St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-29

New York, Feb. "a. -Manufacturers
representing the largest cotton yarn
and collord cotton goods mill interests
in the country have issued call for
meeting to be held in this city Wednes-
day. The purpose is to make
some agreement whereby, with the
present maintenance of prices, the
mills throughout the country can not
only maintain wages on the present
basis but can continue to run their
plants without a shutdown.
Another meeting will be held March
2 for the purpose of discussing the
situation in the market on these lines,
and of arriving at the exact statisti-
cal condition Of colored goods large
~ used by the working classes of this
country. For several months past,
in fact since the financial panic, the
mills have been curtailing their out
put to such an extent that agents re-
presenting large mills in New
England and the. South, state that the
market on this staple and necessary
article is fast reaching the famine
point.
The present move is led by Frank
B. Mehane, president of the Spray
Cotton Mills and Spray WOODEN
Mills of North Carolina. His
attempt is to bring about an under
standing between the large manufac-
turers of the county, and is being back
ed by manufacturers here.
ednesday's meeting will be held
at the Hotel Belmont, and will be for
the purpose of selecting the COM
mittee to have charge of the plans
now under consideration. From the
fact that considerable secrecy is be-
ing maintained as to the mills that
have agreed to stand by the plan for
maintaining wages and prices, the
outcome Of the meeting is being
awaited with considerable interest in
the dry goods trade.
Washington, Feb. 5.-That the
shooting ARRAY at Brownsville, Tex,
on the night of August 1914, 1906,
was done by some Of the negro SOL
diers of the Twenty-ffth United
States Infantry, and that the testi-
mony taken before the Senate Com
nittee on Military Affairs falls to
identify the guilty parties, is the
opinion of eight members Of the Com
mittee. Four members of the Com
mittee voted against this decision and
one member did not vote. The re-
solution declaring the guilt of the
negroes was submitted by Senator
Lodge and was adopted by five re-
| solutions by Senator Foraker and
one by Senator Dupont and one by
Senator Scott, all of which were offer
ed as substitutes, had been voted
down.
| The vote to-day was reached after
prolonged investigation extending over
two sessions of Congress and evidence
had been taken covering thousands OF
pages. Practically every negro OF
the three companies of infantry dis
charged without honor by President
Roosevelt testified in his own behalf,
while evidence in support of the Pres
ident was given by many Army of
ficers and citizens of Brownsville.
Throughout the entire controversy,
which in many sections of the country
has been made a political issue, the
antiadministration side has been di-
rected by Senator Foraker. In the
final vote in the Committee MAORI
ity of Republican members came to
his support. The Ohio Senator ex-
pressed himself as gratifed at this, as
it was apparent from the outset that
all of the Democratic members were
convinced that the negroes did the
shooting.
The fight again will be carried to
the floor of the Senate. The reports
from the Committee will not be made
for about ten days. After the re-
ports have been made to the Senate it
is expected Foraker will press the
matter to vote there. The Ohio
Senator purposes also to introduce a
bill to restore to the military service
such discharged negroes as were
shown beyond a reasonable doubt to
have been innocent of any offense con-
nected with the ARRAY.
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