The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-07

reno 70 improve tho Cnhaoset VI VIC puo"e soi'''o'
o. How many employees nave your A. Twenty
nve hundred 10 dmrcs M, 70 have any
but Episcopaans IN your employ. could not you
get thems 4: Wen, no SIR, not without great
o. Suppose you should choose to decide not to
have any employees who were not democrats A.
should certainly never decide TO have none but DEM
O. But supposlng you aid, don't you think you
could get 5000 good democratic clerkss A. sup
o. Then political qualification Is not necessarily
onSosed TO honest and efficient seryiceY A. Hon
esty and eniclency are not now the qualifications
chiefly looked for in the custom House.
Q. What was the complaint about this abuse of
the general order business that YOU made TO the
PresldentS A. stated the facts anu requested that
tine business be given back to the hoboken anu Gu
o. You did not ask him 10 make an order OF that
kind? A. That Is scarcely the proper way to put 1t;
I represented The 1acts-tnaL Is all
Aibruck r. Cooper sworn--Am clerk in the EN-.
poy OF MIR. A. T.. Stewards the present charges for
general order business are at least double what they
used to be Tor the same package and the same ser.
vice: where the charge was 81 then it Is SO
now; the charge then was generally under one
dollar; by the English Cunard the charges were
81, anu by the German line seventy-fy cents, and
at Bixby's stores ninety cents; that included labor
in and out carriage and storage; the charges for
month varied; after the first month they were some
times less suppose that charge gave profit.
the cost OF private packages for carriage uniformly
forty cents; that, think, includes TERRACE.
q What Is the difference IN the rates OF insurance
v
city stores A. In the first the charges sixty
i've cents per 500; IN the second forty cents per
500.
q. There have been complaints made OF delay
owing TO the confused arrangement of goods at the
general order stores A. Yes, SIR; ard l have
have known delays OF week and ten days.
q. what Is the cause OF the confus0na A. Be-
cause all the goods are now crowded into one store:
think there Will be annoyance Of this sort to-day
or before next Tuesday, because four steamers are
now due all OF which are Dehindhand: our house
alone Will receive 900 1000 packages OV them.
and there is delay anticipated.
O. How do the accommodations at present com
pare with what was offered at the OLD storcss A.
The OLD stores We're very much superior, because
they only received one cargo at a time OF course
packages than OF thousand.
Q. DO you know whether other houses have made
as favorable terms with the steamship companies as
y0ursevesy A. That cannot say,
David Ogden swOrn-Am ship broker in Wall
streets; have been in business thirty.nine years;
there Is practice IN the Custom House OF over.
charging storage by o process known as conslruc-
tive half storage; this Is done when q vessel is
made a warehouse; ! had a cargo OF coal
and thus stored 1t IN OF my vessels they charged
me hall storage-tnat Is, storage Tor The OF my
own ship: you refuse TO pay the charges they take
the goods to the government stores and then charge
you Tor carriage, &c about three times as much;
this abuse Is In existence at the present time:
Court Tor the refindinr of these Illegal charces INT
did not get the money at first, because Treasury
clerk In the governments service-MI. James
stopped the payment; this was after had tried the
case; the action Of the clerk was subsequently
ruled ana I got the money! alter 1 had
got these Judgments Mr.. Murphy put out the order
that If the half storage were not pad. to send the
goods to the warehouse; special exceptions are,
however. made by lavoritsm; MIR. James stopped
the money on the I'd or February, and did not get
1t until the 18th or 18th; the clerk stopped the exc
Gu ZION OF these Judgments by his mere ipse dixit;
the auditors told me that they mad instructions from
Mr.. James not to pay the judgments until he had
been to Washington.
Alter some desultory conversation the Committee
adjourned, to meet at the Astor House on Monday
morning.