The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-30
NO DEFINITE
PLAN REACHED
GOVERNORS AND CONGRESS.
MEN FAIL TO DETERMINE
PLAN FOR RELIEF
ADOPT RESOLUTION
VIII Attempt TO Secure Legisla-
ton To Enable Planters to
Secure Loans on Crops
iBy Associated Press,

= iBy Associated Pressl
Washington. Sept. .9.-southern
governors and congressman concln-
ded a series of conferences mere today
without determining upon any def
mite plan for the relief of cotton plant
ers from conditions growing out of
the European war While they re-
solved that next years cotton acreage
should be materially reduced, no spe-
cial means Of curtaiiment were agreed
upon.
The conferees agreed TO attempt to
secure federal Legislation that would
enable planters to obtain loans from
the banks on their surplus crop,
while prompt action was urged upon
the warehouse bill pending in the
house and upon the senate bill pro-
posing the repeal of "a Ten nar cent
'h state banks Hili.1 VTticirate
in the amended Aidricn- yreeland en-
ergency currency act. They determiI-
cd to attempt to maintain cotton
prices above ten cents. . pound and a
committee was named to submit the
conference resolutions To President
Wilson. The resolutions, unanimous
- adopted, are: 1 asf
Resolved, that it is tue sense Of
this confesen.,e:
THAT the acreage of cotton to be
cultivated in the United States IN
1915 shall be materially reduced. Tint
to accomplish this end every legiti-
mate means shall be omployed. Z 81
f..,,g,
ence shall make efafy possible effort
to secure federal Legislation which will
upon such part of the present crop
and under such conditions as may be
prescribed by law and by the rules
eLG FegaiHtions lawfully made by the
treasury DEPARTMENT.
Resolved that 1t be tlis sense OF
This nieaf:.ig that there nc establish ID
hy joint restlatinn In the house of
the United States, commission look
ing to the extension OF the consurrp-
ton and marketing of cotton goods,
and that Senator Hoke Smith prepare
such resolution.
More Elastic Currency.
Resolved, that il is the sense OF
this conference that the house OF rep
resentatives should pass the senate
hill allowing the state hanks to is
sne smerremcv currencv under thu
proy.sion of the VraeIand- -Aldrich bill
as amended. without paving the ten
per cent. tax.
"ResoIyed by the governors. sena-
tors and representatives In congress
from the cotton states, In convention
assembled in the city OF Washington,
SepteInber. %. 1914. that we will most
earnestly endeavor to maintain the
price of cotton above ten cents a
pound, and to nccomplish this end we
will bring to bear, as far as we can,
the powerSof the national and state
goyernments to restrict acreage for
the year 1916 and furnish govern
mental aid, to handle che pesents crop.
Resolved that thia conferences re-
quest aronans action upon the warc-
house bill now pending In the mouse
of, representative.
'FeEolyed that a cpmmittee OF three
be appointed TO cali upon the attoI-
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