The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 25, 1911, Image 5
LAWYERS RULE
leakers ef Ike Legal Prefessiea Rn Ike
Uaiteel Slates as Ike
FIGURES AMPLY PROVE
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The Ordinary Business Ban Mann*
facturer or Agriculturalist Has
IJttle to Say or Do in the Manage
ment of this Great and Glorious
Nation.
The government of the United
States is run by the lawyers. The
statistics on this point are overwhelming
and leaves no doubt that
the ordinary business man, manufacturer
or agriculturalist has little to
say in the affairs of the nation. How
completely tho present congress is in
the hands of the lawyers may be
judged by the fact that they number
more than 65 per cent of its total
members, says the Washington correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution.
Of the 4 80 members of both senate
and house, 8 04 are lawyers. A
few of the others have been trained
in the law, but are now engaged in
other occupations. The judicial
branch of the gocernment is, of
course, given over entirely to lawyers.
But the same Is almost true of
tho executive branch. President
Taft is a lawyer. So are Secretaries
Knox, MaoVeagh, Dickinson, Wickersham,
Hitchcock, Fisher and Nagei.
Thus of the nine members of the
cabinet, seven have bad a legal train
ing.
In congress the lawyer Is kins beyond
dispute. In the senate there
are 32 Republican lawyers and
the same number of democratic lawyers.
Tn the house the republicans
have ninety-nine lawyers and the
democrats 145 Tihus 70 per cent of
the senators are members of the bar
and 63 per cent of the representatives.
The representation of other
occupations in congress 4b ho small
as to be insignificant as compared
with the army of lawyers. In both
houses combined there are only twenty-six
merchants, twenty-four farmers,
twenty-three editors and twelve
manufacturers.
Of course, many of the lawyers in
congress are also engaged in other
occupations, such as banking, real
estate, manufacturing and agriculture,
and many of them are assoeiateed
with large industrial corporations.
But in classifying the occupations of
members of congress for the purposes
of this article, each man has been put
down under the vocation in which he
is principally ?engaged. Here is a
table which shows the occupations of
United Stttes senators in the present
congress:
Occupation of Senators.
Repub- Demolican.
cratic.
Bawyers 3 2 3 2
Merchants 4 2
Farmers 1 3
Manufacturers. . . 3 0
Editors 1 2
Capitalists 3 0
Bankers 1 0
Physicians 1 0
Cattle raisers. ... I 0
Mine owner. ... 0 1
Lumber 1 0
Occupation not given 3 0
In the house of representatives the
diversity of occupations is greater
% after the big list of lawyers Is passed.
Twenty three different lines of business
are represented in the house, according
to the official director, and
twenty-nine members do not state
their occupations. Here is the table:
Occupation of Representatives.
Repub- Demolican.
cratic.
1j awyers 9 9 145
Farmers 9 14
Merchants 11 9
Editors 8* 12
Manufacturers. . . 4 j 5
T.nmhor 4 4 I
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I Real estate. ... 4 2
Physicians 1 4
Rankers 6 1
Teachers 1 2
Hatters 0 2
Coal operators... 2 0
Miners 0 ? 2
Cattle raisers. . . 1 1
Telegraph oper . . 1 1
Ironmonger. ... 1 0 {
Builder 1 0 1
Printer 1 0 1
Oil operator. . . 0 I 1
Ironworker. ... 0 1
Hotel keeper. ... 0 1 1
Author 0 1 1
Naval architect. . . 0 1 f
Occupation not giv,en
16 13
Includes one socialist.
The naval architect mentioned in i
the above table is Richmond Pear- 1
son Hobson, of Alabama. The an- i
thor is E. W. Townsend, of New I
Jersey, and the Iron worker is Frank t
Buchanan, of Illinois, and the build- 1
er and hotel-keeper are William M. 1
Calder and George H. Lindsay, of t
New York, respectively.
He Died a Hero.
After saving eleven lives in a gas d
explosion and fire in a building op- c
posite the Detroit, Mich., central po- a
lice station, Police Lieutenant Henry p
Walpole staggered to the street early n
Thursday morning and fell dead, stif- f
focated by smoke. *
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WOULD HEAR BLEASE.
Refused Holiday and Mill Workers
Take it Anyhow.
/The workers in the Ware Shoals
Manufacturing Company, located at
Ware Shoals, have given the management
notice that they do not intend
to work Thursday when Governor
Blease speaks at Ware Shoals . The
mill workers had asked for a holiday
in order to hear the speech by Governor
Blease, but the miil management
refused to shut down for the
day. Then the mill workers gave
notice of their intention to leave the
mill for the day.
The men are quoted as saying:
"We are going to hear Governor
Blease. The mill will have to do
I" ? ?? ni/inc,n
wiiiiout lie. uuvt'i uur ur?nsv
speaks Thursday at Ware Shoals.
The president of the Ware Shoals
Manufacturing Company Is 13. D.
Reiigel, of the Reigels who own the
Relgal Sack Company, of Jersey City,
N. J.
The mill is located near the Saluda
River. There will he given a picnic
Thursday and on this occasion the
Governor will speak. A telegram
Wednesday afternoon indicates that
two mills will close Thursday for the
speaking at Ware Shoals.
10,000 LUTHERANS WORSHIP.
Church's Largest Service Since the
Days of Luther.
What was declared to have been
the largest Lutheran devotional service
since the days of Martin Luther
was held in the Coliseum at St.
Louis Sunday afternoon, where 10,000
persons gathered to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of the Rev. Dr C. F. W.
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wanner, wno is creuneu wmi reviving
the Lutheran Church in the
United States. The celebration was
in connection with the celebration
there of the Missouri Synod of the
Lutheran Church, comprising 3,000
eoncregations in the United States
with a membership of 900,000.
A oil or lis of 4,000 voices, including
3,000 children and student of
Concordia Seminary, founded by Dr.
Walther, in St. Louis, sang and an
orchestra of seventy-five pieces, made
up of all the local Lutheran churches,
played.
Socialism in Kngland.
Although Croat Britain is hnown
in history as a monarchial nation,
vet she has marched a long distance
from individualism to paternalism in
government during the last fifty
years. The old idea that the internal
function of government was mainly
to perform police duty is discarded
entirely by all sections in parliament.
This was conclusively seen in the
favorable reception accorded the
government measure of insurance
against sickness and non-einployinent
by which 1 4,000,000 of people will
affected. Conservatives, nationalists
and laborites vied with the liberals
in their enthusiastic support.
The experiment will be watched with
great interest on this side of the water
where the question of sickness and
non-employment among working people.
even if not so pressing as in England,
is one of increasing importance.
Anyway, the new collectivism with
its solitude for the welfare of the
masses is infinitely better than the
old system which practically ignored
them while it favored the aristocracy
with its feudal power and
usage.
Clark, Wilson ainl Harmon.
A poll of editors by the St. Louis
Republic, which was recently ttken,
shows that fifty of the one hundred
editors, who replied, favor Champ
Clark as the Democratic Presidential
J I J _ l - l_ II ..1 _ 1 4 J?..
CHiiuiuaie in uie ntJAL eieutiuu. uuvernor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
is next, and Governor Harmon,
of Ohio, is third.
A Very OI<l Horse.
E. S. Richardson, of Tyler, N. IT.,
drives a horse that is known to he at
least 3 9 years old. It is the last
horse that Dr. Gage, of Briar Hill
and Concord, owned, and it was (given
to Mr. Richardson by the doctor's
daughter, Mrs. Morrill, 16 years
ago. The horse is in fine condition
for its age.
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Bold Masked Bobbers.
At Los Angeles, Lack Doyle's ]
lolnnn fnntnna a a a fralnlnir pamil
7lll\/v/ll I lUIHVUO V* IV VI M 1 II I II p W??>At ]/ J
ror prize fighters was held up Wed- j
riesday night by two masked robbers. ,
rhe robbers stood seven men, includ- ,
ng a eonsta.ble, against a wall, rob>ed
and then locked their victims in ,
die rear yard which is surrounded by
i fence. The bandits escaped. j
Fell and Itrokc His Neck.
John Strong, colored, while walk- i
ng the Seaboard track entering Co- f
umbia from North, caught his foot i
n the cross ties and fell and broke
lis neck, according to his antenvor- r
em statement. Coroner Walker, i
lowever, holds his companion, Wal- f
ace Rustin, to await further inves- i
igation. * p
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Want Case Reopened.
Attorney General Lyon was Thurs- <
lay requested by the new dispensary 1
oniniission to proceed with the case
Lgainst the Richland Distilling com- \
any for the recovery of the judg- \
aent of approximately $700,000 8
ound a year ago .by the old dispen- t
ary commission. * <3
WHAT IT HAS DONE
GREAT AND GOOD WORK DONE
BY THE FARMERS' UNION.
President Barrett Points Out What
This Grand Organization Has
Done for the Farmer.
To the Officers and Members of the
Farmers' Union:
A new epoch was written in American
history when the Farmers' UnInn
honanio a trnlv ntifinnnl nri'flnl
/HUtion. Other associations of farmers
had preceded it. But they
had fallen by the sword of partisan
politics or had failed to hitch enthusiasm
to the harvest?so they
fell.
I speak advisedly when I say that
the Farmers' Union is the first organization
in history to successfully
join theory tfith practice, to begin
the movement of weeding the politicians
from the innermost councils
of the farmer, and to impress upon
the Latter that the Improvement of
his lot rests not in the hands of some
far-off "uplifter" or hy-by-night reformer,
but with himself.
Today the world asks less for rhetoric
and more for results. This is a
very slight summary of what we have
accomplished together with a state
ment of what we yet hope, with the
aid of the Almighty and our own
courage, to accomplish:
We have 1,02 8 warehouses, mainly
for storing cotton. Mississippi
leads the warehouse movement, with
a million-dollar corporation.
We own and operate a large number
of elevators and terminal agencies
for the handling of grain.
We own and operate 245 packing
houses.
Wo own and operate dozens of
newspapers.
We own and operate coal mines.
We own and operate several banks,
flour mills, creameries, pickle factories,
several hundred stores, an implement
factory, a phosphate plant,
a phosphate mine.
We own and operate tobacco factories
and warehouses, produce exchanges,
fertilizer factories, peanut
warehouses, a peanut recleaner,
many cotton grading schools, co-operative
life and fire insurance companies.
Any number of other general business
agencies are owned or controlled
by members of the Farmers' Union.
In (his connection, it must not be
forgotten that the Union does not officially
own these concerns. We
are not a close corporation. In <every
instance, ownership or control rests
in individual members, consorting together
for their own benefit. That
is tlie true spirit of co-operation.
He fore this order was organized,
statistics showed that 70 per cent, of
the farmers in the South were
blighted with the curse of the mortgage.
We have cut down the percentage
by one-half, and our work in
that direction has hardly begun.
Tliie influence of the Farmers' Union
is written upon many of the best
laws put in recent years upon state
and national statute 'hooks.
In many states we have secured
radical increases in public school
appropriations. In many of the
states the Farmers' Union has been
instrumental in the establishment of
agricultural colleges.
Other important legislation, state
and national, now pending, is an indication
of the resistless influence of
the organization among American
farmers. We have made systematic
canvasses of the various legislatures,
and of several successive sessions of
congresses. There is a new viewpoint
in Washington toward the
American farmer?and the might, of
the Farmers' Union, demonstrated in
elections, is responsible for it.
These achievements are the outward
sign of a great new movement
in American agriculture. But they
are not comparably important to the
spirit of fraternity which we have
wrought up among tho farmers of
this nation. It is fraternity, appealing
to intelligence, that has wrought
this progress. And the same force i
will develop in a thousand unex- :
pected directions to solve the prob- I
lems of the American farmer.
isouioie among toe triumpns 01
the organization is that one which 1
has brought a social awakening
among the farmers. In many states
It has brought thousands of white
women and children out of the cotton
fields into the schools and the homes
?where they belonig. Had it done
nothing else, the existence thus far
3f the Farmers' Union would have
seen justified by this transformation,
;hat is merely in its beginning.
I cite these facts as the basis of
in argument that now is the time
'or every American farmer to aftllate
with, this organization. s
It has passed the stage of experiment.
It is an assured, an acliiev- o
ng, nsrmanent institution. Every h
armer, however small, who joins it, h
ncreases his own power by the or- v
rnntvail miaflit At' I) la 111 ran million It
)aiu/i^u uiigiiu vi ii iq win w uiiiiiuu "
>rethren. p
If we have saved many millions for p
>ur 'members .by co-operation and v
eglslation if we have defeated sev- p
iral congressmen who were tin- e
vorthy of office, several senators who f<
vere untrue to pledges; if we have a
jradually instilled into our people, h
>y gruelling, persistent labor, the
loctrine of business methods in s
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SENATOR TILLMAN
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DENIES STORIES ABOUT HIS
HEALTH BEING BAD.
Will Not Go to Washington During
This Session Unless He Is Urgently
Needed.
Your correspondent called on Senator
Tillman at his home at Trenton
recently. Discussing the repeated
stories about Ivis bad health, the Seuator
said:
"These yarns are so evidently sot
afloat by those who do not like me
and are anxious for the time to come
when my obituary shall be really
written and not recalled by the managing
editors, as was the case when
I was last taken ill in February,
11)09, that I feel It is due my friends
to say that as far as 1 can judge my
health is slowly but steadily improving.
As the appearances go I
ought to .be strong and vigorous,
but physically I am very weak. But
T n?n Rtrnni* pnnnirli tn walk nvar Pip
farm with the aid of a cane and also
fro ride horseback, which I regard a
most excellent exercise.
"I mount my horse unaided and
am in the saddle almost every day
for an hour or two. The best sign
is that of late I sleep better and
without a backset T ought to recover
reasonably good health. My appetite
is good; my digestion is good, and
the only reason that I am not in my
seat in the senate in Washington is
that I do not feel that tlie necessities
of the situation are such that I
should forego the opportunity to get
as much restored as l will ever he by
staylny at home instead of swelterinf
in a hotel in Washington.
"I have a pair with a Republican
senator, Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont,
who is my good friend and a most
excellent gentleman. He always observes
the pair scrupulously so that
no harm comes to the Democrats or
the State by my being away. I have
indicated to my Democratic colleagues
that if an extingency arises I
will report to the senate at once. I
keep in touch with Senator Martin,
the Democratic leader, by wire and
constituents need not.be uneasy about
my neglecting the essential work of
a senator.
"The routine work which can be
(lone by letter or telegram I am attending
to as I have always done for
the last fear. After my daughter
Sophie's marriage on the 28th of
June I hope to make some visits to
warm friends in various parts of the
Stat<?, hut I will not go to Washington.
unless summoned by the Democratic
leader."
farming; if we have weeded out of
the organization some of the- most
unprincipled scoundrels in the land,
and thereby strengthened it?Have
we not the right to go before
the American farmer, and, on the
iv>nmvl r> f f li i tiou rl nmt lii/1 him In liiu
I ?. VVI V4 1/iVI II 1111 lit llld
own interest and our interest to join
with us?
We are entering upon a tremendously
important era in our national
The supreme court gave a decisiHon
first or reap his legitimate share of
the last, unless hie is organized.
Do you object to the order hehistory.
Organization is its keynote;
servation of energy and effort its
slogan.
Whether hard timps or good times
are ahead, the farmer will not be
able to minimize the effect of the
cause you know some crooked customers
in it? There are many such
in every religious denomination, in
many secret orders, one or two black
sheep in your own family.
Does that fact keep you out of the
church, the secret order, or cause
you to desert your family? Hardly.
it maKi'H you more anxious 10 e,o in
and cure these evils, if you are worth
being called a man, and not a beast.
That same influence should bring
you into the Farmers' Union, with
the divine determination to help
your brother man?and if you help
your brother man, you cannot avoid
helping yourself, and your children
and your children's children.
Some foolish people have believed J
we wanted to injure the small mer- 1
diant, and have therefore criticised 1
is, or refused to a (filiate with us. *
Tell such people that we do not 1
ntend to put tlip small merchant, or l
my other rightful business factor, r
>ut of commission. We want to co- \
>perate upon equal terms with the msiness
man. We need the mer- f
'hunt wo noort tho hn tlio t
Manufacturer, the teacher, the editor, t
he preacher, other professional peo- i
>le. And they nil no?d us, ns ji
riends, and not as suspicious outiders.
i
The greatest drawback the Ameri- u
an farmer has ever labored under I
ins been his willingness to he swayed u
>y the man who flattered him, and o
i'ho would not tell him unpleasant, t
ut wholesome, truths. This day Is o
assing! The farmer is learning to a
ick the cotton strands out of the lj
,ool?where the politician and the
ubllc man is conoorned. The quick- o
r ho completes the job, the better ti
or his own material, moral, mental fi
nd spiritual salvation and those of c<
is brethren. n
The Farmers' Union has survived
ome of the most develish schemes
LABOR LEADERS UPHELD.
The Supreme Court Deckles Case In
Their Favor.
Setting aside the sentences of Imprisonment
Imposed by the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia for
alleged disobedience to a boycott injunction,
the Suprme Court of the
United States Wednesday held that
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, president, vice president
and secretary, respectively, of
the American Federation of Laboc,
had been erroneously sentenced to
jail on a charge of contempt of local
court.
The Court unanimously held that
the only sentences that could be im
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poseu upon me imiur .eaueio
lii.es. 1". so 1.old!op. iba Supreme
Court of tj.e United States found
that the Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia and the Supreme
Court of the District erred in
treating the contempt proceedings as
a criminal case and not a civil one.
The effect of holding the proceedings
a civil one was to make jail sentence?
impossible. Hence the judicial sentences
had to be set aside.
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BRYAN CJ1VKS HIS YIKWS.
Trust Question More of an Issue Now
Than for Years.
William Jennings Bryan, while at
Toronta, Out., on a lecture tour, said
Wednesday regarding the Standard
Oil decision: "This decision is likely
to make the trust question more of
an issue than it has been in recent
years. While on the face of it the
decision seems a victory for the government.
it virtually amends th? antitrust.
law by construing? it to prohibit,
not all restraints of trade, but only
such restraint a? the courts, aftei
each lengthy litigation, nay decide
to be unreasonable." It. will be noticed
that Rryan's views coincide
closely with the opinion rendered by
.Justice Marion.
Tfie South as a Pace Maker.
Xo one can read the Department of
Agriculture's statement of farm crops
K>y States for 1910 without fully
realizing that Southern agriculture
now grows faster than Western and
is at last, after many years -of difficult
adjustment to new but far
sounder conditions, coming into its
own, says the Charlotte Observer. No
State in or near the cotton belt failed
to improve its rank except Douissiana:
and this one exception is undoubtedly
due to conditions created
by the boll weevil. Louisiana had
almost quit raising cotton for the
tim?e being;, and had not done much
more than offset the loss with other
crops. Under the circumstances her
showing is as good as that of Texas,
which has had time for adjustment
to boll-weevil conditions and which
now takes first place by a large margin
from Illinois.
South Carolina's leap from twentyfirst.
to thirteenth among American
States, in contrast with Kansas' drop
from fourth to tenth, is the most impressive
exhibit of all. North Carolina's
gain of 1 8.3 per cent., or from
twenty-second to eighteenth place,
was much larger than Texas made
and was, in fact, the fourth largest
in a fast-gaining South.
This remarkable showing is largely
due to the high price of cotton, but
let us remember that cotton Vould
never have brought such a price had
not the Southern farmer learned to
raise, and had he not been provided
by manufacturing development, with
a market for, various other crops.
Want Case Responded.
Declaring that Win. Lorlmer's
election to the United States Senate
was brought about by bribery and
corruption, and that the gravity of
the situation involving tlve integrity
and good name of Illinois and the
welfare of the country demands further
investigating, tlie Illinois senate,
by a vote of ,11 to 1 !>, adopted a resolution
asking that the United States
Senate no-open the Lorimer investigation
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Salutes an ()!<1 Warship.
With the ship's band playing the
national air and the blue jackets
with rifles at "present," the United
States battleship Idaho Thursday sa- *
luted the resting place of the old
wooden United States war sloop Mis- 1
dssippi, of Admiral Farrarerut's fleet, *
iddled and sunk by the Confederate j'
and batteries at Port Hudson on the
Mississippi river during the civil j
var.
?ver dovisr.i to crush .in organiza- ^
Ion. W'.h infinitely loss money
han any organization of our numercal
iniportanoo, we have accomdished
vast results.
We are turning now with increasng
emphasis to the job of distribiting
our products in a business way. *
Icretofore, many counselors have
rged and "helped" us in the matter r
f production. Now we are seeing
hat distribution, scientific and co- n
perative, is even more important, ft
s Newt Gresliam saw when he ftVst a
munched this iciroat undertaking.
We are working toward the ideal
f making the Farmers' Union the
ransformlng influence in American p
arm life. To that end we ask the w
o-operation of the wealthiest and the n
lost poverty stricken farmer. ei
CHAS. S. BARRETT. tl
Union City, Ga., May 15, 1911.. ci
SAYS ITS BAD
Mr. Parker Deeeeces the leftkaib #f
Ike New Yark Cattin Exckaage.
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SPEAKS YERY PLAINLY
t c
Has Argument With the President
of the Exchange Who Woe Presn
cut, Hut the Manufacturers Awmh
elation Agrees With Mr. Parker
and Adopts Condemnatory Resolution.
The feature of the first day'e ses^
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sum ui me Aiuwicau v^onon Manufacturers'
association, which met on
Thursday at Richmond, Va., was a
a heated discussion in the afternoon
between Arthur Marsh, president of
the New York cotton exchange, and
Lewis W. Parker of Greenville, chairman
of the committee on relations
with cotton exchanges, The occasion
was the report of the committee
and the result was practically an
open rupture of the strained relations
which have existed for some
time between the association and the
exchanges.
Pr. Parker's assertion that the New
York cotton exchange caters to speculators
rather than to the need? of
legitimate business, and that the
prices of cotton have boon manipulated
by members of the exchange, to
tho great detriment of both spinners
and producers, was cheered to
the echo by the convention. Mr.,
Marsh warmly defended the exchange
and pointd out that It was an association
of merchants trading in cotton,
with rules in the Interest of the
merchants rather than in that of the
manufacturer or the producer.
The convention decided with Mr.
Parker, adopting the report of the
committee unanimously and continuing
the committee for further conference
with representatives of the
exchanges and with instructions that
if relief is not given it shall seek a
remedy through lgislative channels.
The gist of the committee's report
si as follows:
"Manufacturers' association should
have no fight against cotton exchanges
if those exchanges truly reflect
conditions of spot cotton. On the
contrary, an exchange, if legitimately
managed and regulated, and if the
prices rulinlg thereon are truly repwtyitatl
ve of spot rvalues, is and
should he of decided advantage to
cotton manufacturers, as also to producers,
but if, on the contrary, tho
prices reflected on the exchanges are
mnrolir I h.o roonlt a f Oinonnlnli ?
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or against the value of the comodity,
or if those prices are only reflective
of the speculative actions
of one element as against another
element, then the exchange become?
a serious disadvantage to the manufacturers
and to producers and ceases
to he a legitimate body.
"The two principal exchanges in
the United States are the New Orleans
and New York cotton exchanges.
Under the rules of the New
Orleans exchange the prices ruling
thereon are in much closer relation
to the prices of spot cotton than as
a rule there are the prices of contracts
on the New York cotton exchange.
"Uy reason of the rules of the New
York cotton exchange, it is seldom
that the prices of contracts on that
exchange are on a parity with spot
cotton or truly representative of
the price of spot cotton in the community
of production plus the carriage
change to market.
"At times the prices of contracts
are much above the prices of spot
cotton. At other times they are much
below.
"Your committee is forced to conclude
that a majority of the members
of the New York cotton exchange are
more impressed with th.e view that
it is to their interest to cater to speculators
than to make of their body
a legitimate exchange reflective of
the true value of the commodity In
which they deal.
"Your committee recommends that
his association once more express its
earnest hope that the cotton exchanges,
and| particularly tjhe New
fork exchange, will rectify their
mles so as to make a true and proper
relation between contract prices
ind spot cotton; that if these rules
>e not so properly regulated as to
nake this relation, that your commitee
be authorized in the name of the
ssociation to present such memorials
o the legislative bodies as may lead
o a proper regulation by them of
he cotton exchanges."
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Negro Democrats Meet.
The negro National Democratic
Convention opened at Indianapolis,
nd., for a three days' session Wed
esday, and more than two hunded
delegates were in attendance,
antes S. Greene, of Georgia, is chalrlan,
and W. H. Grant, formerly
udltor in the treasury dei>artment
t Washington, is secretary.
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First Gotten ltcport.
The first cotton report of the deart
nient of agriculture this season
rill be issued Friday, June 2, at .
oon, eastern time, and will give the
stimated acreage of cotton planted
tiis year with the condition of the
rop on Bay 25.
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