The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-12

CelPt8 ol HOtupO 20 IUuIupUJ OAie6 year
ly. TO have 0ne delegate Ind one vote
in the General Convention, with an
additional vote for every. 100, 900 bales;
and exchanges representing over 900, :
600 bales to be entitled to two dele.
gates, with an additional vote for every
100. 600 bales represented. The report
was amended, on the motion Of O. w.
Rowland, Of Cincinnati, by adopting,
as basis OF representation, that each
cotton exchange handling 25. 600 bales
or more shall be entitled, in the ma
tional board. to two delegates, and
those exchanges handling more than
100, 900 bales shall be entitled to an
additional delegate for each 100, 600 Of
additional receipts. The report as
amended vas adopted.
B. z. Baker. OF New York, moved
| the appointment of committee to
draft constitution for the government
OF the National Cotton Exchange, to
report at the next annual meeting.
| Adopted. John Phelps, Of New Or
leans, President of the Convention,
was made Chairman OF the COMMITTEES
on Constitution. John Watts, Of New
Orleans, Chairman OF the Sub Com.
mittee, reports. through Charles II.
Easton. of New York. Chairman OF the
Committee on Information and Sta
tistios. as follows: They recommend
the several cotton exchanges of the
South to send to their correspondents
in the country uniform series of in
terrogations on the first of each month,
commencing the 1st of May and end
ing on the 1st of November of each
year; questions relative to the plant
ing, condition, cultivation and gather
ing OF the cotton crop, and that re-
plies to such questions be closed and
mailed not later than the 10th of the
| month on which sent, and that each
exchange shall compile such answers
by average, and that such compilation
shall be sent to the Central Exchange,
which the committee recommends be
the New Orleans Exchanges, on the
26th OF each month; aud the New Or
leans Exchange shall issue therefrom
general crop report, under the super
| vision Of the Committee on Informa-
tion and Statistics. The Norfolk Ex-
change shall report the condition
Of the crop in Virginia and certain
Counties named in North Carolina:
the Wilmington Exchange shall report
North Carolina; the Charleston E1-
change shall report South Carolina;
the Augusta and Savannah Exchanges
shall report Florida and Georgia; the
Mobile Exchange shall report Ala
bama, as far North as SUBMITS, and
certain Counties in Mississippi; the
Nashville Exchange shall report Mid.
die Tennessee, East of the Tennessee
River, and certain Counties in Ala.
bama; the Memphis Exchange shall
report Tennessee, West of the Tennes.
see River. and certain Cou mites ia
Mississippi and Arkansas, North of
the Arkansas River; the st. Louis Ex-
change shall report Missouri, Kansas.
Illinois and the Indian Territory: the
New Orleans Exchange to report GER
tain portions Of Mississippi, all Of
Louisiana and Arkansas River; the
Galveston Exchange to report Texas.
The report recommends that the inte-
rior towns named therein give every
Friday, at noon, the receipts Of cot.
ton, gross and net. and the shipments
for the week; also. the stock on hand !;
ali receipts to be considered net when
not coming from some one OF certain
interior towns named in the report.
1t is further recommended that the
rain fall and average temperature
be kept at the intorior towns speci-
fed. and be telegraphad every Friday
to New Orleans. Each exchange is to
collect quarterly, from the mills To-
Gated IN the district assigned to it for
crops reports, the consumption and
stock on hand, and returns are to be
made to the New Orleans Exchange,
or the point selected for all other re-
ports. The report was received and
adopted.
Telegraphic-Comme Reports.
CoLUAiBrA. Juno 11.-Cotton quiet
middling 16@16L.
LONDON, June l0.-Consols 92bM
92as. Eries 38I@38H.
LIvRnPooL, June 1l-Noon.- Got
ton steady-uplands 89s: Orleans So
(9o26; sales $4,000, including 1000
for export and speculation; sales of
uplands. nothing below good ordinary,
shipped May, 8 ZIG; deliverable in
July or August, 81 l6; nothing below
low middllng, shipped in May, 9,s;
deliverable in August or September,
83s; sales include S,40O American.
LIVERPOOL, June 11-Evening.
Ootton-sales OF uplands. nothing be-
low good ordinary, deliverable in Au.
gust or September, 8 9-16; sales of
Orleans, nothing below low middling,
8 TIC.
PARIS, June 11.-Rentes 5of. 600.