The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-15

w hlte at the time 10 Whlcn II adJ0urned on
yesterday. 'ENt I,iIti..F
A number of members presented them
selves and had their names enrolled.
The treasurer and secretary each made
| their annual reports, and they were reSpec-
| lively referred to appropriate committees.
The special committee to whom was re-
| fcrred the
.REPoRT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
| made the following report :---.--
1. Resolred, That the Executive Commit
| tee be instructed to mcmorialize the Legisla.
ture without delay on the subject Of granting
| a charter of Incorporation to the State Grange
Of Patrons of Husbandry in Virginia.
| 9 That it is ineXpedient at this time to
appoint an agent at large for the State
| Grange, but the committee approve and re-
commend to the favorable consideration Of
| the Grange the action Of the Executive
Committee in appointing certain local agents
at Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, Frode-
ricksburg, and Baltimore.
| That your committee does not approve
| Of the arrangement made with the iS0uih"r.@
Planter and Farmer.
| 4. That so much OF the report of tie En-
ecutive Committee as relates to C. j" business
system for the Order be referred to The
Committee on Constitution and Bylaws,
to report at the next annual meeting, or to &
called meeting Of the Grange.
5. That we approve the business arrange.
| ments entered into by the Executive Com.
| mittee, but TO render them etfectual for the
| good of the Order your committee recon-
| mend that in buying and selling, all local
Oranges should combine and act together re-
>pectively, and through the local agencies
| established by the Executive Committee, as
| far as practicable. -...'".
6. That so much Of the report Of the EX-
eculiYc Committee as relates to the subject
OF fertilizers be referred to a special commit
tee of five members, with instructions to re-
port to the Executive Committee as soon as
practicable.
I. That so much Of the report Of the
Executive Committee as relates to printing
is approved by your committee and espe-
cially that portion Of the same which pro.
poses committee to prepare uniform sys-
tenn Of bylaws for subordinate Oranges. sc.
S. In regard to questions and appeals the
Executive Committee seem to have dis
charged the duties imposed on them in
faithful and judiciouS manner, and your
committee have no suggestions TO make upon
/ that subject.
8. On the Question of salaries your COM
mlttee DO not entirely concur with the Exc
cuti1e Committee, but considering the feeble
condition of the Order at present recon-
mend that special committee Of three men,
| bers be named to consider the subject and
| report to the next annual meeting Of this
| Grange.
| TO- That your committee heartily approve
of the views Of the Executive Commitlec on
/ - G,r al. a,,1
commend that said committee be authorized
to take steps to carry the same into effect,
| and to establish ut Richmond and such other
points as may be deemed advisable farmers
warehouses, to be conducted and managed
by said committee in the interest of the Or
der.
SUBJECTS FOR TIE NATIONAL GRANGE.
Qnitc an animated discussion arose during
the morning hour upon sundry propositions
memorialiZipg the National Grange 10 so
alter the law as to allow other than Masters
Of subordinate Oranges TO represent them
in the State Grange. The memorials were
finally adopted.
! TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEES REPORT.
| The Committee on Transportation made
the following report; which was unani-
| mously adopted and ordered to be pub
lished:
The Committee on Transportation have
had under consideration the subject referred
10 them, and'beg leave 10 submit the follow.
ing report to the Convention ..t.
One great evil under which the apricul.
turc OF our State and Of the whole country is
anguishing is the want of proper facilities
for transportation. The expenses of trans
portation in some Instances are so great as
to absolutely prohibit the movement of the
products of the soil; in Others, q large pro.
portion of the value of such products is paid
to the transporter. /. the remote West and
Northeast it is not uncommon to burn corn
for fuel. The farmer cannot afford TO send
his corn to the Eastern marker, and he can.
not afford to pay the cost Of moving 10 his
farm the coal or The wood which he requires
We are told in the report (>ee page I'D of
the Senate Select Committee on Transporta-
ton Routes TO the Seaboard that it
costs now more than 40 cents to send
a bushel of wheat from the Misss.
sippi to the seaboard; and the Western
farmer represents that, with proper trans
portaion facilities, it ought not to cost more
than 20 cents. This is for distance of SAY
1,200 miles. Forty-tive cents bushel for
l, 200 miles is SIS ton, and ! cents per ton
per mile This the Western farmer complains
of, and justly; for it is perfectly true that the
work ought to be done, as he alleges, for ~
cents buShel, which is but little over 8
mills per ton per mile. The Virginia farmer
| paws on his wheat, and corn, and other pro.
ducts, on an average, from TO 5 cents per
ton per mile 10 get them TO maj ket. For a
hundred miles the average charge is about
SIS per ton, or about u cents busbel. II
the charge for transportation were only l
cent per tou per mile, instead of 5, the saving
on each bushel for 100 miles would be y
cents. Ii we suppose the average wheat
crop of Virginia to be 100000 bushels,
and that only one-third OF it is moved
one hundred miles, the annual tax on the
farmer in this article alone amounts TO $780,
coo. The exorbitant charges on our corn,
and our tobacco, and all of our other farm
products, are to be added. 1t isa reasonable
conjecture that the farmers OF Virginia, in
their present struggling and impoverished
| condition, pay an annual tax OF this sort OF
q million and j half or two millions Of dot
lars to the railroads. It Is replied By the
railroad companies that they cannot work ut
| lower rates and maintaiu their roads. 1t Is
true, however, that at the present time the
| Chesapeake and Ohio railroad is transporting
wheat from Huntington to Richmond for 15
cents bushe, which (the distance being AL
miles) is about II mills per ton per mile.
And yet from Louisl Courthouse, or Char"
lottesville, or Staunton, the charge is, We
| believe, about cents q ton mile. 1t
is the same with coal: The Chesapeake
and Ohio road is delivering Qninuimont
coal ut its Wharves here in Richmond to ves-
sels at the rate of ! cent. per ton per mile