The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-05-05
MEETING OF TEXAS STATE
GINKERS' ASSOCIATION
State Commission Sought by GInners
to Regulate Rates and Otherwise
Govern Industry, Is Proposed.

Dallas. Tex.-A resolution adyocat
ing the provision by the next leeisla
ture of a law placing the cotton gil
industry OF Texas under commission
empowered to exercise control over
ginning rates as local conditions may
demand and in other ways regulate
the industry, was adopted by the Tex
as State Ginners' Association ut their
final session Friday. The law the gin,
ners favor would create a commission
to exercise similar control over the
gins of Texas to that which the pres.
ent railroad commission exercises over
the railroads in the State.
It is embodied in the resolution that
gins, having been declared by the
courts to be public utilities. are en-.
titled to a fair return on their invest
ment, and that rates shall be fixed
through public hearings il each To-
cality, the ginners and the farmers to
present facts relative to conditions as
they exist and the commission to de-
termine the rates.
The final order OF business was the
reelection by reclamation of Dr.. E. B,
Bullock, Woodlawn, president, and
Dabney White, Tyler secretary. There
were 1900 delegates registered dur
ing the convention.
Other important resolutions were
adopted asking that the warehouse
commission declare the sampling fea,
ture If the law impracticable, as 1t
has declared the wrapping feature OF
the law to be; asking that the work.
mems compensation law be amended
to include the ginning industry.
A resolution also was adopted EN-.
the president TO appoint a
to cooperate with the state
warehouse committee in perfecting the
permanent warehouse act, upon inYi-
tation from F. c. Wenert, warehouse
for such cooperation,
and that said committee be also desig.
mated as the legislative committee to
work out the details Of the new gin.
lers' law advocated and aid in secur.
ng its passage. The committee, as
called for, was appointed by President
3laloCk as follows:
John T. Fortson, Rice: s. s. Fra
Ter, Lone Oak; George Caldwell Cor.
JUS Christi; NJ. Nuckols, Bishop; De-
witt Furrh. Elysian Fields; D. X.
penn, Sherman; Dabney White, Tyler;
:. T. Richie, Waxahachie: f. E.
Wood, Childress; T. L. Justiss. How.
and; George w. Green, Winnsboro.
IN motion the president was added to
he committee.
The ginners' law as called for fr the
esolution finally adopted met with
ONE little opposition on the ground
lat 1t would involve the industry in
Olitics and would create a new com.
iiseloh ana new political jobs, for
hich the ginners would have to pay.
fter some discussion, it was pointed
Ut that new commission is not nee.
;sarily demanded, but that the en-.
'rcement Of the law might be made
part Of the duties OF the railroad
the warehouse commits.
on, or the Insurance and banking
and that the additional
achinery would therefore be small |
1t also was pointed out that the gin. |
'rs OF Texas are now facing bank. |
ptcy because of their cut-throat com. |
tltion methods, and that state regu.
ton of rates is the only solution |
thout combination, which would |
illegal. After some deliberaticn /
e resolution was passed practically |
animously. |