The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25
WANT AGENT ABROAD TO AID
 FOREIGN COTTON SEED TRADE

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 selected and sent abroad. They are
 both from North Carolina, One Is ".
 A. sirahain Clafk, son of Hon.. VI alter
 Clark Chief Justice of the Supreme
 Court of North Carolina. The other is
 William Wittinghanh. Jr. They were
 appointed Tn August
 Afr. Clark is now in China, and VII
 so8a start Tor al,, lndia a,esrssaina He sai O1s ts.
 ports, and from time to time extracss
 thcrefrom are published in the Daily 1 .ls.
 Consular and Trade Reports, issusd as eab,oS oS
 Major John M. Carson is the chiei MT.
 Wfttlnghanl is in Europe. and VIII re re
 main there propably several hoh'hS lonRcr.f A number of the Texas and Louisiana CongressmenS have been urging the De-
 pertinent to appoint a special man to investigate the outlook Tor lncIeaslhS
 ducts .n foreign countries It is ex-
 pected at the coming session or Con, ,
 gress an additional appropriation VII
 be made for this purpose. The prevalI.
 ing belief here is that if the senators and Representatives from the Cotton States will unite and urge thfs pfop- osition, there will be little or no df- ficuIty in securing the necessary amount of niOney The House acts first.
 Southern C0mmlttee Members. s Among the Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee | are four members from the cotton RFOWfDK 0kAt&Ss AHey aTG AANhht@oe~AA of Georgia, Taylor of Alabama. Brun- didge of Arkansas and Burleson of 1 Texas. The Committee or .Aericulture
 can also aid materially in this mater. That committee has the following meIn-
 bers from cotton growing States:
 Messrs Bowie of Alabama Lever Of
 South Carolina Candler of Mississippi and Field Of Texas. On the Seuate ap-
 kansas and Tiflman of south Carolina are also from cotton growing states.
 On the Senate Committee on A9ricuI- ture from cotton producing states are Money of Mississippi. Simmons of North Carolina, Latimer of South Carolina and Frazieg of Tennessee.
 The special agents who are sent
 abroad receive $fes per day as compen- satioD. and all their legitimate ex- penses are paid By the Government. If
 Congress votes the extra money at the
 next session. the Department will make
 another appointment and the expert ss- lected Will devote his attention entirely to the lcottonseed products. Fms is a matter that many of the South
 ern members are directly interested m.
 for the reason that there are so many l
 concerns in the South engaged in the
 particular line of business. should Congress make the extra appropriation, and it all depends upon the efforts of
 menf rne fOofhern ofelas wli permi the cotton seed and oil companies to agree upon
 the best men for the work abroad. Growth km Products Trade
 Information in the flIes of the Depart
 ment of Commerce and Labor. Bureau | of Manufactures. shows that during tho | fiscal year of 1906 the total exports oi cotton seed products amounted to $Si,- 900 900 in round numbers. They were two and one-half times greater thar ] they were in 1897. ana 1t Is remark able fact that the first recorded ex. | port of cotton seed oil, which was if 1 1870, amounted to only $14,S46.
 | In round numbers the exports of cot.
 ton seed products for. the last, fsea 1 year were divided as follows: oil, $13.-
 $50, ,000; oil cake. sfs,000. O00; cottoiene
 etc. $4,0e0, 900; cotton seed, $260,O0O. The countries which take most ol
 the cotton seed products are as fol
 lows, the amounts being given in rount l Netherlands, .s4.O00. .0O0; France. s..
 650.000; Italy. S1.400,000; Germany s1, | 360, 900; Austria Hungary, S900,00a United Kingdom, $eS0.600.
 | The export of cotton seed is so sinai 1 as compared with any of its products l that it has not been tabulated at ths Department. The seed nearly all art exported to Germany. Mexico, the Unit
 ed Kingdom and the Netherlands.