New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-10
A QUESTION or LOCKS.

THE BONDED WAREHOUSEMEN AND The oio-
TILLERs At VARIANCE WITH THE TREASURY
MISUNDERSTANDING AND REMONSIRAhCE
OF THE wAREHOUsEMEN.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that the bonded warehouses shall I've provided with new
locks, OF kind having glass seals, with specined mum
Der Of Photographic copies of the SEALS and that the
propretors OF such places shall reimburse the Govern
ment Of the rate OF SIS for each lock- with supply OF
80 seals The system Is TO 90 into operation on inc
LIST of June. A meeting OF bonded warehousemen OF
New-York and Brooklyn was held at NO. Brldge-st',
yesterday the purpose of agreeing upon the terms OF
against this action Of the Secretary Inc
following firms were represented:
NJ g. briggs & Co.; g. L. & J. l.. Colby; Martin &
Fay; rockingham and Gerrish; Prentice CO.; Plcfr
Sickerson; Lawrence CO.. Lawrence & Son; Henry j,
Meyers Jackson Underhill Isaac Devoe; McNlnlien
& Co; F. W. hampton Co; Woodruff Robinson; $
j. Foster, and Z; C. johnson Co. A b. Miller OF mliler
Conger took the chair read the order OF the Secretary
and commented severely upon ii.
NJ briggs followed, denOuncing the adoption OF the
Department favorite It was another Carriage Bureau
Job that had cost Mr., Grnnel his situation,
and this might cost somebody else his situation There
was in the job The amount 10 be paid for
locks from 100000 to $s00O while the whole
of them ought furnished for $4,000 He continued
You're set Of nnny hammersyou are not worry the
name Of gentlemen If you submit to tins job There IL
law in this cOuntry-3ppeal Ia it. They might as well
take the watches out of your pockets as make you pay
The Chairman then read a remonstrance which had
been drawn up setting forth first that the loo now IN
sufficient for the protection or bonded goods;
second that the proposed locks expensive. conp-
Gated and subject he damaged by mischevOus per
sons third the bond OF the importer upon goods III
warehouse il really the security of the Government;
fourth that the Justify the order fifth, that
the bonded warehouse business has not been prOtaDe
for several years and the prOpretOrS should therefore
be spared additional expenses.
Mr. Fay proposed thai the remonsrance he referred to
n committee of three for revision; that meantime legal
advice he obtained and that the protest be made IN ac-
COrdance with such advice that then the document he
addressed To the Collector of the Port instead of TO the
Secretary the Treasury But this not agreed to- and
the Chairman then requested those present 10 come up
aud sign the FemOnstTance, written. At the same
time the Brooklyn warehOusemen quietly Withdrew,
without assigning any cause. The following OF New
York, who remained. then signed the remembrance, and
discussed the unaccOntabe dsacctiOn Of their Brook
Ign brethren: Lawrence Il Co, Lawrence son, H. j.
derli Charles 4. Peck McMulen, Meyer & Co.. Charles
Zust, Isaac y. DcvOe, +. W. hampton Co.. rockingham
q Gcuish, Miller 81 Conger, T.. {. Johnson Co.
IL was stated by prominent Custom-HOuSe officials.
yesterday, III commenting upon the movement OF the
waTchOuscmen that the principal necessity for the adOp
ton of new lock arose from the frequency with which
boxes of goods OF high value In bonded warehouses are
replaced by Others containing such things cheap
broken clay pipes other rubbish The lock. they
claim, will with rigid system OF inspection, serve 10
prevent such frauds almost entirely
The dstilers also among those who protes, against
the adoption of the lock- and II is understood to have
been prominent topic of discussion at the recent cOnycn
| ton of disiers at Cincinnati The defenders OF the
lock maintain that the cutlery is caused simply by the
fact that it, to large extent, destroys facilities hereto
fore existing FOR defrauding the revenue