The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-28

$58,0l5 for drainage; and further, because the
wharfinger, city official and entirely uncon-
nected with the company has received GER
freight, therefore the allegations OF the mer,
| chants against the company for over charges
are fully proven.
The committee, evidently believing that
this style OF logic must carry conviction, pro
same intimate relations to the matter of over
charge as the preceding ones.
They actually find that the wharfinger
charges for the labor requisite to move the
hogsheads and barrels, that he has the ef-
frontery to charge for his services in asserting
freight; that he exercises his discretion as to
the disposition or removal of goods on the
wharyes, and that sometimes, nlirabile dictu,
he borrows five or ten dollars.
Here we have proof ST. ong, convincing and
conclusive, that the Sugar Shed Company
exceeds it's chartered rights In its trans
actions with the complaining merchants
Could any other than this committee have ar
rived at such brilliant and logical conclu-
sion?
AS the committee had the amplest oppor
tunty of discussing the question of rights,
privileges charges, etc. with bot, parties to
the controversy, am exceedingly anxious to
learn il they elected any fact or heard any
opinion that was at all favorable to the com
their report conclude not. Yet |, an humble
citizen not elevated to the dignity OF admins
tratorship, nor specially empowered to inves-
tigate have heard many things creditable to
the company and complimentary OF its man
agement.
If the committee learned that parties to the
complaints against the company were parties
also to fixing the very tariff of rates against
which they now SO loudly protest; il they
found that among the complainants there
were some who derived positive and consider
able advantages from the use of the sheds; IL
they found that in any sense the sheds were
an advantage, not an obstruction to COM
meree, then, with the wide range INDUCED in
by them in their report, they should have so
stated. This course would have somewhat
Invested the report of it's Tower of Pisa-like
appearance
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor permit me to say
that while am Of the number who are seek
ing some modification of the sugar shed
charges, totally disapprove of the report
OF the committee and emphatically disavow
it's championship. My interests are not at all
benefited by statement of the company's
tax AKA ana drainage acc2unts nor does an as
the slightest to the end have in view
AS the merchants and dealers desire only
such concessions as the company can make |
without injury to its interests, and as the
Sugar Shed Company has declared a read- |
ness to meet the merchants half way, / re-
spectfully submit the following to the City |
Council, to be established by ordinance il It |
meets their approval: That on all sugar and |
fnOlasSeS stored In the sheds there shall be |
charged monthly q regular and fixed amount |
While have not the assurance to state, as
did the committee with reference to the or |
1inance offered by themselves, that this |
would "be alike equitable and satisfactory to |
The city, to the Sugar Shed Company and to |
the merchants and planters of This city and |
State" still venture little in saying that the |
Tariff suggested above would prove satisfac
Jory to the extent of justifying its adoption.
In any event trust that the Council will |
relieve the committee from further action in
jhe premises. Their labors have been great |
ind correspondingly exhausting, and abso-
ute rest is therefore essential to complete |
mental recuperation.
II the honorable Administrator of Com
nerce, to whose department this entire mat
er seems properly to belong, will exert him
,elf in his usual vigorous and incisive way, /
predict an early, satisfactory and final settle |
nent OF every point at issue.
SAf1uA