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Cotton Warehouse Law to be Perfected and Also Strengthened.

Columbia, S. C., Sept. 25.--Governor Manning and Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin held a lengthy conference in the governor's office a few days ago, discussing the advantages of the state warehouse system and the legislation necessary to perfect the law governing it. No statement was given out after the conference, but it was learned that both Governor Manning and Commissioner McLaurin are agreed that certain defects in the law should be remedied and that there was a practically complete agreement between the governor and the warehouse commissioner as to what is best to be done in perfecting this law that means so much to the cotton producing interests of South Carolina. It is likely that Governor Manning and Commissioner McLaurin will hold frequent conferences on this matter before the legislature meets in January and the results of these conferences will probably be embraced in a message from the governor to the legislature during the early part of the next session.

The following editorial from the Yorkville Enquirer of September 21, refers to this subject:

"As a result of a conference between Governor Manning and Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin it develops that Governor Manning is not secretly hostile to the State warehouse system, as was legitimately deduced from published remarks recently attributed to him. It is quite clear that if there should be a regulation providing that managers of State warehouses should be absolutely disinterested parties, neither owners of the warehouses nor of the cotton stored therein, there could easily develop a situation very different from that under which all present progress has been made. But from the reports of the conference referred to it appears that the governor is most sincerely solicitous of developing the warehouse system along lines that will work to the interest of the producer of the cotton first, and the public generally, second. The conference referred to, we understand, developed that there was practically complete agreement between Mr. McLaurin and Mr. Manning as to what shall be done and the outlook is that such recommendations as the governor shall proper to make to the general assembly with regard to improving and strengthening the warehouse system, will be made only after complete agreement between the governor and the warehouse commissioner."