The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-07
RESOLUTIONS PASSED
SOUTHERN GOVERNORS AND
CONGRESSMEN ACT.
No Definite Plan is Agreed Upon But
Many Resolutions Are Passed
Lever and Smith on Committees.

Southern governors and congress.
men concluded series Of conferences
at Washington Tuesday, without de-
termining upon any definite plan for
the relief of cotton planters from
conditions growing out Of the Euro
pean war. While they resolved that
next years cotton acreage should be
| materially reduced, no specific means
Of curtailment were agreed upon.
The conferees agreed to attempt to
secure federal legislation that would
enable planters to obtain loans from
banks on their surplus crop, while
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 Emer-
gency currency act.
They determined to attempt to
maintain cotton prices above ten
cents pound, and a committee was
named to submit the conference reso-
lutions to Mr.. Wilson. The resolu-
tions adopted are:
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
this 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 shall be employed.
THAT the members of this confer
ence shall make every possible effort
to secure federal legislation which
will enable the producers Of cotton
to obtain loans of public funds de-
posted in the banks, at a reasonable
rate of interest, to be fixed by the
government, upon such part of the
present crop and under such condi-
tions as may be prescribed by law and
by the rules and regulations lawfully
made by the 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 to
the extension Of the consumption and
marketing of cotton goods, and that
Senator Hoke Smith prepare such
resolution.
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this conference that the House Of
Representatives should pass the Sen
ate bill allowing the State banks to
issue emergency currency under the
provisions of the Vreeland-Aldrich
bill, as amended, without paying the
10 per cent. tax.
Resolved, by the Governors Of,
Senators and Representative in Con-
gress from the cotton states, in con-
vention assembled in the city OF
Washington, September 29,~ 1914,
that we will most earnestly endeavor
to maintain the price OF cotton above
ten cents a 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 fur
nishing governmental aid to handle
the present crop.
Resolved, That this convention
conference 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"
The committeeman named were:
Representative Hughes, Georgia,
and Lever, South Carolina, and Sena-
tor E. D. Smith, of South Carolina.
Representatives Hardwick and
Lever and Senator Jos. T. Robinson,
were appointed to submit the resolu-
tfons to the president.