The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-14
Plans Proposed to En- courage Foreign
 Newcomers. WILLIAMS WOULD FORM. A MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY Organization of Bureaus in South ern States is Advanced. ! Quarantine and Imnaisration ASsoeaa- tion Finishes Sessions After Chang- ing Name. and Hearing D.scus- siens on Negro Question.
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Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 1s.-The South ern Quarantine and Immigration Con- vention. which at noon today resumed It's new title of Southern Immigration md Industrial Association. concluded its business tonight. The closing ses- sion was devoted to the reading of sew eral papers on pertinent topics.
 The report Of the Committee on Quar- antine which waa adopted during the day. advocated that the conference take no action in advising transfers of mari- time quarantine to the Federal Gov ernment by those States that have not : already made transfers, it being the sense of the committee that each State should be left at liberty to act as it sees 1t With the matter of quaran- tine eliminated, the conference devoted it's time almost entirely to. discussion of the immigration problem.
 Under this head, the race question early took prominence and did not re- ceive it's quietus until the convention adjourned tonight. The sentiment of the delegates is largely in favor of welcoming any desirable class of white immigrants, without regard to nation ality, yet there appeared at times some desire to keep the black man with all his faults, where he is.
 NEKe El0Ne k4uEGAuHs
 Possibly the most distinctive step by the convention towards securing a proper proportion of the arriving immi- grants for the Southern States was the recemn endatiou by the convention that the Governors of all Southern States be requested tb recommend the imme- diate estnblishment of bureaus of im- migration.
 John sharp Williams. in letter read Ass3 of the ubiquiteuE race problem Tn the suggested for nation of q couipany with a capital of st,000.000. to buy lands in Southern States and to sell on time to !. .dcsirable tEnlnigrantS, He recommepdz ed the estabiishment Of asrufaf mount cd police for the apprehension of the criminal Clement of the negro
 An attempt was made at the after noon session to reconsider the action by which the convention decided to meet next year at Birmingham, but a1- thoughsa spirited fight was put ID by thn south Carolina delegation, which sought to gain the convention for Charleston, the convention declined to reopen the matter.
 Although the convention concluded its business late tonight, nearly all the delegates will spend Wednesday in Nashville as guests of the citizens.
 New OGaeeEs.
 The following are the new officers of the Association: President, Governor D. c. Heyward. Columbia, S. C.; Secre- tary- Treasurer, Dr. ], R. McMullen, Gadsden, Ala; Vice-Presidents, Ala ban1a, Frank Y. Anderson, Birmingham; Arkansas, c. B. Tucker, Little Rock North Carolina, D. A. Tompkins Char Iotte; Tennessee, Leland Hume, Nash vile; Virginia, W. N. Ruffln, Danville; Florida. Edmund Brobston Jackson vflle; Louisiana, Dr. c. H. Irion, New orleans; Maryland, Charles E. Redeker, Odonton; South Carolina, J. c. Hem phiu Charleston; Georgia, H. Fl. Tifft, Triton; Kentucky, F. W. Vogel; Texas, T. J. Anderson Houston; oklahoma, Jesse Dunn, Oklahoma City; Mississippi, A. $. Kyle, Ratesville; District of Co., lumbia, NJ. V. Richards, Washington.
 Name is Changed.
 When the convention met this morn ing the report of the committee on or ganization was the irst business taken up. It recommended that the Associa- tion be continued as a permanent or- sanization to be known as the South ern Immigration and Industrial Asso- citation, it's object being to exercise an educational and supervisory influ- ence over matters pertaining to im- migration. health, labor, technical edu- cation and a general enforcement of AGWEt LII OIuCE IuAL d uAlS form policy regarding these matters may prevail throughout the South.
 Governors and State Commissioners of Agriculture, representatives from commercial. manufacturing and busi- ness organizations were to be made honorary members of the Association. The active membership was to be com or individuals. The appointment of a vice president from each State was re- commended.
 The report was adopted unanimous ly.
 The report of the committee on edu- cation was then submitted and adop- ted. It recommended the adoption in Southern schools of the Louisiana sys- tenn of hygienic instruction; a hearty co-operation by the farmer with State experiment farms; tne founding of trade schools and that the governors of all Southern States call the atten- tion of their people to the great need of technical education for the white youth of the South.
 Ask Federal AAd.
 The report of the committee on im- migration recommended that the sev- eraI Southern States establish depart ments of immigration, and urged the Federal government ito provide liber- ally for the reception of immigrants at the South Atlantic and Gulf ports and thus encourage the establishment of steamship lines for the direct im- nortation of immigrants, thereby re- iieving the crowded condition of Ellis Island and the congested eastern cities" Adopted.
 A letter was read from John Sharp wiIliams in which he expressed the belief that the solution of the race ouestion might be found in a precon- certed effort to bring white people of the right sort into the South as servants. tenants and farmers. He advocated the formation of a land company with a capital of at least S1 0on GOO to buy lands throughout the cotton States. and sell them on time to desirable immigrants
 A hopeful sign, Mir. Williams letter said. is the fact that the negro birth rate in the country is decreasing re. Enarkah hIy, while the birth rate of the