New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-08
Chamber Of Commerce.

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| The regular monthly meeting Of ths
Chamber OF Commerce was held last evt
r'ng.
w. c. RAYMOND, Esq, vice president, oc
! cupied the chat.
| The minu Of the previous meeting
we're sad ard approved
The following rc'olutioos, submitted at
he previor, meeting, were called up, and
| on the e. ,ond;rg Of Mr.. Wilson were
| lOpted:
F';o'red, That this Chamber heartily ap.
proves OF the NEE cures ado7ued by the
merchan' aud dealers engageo IN the rice
trade of tbis city, to secure actual tare in
! that important article of commerce, and
! consider it a decided q p in the right rirec-
! tion.
R'so,c"9. That this Chamber earnestly
| re commend I, the merchsnts and dealers OF
| every cie1s II this city, to units cordially
| and in good faith, to establish an honest
system OF actual tare. actual guages, actual
| measures, actual weights and pure quality
| OF every ar,.cle in which thev deal. which,
| II adhered to, will establish a high and
enviabie standard of commercial rectitude
end honor for our city. that must ine1 itably
attre st large. eemunerative and ever in-
cree s'7g commerce.
AS this Is question mOet seriously affect.
lug the multitude of consumers in every
walk of lite, much the largur proportion Of
whom are poor and least able to bear the
loss, and the Changers of this State and of
the Uni'ed States compose very large
proportion of thelconsumers, this Chamber
very respectfully suggests to them the
| commencement and Continuance OF cru
sade against this prevailing abuse of false
| tares and NEE ,nres, light weights and
adu'teratcd goods, until it shall have been
e6rermlnatea aud the actual consumers Oh
tain all that they buy in quantity and
quality. Such an end can easily be &C
compiished by well concerted, united and
perseyering action between those who are
and we'll recognized abuses. and the result
will be greatly advantageous to the whole
corrtry by the attainment of q higher,
purer ana nObler standard Of commercial
honor and integrity.
In addition to prev ious reports aad COM
municatiors relative to the Hawaiian
treaty. Mr.. Potts, Of the committee ap.
pointed to visit Washington, submitted
the following:
To the President of the Chamber of Commerce:
You have be,n already apprised that the
committee in part sent by you 70 Washing
tOu u tuo lAtteT part VI May iFsl " oPpuso
the bill which was before them for the ex-
ecution of the Hawaiian treaty, which ad
mitted i.ce and sugar free from duty. met
there similar committees from South Caro-.
lima end Georgia bent upon tho same
erran6.
You have also heard that these joint COM
mittees had two hearings before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations ono on
the thirty first of May and the other on the
nV hal ~ nj
when the Committee on Forsig Relations
would report, after waiting soms days, they
all left for vstious places.
II we, not until the twenty : fourth Of
June rbas the subject wa3 aga'u brought
up before them at the instance of the
Hawaiars. THIS hearing was adjourned
rriI the twenty seventh, and upon the
| thiIs ieth of the same month /. was moved
| II refer it to tie Committee on Finance,
| when q motion was made to reconsider. 1t
now lies upon the Presidents table subject
| to call. And you have sc sn that Senator
Sargent, of California, has gwen notice to
| call it up.
On the memorial which tie joint commit
tie laid before the Comwitt e on Fore!an
Relations, tee Hawaii1s alarmed at the
| show ug which was made therein, OF tha
damage likely to be done to their rice aud
! sugar interests if Sandwich islands rice
| p1d sugar were to be adDitt d free OF
| dutI- snCeavOred to show that the state
| ments made of the fert''iiJ OF the island
| aud their exubersnce of production was ex-
| aggerat ID, end that our Tears were ground
| lees.
| Here let me state that We had introduced
| the book of Mr.. Norhutf, the famous Herald
| repol ,r who had travelled IN these islands
and Il led it as evidence. He states on page
| tfty-seven of his book as follows:
II have seen field of thirty acres, which
| Two years ago produced six tons OF sug
| per acre. kour tons per acre is not sur
| pl sing crop, aud from ell l car hear, two
and q halt tons nay be considered fair
weld. There is no danger from fcost, ss in
| Louisiana"
| At the hearing of the twenty fourth of
| June, Mr.. Sargent, of CslifOl MA, appeared
| for Judge Allen (who writes himself on bis
| card, Chief Justice OF Hawai!), who argued
upon the e,eat benefit to accrue to the
| United States by the acquisition of these
islands sud the building up Of grand fu-
| t1re imperislitS in the SOnth Sea Islands.
| Aifar he had finished, Mr. Hsm'in intro
| ducei Mr.. Nordotf himself
| Mr.. Nordhotf under went close exauina,
| ton but did not scem much iuclined tore
| Guce his statements, and said, in regard to
| sugar, that he had heard of ca ses where ii We
tons of sugs- were produced - the acre.
| but did not wish ~ aDpea- extreme aud had
had not printed it. .ie also stated that the
| ,ice production could be doubled. men.
| ton this to show you, gentlemen, that the
| ia It's which shall prod uce are within fa'-.
ness of statement. The group formerly
| called the Ssudw ich islands, now cs"f
! Hawaii, sre composed of even islands, as
| follows, snd contain an area of g. 40 square
| miles: Hawai-, 42.0 eGuare miles: Maui,
| 7eO: Osbu, coo; Kauj, ;39u; Ssina, $50; Nhap,
| piuety seven; KabuOlawe, sixty fve-in all
| GAO squs,o miles. Multiply tbs by GAO the
| number of acres in . square mile and you
have Abb, eco cres. Now, not = consume
| your time, will take Mr.. NorGhoff's lowest
| estimate OF Two and hat TONS Der aore or y
| 5000 pounds, and admitting that out q small
! portion of the islands can be reduced to cul-
| t,vation, we VIII take 0ne-tenth part OF this
| area, saw 43l, 800 acres, and multiply this
| by 5000 pounds, aud We have 2,4l5, 600
| pounds of sugar per aruum as their crop, or
| r, iuce this area sgajn to another tenth or
| one hundredth part of the whole, say to
! 43, 1856 acrt J. mu!tiplied by 5000 pounds, and
you have 24l, ,57l $50 pounds OF sugar per
conventional h0gshead, and you have
Our crop, as represented in Mr.. Bonche
ron's statement, is 1853, 4lS,07O pounds, or
l44, LAG hogsheads.
There are now tbirty-two plantations in
operation in the islsuds. with, o. Judge
Allen admit I'd in his remarks before the
Committee on Foreign Relations, capa-
bi!ity of ibeirg extended to eighty more
makug ll2 in all. These pls1tatso;oons can
be represented by an area Of 500 acres
each. The total area, say IL by $40, would
give S. 900 acres, which multiplied by 5oOo
pounds 1.-TWO aud half toDs) would give
N3, 1000 pounds, or 26l 1888 Of our hogs
heads.