Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-02-02


The Board Of Directors of the Cham
Der of Commerce met in regular ses-
sion last night. Present, Messrs.
Lazard, Brodrick, Barrows, Newmark,
Downey, Hewitt, Widney, Meyers,
Lord and Caswell.
The Secretary then read the follow
ing letter:
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1875.
W. j. Br0drick, ESQ.,, Secretary Cham
Der of Commerce, Los Angetes:
1 telegraphed you this morning In
answer to yours of the 18th of Janua-
| ry,asking information as to the branch
line through Cajon Pass. trust my
answer will be satisfactory. Enclosed
please find copy of the bill. We asked
in the fourth section that we be re-
quired to build only twenty miles
each year, for we thought that would
be as fast as necessary across the des-
ert, not intending to apply it over the
line between Los Angeles and San
Bernardino, as we are anxious to close
up that gap as soon as possible; but
some days ago we concluded, in COM
mittee, to strike cut section 4, as you
will see in copy of bill. Hoping this
may prove satisfactory, / remain
truly yours,
DAVID ID. COTTON,
V.P. S. p Il. II.
The following letter was then read:
LAKE VINEYARD, l.. A. Co. Cal. |
February |, 1875. I
10 the Chamber of Commerce., Los A,s-
geles:
GENTLEMEN: regret that sickness
prevents me from attending your
meeting tonight, which, from all APP
pearances, will be most important
one.
l would respectfully call your at
tentiOn to the terms of the Sandwich
Island Treaty, now before the United
States Senate. Under its provisions
tropical fruits are to be admitted free
of duty; also sugars, etc., while our
wines and natural productions are ex-
cluded from reciprocal advantages.
Should this treaty go into effect, our
fruit interests will beseverely injured,
and our beet sugar interests entirely
ruined.
see that the refineries i'm San Fran
cisco are protesting against the ratifi-
cation of the treaty, and l believe it
behooves us to do so. If, in your
judgment you think proper, should
like very much to see the Chamber of
Commerce of Los Angeles join in pro-
test against any such one side treaty.
Yours, with much respect,
J. DEBATH SHORE.
The Secretary then presented the
report of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road for the year 1874, giving full sta
tistics of imports and exports from
each of the stations on the several
branches Of the road.
On motion, the thanks of the Cham
ber of Commerce were rendered to E.
K. Hewitt, Superintendent of the road,
for the report, and one thousand copies
were ordered to be printed in pamphlet
form for general distribution.
Mr.. Nj. j. Newmark moved that
committee of three be appointed to ex-
anime into the alleged provisions Of the
Hawaiian treaty, and if they find that
the facts correspond with the state
ments of Mr. Shorb's letter, that they
be authorized to forward a protest to
Washington. The motion was adopted
and Messrs. Newmark, Downey and
Shorb were appointed such commit
tee.
Judge Widney, from the committe
appointed at the last meeting to exam
ine into the reported DETECTION of the
main trunk line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, reported that the committee
had been notified by telegraph of the
introduction in Congress of a bill for
this purpose, and stated that the COM
mittee had forwarded number of
documents in the shape of a protest
against any such action, and also Mr..
Barrowe's resolutions, and had sent
copies of the same to all our members
of Congress from this State and to
other gentlemen in Washington.
Gov. Downey paid warm compli-
ment to the committee for promtness
and ability i'm carrying out the aims
and object of the Chamber.
Mr.. Nj. j. Newmark said that since
his return he had examined closely
into the charges made against the
Southern Pacific Railroad relative to
the alleged action of the company in
changing the lire of the road. When
he first read the second section of the
bill about which SO much has been
said, he was disposed to think that the
company were acting in bad faith. But
subsequent investigation has con-
WINGED him that the Chamber might
have easily fallen into an error OH the
subject. He then called attention to the
fact that in all the legislation upon the
subject the Los Angeles road had been
called and known as the clos Angeles
Branch In the act of 1871, the same
idea appears from the language of the
act Mr.. Newmark went on to say
that to satisfy himself he went to the
United States Land Office and asked to
be allowed to inspect any maps relat-
ing to the subject, and on all the maps
the line here is called and laid down
and described as the +" Los Angeles
Branch.'
After treating the subject in quite
extended remarks Of this character, he
submitted the following series of reso-
luti0ns:
WHEREAS, At a meeting held on the
10th of January, 1875, this Chamber
adopted certain resolutions seriously
rejecting upon the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company in its interpetra-
tion of bill recently introduced by
Mr.. Houghton in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and which if passed it was
| it believed would result in violation
by said company of its contract with
this county whereby it was agreed that
| the main trunk line of said company
should pass through the city OF Los
Angeles; and
WHEREAS, BY further and careful