Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-10-14
RETIREMENT
four MILLION
BALES ASKED
Proposal for Legisla-
tive Action TO Re-
duce Acreage Refer
red to Governors

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. lz-(F1--A
plan for meeting the cotton price
emergency was adopted here early TO-
dry by the conference of representn-
tives from cotton growing states
which adjourned. leaving the expcu-
tion Of the program TO advisory coun-
ellis and general committees.
Action OF the conference. which
was made up OF five hundred bankers.
merchants and planters or the South.
was embodied in resolutions which
were formulated after many hours of
elaboration and spirited debates In
committee and on the fI0cr.
The approved plan calls for thu
retirement W 100000 bales Cf thn
current crop as the only practical
means for handling this years sur
plus. This withdrawal must be- ac-
coTpanied BY "a reasonable reduc-
tion" in the crop for 1927, the con-
ference declared.
Cooperative institutions. governs
ment and private, were invited 70 use
every legitimate means in cooperate
ing with the cotton producers to ef-
feet n reduction next year We 25 Der
cent in acreage planted 70 the staple.
Funds Subscribed
The convention subscribed a fund
of approximately $4,000 w pay The
costs Of preliminary work i'm setting
the withdrawal movement into action
and Of organizing the credit resour-
ces for handling the surplus cotton.
Declining 20 take positive action
towards Legislative enactment " in
sure reduced production, rhR rnfYT~w
ence referred this matter u the gov
ernors of states severalIy for their
determination and possible reeom-
mendation to state aw-naLiHg bod
les.
Outlining the organization of i'd
visory councils and general state com
mittees. which should be composed os
representatives of states, the state
banking associations and cooperatia
associations, the conference left IA
them the adminitration or the reflex
plan.
Big Fight Sprung
For complate execution nf the uinn
an executive committee was appoint
ed 10 follow up the plan fer state ur-
ganjzations and to bring proper in
fluence 10 bear upon lagglrd states
and communities.
The big fight or the conferences
sprung out Of sentiment favoring
call on state legislatures for enact
ments which would require reduction
In cotton planting acreage for 1927
and thereafter. A. II. Lever of South
Carolina, chairman OF the sub-com-
mittee which drafted the resolutions.
led the successful movement to refer
the matter TO the governors.
The champion OF the group favorinx
"a statutory acreage reduction was A.
6. Little Of Blitheville, Ark. who de-
clared delegates had come tO the
conference with the expectation of
obtaining such action.
-Four states voted for the lrRialn-
tive resolutions sponsored by MI.
Little. They were Arkansas, Loulsi-
ana. Mississippi and Texas. States
which opposed the Little proposal
and supported the committee plan
a. offered by Mr.. Lever were An
bama, Georgia, Arizona, Kentucky.
Tennessee. North and South Carolina
and Oklahoma.
Backed by fund or $4,000. which
the southern delegates subscribed 40
initiate the ambitious plan and as
pledge Of their sincere purpose 0f
effecting organized relief. the exec
utive committee prepared 10 outline
the plan Of concerted movement in
the several states.
The conference proposals calls fer
the formation OF long time pools fuH
handling the cotton which growers
desire to withdraw from the rurrApt
market.
These pools. according to the plan.
are 20 be set up on the initiative OF
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