The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-09-30
COTTON men IN
APPEAL FOR AID
OHeE IMMEDIATE ACTION ON
THE PROPOSED WAREHOUSES
BILL TO CARE FOR CROP.
N'"'oSaS Cotton Men Adopt SLOGAN.
.o KANSAS Will Feed Itself in
''''' at Little Rock Meeting.


washington, Sept. 29-Soutborr
So'erAors and congressman conc,nd'
- series of conferences bora 40
G"y without determining upon ony
Int Int pan for the relief of cotton
ps'i'eIs from conditions growing ont
VI 'He European war. While tbov
'eSolVed that next years cotton ooro
"Se should be materially reduced no
specific means of curtailment ware
agreed upon ''''' - CIT were
ne conferees agreed to attemnt to
e1u l federal legislation that would
liable planters to obtain loans from
'ne banks on their surplus crop. while
p'oulpt action was urged upon the
warehouse bill pending in the houee
anu upon the senate bill proposi,g
'ne repeal Of the ten per cent tax on
state banks which participate in the
amended Aldrich-Vreeland emere.
ehey currency amendment
Inc attempt to maintain cotton
prices above ten cents a pound and
committee was named to submit
.ne conference reasons to President
wilson. The resolutions unanimous.
~ adopted are:
Resolyed' that it is the sense of
this conference:
That the acreage of cotton n no
cultivated in the United States in
.9i' shall be materially reduced
mat to accomplish this every legiti-
mate means shall be employed.
That the members of this confar.
ehce shall make every possible effort
10 secure federal legislation which
VIII enable the producers of cotton
20 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-
lions as may be prescribed by law
and by the rules and regulations law.
fully made by the treasury depart
ment.
Resolved, that it be the sense OF
this meeting that there be estab-
lished by Joint resolution in the house
OF representatives and the senate of
the United States commission
looking to the extension OF the con-
sumption 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 rep
resentatiyes should pass the senate
bill allowing the state banks to issue
emergency currency under the provi.
sion Of the Vreeland-Aldrich bill as
amended without paying the ten per
cent tax.
Resolved, by the governors of,
senators and representatives in con
| ,ress from the cotton states, in CON
vention assembled in the city of
Washington, September 90, 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
nish governmental aid to handle the
present crop.
Resolved. that this conference re
qure prompt action on the ware
house bill in the house of representa-
uyes.
Resolved, that a committee Of
three be appointed to call on the at
torney general to lay the facts about
cotton seed before him and to re-
quest such action as the facts may
Justify"
The committeeman named were
Representatives Hughes, Georgia, and
Lever. South Carolina, and Senator L.
D. Smith of South Carolina.
Representatives Hardwick and
Lever and Senator Joseph T. Robin
son were appointed to submit the
resolutions to the president.
Adoption OF the resolutions came
after many hours of heated debate.
Vigorous objection met the proposals
that the governors pledge themselves
to call special sessions of the state
legislatures to enact prohibitlve
taxes on cotton production in 1915 in
excess OF so per cent of the 1914
crop Many of the governors were
understood to have contended that
such laws would be an extension OF
mower which is forbidden beyond
prescribed field. A committee had
reported that the state had full au-
| tborjty but it was impossible, accord
ing TO the divergent.
10 the suggestion that a federal
AVIATION Jaw be enacted met opposi-
~ from, the congressman. That