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SENATOR ErID. MITH SPEAKS IN'NEWBERRY (Cont;uued from page one). on along exported brought into this untr $456,000,000-over half. That as e .:port alone, besides furnishing very loom and every spnidle in mer' an. When the department is 'ed hat marvelous report, cotton 'brok within about six or eight weeks Wen y dollars on the bale. Represent 9 what? The loss, on tne average ortation of 8,000,000 bales of $160, 00,000. Not a man on the floor of the enate, he said, raised his voice in pro est except the junior senator from outh Carolina. GoTernment's Cotton Estimate. He said it made no difference to him whether a gambler by virtue of mis representation took his money, or whether an official of the government takes it he would go for one as much .as the other. The department of agri ,culture had no right to issue that re 'ort and if Secretary Wilson did not know it was issued it was criminal -negligence, and if he was too old to be in there it was time a younger man was put in there. He said he went to the department of agriculture and found the report had been issued by Mr. Murray, of the department, in the absence in Europe of Assistant Sec Tetary Armstrong, in charge of this ,department. He said he learned from Mr. Murray that the estimate was ,mad by taking the average of condi tions and' acreage for the past five years and comparing it with acreage .and coilitions this year. Raps Secretary Wilson. 'He said he then went into Secretary Wilson's office, and asked him. by 'what authority he est.mated how much ecotton was going to be made on June eports when part of the cotton wasn't p. He said, "I didn't do it." Senator ith told him some one in his de artment did it, and Secretary Wilson old him it was without his knowledge nd consent. "I don't know what -nowledge or consent you may have ad," said 'Senator Smith, "but it has een issued, and as a result cotton has roken, and the 'law explicitly says hat up to the ginners' report you hall only make report as to condi ons." He says, "It will never hap en' again." I said, "The dickens! it as happened and the breaking of the rket hias happened." Resolution for Publicity. Senator Smith said .he went back nd introduced his resolution to the ect that the secretary give to the bfic 'the method by which he got ese reports, and the sources of infor ation. He said he was urged not to sh it because the gamblers and the w York and New Orleans exchanges uld flood the departmnent with tele-1 ms and kill the reports. He said told them that if the department ld be influenced by those method, intended to push it, and let the blc know it. Before he could press resolution the next report of 14, ,000 bales was issued. They did1 k it unofficial, but it emanated m the department and cotton con ued to go O. down. timates From Southern Commis. th sioners. He thnwent to the senators from: ch of the nine Southern States and: d them wire their commissioners: r estimates. The total iycrease er last year, according to these mmissioner~s, if no further deteriora n went on, was a little less than 1, 0,000 bales. Last year there were, out 11,400,000 real commercial bales, hich would ma'ke the estimate of the mmaissioners, if there *as no fur er deterioration, about 12,400,000, ile the government was issuing an timate of 14,700,000. So on the floor the senate he said either these com issioners elected by the people to; k after their interests, on the ound, familiar w ith the cultivation cotton, didnt know what they were lking about, or the department dn't, or the commissioners were illing to misrepresent facts or the ent was willing to misrepre cts. And he 'ntroduced a reso requir'ing the department to t an immediate report so as to act, if possible its estimate. tary Wilson said he didn't ye the money to make the re sort. "I says, somebody has got he money to make an estimate, ou have cost my section already $20 bale, and if they have sold 1,000,000 ales since then it has cost us $20, '00,000, it looks to me like somebody maight strain a point and counteract it. The next morning he sent in a memor andum to the effect that he had al ready sent out blanks and instructed 'his reporters to get out as early re port as possible as to the condition. "Pullman Car" Reporting. "I says, if the secretary of agricul-. ture will go to work and get those re ports honestly and squarely, and pub country decide as to whe-her it is fair and square, I will acquiesce, but so help me God I propose to fight this method of crop reporting until they stop this Pullman car business-some fellow from some of the Northern States,' or perhaps from some of the States of the South, who doesn't know a cotton stalk, going out in a Pullman car and talking to somebody and com ing back and reporting on the welfare of 17,000,000 people!" "-Back to Farm" Cry. He said there was no "back to medi eine" cry, or "back to law" cry, and the "back to tfie farm cry" was by those who wanted more competition on the farm so as to reduce the value of farm products, and stop paying 40 cents a dozen for eggs, and propor tionate prices for other things raised on the farm. "Thank God, the farmer has got to the point where he says, I will either eat my own rations or you will give me enbugh for them." He urged the farmers to use their brains, and to stick together. Farm Demonstration Work. He said he was not going to in veighl against the farm demonstratioa 'work, because he thought it was a good thing. But a pronounced object in bringing about the conditions sought was in order, in making two bales of cotton grow where one grew before, and ten bushels of corn grow where one grew before, and in eradi cating cattle tick and other things, to get two bales of cotton for the price of one, and two bushels of corn for the price of one, and cheaper cattle and other things. He wanted the fa.:mers to know their own business and to demand the prices of two bales for th3 two bales where one grew before, and the price of two busuels of con for the two bushels wh?re one grow b fore. Organization of Manufacturers. He referred to th meeting of the International Federation of Cotton Spinners and Weavers at Brussell. last year, where all the manufacturiLg interests were represented, where it was decided to curtail in order to keep the .price of cotton down though it was realized and stated by the manufacturers that- if full time was made' by the mills every bale of cot ton would be used before the season was over. Because of the organiza tion, it was easier -to put thle price of raw cotton down than to put the price of the finished' article up.. Why? Be cause of the fact that many farmers hypothecated their cotton, and could not hold it and demand a fair price. Every. time a man who can not hold puts a bale on- the market, he jeopar dizes a bale of the man who can hold, and it is to the interest of the man who can hold to arrange for the man who can't, to hold. 14,000,000 Crop -Ought to Bring '15 Cents. A 14,000,000 'crop, he said, ought to bring -15 cents a pound, an4 the world Dught to be glad to get it at that. He rapped the'Southern mills, right in the cotton patches, for allowing the New England mills to undersell them, after paying freight and numerous other charges in getting the raw ma teriail to the mills, but .said, in justice to the Southern mills, he thought one reason was that he was informed they were paying the highest rate of inter est, of any men of like capital in like business.. .Wants -Farmers to Get Together. He urged, the farmers to rall:' around the president of their union, and get .together, and fix their price, and stand by that price. In this day of sumptuary laws, 'he said, when the United States had gone into business and was running it in tEe interest of the great business interests, it was time that the farmers looked after their own interests. At the conclusion of Senator Smith's address he was given a ris ing vote of thanks. LANDMUARK OF WASHINGTON. 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