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THE PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO
REMOVE EMBARGO ON COTTON
Petition Prepared By Senator Hoke Smith and Signed By All
Southern Senators, Except One.
The following 1b a copy of the petition prepared by Senator Hoke
Bmlth, which was presented to President Wilson just before he sailed for
France this month. It bears the signatures of all, but one, of the Southern
•enators. It is hoped that the President will act favorably on this petition
Very shortly and that the embargo will be removed.
February Twenty-Fourth,
1919
Mr. President:—
We respectfully urge the necessity for immediately removing cotton
from the embargo list.
The present price at which cotton sells is below the estimated cost
of production in many localities. Bankers and merchants have advanced
upon it in many instances beyond the prices at which it now sells.
This situation is demoralizing business conditions in the States where
Cotton is raised, and threatens serious financial loss to cotton growers and to
merchants and bankers who have advanced money upon cotton.
Cotton, now on the embargo list, can only be exported where the
exportation is approved by the War Trades Board. A number of us have
learned recently of large sales of cotton which would have been made to
neutral countries, but for the fact that the War Trades Board refused li
censes, and cotton, being on the embargo list, could not be exported without
the licenses.
That you may appreciate the condition and the injury that this re
striction of markets places upon holders of cotton, we call your attention to
the fact that cotton was selling last September for thirty-eight cents a pound.
It was then that the subject of cotton was referred to the War Industries
Board with a view to stabilizing the price, or fixing the price. This inter
ference with the market broke the price and demoralized purchaser so that
buyers ceased to purchase at the thirty-eight cent market and bid down the
market to around thirty cents a pound. The War Industries Board finally
determined that it had no authority to fix a price and no power to maintain
It, but the injury had already been done.
Then it developed that the War Trades Board was seriously inter
fering with the export of cotton by restricting licenses for shipment even to
countries not contiguous to Germany and Austria, and tf6m which countries
cotton could not have reached either of the enemy countries. This still
further demoralized the cotton market and forced down the price.
If cottoy is taken off the embargo list, broader opportunities for sale
At once will tollow, and the injury which has been done to cotton raisers
and merchants and bankers in the sections where cotton is raised will be
reduced..
We earnestly appeal to you to take cotton off the embargo list and
permit it normally to be sold and shipped where purchasers are willing
to buy.
The cotton raiser has suffered more from the war than any class
of our citizens. He is not now asking the Government to give him the
assistance which is going to other farm products. We only ask that he
be relieved from burdens placed upon him by his own Government.
Respectfully,
North Carolina:
F. M. SIMMONS.
LEE S. OVERMAN.
South Carolina: —
ELLISON D. SMITH.
WM. P. POLLOCK.
Georgia:-
HOKE SMITH.
THOS. W. HARDWICK.
Florida: —
DUNCAN U. FLETCHER.
PARK TRAMMELL.
Alabama:
JNO. H. BANKHEAD.
OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD.
Tennessee: —
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Since the inconvenience brought
about by war conditions of secur
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clubs, such as dye, cleaning pre
parations, coal, etc., has been
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%
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For Administration.
G E ORGTA —Henit County.
To whom it may oonern: J. Sam Bran
nan having made application to me to be
made permanent administrator upon the
estate of J. W Bran nan. late ot said
county, notice is hereby given that said
application will be heard at the regular
term of the court of ordinary for said
county, to held on the first Mondav in
April, 1919. Witness my hand and offi
cial signature, this 26th day of Feb 1919.
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
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For Administration.
GEORGIA—Henry County.
To whom it may concern : C. M. Rape
having made application to me in due
form to be appointed permanent adminis
trator upon the estate of W. H. Stansell,
late of said county, notice is hereby given
that said application will be heard at the
regular term of the Court of Ordinary for
said county, to be held on the first Mon
day in April, 1919.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this 6th day of March. 1919.
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
