Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-09-05
The SOUTHERN
COTTON CONFERENCE
WILL MEET AGAIN IN NEW OF.
LEANS ON SEPTEMBER %.
Proposed to Select New Delegates
Empowered With Authority From
States to Enforce Action Taken.

New Orleans. La.-Just when the
Southern cotton conference was on
the point of breaking, a Texan, with
eIoqucuce and power OF speech, saved
the day. The conference was plunged
into hot debate Friday on the queS-
ton of a minimum price of l2iac a
pound for the current crop of cotton
The proposal came before the con
ventiOn with the Endorsement Of the
resolutions committee. but enemies
quickly lined up and fought it hard.
After much debating the opposing
factions were unable 70 bring il TO
vote, and J. H. Connell Of Dallas jump
ed into the breach with a substitute
resolution He asked the calling Of a
second conference in New Orleans
Sept %, and in the meantime direct
ing the delegates to sound the senu-
ment in their several communities on
the minimum price plan and, if posi-
bic. get explicit instructions from
their constituents. A unanimous vote
was given the Council substitute. and
the conference. brought back into har-
mony, took recess.
The decision to call such a confer
ence came after the conference had
become hopelessly divided on whether
a minimum price for cotton should be
decided upon and what that minimum
should be. on Il resolution to make
121ac the minimum the vote was tie.
Harvie Jordan, president Of the
Southern Cotton Association, who was
presiding, said he did not believe it
incumbent upon him to cast the de
Gliding vote on such a question. The
situation was relieved by j. W. Nc
Grath of Mississippi, who changed his
vote from mo" to AYE" and moved a
reconsideration.
At the final session il was decided
to instruct state presidents OF the
Southern Cotton Association to sound
the business interests of their respec-
tive states on which basis and gen
eral conditions upon which they would
accept bonded warehouse cotton re-
ceipts as collateral They are TO re
port at the next conference.
/ Organizations Of cotton growers,
bankers and merchants in every con-
/ gressiOnal district in the South to en-
force a so per cent reduction in cotton
acreage in 1915 was urged by the
GAINESVILLE (TeXas) board of trade, in
telegram read by Chairman Jordan
Each state president of the South
ern Cotton Association under whose
auspices this conference was held will
be asked to have each county presi-
dent call a meeting of the planters,
bankers and merchants in his county
on Sept. 49, Representatives to the
state convention will be selected and
each state convention will meet Sept.
%. These several state conventions
will name delegates to the conference
at New Orleans Sept. %.
After extended and heated discus
sion an amendment providing for the
new conference was offered by ]. w.
Connell of Dallas and was unanimous
ly carried.
4 An emergency law to authorize
banks to loan money to farmers on a
basis of SC to lie a pound, with an
/ agreement attached to the farmers
note providing that the borrower is
TO plant cotton in 1915 only on the
advice and approval of the lender, was
advocated by ]. P. Withers of Texas.
| The conference proceeding to con-
sideration of resolutions, a resolution
introduced by r. D. Bowen of Paris,
Texas, and Endorsed by the resolutions
committee, was adopted. 1t concerns
the wider use of cotton in the msnu-
/ facture of wrapping to cloths, bags
and Irvine.