Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-14
NEW REGULATIONS
SOON To CONTROL
COTTON CHASING
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
40S Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, April 11.-It is
announced here by hhe federal de-
partment of agriculture that as a
result of a conference of cotton grow
ers, shippers and sppinners conelud-
ed late Tuesday afternoon, a second
tentative set of regulations govern
ing the classification of cotton and
the licensing Of cotton classers, as
provided\in the cotton classes act
passed by congress at its recent ses-
sion will be prepared.
The act prohibits the use OF the
foreign grade and staple standards
for American cotton, and establishes
the official standards of the United
States as the sole standards in inter
state and foreign commerce. 1t
also enables the secretary of agri-
culture to interpret the official stand
ards by determining the ~classifica-
ton of cotton submitted to him Tor
this purpose and by the arbitration
of disputes as to classification arls'
ing out of commercial spot cotton
transactions. A permissive arrange
ment for the licensing of classers by
the secretary of agriculture is also
provided with a view to facilitating
shippers compliance with the law
The present conference is the first
OF a series of public hearings to be
held in the prinoiTal spot cotton mar
kets throughout She country to en-
able the secretary of agriculture to
prepare official rules and regulations
under the act. The conference is
presided over by Lloyd S. Tenny, as
sistant chief of the bureau of agri-
cultural economics. Subsequent
hearings in the spot cotton markets
will be conducted by Mr.. Tenny, and
William r. Meadows and others of
the cotton marketing division.
Atlanta April 90
The list of hearingsNand dates are:
Norfolk, April %; Charlotte, April
"a; Augusta, April %; Savannah,
April 81; Atlanta. April %; Montgom-
cry, April 30; New Orleans, May 1;
Houston, May 2; Dallas, May 8; Lit
tie Rock, May 4; Memphis, May 5.
There were present at the Wash
ington conference: M. r. Rivers, Of
the Savannah cotton exchange;
Eustace Taylor and Robert F. Irby,
of the Galveston cotton exchange and
board of trade; Thomas F. Cahill, of
the New York cotton exchange; w. +.
Neal. of S. N. Weld & Co., New York;
Senator Mcclellan and E. w. Porter,
of the Memphis cotton exchange; C.
B. Howard, of the American Cotton
Growers exchange; w. S. Thomson,
Of George r. McFadden & Bro, Phila-
delphia; w. J. Neale, of the Texas
Cotton association; w. D. Fielder and
j. i. Goldman, of the Dallas cotton eX
change; D. M. Jones, of the Ameri-
can Cotton Manufacturers associa-
ton, GastOnia, n. c.; Ben J. Will.
liams, of the New Orleans cotton ex-
change; Henry G. Brooks, of the New
England Cotton Buyers association,
Boston; w. A. Stribbling, of the At
lanta commercial exchange; Andrew
Raeburn and Albert r. Pierce, of
the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers and Arkwright club,
Boston; w. P. Barbot, chairman of
the board of cotton eXaminerds, New
Orleans; Charles Holmes, of the
Staple Cotton Cooperative associa-
ton, of Mississippi, and B. P. CAST
Ter, in charge of the Atlanta office
of the cotton marketing division of
the bureau of agricultural economics.