The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-09-14
FRENCH-ENCLISH
SYNDICATE BIDS
FOR ALL COTTON
HAS OFFERED SEVENTY-FIVE
MILLIONS, SAYS PREsI-
DENT BARRETT.
Would Stop the U. S. Reports-Editor
of Cotton Paper Offers This suq
acknowledgement at Montgem-
cry Meeting.

Montgomery, Ala. Sept 13.-Refus-
Ing to consider all questions relating
to marketing and holding of the cot
ton crop of the South, which would
lake time to work out, the Southern
cotton growers convention in session
IN Montgomery, at its morning ses-
sion today, went on record as favor.
ing acting only on such business and
! resolutions as pertains to the market
ing and holding of the present 1911
cotton crop, so as to give relief to the
farmer at the present time and then
take care of the future later.
A resolution reported to the con-
'ehtlon from the committee on legis-
lation, aroused prolonged discussion
and heated debate This res1l ltion
provided for the establishment of
state and nationai bonded warehouses
Were cotton con 10 stored and held
and receipts issued which would be
honored the same as currency, not
only in this country, but abroad as
we'll.
Was Good Resolution
1t was a good resolution, all ad
mitted but a majority of the conven-
tlon thought that such an important
matter should receive more consid
Grafton and details worked out in a
clearer way Congressman Henry d.
Clayton of the Third Alabama dis
trict stated that the resolution was
too big a thing to settle right away
and asked that it be laid aside tenn
p9farily. On a vote of the conven-
ton, it was laid aside. 1t was the
The whole thing is a farce" he de-
matters relating to the present crop
and aiding the farmers at this spe-
cial time should be taken up.
Among the most important matters
taken up by the convention was the
report of the committee on legisla-
ton. The committee recommended
that a department of statistics be es-
tablished in each state under direc-
ton Of the agricultural department
and that each agricultural commits
oAOiiCl VI Ccith OOulltIl SLduG take uD
with his respective legislature the
question of such department. At
| certain periods of each year, the fig
ures are to be compiled by each state
and then strike an average of crop
conditions, estimates, etc, of all the
states together and publish them, the
same as does the government each
year.
Criticise Government.
The government was severely criti-
cised at the committee session this
morning for alleged inaccuracies in
crop estimates and ginning reports.
1t was the opinion of the committee
that the South no longer should rely
on the national government for its
crop reports, but make them out at
home.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Wat
son Of South Carolina, and President
Dabs of the South Carolina Farmers
Union, were severe in their arraign-
ment of the United States department
of agriculture in gathering cotton sta
tistics
Commissioner Watson stated that
the government has had statistician
in his state for the past ten years
gathering data for the governments
crop reports and that during his adj
: ministration he had never met the
gentleman or had never seen him at
the state capital nor had any Of his
| e. 30 IN, hn cfafn him
Whole Thing a Farce.
"The whole thing is arce," he de-
clared with much Indignation, land
we should no longer rely on the gov
, ernment for a correct report"
Congressman Henry D. Clayton, o.
Alabama, stated that the government
did a whole lot of things Of value
, which the states could not do, but tha
, he. too. believed the cotton and croI
reports were inaccurate. He stated
that he knew it to be a fact that mel
y employed in Washington, figured OF
| the cotton and ginning reports wh'
= had never been in field Of cottoI
. or who had never seen boil of cot
: ton in their lives.
! "We must go back to home govern
ment," shouted Mr. Clayton, "and ge
. up our own information"
a Syndicate Makes Offer.
AS the result OF conference IL
a Montgomery yesterday afternoon
] President c. S. Barrett of the Farm
d ers' Union, announced today at tn
convention that a French -Englisl