Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-10-24

dn,I alone therefore i responsible for the para
aranb in which Tuckahoe is noticed II is true,
lhatthis Committee, unlike The hiS Cch'idi Gnu
Executive Committees, were unWiiih3 10 pun
| lish any thing in the name oil al us hie'hpci~
10 which they had not all personally anu
unders,andingly given their assent aHd' az
/ cordinely. the resi- of the Report was sun
| mined IN everv member OF the Committee,
I exccp, one who could not attend 10 Il. bui Inc
meetinu of the Association 10 receive The Report
! having been called day sooner than was ahiicl-
mated by The Committee, and the article siSnet'
ruckahoe, having appeared thai morning OF lhe
day before the member oi the COMMITTEE on WHOM
dcvolved the task OF arranging Inc different pan
of Inc Rtport for reading and publication, was 10
strurted in doing 50 10 notice the publication ol
Tuckahoe, when il was 100 lale 10 suoHiit Wha'
he should write To the COMMITTEE. IN DONG lnis,
thus hurried!v, he made a slight error IN 'he aoui-
tion concerning The number oil hossheaas Oh looac-
co exported in 1912 which will presently be &C
counted for II consisted in stating the exports OF
tobacco for the year 1912 as given by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, at l62,214 hhds, when the
correct amount was l5S, ITO hhds. 10 we Ken Inc
force of the exposure, there made, oil the very
great errors in 1uckahoe's statistics, an attempt
is made 10 ridicu!e it, as an evidence oil iSno-
rance because no notice is taken oil the iacl, mat
the exports of 1872, were partly composed OF the
stock ON hand, OF the crop OF 1911, and perhaps,
of that of 1870 and We are sravely told as piece
of norel and important information that me
tobacco exported" in lSi2, was groscn in 1911,
and perhaps. part of ii, in 1870" land the tobacco
grown in 1912 was exported in ISL" How these
facts which " ere neither unknown to the Commit
tee, nor denied hy them, can effect the criticism on
Tuckahocs statistics, confess II difficult To per-
ceive. w hen "Tuckahoe" speaks Oft The crop OF any
year. we suppose him 10 speak as other merchants,
of the crop rcccircd that year. which is exported
The sane uear: and not OF the crop gro'rn in 1872,
which is no, exported ill the succeeding veal
rhe exports of any year are composed, as every
one knows OF the crop acccired That wear ana oil
the stock on hand, OF The crops received oil The
preceding wear, or perhaps two years. but 1t -
equally well known, and necessarily follows from
Mis met. that portion oil the crop received ma'
wear is not exported that wear. hat remains on
hand Tor the succeeding years expectation, and
that the proportion of the previous years stock
thus remaining on hand at the commencement OF
each new wear does not very greatly vary from
wear 10 year. The nearest estimates oil the stock
of Tobacco on hand al the end of the year 1872,
that can bc made from the commercial statistics
published in the various exporting cities show
that stock to be about equal to that on hand at the
commencement Of The year. 1t would be as ration
al therefore to consider the stock left on hand IN
any previous year, and whlchis always afterwards
exported or consumed al home, as a surplus for
which there is no demand at home or abroad, as
i, was in "Tuckahoe" 10 represen, as such llIe
excess of the crops OF 1912 and 1873 over the do
nestle consumption and foreign demand.
But, besides all this, the tact chiefly noticed by
the Committee remains unexplained and ''ndis-
puised that "Tuckahoe" estimating The foreign
demand during the year 1912 or 1913 al $4,000
hhds. the domestic consumption at 10000 hhds.,
says, that there would be left on our hands '26,9O0
hhds for which there would be no demand al
home or abroad"-when the Report OF the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for the year ending 30Ih
Sept, 1912, shows that the cxports during that
wear amounted 10 l5S 40 hhds. II, then, "Tuck-
ahoe." when he speaks Of 'the crop Of 1912"
means the crop ycccired that year By adding these
amounts. stated a the domestic consumption and
the useless surplus, 10 the exports Of that year,
and deducting % 900 hhds. as liberal estimate
Of the stock LEI; on hand al the end OF the year
1912 las the commercial reports al the various
cxDornc cities for that wear will show,) We have
20a Go hh!s. for the stock disposed Of that year,
or IL ,6l0 more than his estimate OF the whole
crop. and 216i0 more than the great crop OF
1910 Ii, ON the other hand he means The crop
oyopcn in 1912 and not exported ill 1913 lie can
be relieved OF the difficulty only by the suppose
ton that the exports OF 1912 very greatly exceed
ed those OF lS43-an assertion lie will hardly ha-
card his reputation as merchant by making
Now. where could this great quantity come from!
The commercial reports, above referred 10, show
that The stock Lett on hand at the end of the year
1871 did not exceed from 10000 10 $4,000 bids.
al most The only explanation OF this great er-
ror in Tuckahoe'S calculation is, that in The en-
deavor 10 adapt his "i:c,s' 10 his theories he has
estimated al far 100 great amounts both the nome
consumption and sock iet on hand.
n - n
adyertantv made in the table appended TO the
report marked c. exhibiting the exports of To-
bacco from the United States from 1894 10 1912
inclusive Th~ table was taken from an article
signed "EIenry" which had recently appeared in
The Enquirer, and was furnished by The author to
the member OF the Committee who arranged The
Report for publication, to be Appended 10 mat
portion OF the Rcpor; which treats OF the cost OF
the home market, Upon looking over the table.
however il was Observed By iha, member ci the
Committee. that the table embraced estimates OF
experts of tobacco during the years 1872, 1918.
which were based upon The calculations oil
MessrS GRAY and Caskic, already shown 10 he
ucorec, in q former par OF tie kepoH.
He therefore struck ont from The table The year
1913 concerning which no accurate information
as 10 The quantity could he then obtained, and Tor
the wear 1912 he intended to give the amounts
Sury for tina, wear. In doing this, he made, in
the hurry of The moment a mistake in the addi-
ton, and stated the sums for 1912 10 be 1924
hogsheads and Sl3,974969 making an average
price per hogshead of $50 r. when they should
have been 1853, 7l0 hogsheads and g, $40, 1885, ma
king an average of only $50 II, which greatly
strengthens the position Of Henry and The Com
mittee on this point, viz that the high duties OF
the Tariff must diminish the value of our pro-
ducc abroad BY excluding from our ports the
goods with which other nations can pay us for
that produce The Report OF The Secretary Of the
Treasury for Tie nine months ending 30th June,
1913, shows the exports OF tobacco for that period
to be "a ,15i hossheads; value, S4,650919, making
an average price per hogshead of only $40 II J!
or $40 less than the average price under the low
duties Of the four years preceding 1927! The
table, as thus corrected ana amended, would stand
thus:
A STATEMENT of the quantity Of tobacco eSporc,,
from The United States in each year from lS2i 10
1913 inclusive with the value of the same ard
the average price per hogshcad, taken from Off
cal documents:
Year. No. Of Hhds. Value. Per hid.
1924, 1883 S5G59355
1925, 1881 6,2S79GG
1896, Gi,09S 53i120S
1927, l00,025 G,Sl6,ll6
Total, 1890 23,5l06S5 % %
1928 9S21S 5iS07U1
1920, 17,l3l 5lS5310
1890, $3.50 5S33,l13
1881. sG,7lS 1s923SS
1882, l06S06 5999,769
Total, 450,7i3 27,39l,3i6 60 81
1882 S3,l53 5,15596S 60 =!
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