The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
WILL PROTEST
AGAINST TARIFF
DUTY IMPOSED
NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE
WANTS sAeGlNe AND TIES
ON FREE LIST.
The WHOLE SOUTH INTERESTED
Asks The Senators And Representa-
tives to Help Movement-Scores
Baegine And Tie Trusts.

New Orleans, April 11.-Urging Sen
ators and Representative especially
those from Louisiana and other cotton
producing states, to use their efforts to
bring about the necessary legislation
at the present extra session of Con-
gress the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change yesterday at a meeting of its
66e rd of directors, adopted resolutions
earnestly declaring that all bagging
and ties used in the baling of cotton
should be placed upon the free list.
The resolutions follow:
Whereas, under the provisions of the
Payne-Aldrich law the producer of cot.
ton is and has been paying as tribute
to few manufacturers of bagging and
ties, a yearly sum amounting to ap-
proximately $950,000; and
Whereas, the bagging trust has re-
Gently secured from the Board of Gen.
eral Appraisers in New York techni-
cal ruling which will increase the
amount of tribute paid by the cotton
producer to the said combination of
manufacturers to approximately the
sum of $2,S00,O0O annually; and
Whereas, the imposition of this
burden, or of any burden, upon the
large class of citizens who produce
one of the greatest trade assets OF
the nation, for the purpose and with
the effect of enriching a few indiyid
uals who prey upon the industry, is
[ mot only unjust and indefensible, but
vun-American, Therefore, be it
- Resolved That the New orleans
Cotton Exchange earnestly declares
that all bagging and ties used in the
'baling of cotton should be placed upor
the free list; and, be it further
"Resolved, That Senators and Rep
resentatives from the State of Louisi
ana and those from all cotton-produc
ing states and from all the United
States, be earnestly urged to use thei
efforts to bring about this just con
clusion by enactment of the necessar.
legislation at the present extra session
of Congress-
Letter To Lawmakers.
The following letter will be sent
with copy of the resolutions, to tn
Senators and Representatives in Cor
gress from Louisiana and all the othe
states, by President Thompson:
Dear Sir: l beg to hand you cop
of preamble and resolutions adopte
= by the Board of Directors of the Ne'
Orleans Cotton Exchange at a specia
Axeting held on the 10th instant.
in thrust that 1 may be permitted t
tRld few words by way of explanatio
and of argument touching this impol
tant matter.
The cotton crop of the South yield
annually an average of about 10000
OUU DdlCS. vi llilo lOldl, uPPipAiHANN0-
five-eights or 100000 bales, represen
ing an average money value of owe
$500,000000, are exported and e.
changed for foreign gold. The mer
statement of these facts attests th
importance of the cotton-producing il
dustry, emphasizes the obligatlo
which the country at large owes th
producer of this crop and treatmer
at the hands of the general lawmakin
power.
Under the present tariff law tn
duty on steel cotton ties amounts
.027 cents per bale, or to $324,0O0 on
crop of 100000 bales. This tart
4ls prohibitive as is shown by the fa'
y that no steel ties are imported. Their
fore, the government has no share
this impost, which constitutes simpl
and solely a tribute levied upon IL
cotton farmer for the benefit of tt
cotton tie trust.
The duty on jute bagging impose
by the present tariff law amounts
.05 Ia cents per bale, or to $630,OOO c
a crop of 100000 bales. This tari
to be a large extent prohibitive, ina
much as it yields only about $4,000
in revenues to the government I'll
balance of about s5sO,0O0 constitute