee on manufac-
lures to consider it. The cotton ques-
ton, he declared, was a vital one to
the parliament and cotton milling
could not be sidetracked in interest to
the country. He inquired if the dues-
ton 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 the hour to whom
the delegates should look, he declared
amid applause was President Roose-
welt, who 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 vii Ito help. The
South, he said. needed something else
besides immigration of labor, and that
was to encourage and extend TO the