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' f \3S£y.; 1* * THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Our Great Clean-Sweep Sale Continues Tomorrow Furs. New tad etyllsh Fur Neckpiece* In black and colore; wortb up to $3.50; Clean Sweep SA. Sale price OoO Very handaome Fur Boat, Bcarfe and Collarette", new and laatUon- abla; worth $« to $10; •• QA Clean Sweep price .... »*■■«*/ Waists. Suits., Skirts. In tha Clean Sweep Sole we are offering some of the greatest bar gains ever known In tailored suits. Including • line of brand nsw Eton, Pony Coat and London box offsets, worth up to $1$ and $15 C7 QA au choice .. .. ,. ,, t ,9M‘Vy 1 M ww* m Ladle** and Mieses' Skirts of plain and fancy all-wool fabrics; worth up to $1.10; ClosnAB QO Bwtep price Ladles' Skirts of- fins Frsnch Voile, Chiffon, Panama and Taf- fete silk; $10 v*lues;—BA BA Clean Bwaep Bala price WW.0U Ladle*' Walat* of line Taffeta alike, In all color* and of white . China Silk; $5.00 value; £f .Qg Ladle*' Petticoat* of highest trade guaranteed Taffeta *llk In all colore; $10 value; ^>9 A T Clean Bweep price .. . » Coats. Ladle*' Long Coat* of plain fa bric" and fancy mixture*; worth up to $15; Clean Sweep $3.90 Other Clean-Sweep Specials—Second Floor Mine*’ and Children'* Ceate In atyllah long ef fect*, worth up to $t.00; $1.90 Infant*' Long Cloak* of white caehmere, nicely em broidered; tomorrow. . 69c Ladle*’ Union Suit*. Veet* Boy*' tults of good wool- end Pant*; very apeclal to. mixed fabric*, well made; 180 , 87c Mi****' and Boya* Under wear in the Clean-Sweep Sale at, per garment, IOO n • V Boyt* Knee Pants, extra well made; 60c value; Clean-Sweep, 19c Skirt Lengths Juat 100 full Skirl Length* of beautiful Imported tailor ■ulting*. cloth*, cravenettea and other fabric* In'black, plain color* and mixture*, worth $1.50 to $3 a yard, In the Clean-Sweep Sale at, per full akirt g j Qg pattern Fine Silks We will continue the great'Silk Sale tomorrow, Includ ing yard-wide guaranteed taffeta* and acore* of new fancy silks,.plaids. pic.—none worth 1*** than $1.00 a yard—at the Clean-Sweep price of .. •tfO —Zephyr Gingham* In new.pattern*; 15c value; clean- rweep C A price W Bleached Table Damask; wide; worth 50c; dean-sweep 4Ra price Whit* Dtmllle* and Nalnaooka; real l»c quality; clean- 7f* •weep price * w Men'* Underwear; heavy fleeced: rorth $1.00 a garment; Clean Bweep price A Dozen Specials on First Floor i quilted $1.98 Bed Spread*, genuine Maracltlea: $5.00 value; Clean Sweep price Bleached Sheet*, full all* and hemmed ready for u*e; dda Clean Sweep price. Pillow Caae*. full alee, bleached; well made; Clean Sweep Q r price.... ®w Table Napkin*, good (lie. good quality; Clean Sweep Price 25c per doxen... Framed Picture*. 10x34 Inch**; real $$.00 value*; Clean CA. Sweep price i,.OUD Ladle*' Handkerchief*, plain white hematltched; Clean 1— Sweep price..,............... IV Men'* Handkerchief*, white linen, hematltched; Clean Sweep A . ... •tO Ladle*' Hand Bag* In fine leath er*: $1.50 to $3.00 valuta; AA n Clean Sweep price.... Glove Sale - Two-Claep $1.50 Kid Otov*stnbt*ck.~whtta AOft gray, brown, tan and red w¥w Full elbow length *IIk Gloves, $3.00 grade; Clean Sweep price .... Full elbow length Kid Glove* In black and^ O JIG color*, $4.60 value .. .w" *“W Domestics, Etc 98c New Flannelette* and Outing*, worth up to 13 1-3 and • 15 cant*; extra xoft finished Sea Island; plain or twilled’ Towarcraaur-airtn one at the Clean Sweep prlci led with drop $4.95 Child'* heavy Iron Bed wlth drot •Idea and all-ateel spring* Quarter-sawed Golden Oak fan cy center table*, with; OQ. lower ehelf .. . 300 One Velvet Rugs with fring ed ends, full five feet 50q 30 by $0 Inch Reversible Smyrna Rug*, In new no. design* WOO Handsome Nottingham Lae* Cur tain*, $ 1-3 yard* long; 7Qa $3.00 value; pair • Large golden oak Dreuer* with French plate mirror*, QB $30 value 9* eWW STABLE PRICE OF 12 CENTS FOR COTTON ADVOCATED BY GOVERNOR HOKE SMITH IN HIS BIRMINGHAM SPEECH FRIDAY Outlines Plan by Which This May Be Accomplished. MUST SELL CROP MONTH BY MONTH -Says If Entire System of Cotton Exchange Could Be Broken Would Ben efit Growers. Special to The Georgian. Birmingham. Ala. Jan. 1$.—Oovem- w-elect Hoke 8tnlth, of Georgia, In his si*cch to the Southern Cotton As- lorlaiinn here thle morning, advocated • stable price of 13 cents for cotton year In and year out. such result* be lt's reached by perfect co-operation •motig the grower*. Ill* "perch was a strong presentation °l conditions now prevailing and the thing? the farmer* mu«t do to come fully Into their own. He said: liemleinen of the Southern Cotton Aitociatlon: It gives me pleasure to be * lth you, becauae the result you desire to accomplish concerns the welfare of *ll th- pcople of our section and the prosperity of the nation. " hue ordinarily the law* of supply «nd demand can be relied upon to bring to. producer a Just price for. the prod- Uf t "f hla labor, artificial conditions "»>' exist which Interfere with the nat ural course of trade. Thl* Is the »ltu- •tlon which applies to the sale of lint co-ton by the farmer. it in- farmers of the South sold their cut. a, to the owners of the mills of the •arid a* the mills need the cotton, “lih n„ Interference from the false es- thnati-* of crop*, or false estimates of 'aim treated by speculative exchange* •nd I ., pet shops, there Is every ,rea, *" n t 1,,-tieve that cotton would today ’7 cents a poun<l. , ,, 1 «s«li to see the cotton growers c»rfty •"nkc to the true value of their great I would have for them the co- "t-ratmn of all the people of our sec- |' r and the sympathy of all patriots jbr-.ii*h„ut the nation. , °«v»iopm*nt and Importance of Cotton Crop. *■' 1 1- consider the wonderful devel- nd Importance of this crop to force to th* commerce of our country. It has contributed more to make the annual balance of trade with the na tion" of the world in favor of the Unit ed States than any other commodity or Industry, and more than all other agri cultural products combined. — True Value of Lint Cotton, Realising how Important It Is that tho farmer should receive for his lint cotton a Just price, we should find It* true value, and wo should seek to re move a* far sa possible thoee Influence* and China among the earlier producers of lint cotton. Investigation show* that cotton for several centuries has been grown to a limited extent In nearly all part* of the world where the climate approximated her own. The year 1841 marked an epoch In the history of cotton production. The great source of the world's supply (the United States) was cut off by war. pnd th* cotton growing resources of every part of the globe were tested to their utmost to supply the demand of foreign mill*. In 1$$3 representatives of thlrty-flve which cause -fluctuations In the market different countries met to discuss n ur J.. ( th* s . u , In 1-;, *75 bale* of cotton were ex R" r '' : In 1800, 34,000 bales were ex- pm.-i tly the end of 40 year* such "i' th.- demand for lint cotton, and , » r b i.is the capacity of thle section to itM-i,,, u, t [tat in 1840 the crop reach t • .nooo bales. Eighty-live p* n »' 'hot time of this enormous crop , " 'oped abroad. i'j.iik the |a«t century the cotton '»» sold for $16,000,000,000, and S' 1 '''died State* has received front '• ' c; rt of cotton during this same * 1 "1.000,000,000. . ur American cotton crop* for the it" preceding the crop of 190« " '-r 13.301,000,000. It created the and which depreciate the price while It Is In the hands of the fanner. Lint cotton Is the great raw material from which the people of the world are clothed. An dement to be considered In de termining the truo value of lint cotton Is the profit which should be made by the manufacturers to encourage the construction of new mills, and the ablt tty of consumers of the manufactured product to purchase. At present prices of all product* manufactured from lint cotton, the mill owners would make handsome divi dend*. although the raw material cost 13 cents a pound when passing from the hands of the farmers. The price* now being paid for labor placo the manufactured products easily within th* reach of consumers, snd this would be true even If the manu facturer were compelled to add hts ad ditional charge for th* manufactured product^based upon cotton at 15 cent* * ^hc" present price, however, of the manufactured product* tend to extend their use and to encourage the Increase of consumption. If the price of 12 cent* per pound could be fixed as the stable selling price by the farmers, the mill* using (he cotton would prosper. They could r«lv upon the ability of cot- sumers to pay for their output, and could constantly anticipate a steady Increase of demand, not alone due to the Increase of the world’s population, hut even more on account of the ad vance of civilisation and the Tequlre- ment of better clothing for- the use of the people of the world. Has No Serious Rival. Lint cotton must sold at a price at which It can successfully compete with wood, flax and silk a* th* raw material out of which clothing and similar goods are to be made. If we consider th* usual selling prices of flax, wool and silk and the cost of their pro'duetlon, no argument Is necessary to force the conclusion that as against these three raw materials the products manufac tured from lint cotton would have nothing to fear, even though lint cot ton cost 15 cents a pound. Nor Is there any danger that lint cot ton raised In ."'her countries could take measures by which the loss of the American crop could be supplied, great stimulus was given to the cult! vatton of cotton In India, Egypt, Afrt ea, Brazil and wherever cotton could be produced. By 1844 the supply of -cotton from these different- countries was very greatly Increased, but five years after the war th* Bouth had a] most regained her proportionate part rroni inu mu * ,1 states Its practical monopoly, even If Sur cotton were selling at 15 cents a 1 ” un Lint Colton Raised Abroad can trace the history of the use of lint cotton for many years. More than 3,»M years before Europe, Eng- 'Mbute, ale! Th* culture of cotton In nl ^ I j America conceived the Idea of hern state* began In 17*0. || y | n(t modern machinery to cotton manufacturing, a system of handspln- ning and weaving existed In India, and hv these methods the principal clothing of the people «f '"dl* was manufec . 'red In an ancient digest of the law* ) the crop reach- of th „ Hindoo*. urepared hy Manu. Elghty-llve P*r 80<l'years befme'«h; m'cou'nsnd cotton cloth appear. One ; 'm Is ns follows. -The sacrificial Ihr!*flil of thi* Brahman mum be mmle f # ,r m a.i nil to be put over the heed in 2L€a»°i.ndrod«£o« sheei' The Indians make their clothes of this tree The cultivation of cotton seem* to been confined t f re which has brought prosper - from foreign countries to our ... prosperity over $1,000.000,«*0. .■luring the past three years the cot- 1 r,, t> has sold for an average of . ,v. «,ar,nao annually. Two-thirds of Mme amount has been received • r 1 ' "ports, our cotton sold abroad “MugM back from the people of ■ r !l »'lon* in' three years th* vast . '•* u( 11,2*4,000,000 - to - give ute “ nJ hnv 1 gardens, and up time It was described by th* ‘ X and extolled ns a "beau- 1 L' V o ,:«• For several centuries ,lfu .. Entitles of cotton have been I"""'. ' but It ha. been raised 'V. for domestic us*. o** r e*ch f 'fainily spinning of the markets of the world, and an ef fort In 1873 to hold a second congress of nations for the purpose of consider ing the production of cotton outside of the United State* found but few of the original countries again represent ed. and many of those present were forced to admit that their experiment* In raising cotton had not been auc cessful. The cultivation of cotton I* there for* a very old Industry. It remained for the Southern states of our country' to make a great *ucces* of It* growth. Foreign Cotton Cannot Compete. The cotton plant Is greatly affected by the atmosphere, requiring different conditions at different periods of Its growth and development. The great advantage that we have In the South over those section* which seek to com pete with us In producing cotton I* that they as a rule are compelled to depend upon Irrigation alone, the air lacking that moisture which la required at cer tain periods of the growth of the cot ton plant, and which Is produced by rainfall. The fact that England has for many years mad* strenuous efforts to develop the culture of cotton In India, and that It has not been able to make It exceed Its present proportion*, and that Brad! has made no greater progress with her cotton, and that Germany ha* acconv pllshcd no more In her foreign posses •Ions, lustlllea the belief that the Unit ed Stales can maintain a practical mo nopoly of the lint cotton which goes to the mills of the world, and that no for eign country will seriously compete w ith the South Atlantic and gulf states In growing cotton. of course If lint cottqn were forced to an extravagantly high figure and re mained there, some danger might exist, but at the price of 13 to 15 rents a isiund, there la no reason to fear se rious foreign competition. Realising the Immense Importance to our country, a* a whole, and to our section especially, of making lint rotton bring Its just value, every good cltlxen should be ready to help produce this result, and nobody should hinder It. CauHs Depressing Market Value. Let me mention two causes which have prevented lint chiton from selling for It* Just value: 1. Th* us* of unfair mean* by out siders to depreciate the price. 3. The failure of farmers to use busi ness-like methods to maintain thg price. Cotton buyer* are largely Influenced In the prices which they voluntarily of fer for cotton by government reports of the quantity of cotton^ raised, and by the publications which go all over the world from the New York Cotton Exchange. , If thh government reports are manip ulated *0 that they show a larger pro duction than the real crop, the price Is depressed and the farmer I* the loser. Cotton Exchange. If the New York exchange permits Inferior cotton to be delivered In the place of midland cotton, without re quiring the man making the tender to pay the full difference In valun be tween the two, a false standard for the valuation of midland cotton Is thereby created. Indeed, the presence of a cotton exchange, from which a j ht . im inner* ' manufacturer cannot demand th* de- and weaving for u) «„ tlanw ] India livery of th* genuine ankle which he ha* bought. Is unfair and Inju riou*. if a cotton exchange Is permit- ted at all, tho man who buys cotton In It ought to have the right to de mand a genuine article of the exuct kind which Mo purchase*, 'and the man who sell* ought not to be permitted by any trickery to render useless to the buyer the article which he has con tracted to purchase. If the entire exchange system In which cotton futures are sold could he broken up, It would have an Immense Influence toward enabling the 1 farmer to obtain the true value of bis cot ton. We have passed an act of the legis lature driving the exchanges out of Georgia, and I wish to tell you'the act will be enforced with vigor and com pleteness. Where we cannot drive them out. we odd at least demand that when they •ell a bale of midland cotton they must deliver a bale of midland cotton, and not be allowed to depreciate the mar ket price of this Important commodity . . . by professing to sell midland cotton, th* true value of cotton, while at the following year would exceed hla tem- porary gatnr — Producer Should Fix Prio*. The farmer should be Informed aa to the true value of his cotton. He should reach a decision as to the price It la worth, and he should not sell un til he receives that price. We must get away from the practice of letting.the man who has the cotton to sell leave to the man who proposes to buy the ex clusive right of determining what he will give for the produce. The man who raises the cotton should flx the price at which he will sell. The difficulty about reaching this condition grows out of the vast num ber of those who are engaged In rais ing this staple. The number of buyers Is much less than the number of sell ers. A co-operative organisation throughout the cotton growing states, educating the people at home, Inspir ing them with a fixed purpose to obtain JORDAN IS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF S. G A. while In reality they deliver an article of comparative little value. I cite these two Instance* of unfair mean* used to depreciate the price of Ilfit cotton because they have recently been brought to public attention. How many more there ere I do not know. Whether the public would have known of these two but for the work of your association 1* most doubtful. But hav ing learned of them, a solid tight •hdtild be made from the Bouth to pre vent the harm which they have caused. Every man throughout the land should be made to know that the price* published by the Nqw York exchange do not represent the market price of midland cotton, but only represent the market price of Inferior cotton gath ered together to protect tho seller, am until that cotton exchange requires Its sellers to deliver genuine midland cot- Cnn, fit for use by manufacturers, the Injustlro of Its conduct should be told and told until It Is a byword through out the nation and throughout the world. Necessity of Organisation. An nrganlsad agency must exist In the cotton growing states, supported by the people of those states, to watch fully ferret out and expos* any effort anywhere by sinister method* to de preciate the market price of our staple. Change Mode of Sale. Until the last few years the farm ers of the South have followed the practice of selling prasttcatly all of their cotton as soon as It Is gathered The mill men of the world need this cotton, not In a lump, but distributed through twelve months. If the farmers Insist upon selling the 12,604,000 bales of cotton In sixty days, when It takes twelve months for the mills to uso It, they rlmply glut the market with their product. They force It Into the hands •peculator*, and the speculator would be. Indeed, foolish If he did not buy It at tho lowest price possible. It cannot be expected that the own ers of tho mills of the world will b* ready to carry $400,000,000 of raw ma terial. as well as manufactured pnd ucta which they must sell to tli. lr customers on time. The farmer should handle his crop so that the mill owner ran buy It practically a* he nerds 11 Any other couse will simply overstock the market and cause the farmer's owi cotton to depredate the value of hi own labors. If the full value of a cotton crop I" to be obtained Ty the man who pro- duers It, he should pursue a policy about ns follow*: First—He must by severe self-denial for one or two year* get out of debt. Second—lie must raise his own food supplies. Third—He must have on his own farm his own cotton ehed. prepared for the safe protection of his cotton, lust as he ha* his corn crib tn which ie takes car* of hi* com, or his bant In which he takes care of his hay. Fourth—He must sell his cotton through the year, month by month, and not dump It all on the market as soon as It Is ginned. Fifth—The men who ralre cotton must be furnished with knowledge of Its fruc value and steadily move the price up to a staple rate of 13 cent* a pound. A sporatlc high price for any one year'* crop I* not to be desired. Huch a course would Injur* the..farmer. It would hinder the work of th* manu facturers, lessening the consumption of the manufactured product encourage the fanner to excessive production the next year and leave him whet* In all probability hi* lo*s from low prices the same time It exposes and counteracts all unfair agencies which seek to bear the rotton market. Is an absolute ne- In IL fall of IMA a few man gathered In the city of Macon. Ua., to discus* this subject. They operated under the name of the Cotton Growers' Protective Association. Later on, as an out growth of this movement, came the Southern Cotton Association, organ ised In January, 1805, In the city of New Orleans 1 believe that directly and Indirectly the results which have come from that meeting have saved the cotton grow ers of the Bouth over $340,000,000. and this money has largely gone Into the pockets of the men who labored to raise the crop, and from their pockets It has gone out Into all the avenues of trade. When we remember that this crop has brought $14,000,000,000 of wealth from foreign countries Into the United Htates, It should make every thought ful man In the Union stop and realise how Important Is that section which renders such a public service, and how necessary It la to the commerce of the Union. I have not undertaken to refer to the expansion of our foreign market. This alone Is a subject for an entire speech. Nor have I referred to the proposed or ganisation to care for cotton In the hands of those In distress. I wish to emphasise what can be ac complished In a general way without diiueclattnff othermeans. — Twelve cents per pound Is a low es timate of the fair value of tint cotton In the hande of the farmers under pres ent conditions, and If It falls to brim that price, the failure Is due to the lac! o-operatlon amt good Judgment In matter of sales \nn the part of those who produce this staple. 1 go on* step further: As 75 per cent of the lint cotton which goes Into the man- ufucturles nf th* world Is produced In our country, the power resides with us to flx the selling price, and to tho ex tent thnt we fall tn receive the lust value of the product, wc are ourselves to blame. Let the minds of our men and wom en It* placed upon the problem nf the real value nf lint cotton, and realise the importance of making It bring Its full value. Let the press nf the Bouth make It their light. , v - l.et our congressmen and senators anil all our public officers see thnt this Is one of the most Important questions to which they can give their lime. I would welcome a conference nf the governors of the cotton growing slates tn see what could be done by uniform legislation to is-rfect our own statistics for the use nf the farmefb as tn the quantity nf the crop, the world's de mand and the truo value'of lint cotton. Let the farmers cease to depend upon the buyers to tlx the price. Let them Intelligently and firmly seek to make th* price as stable as possible and flx tha price for themselves. REBELS IN AfRICA Capetown, Jan. 18.—A dispatch to the Cape Times from Port Nolooth stays that negotiations for peace between the Germans and the rebellious natives In the southern part qf German Bouth- west Africa were abruptly broken off and that serious lighting Is now going on In the vicinity o.* Keetmanslovp. Choice Was Made After Roast of Wall Street. BITTER SPEECHES AGAINST EXCHANGE Southern * Planters Will Unite to Crush Gambling on the Price of the Fleecy Staple. Speelal to Tbs Georgian. Birmingham. Ala, Jan. II.—Harris Jordan was re-elected president of tho Southern Cotton Association by tho ex ecutive committee her* yesterday evening. The election followed tha ringing apaeeh of Mr. Jordan, In which he denounced th* method* of 1 pecula tion employad by tha New York cot ton exchange and called oni the cotton growers of th* Bouth to throw off tho yoke under which they had been madi to bear an unjust burden. "Throw off the Wall street yoke' sroms to be the predominant sentiment among the speakers. Ringing words, favoring closer organization among cotton growers and standing up for what they think are their rights were cheered to the erho. Tho delegates seem thoroughly Imbued with the Idea thnt there has been more prosperity among cotton growers tine* the forma tion of tho association two years ago, and they applaud the speakers who urge still closer union snd furthsr •taps to protset their own Interests. Three sessions of tho convention were held yesterday. Georgian Speaks. One of th* features of the second session of the Southern Cotton Associ ation held yesterday afternoon was an address by Bernard Suttler. editor of The Cotton Journal, published at At lanta. H* scored the New York cotton exchange. The address of Colonel T. O. Bush, of Birmingham, on "Higher Price* for the Growers of American Cotton." waa one of the features of last night's ses sion. L. 11. Irvin, of Oklahoma, waa down for n speech on "Marketing and Financing the American Cotton Crop by the Growers." but he waa unavold ably detained at his boms. The Hon. John I). Walker, of Bparta. Ga, also *|toke last night, his subject being "Relation of Southern Bankers to the Cotton Crop.” The aftemix-n session yesterday was most Interesting, President Jordan colling the convention to order at 3:45 'clock. Editor 8uttsrs Spssks. The speakers at the afternoon ses sion were: W. L. Foster, of Shreveport, La., on "The Average Cost of Produc ing a Pound of American Cotton;" Bernard Suttler. of Atlanta, editor of The Southern Cotton Journal, on tho "Benefit* of Closer Organisation,” and R. R. Dancy, of Houston, Tex., on the "Relation of American Cotton to the Civilised World." During his speech Mr. Suttler re ferred to those "thieves In New York" who rob the Bouth of millions every year. "We lack, that thing called business acumen/’ said Mr. Suttler. "And as t told an Eastern man at the hotel today we havo been *0 busy these forty years making a living that we have not had time to study the economic phase :>f the question." . In speaking nf the organisation, Mr. Buttler said the trades unions have shown what co-operation will do. He also referred tn the money made by fraternal Insurance companies, saying It was a line example of co-operation. "Wo go too much on Individualism," •aid Mr. Buttlsr. "Our salvation de- S end* upon organisation. I confess 1 on't know how ws ore going to do It." O OFFICERS ELECTED O BY COTTON ASSOCIATION. I O o The officers sleeted by the ex- . O exutlve committee of th* Cotton 1 □ Association are aa follows 1 O Harvlo Jordan, Georgia, pres!- O 0 dent. o O J. C. Hickey, Henderson, Tex- O 0 vice president. o O Dr, Will H. Ward, Mississippi, o O secretary. 0 fr ^ Hyatt. North Carolina, tress - o 0 E. D. Smith, Booth Carolina, 0 0 general organiser. o o n. H. Burnett, Chlckalah. Ark- O 0 financial agent. o O O 00000000000000O000O0000000 Mr. Suttler eald a banker recently told him that ha didn't have a single cotton account. T totd him." sold Mr. Suttler, “that the Lord doe* eome funny things. How In the world He let aa big a tool aa you are get to be president of a bank la more than 1 can understand. "There are only two cities tn, tha 8outh that might get along without cotton. They are Birmingham and Chattanooga." Mr. Suttler laid that but tot tha cot ton association the Bouth would b* $300,000,400 poorer than It Is. Ha said there are good cotton counties In tha belt and that every one of them should be thoroughly organised. "If all theas good counties would, contribute $160,000 a year to tha ootton association, a mere bagateUa, and sand up $.000 dalegataa every year wa would ' scare the very filling out of thoee gam blers In New York." During Mr. Buttler** speech President Jordan left the rostrum and placed XL O. Smith, of South Carolina, la tha, speaker’s chair. When Ur. Battler eoau; eluded hla happy talk, which waa fre-w quently applauded, the aubject waa dlM cussed by various members. 1 Mr. Goodwin Speak*. J, T. Sawyer, of Alabama, said he be lieved the fight President Jordan bad made against tha cotton exchange of New York would result In changing tha cotton markat center of the United State* to New Orleans, where tt right" fully belongs. Ha sold If them was any word he despised It was tha word **nMrt Hear! B«arI M C. O. Goodwin, of Forsyth, Ga- mad# a humorous talk which convulsed tha convention with laughter. He said a person might Just as wall attempt to get thunder out of the moon aa to try to organise without reading up 00 tha subject. The aubject was dlscusied for halt an hour by members of the convention, after which the Hon. R. R, Dancy, of Houston. Tex., was Introduced. "Relation of American Cotton to tha civilised World" waa Mr. Dancy's sub ject. Committee* Named. The committee* named are aa fol lows : Alabama—Resolutions, W. H. Bey- hour; finance, W. F. Vandiver; acre age, A. P. Smith; warehouses, J. F. Smith: marksting. B. A. Latham. Arkansas—Resolutions, J. M. Jaco- way; finances, B. H. Burnett; acreage, J. E. Lore; warehouse*. L. E. Lava Georgia—Resolutions. C. D. Hudson; finances, J. D. Walker; acreage, A. J. Hudson; warehouaea J. T. Duncan; marketing. William Kberhardt. Louisiana—Resolutions. B. K. Mars- den; finances. F. B. Stubbs; arrsags, O. W, Sevier; warehouses, O. w, Montgomery: marketing, P. M. Potts. Mississippi—Resolutions, J. F. Cas tles; finances, O. W. Marble; acreage, A. R. Kllllngssrortb; warehouaea James A. Coon; marketing. El R. Brown. North Carolina—Resolutions. J. P. Allison; acreage, W. 8. Pharr; market ing. W. M. Peebles; warehouses, p. B.-' Blakeley; finances, J. F. Brown; ar rangement. C, C. Moor*. Bouth Carolina—Resolutions. E. D. Smith; acreage, R. M. Pegues; finances, E. L. Archer; arrangements, C. K. Spencer; warehouses, J. M. Motor; marketing, W, C. Huff. Tennesso* 'Resolution*. M. B. R Rx- um; finances. W. Davis; warehouse*. M. S. Pope; marketing. B. A, Mercer; acreage, C. M. Scott; organisation. W. H. Long. .Texas—Resolutions, J. C Hickey; acreage. O. W. Shaw; warehouaea R. R. Dancy; finances, J. C. lllekey: mar keting, R. R. Dancy; organisation, R. R. Dancy.