New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-03
Bopd,a MISCONCEPTIONS and Private.


To tie Editor a Inc Tribune
Your gpopdeDt writing from Washington under
date Of March 20, has certainly struck mine" and or
one bore IL will be pierced and pTobed TO the very bot
tom The half IL told The shameful extrAvaganceo Of
the late Admiuituson mr. PoA q in leasing these stores
srd the ENORMOUS The Govern nent OF nearly $4,000
annually in this City alone IN The attempt Of the Govern
ment 10 carry On the business Of Storage, are evils which
certainly cry aloud for correction, but the injury and vex
alton esuIed The merchant scarcely bearsbe. You are
aware here are beside the Government Stores, Private
Bonded Stores uEder the enure supervison believe Of
the Collector which BOud probably A. many soods ~ are
Bonded IN the Government Stores but which epsi TIE
Ire asUry cent The owner thereof paying all the tx
penses including The Government Ofcer and IN return
receiving the storage the merchsndiLe NotWhsland-
ing vse stores sulboTsed by The Treasury De-
pGriu btiil mOst vexaiOusly deul-d inc use Oh
thsm aen 1t suits Collector or his Deputies 10
etste ,ur Insurance 10 the Private Stores, which
IL only about ouebsf that charged IN The government
Stores make Gil arrangements IN reference 10 rates Of
Btoags &c which il Huch than the Collector charges
in his Stores then go 10 the 70 enle olf
eooos these places, when quietly hut most de-
cdeoy info med goods must go into The Govern
mept Warehouses where, In many Instances we can %
tain no Insurance wbateve-NeIheT 10 oar merchant lie
tai be same care OF by the Government oceri 90 Is
by these private slOekeepers And goods are lost or
stolen from The Government Stores unffequsly
happens there redress for the merchant the Covert
menI rot holding themselves Iesponsole Tor sncni
whereas such losses are always paa % me rvsIe w @
Houpmtn Iii true these Government Stores make cap
8 places Tor One Hundred more good pc ucisns pro-
vidsd they Of the right sPe bui lLiss very poor
consdsf alton for al troubles vexaons and expenses Ine
merchant is put 20 FOR their support -, s. -, 49,.
The REM dy OF hee evils lies with the Secretary OF the
Treasury and hope he win them The Two sys-
established let the have his choice
OF places 10 ore ne gooos. - m 1a S ,5s u scrts11
Of The Treasury lease the Government Stores on The
best practicable terms.
probably leased for nearly ne amount paid ior them:
Let hem 60 ANY price would he better than the present
loss and oney would be saved 20 the Treasury As for me
Atlantic Dock Stores they probably st, but they DO
ef, CT The merchant much for they receive OILY
his to favorable conclusion MERCHANT.
Remarks.
We disliked and opposed the whole business
Of Government Warehousi1g from the first. We
consider the WArehousng System calculated to
favor European Manufacturers at the expense OF
American Trade and Labor Instead Of allowing
our own citizens to import Foreign Fabrics when
we want them, it crowds our markets with those
Fabrics sent over on speculation to agents here,
and stored without payment Of duties until the
market will take them. If A Merchant wants
help to abolish the Warehousing System, We are
ready
The Government Warehouses are Of course an
aggravation of the original mistake. 1t is clear
enough that there should never have been any
such Warehouses, but private storage under Gus
tomb house supervision should have been excla.
sivey relied on.
But the double wrong has been committed
The Government stores are on hand, hired at
outrageous rates by Secretary H. J. Walker.
What is to be done with them If Congress
shall direct Mr.. Corwin to get rid Of them on the
beat practicable terms, and throw the loss on the
Treasury, so be it but without such direction,
we think he ought not to take the responsibility.
And, while the stores are on hand and their ex
orbitant rents to be paid, we think the Secretary
and the Collector arc perfectly right in requiring
bonded goods to be stored in public rather than
private warehouses. We consider the whole
Warehoasing System to be one Of grace and for.
bearance and unwise at that It already sub
ects the Government to loss Of Eighty Thou.
sand Dollars year, at this port alone, merely to
favor the importers and stimulate our already
excessive importation. If the merchants inter.
ested would take tns- N----.-----4 -a---- ~ its
hands at a loss not exceeding Fifty Thousand
Dollars year, We should be in favor Of accepting
their offer But while these stores are the
Governments hands, we think it can do no less
than insist on softening its hard bargain as much
as possible. To pay three times their value for
stores and then leave them empty, would be
rather worse usage than even easy Uncle Sam
can well stomach. ED.