New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-06
senator Vests Amendment.

A memorial II the following Language
was in circulation On the street yesterday,
was being generally signed, and the sigma
lures early in the day teiegraphed to Repre-
sentative Gibson by Messrs. William G.
Black, president os the Cotton Exchange;
Thomas a. Adams, president Board of
Underwriters; George Jonas, president New
Orleans Canal and Banking Company; +,
J. Odendahl, president Of the Merchants
Exchange:
The undersigned, vitally interested in
the commercial prosperity of the city OF
New Orleans beg leave to represent to the
Congress OF the United States that we view
with alarm that amendment to the river
and harbOr bill which requires that dredg
ing Of the SouthW est Pass of the Mississippi
river shall cease 'whenever and SO long as
there shall be an open channel of eighteen
feet of water to or from the sea through
the South Pass of the Mississippi river"
We respectfully call attention to the fact
that the wording of the amendment favors
the construction that has been put upon the
contract for the jetty improvement of
South Pass, namely: That the channel to
be obtained under that contract is to be
through South Pass to the sea, and not from
the deep water of the Mississippi river to
the sea. With dredging at Southwest Pass,
we have an assured open channel from the
port of New Orleans to the sea of from
eighteen TO nineteen feet. This we can not
afford 20 sacrifice for channel giving only
eighteen feet OF water, and not specified as
extending from the sea to the port of New
Orleans.
We now have measure of relief at the
hands of the general government from the
distractions at the entrance to our port.
This measure is certain; we can gauge our
business efforts by il. We ask that it be
left us untrammeled by dependence on the
South Pass jetty work, or that it at least be
quired to give US confidence in the work at
South Pass.
Aug Bohn, ship owner. R. NJ. Dean.
John Baker, ship owner L; Christ 1 Co.
3. Parson, ship owner. Thomas H. Hunt.
J. Call. ship HagarstOwn. Thomas Janney.
Labouisse Doehle. Robert Moore.
James j. Stewart. J. NJ Seixas.
j. LOeber. Maurice Abrams.
arch. Montgomery. Charles Gallagher.
Debuys Ogden Edward A. Yorke 4 Co.
A. F. Jones. Meeker, Knox x Co.
Ale xander McNeill, ship owner.
j. Il. Howett, master OF the ship Forest Eagle.
William H. Begg, ship owner
H. T. vennard, ship owner.
N. o. Baker, master of the ship Scotia.
Joseph Cooper ship owner
j. Minot, master OF the bark Reynard.
Archie Mcclure, ship owner.
H. z. Hanselman, ship owner.
D. J. Bunker, ship Marcia Greenleaf
William H. Mcclellan ship owner.
r. Y. Hopkins, chip agent.
De Wolf, Powell l. Co. ship owners.
William Goldenbow, ship pIOker
E. De Verges, ship broker.
Joseph Kelley ship bl oker.
A. X. Miller Co., agents OF the state Steamship
Line.
Si,as Weeks Co.. agents of the Mississippi and
Dominion Steamship Line
J. A. Bryson Co.. ship owners and agents of
steamships al ships.
John Leahv maste er of the ship Her Majesty.
William Benwell, master of the ship AlamOra.
Ricr ard Flower Co.. cotton factors.
John B. Lafitte Co., cotton buyers.
\. b. Cammack. cotton buyer.
J. c. Denis, president of the Levee Steam Press
Company.
A. A. Yates, cotton factor
Thomas L. Airey, C, tton factor.
D. A. Given Son, cotton buyers.
=. G. Brendt cotton buyers.
Ocean, Zerega Co., agents OF the Liverpool Steam
ship Line.
Norton Bell, ship owners.
shultz 4 Co ship owners
Hail X Vaughan, steamship and ship agents
j. Burnett l. Co., cotton factors.
Moses Greenwood Co, cotton fac tors.
John II. WitherspoOn, agent OF the New York and
Mexican Mail Steam Line.
PIN, FOrwOOd Co agents of the West India and
Pacific Steamship Line and Fletcher 4 Co.'S
steamship Line.
Additional signatures will be telegraphed
Monday morning.