Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-12
AUGUSTA.
Important Proceedings of the
Cotton Convention.
n-Statistics-False Pack
ing-BiIls of Lading.

AUGUSTA, June IA permanent Or
ganization was resolved on. each exchange
to have two delegates for every $4,000
bales handled.
statisties.
John Waits. of New Orleans. reports
through Charles II. Easton, of New York,
as follows: We recommend the several
Cotton Exchanges of the South to send to
their correspondents in the country a uni
form series of interrogatories ON the first
of each month commencing on
the first of May and ending the first
of November of each year, relative
to the planting, condition, cultivating and
gathering of the cotton crop, and that the
| replies to such questions he closed and
mailed not later than the 18th Of tine
month: and that each exchange shall conf
pile such answers By an average, and that
such compilation shall be sent to 2 central
| exchange. which the committee recommend
| to be the New Orleans Exchange, on the
| 18th Of each month"; and that the New Or
leans Exchangeishall issue therefrOm gen
| eral crop report under the supervision of a
committee on information in statistics. The
cotton region is divided into districts, the
Nashville Exchange to report Middle Ten
nessee east of the Tennessee river and Ger
! tain counties in Alabama. The committee
recommends that tie interior towns
named. shall give every Friday at noon the
receipts ofcottOn gross and net. and ship
ments for the week; also the stock on hand,
| all receipts to he considered net when not
coming from some one of certain interior
towns named in the report. 1t is further
| recommended that the rainfall and
average temperature be kept at the interior
| towns specified and telegraphed every Fri
| day TO New Orleans. Each exchange is TO
collect quarterly from the mills located in
! district assigned to it, the consumption and
stock on hand. The returns are to be
made to the New Orleans Exchange. The
report was adopted.
Bills of LadinS.
VIM. Whitelock. of New York, recon-
mends that this Convention advocate the
requirement by the shipper from all mas
! tiers Of vessels or transportation agents the
! entire number of all bills OF lading signed
! for anv particular shipment specified in the
| body of the same. \ copy of the bills OF
| lading thus obtained is to be banded to the
Captain or a8nt, and indOrsed, ''the Cap
! tain-s COPY" or ''the Agents copy" not to
be negotiable. Adopted.
False Packing
False and fraudulently packed cotton is
defined as follows: Such bales as contain
| anv foreign substance. or contains damaged
cotton in the interior without any indica-
ton upon the exterior, and such bales as
are placed or composed Of good cotton on
the exterior and decidedly inferior cotton
in the interior, in such a manner as not to
be detected without opening the bales
Forms of certificates for irregularities in
the cotton. applicable to all places for it
distribution are appended to the report
The Committee recommends that copy
of the certificates be forwarded to the Eu
rupean markets. Adopted.
COuGtry Damage and Uniformity o.
weight.
w. l.. Trenholm, of Charleston, recon-
mended that a special committee be ap
pointed with authority TO confer with TIN
Liverpool COtton-packeTs' Association
They suggested the following: StandaT,
cotton to weigh $50 to jC0 pounds to TN
bale; press boxes to be constructed feet
inches in length, feet inches in width
and six ties TO the bale. The COMMITTEES
recommend the adoption of resolution
urging upon producers greater care II
gathering and handling cotton. such as viii
prevent the TUiu0us mixtures Of diiieren
grades: that the several exchanges prose
cute eases Of false packing and memorable
their Legislatures 90 enact laws and con-
pei Railroad Companies 10 issue receipt
for all produce. and to provide sue h Sbelte
and platforms as may he necessary to pro
tect the same. Adopted.
classification.
John Chafiee, Of New Orleans. IepOTte
as follows;
We recommend the adoption of a uni
form classification throughout the Unite
States. to he called the Standard America
Classifi alton. and that the convention r.
quest all the exchanges to appoint experts
who shall meet at some point to he ,lasig
mated on or before the first of next Septen
Der, when they shall make a clasSiticai iol
hat shall be the American STANDARD
and official quotations from and after tn
| i,Tst of October next, shall be based on In
fvpes prepared and established bv sal
committee of experls. the types to represei
The following grades, viz: Good middling
middling, low midlling, good ordinary
and ordinary. The committee of expert
, | shall TX the price TO be charged for I'll
types. not To exceed five dollars per SCI
r The committee further recommended th
expediency of ado.tin. beam and scales f,
. weighing, and that all cotton bought c
/ sold be weighed on the same. The repO
was adopted.
, The Committee of Experts will meet i
| New York on Sept. l, J. T. Goodwin, ,
, | New Orleans. chairman. The place ali
p time of the next convention is left TO th
, | officers Of Exchange. The subject {
, telegrapiing was left TO the national O
+ acers 10 negotiate. Adjourned sine die.