The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-08

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The sugar shed Committee nj work.
On Thursday evening, OF the City Hail, &C.
oordlDg TO invitation, some twenty or thirty 81
our sugar merchants met the Council
committee on The sugar shed ques
lion, composed OF Administrators MeDafffey.
Edwards aud HspgstorT Among The prominent
merchants present were Messrs. Putnam, Chat.
ffaix, Milken, Gary, SAMUEL Mcclellan and rep.
resentatives Of Thomson q Go. aud Dymond 4
Gardes.
The proceedings were desultory, or better, con.
versstional, and related TO the high charges on
sugarand melasses exscted from sugar merchants.
This investigation will be continued from day 10
day.
THE ARGUMENTS
used ON Thursday by the representatives Of the
sugar business amounted 10 this, that the vners
Of the Sugar eh eds assume to charge twenty A We
cents per bogsheaa for the first Eve days OF
storage and ten cents for labor. and forty cents
per hogshesd per month"; nr az many days fewer
than one month after the first FIVE days. making
q total OF seventy FIVE cents per hogsbead II no,
em,ved within the arst five days.
According TO the provisions Of the ordinance
mo. 1923, N, s. OF 1861, the whatfnger s, be-
sides. authorized to remBve any sugar or molas-
ses which might be on the levee. IT, IN his opinion,
the space occupied by the merchandise liz required
II
the ordinance for the transfer OF The sugar 10 q
warehouse is thirty cents per hpgsbead, which,
In many cases. has to be added TO the other
charges, making total Of I'll o. on each hogs
head Of sugar-a very heavy tan. And yet the
charges fer storage and labor are It 6iaia,ed are
III direct violation Of the law which tsHo. 81 fixes
the rate of storage at twenty i've cents per hogs
bead OF sugar, aud fifteen cents per barrel OF
molssses, and in case the merchandise
CHANGES HANDS,
an extra charge OF ID cents per hugshead and s
cents per barrel Ia au hor sed. No alusion, how
ever, lie made TO any charge for labor in the
ordinance. II wss
ALSO SHOWN
TO the committee, by documentary evidence. /. @,
storage bills, that in 1871 And 1879 the legal
charges. those last referred 10. were alone en-.
acted, and by the books Of the Administrator OF
Accounts il was aso shown that while In the
years 1871 aud 1879 the pro rata Of the city OF the
revenue Of the sugar sheds Amounted TO about
10000. And yet for the years 1879, 1874. 1876 and
1B76-four years-altbough the sugar crops we're
greater than in the years first mentioned, the
oty's proportion Of the income was only about
the same, instead Of being at least double that
amount.
There are other propositions, such az The 10.
gality of the establishment OF the sugar sheds on
the public evee their fire proof qualities, as re-
quired by law, and others, which will occupy the
attention of the committee. and no doubt utter
tor MeUatfrey for all Of this informa ion, aud
from our conversation with him yesterday have
been impressed with the b lief that he not only
understands The subject thoroughly, but that ha
appointment as chairman Of the committee will
rebound TO his credit, andserve to bring about
satisfactory solution of this vexed question Of the
sugar sheds.
SERGEANT HAMIbToN.
The case OF Sergeant Hamilton. Of the Second
Precinct, while his course is condemned.
has excited sympathy around the City
Hall and in police orioles. mitigating
being now urged la his favor.
His good character and efficiency az nm officer
will LAO be strongly represented by his superors.
II seems that recently Sergeant Hamilton has
had great deal of trouble TO contend against
ia his family, caused by that dreadful soourge,
smallpox, to which he has been victim himself
and by which he l,st an only child.
These circumstances have caused The offended
lady to address q letter to the Board of Police
e expressing her wish that the charge be with
drawn and her intention not to appear against
him. Hamilton has taken the pledge.