The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-10-02
REDUCE ACREAGE
SAYS CONFERENCE
BIT no SPECIFIC MEANS OF CUR
~TAMMENT ARE PROPOSED
Committee Named to Call Upon Pres
ident Wilson in Regard to Cot
tor Situation.

ident wilson IN Regard 10 Cot
tor Situation.
Washington, Sept. 29.-Southern
governors and congressman concluded
a series of conferences here today,
without determining upon any definite
plan for the relief Of cotton planters
from conditions growing out of the
European war. While they resolved
that next years cotton acreage should
be materially reduced, no specific
means cf curtailing were agreed
upon.
TIE conferees agreed to attempt to
secure federal legislation that would
enable planters TO obtain loans from
the banks on their surplus crop, w1ile
prompt action was urged upon the
warehouse bill pending in the house
and upon the senate bill proposing
the repeal of 10 per cent. tax on State
banks which participated in the
amended Aldrich-Vreeland emergency
currency act They determined to al
tempt to maintain cotton prices above
ten cents a pound, and committee
was named to submit the conference
resolutions to Mr. Wilson. The resolu-
tions adopted are:
Resolved, That it is the sense of
t2is committee:
That the acreage Of cotton to be
cultivated in the United States in 1915
shall be materially reduced That to
accomplish this end every legitimate
means snail be employed.
To Obtain Loans.
"That the members o" this confer
ence shall make every possible effort
to secure federal legislation which will
enable the producers Of cotton to OBJ
tain loans of public funds deposited
in TIE banks at a reasonable rate Of
interest, to be fixed by the govern
ment, upon such part Of the present
crop and under such conditions as may
be prescribed by law and by the rules
and regulations lawfully made by this
treasury department
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
this meeting that there be established
by joint resolution in the house Of
representatives and the senate OF the
United States a committee looking tss
the. extension Of the consumption and
marketing of cotton goods, and tnat
Senator Hoke Smith prepare such
resolution.
S'Resolved, That it is the sense of
this, conference that the house of rep
resentatives should pass the senate
bill allowing the State banks to issue
emergency currency under the pro-
vision of the Vreeland-Aldrich bill, as
amended, without paying the 10 per
cent TAX
Issuing OF Currency.
RESOLVED, by the governors of, SEN
ators and representatives in congress
from the cotton States, in convention
assembled in the city of Washington
September 30, 1914, that We will most
earnestly endeavor to maintain the
price Of cotton above ten cents
pound, and to accomplish this end We
will bring to bear, as far as We can
the power of the national and State
governments to restrict acreage for
the year 1915, and furnishing govern
mental aid to handle the present crop.
Resolved, That this convention con-
ference request prompt action upon
the warehouse bill now pending in the
house of representatives.
Resolved, That "a committee Of
three be appointed to call upon the
attorney general to lay the facts about
cotton seed before him and to request
such action as the facts may justify"
Committees Named.
The committeeman named were:
Representative Hughes. Georgia, and
Lever, South Carolina. and Senator E.
D. Smith, of South Carolina.
Representative Hardwick and Lev
er and Senator JOS T. Robinson, were
appointed to submit the resolutions to
the president.
Adoption OF the resolutions came af-
1er many hours of heated debate. Wig
,~o,,e r>hioc+ion m or tho nrOooSaI that