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\ m Comprehensive Consl Cctton Associate MOST LIBERAL PLAN! I I Purposes of New Organization Sets Forth Fully. Will Have Extensive Powers. The sub-6ommitt?e on constitution of the Southern Cotton Association, in session at Atlanta, G-a., completed its work in connection with constitutions, Wednesday night, and began the consideration of by-laws. It adopted separate constitutions for the main organization, for state organizations and for county organiza- i tions. The reason for this is that the organization in the county and in the tate or division, will be different from the main organization and will require cmerent macnmery, ytsi iut muutuucu- j tai law must conform to that of the j main association. For this reason the j j ruh-oommittee adopted constitutions i for these sub-organizations. The fundamental law is a broad and comprehensive one, as may be gathered from the first article and section, which state the purposes for which the association was organized. It is proposed, as will be seen, to deal not only with the cotton situation, but with other features as well, and, in fact, to lend a helping hand in the upbuilding of the whole commerC>. aouth. The sub-committee, to which the matter of formulating the constitution was entrusted is composed of John MScC. Martin of Port Gibson, Miss., chairman; J. A. Browne of Ch*dt}Ounie, N. C.; E. D. Smith of i Magnolia, S. C.; H. Y. Brooke of ljuY?rne, Ala., and R. R. Dancy of Dallas, Texas. With the committee were President Harris Jordan and Secretary Richard Cheatham of the association, who are m.t nresenr makinc their headauarters C Monticello, Ga. Chairman Martin is the member of thecMBiaittee, It is understood, who la most responsible for the constitution of the association. Mr. Mlartin is a prominent and able lawyer of j Port Gibson, Miss., and he has given much of his time and attention to the ' details of this work. Purposes of Organization. There are twelve articles in the con-" etitution, which is a lengthy document The first sets forth the purposes, of , the organization as follows: ^Section 1?The purposes of this * organization are: 1. Systematic organization to protect and develop the cotton and agricultural interests of tne cotton growing states and territories. ' 3. To regulate, by all legal means, j cocton, corn and grain production, diversification of crops, stock breeding fruit growing and all such matters ] ae pertain to agriculture in said states i and territories, or the cotton growing counties and parishes of same. 8. To regulate, by all legal means, j cotton supply and cotton financing. 4. To facilitate, enlarge, extend and ayatematize cotton marketing, using very available means to secure broader and more extensive markets, and to limit production at demand at re% munerative prices. 5. To reduce to a minimum all ex- ! r pense* of handling and transporting; cotton and its products, from the time! It leaves the field until it reaches the i consumer. . To promote, stimulate and seek i more varied uses for raw and menu- j tactured cotton. 7. To encourage, aid and secure i building and operation of cotton and { other manufactories, throughout the! cotton growing states and territories. & To- bring together and in cooperation all the various cotton interests, cotton manufacturers and agencies, with a view to such regulations j as will protect, stimulate and promote ; all. 9. To use all agencies and means which will improve, perfect, enlarge and increase all southern ports and the business done at each. 10. To bring before the proper au- j thoritles and use all legal means to ' secure establishment of docks in com-' STATE FAIR FOR ATLANTA. Capital City Wins Out Before Commit tee 31 Itmtun in?ciiiiy. The city of Atlanta captured the Georgia State Fair at a meeting of the State Agricultural Society held in Macon Wednesday. Macon bid $18,000 for the State .Fair this year. Atlanta bid 528,000. Members of the committee stated that If Mincon had bid as much as $20,000 ?he would have retained the fair. IE GROWERS titution for Southern on Promulgated. modious and available southern harbors, or shipbuildin, ship repairs and naval stations. 11. To urge, encourage and advance any and all measures which will bring about commercial treaties between the United States, China, Japan and the entire eastern world, whereby American commerce is extended and new fields are opened to the productions of the cotton growing states and territories. 12. To further all measures and. evolve plans to turn to the United States, Cent^ and South American trade and for extending the use of the products of the cotton growing states and territories as well as those of the entire union to the people of those countries. 13. To formulate a policy, prepare plans and get ready for the great opportunities which will come to the cotton growing states and territories with the opening of the isthmian canal. 14. To effectuate and make operative closer business relations between cotton manufacturers and cotton producers and dealers in manufactured cotton, whereby neither shall have their business interests jeopardized by sudden and unreasonable depression in prices cr by unnatural and entirely speculative advances in value of raw material. Neither of which are based on supply and demand. 15. To mature plans and methods for securing accurate statistics from ginneries, private and public from manfactories of cotton, so as to furnish correct information as to annual consumption, from farmers, so as to know general acreage, devoted, from year to year, to any specific agricultural product in the cotton growing states and territories; and for securing such-other statistics as may be of value to the general purposes of this organization. 16. To prepare and furnish each ginner, under sanction of law, a uniform system of gin books, for use by all gins, private and public, as will get accurate information from, all such gins, private and public, as will get accurate information from all such gins, of cotton ginned, from month to month, during ginning season, with actual weight of each bale, so that such weights may be aggregated, di? vided by 500, and the number of bales given by states and counties and territories, on~ the fixed basis of 600 pounds each. 17. To use every proper effort to secure adequate constitutional legislation to put into force and effect, where necessary, the methods and plans adopted by this organization. Constitution for State Organization. The constitution for state organizar tion, .which is separate and distinct from the regular constitution of the association, sets forth the purposes in article 1- Article 2 deals with the powers*of the organization. Article3 provides that the organization shall not violate any state or federal laws. Article 4 provides that the organization shall be non-political. Article 5 provides that the members of the state organization shall consist of two members chosen by each county organization. Article 6 provides for the eleotion of a president; vice president, secretary, treasurer and such j minor officers as are needed. Article I 7 sets forth the duties of the officers, jand Article 8 provides for raising revenue. Each county organization is rej quired to turn over half of its revenue from all sources to the state organI ization. Article 9 provides for amendi ments. All of the constitutions distinctly provide that the organization shall be strictly non-political. So strict is this feature that arfy person holding office or who contemplates running fcr office is ineligible to become en officer of the Southern Cotton Association or to serve on its executive committee. Following is the section prohibiting politics as it appears in the state constitution: "Article IV, Section 4.?This organization shall in no manner lend its Influence to party politics or party organization. Should any officer of this organization publicly announce himself as a candidate for any national, state or county office, such announcement shall immediately vacate his position as an officer, and no person offering for. or holding any of the above named political offices, shall be eligible to any official position in this association. WANTED A WIHITE WIFE. (North Carolina Negro Gets Into Trouble for False Swearing. Andrew Martin, colored, has been arrested in Stokes county, N. C., on the charge of perjury, while endeavoring to secure license to marry a white girl 17 years old. To all appearance, he is white, but his mother is a mulatto and lives in an adjoining county. She has stood his bon,d, and lie will be tried next month. A PUBLICITY BUREAU j To Be Opened by Cotton Association.' i Sub-committee Finishes Its Work. President Jordan Talks. j A decision to open at once a bu j reau of publicity in Atlanta, the appointment of two more financial - , . I I agents to secure iunas, me compie! tion or the by-laws and other details j i constitute the work accomplished on Thursday by the sub-committee on constitution of the Southern Cotton As-; sociation, in session at Atlanta, at the conclusion of which labors it adjourned sine die. President Harvie Jordan will at [ once arrange for the establishment I of the bureau of publicity. He will | secure offices in Atlanta and will ap-: j point a chief of the bureau who will | have charge not only of all the newsj paper matter to be sent out to the j I press of the entire south, but also of j all documents and communications of j an official nature which will be sent j to the various sub-organizations of the i Southern Cotton Association in the various counties throughout the cotton states. president Jordan Thursday appointed two more financial agents to repre- j sent the association in the matter of securing funds in the territory west of the Mississippi river. Hon. R. R. Dancy of Dallas, Texas, a member of the sub-committee was named as financial agent for the wesfr i ern territory, and Judge C. H. Jen! kins of Brownsville, Texas, was ap| pointed to assist him in the work, j Hon. Ellison D. Smith of Magnolia, | S. C., had previously been appoint ed financial agent for the eastern terI ritory. The financial agents will .travel all j over the territory assigned to them ! with a view to securing contributions from commercial bodies in all parts of the south, and from any others who desire to contribute to the move ment. President Harvie Jordan of the association, before leaving Atlanta, gave out a lengthy statement covering the whole work of the sub-committee. He said, in part: "We did not have a full meeting of the executive committee in Atlanta during the past two days, but a sub-committee, whose duties were tc complete the constitution and by-laws ' j of the association. This work has been accomplished after a great deal of hard work, and I feel assured that the constitution of the association, as finally prepared, is broad enough in its scope to cover all of the objects and purposes of our association a* intended by the splendid convention of representative business men and farmers who were recently assembled in the great convention at New Orleans. I feel asshred that the constitution and by-laws will meet the cordial an proval of the various states, counties and sub-divisions where the different sub-organizations of our association will be perfected. "I sincerely trust that the cotton acreage will be reduced at least 25 per cent, and that the extra land here trtfnro nlnntf^d ill cotton will be CUl tivated in food' supply crops, and that . in the years to come the producers will become strong enough, as individuals, to protect themselves against the bearish and speculative influences which so seriously depress the price 01 their money product, i "While the sub-committee has fin ished their labors, and feel that theii duties are completed, so far as providing the machinery for the future work of our association is concerned, they, nevertheless, recognize the fact that the enormous business of the asj sociation has just commenced. We j will not be satisfied until we have sej cured back to the south on this crop i the entire $60,000,000 which was so j unrighteously stricken from the legit! imate value of our staple during the j early part of last December. "I am satisfied that the organization ! of the various civil sub-divisions, counj ties and states will be perfected as ! rapidly as possible, and that the far| mers throughout the south will take a deep and active Interest in the objects and purposes of the Southern Cotton Association." i BETTER MARKET IS SOUGHT. | i A Memorial from Recent Cotton Convention is Presented in Senate. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Clay read in the senate Friday a memorial from the Cotton Growers' convention forwarded to congress by W. L. Peek of Georgia. The object of the pst'tloa is 10 s* cure for the south better markets for cotton in foreign countries. It asks for an appropriation to employ agents to be sent to foreign markets with a 1 - 5 *1 nnlarcra Cliph ! Tiew lO investigate ana cuia>3u w?? markets and securing better prices for cotton. FLOOD STAGE REACHED. Several Alabama Rivers Are Reported on the Rampage. A Mobile special says: The floood stage is reported on several rivers in Alabama. The Warrior at Tuacumbia is 55 feet deep and 60 feet are expected later. People living in the lowlands are moving out Mhch damage is already reported at interior landings. M'CUE CONFESSES On Trap Ex-Mayor of Charlottesville Admits Crime. HIS HAND SLEW WIPE ! < Declared Evil Spirit Drove Him to 1 Commit Deed ? Went to Gallows With Steady Steps and Without a Tremor. Advices from Sosnovila, Russian ? Poland, state that on Thursday a mob invaded the Kathernin works, demand- ; ing that the workmen in charge of the electrical machinery there join in t?e strike. A company of soldiers intervened, and a Polish officer repeatedly ] called upon the people to disperse. 1 They refused to leave unless they were accompanied by the workmen. It ; is said that a rioter menaced the of- j fleer with a knife, whereupon he gave the order to fire, with the result that 1 twenty-eight persons, including a high 3chool pupil who happened to be passing, fell dead, and thirty-six were seriously wounded. These latter were removed to a hospital, where five of them have since died. A special from Warsaw says: Over one hundred strikers were killed or wounded in front of the big iron works Thursday night at Sosnovice. The strikers attemptd to put out the fires in the furnace, when the troops fired several shots. It is reported in Lodez that a gen eral railroad strike will commence February 14 throughout Poland. An official report received Friday from Sosnovice says twenty strikers were killed and twenty-one wounded in the conflict of Friday. Four persons were killed and sixty wounded in a riot at Cheibleir factory and seven killed and forty wounded at Marcus Kohn factory. A conflict between troops and strikers took place in Locz. Friday' afternoon. According to one report, strikers fired on a detachment of soldiers from windows. The latter then fired a volley into the crowd in the streets. Another report says that one striker was killed and four wounded. Other reports estimate the number i killed at twenty and say fifty were wounded. The conflict occurred at Louis Geyer's factory, where troops were lined up to prevent the men from entering to demand their pay. Strikers generally are enraged at the refusal of the manufacturers to give them their pay, MORE TROUBLE FOR CASSIE. Mrs. Chad wick May be Subject to Indictment on New Count. The united states grana jury was in session at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, and it is reported heard additional charges against Mrs. Cas3ie L. Chadwick and Cashier Spear of the closed Citizens' bank of Oberlin. United States Marshal Chandler gave the jury a copy of the confession of-the late President Beckwith, secured from the latter after Mrs. Chadwick's arrest. It is said the case before the grand jury has been reopened with a view of returning another indictment against Mrs. Chadwick. No Statehood This Congress. The republicans of the house of representatives Saturday decided in caucus that the house statehood provision shall prevail and that no statehood legislation will be made by the present congress. Chadwick Trial March 6th. The trial of Mirs. Cassie L. Chadwick in the United States district court at Cleveland, Ohio, ITaa been set for Monday, MJarch 6. She will be tried before Judge R. W. Taylor. Looks Bright for Mirsky. Persistent rumor is in circulation at St. Petersburg to the effect that former Interior Minister Sviatopol Miirsky will shortly return to power. ' EX-MAYOR McCUE DOOMED. United States Supreme Court Denies Condemned Man's Petition. Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court denied the application for & writ of error in the McCue case. Edward McCue and Mrs. Rhodes, brother and sister of J. Samuel McCue, and the latter's daughter, Ruby, visited the governor of Virginia on Thursday, but the result is not announced. It -is not thought the executive will interfere. McCue's attorney is waiting for the report of three physicians, sent from Alexandria, Washington and Fredericksburg, to examine McCue as to sanity. STRIKE BREAKS OUT Attain. Our Consul at St. Petersburg Arv nourvces Resumption of Trouble. A Washington special says: Consul General Watts cabled the state department from St Petersburg Thursday as follows: "Laborers several principal shops here are striking again today. Military active; ample precautions." '? V" STRIKERS SHOT DOWN. rroubles in Russian Poland on the Increase and Blood Flow's as Result of Frequent Conflicts. At Charlottesville, Va.. J. Samuel McCue, former mayor of the city, was landed Friday for the murder of his wife. He confessed before ascending the icaffold, saying he was impelled to I die crime by an evil genius, over which he had no control. Up to the very last the idea cf a xinfession was discredited. McCue listened calmly to the death warrant, and when Sergeant Rogers isked: "Do you think that if I were to give you my arm you would be able to / walk to the scaffold?" He replied calmly: "I can walk without your aid." Watched by a silent crowd of, perhaps, thirty people, McC ie mounted the scaffold. By this time, sunlight was coming across the house tops around him. Not a muscle of his face moved. Rogers and two guards ascended the scaffold with him. The prisoner wa3 placed over the trap, his arms were pinioned and bis ankle3 strapped. The black gown was folded around him and the noose was adjusted. All this while McCue stood without moving. Hope that he might make some statement before he died passed away. The cowl dropped over his head, and he had seen his last of the world. Not a word had he uttered. A guard took hold of the rope that was to release the trap. Rogers, standing along upon the scafToId beside McCue, turned his back and lifted his hand. The trap fell. His neck was broken. In order to thwart the curiosity of the morbidly inclined, the sheriff kept! secret the time of the execution. History of the Case. Mrs. McCue was murdered in the j MlcCue home in Charlottesville on j Sunday evening, September 4. McCue claimed- that an intruder had Sntered their bedroom just after their return from church, and while they were preparing to retire. Later, the wife.was found beaten and shot to death in the bath tub. MlcCue offered a liberal reward. A coroner's jury immediately began an inquisition. Before it concluded its wora McCue was arrested, charged with the murder of his wife. The accused retained brilliant counsel. He was Indicted at the September term of court, was arraigned and pleaded MA mt. not gunty. me case woo ?oc U>1 U X(M j at the October term. Great difficulty was experienced in getting a jury. Just 163 veniremen were summoned before twelve jurors were accepted. The cost for jurors and mileage was $1,866.09. Hearing testimony was begun October 25. Instructions were offered and argued, the case elaborately argued and given to the jury before noon November 5. In less than thirty minutes the jury reported a verdict of guilty! Motion to set aside the verfl diet was refused. An appeal was all lowed the petition and record prepar ed and forwarded to the .appellate court January 3, 1905. The court refused the writ of error. Subsequently counsel for McCue filed a supplementary petition, urging thel importance of the issue presented. The court, after due consideration, handed down an exhaustive written opinion,% denying the writ and emphatically declaring the verdict a just amd a justifiable one. VARDAMAN AGAIN TO FORE. Mississippi Governor Wilt Have Nona of the inauguration Ceremonies. A Washington dispetch says: Governor Vardaman of Mississippi has on in WTllieil I'J LUC SUM augural, indicating that he will have nothing to do with the inauguration, aifd will not send a delegation of high school students or any other delegation to participate in the exercises. The letter was addressed to L. Q. C. L^mar, a former Mlississipplan, now a resident of Washington, and is in response to an invitation to send a delegation of representative high I echool students. CROSSTIES FOR CANAL WORK. f Brunswick, Georgia, Firm Lands a $75,000 Contract j Brown & Co., the largest crosstie | dealers of Brunswick, Ga., closed a contract with the isthmian canal com- i mission Friday for eight cargoes of ( crossties, valued at upwards of $75,? 000. j The company were bidders against crosstie firms of the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coast. This shipment of crossties will be used in the construction of the Panama canal, and is the largest yet made by the company. WAR AGAINST POLYGAMISTS. j Idaho May Provide Penalty for Illegal Marriages. The Idaho house of representatives has passed the senate bills providing for fines and imprisonment as punishment for polygamy and adultery. Much sentiment has developed in favor of a move against adultery since it is claimed a polygamy law cannot be enforced because of the difficulty of proving marriage. " v *$ ${ ' 1 REBUKE PRESIDENT '::i Senators Decide Against Him Anent Arbitration Treaties. >v ^ ^ HiS PROTEST IGNORED 1 ? a Treaties Not Only Parsed in Amended Form, But President's Attitude Was Severely Scored- by Republican Members. A Washington special saye: President Roosevelt was Saturday admini* tered a severe and sensational rebuke by republican members of -the seaate. The clash which political proph- . * eta have predicted has come and the senators got first blood. Despite every influence he could bring to bear, but *p nine republican senators stood with the president on the issue he forced, _ ^ but it was not in the vote alone that ,? his republioan brethren paid forceful respects to their chief. They scored him right and left In - | their speeches. These were delivered c'-3j in secret session, it is true, but whet ''- iM occurred there is public property. He >> was scored In unmistakable terms by such men as Spooner and Foraker, .,jSS both heretofore ranked as strong ad ministration supporters, irhile even Senator Lodge joined with them and .-0 give utterance to his extreme grief that the president should have taken the grounds he did. The fight started early. Shortly after convening, Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, called If an executive session. Everybody knew that this meant consideration of the ^ arbitration treaties, this being taken - J up where It was left off Friday after- - jgS noon. The senators did not know that Sen- >$g' ator Cullom had in his possession a >^2 letter from the president urging him to ratify these treaties ask negotiated, ||ji that is without the amendment unanimously reported by the committee, ?1*|| which changed the word "agreement" to "treaty," so as to provide that no matter should be submitted to arbi- v'$| tration unless it was provided for In.a separate executive "agreement" as _'-M the original draft seta forth. But while the senators did not know of this letter, which was regarded by 'f'M Chairman Cullom as necessarily con-. fldential in Its nature and only to be f presented in secret seesion, very many other people did know of the letter and had read it, as copies were given out at the white house before the ?||g senate convened. This action added $gS fuel to the fire of disapproval. / As the arbitration treaties have thus / ; been amended by the senate commit- *^1 tee on foreign relations, the interests of the southern states have been com* ''ycM pletely safeguarded. The democrats of the committee did not insist upon an amendment speed- '*Jg fically referring to the repudiated bond matter or to claims against states la -/. * just those words, for "they found a ';$H way to bring about the desired end, ' and at the same time secure the aid . j , of the republican members of the-com- v|| mittee In doing It This is done by v the amendment providing that in each case submitted to arbitration there shall be a separate treaty. ^111 TAFT WINS BEFORE COMMUTES. vl|j Philippine Tariff Bill Favorably Re-N ported to the House. The house committee on ways and means Friday authorized a favorable report on the tariff bill for the Phil- >-. I ippines. The bill is a complete rert ion of the duties collected by the Philippine government on Imports from all countries. The schedule as prepared by See?1 i*-#, nr.f ?mPn f\c*A In AST retarjr iiui ncio **??. ?***??? ,g_ material particular. American-Japanese Treaty Signed. Secretary Hay has signed with Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minister, an ' arbitration treaty between the United States and Japan, Identical with those signed with other nations. S1GSBEE IS ON GUARD. Warns Dominicans Against Harming \/M Lieutenant Commander Leiper. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, commanding the Caribbean squadron, has notified 5 the Dominican authorities, cables the , ^ Puerto Plata, Santo Don/hgo, corre- ^ spondent of The New York Herald, v;| that if any harm is done to Lieutenant }:l$ Commander Leiper, the cruiser Detroit's executive offilcer, who la in Qjj charge of the custom house in Monte ^ Cristo, they will be held reeponsible for consequences. He landed alone without arma aad some persons threatened him. * TRAIN SMASHEf A SLED. As Result Man and Three Boys Were a Hurled to Death. , ?. A man and three boyo were killed; one boy fatally hurt and three more ~".jl ! were slightly Injured as the result ^ of a bob-sled carrying sixteen boyi dashing into a train at New Brighton, ;j 'M Pa., Saturday night. All the others r 3 on the sled miraculously escaped with -1 hardly a scratch. s