The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-24

| YESTERDAY-STEPSTA TAKEN FOR PROTEC-
TIoN OF THIS DRANCH OF TRADE-THE
LAWS AS THEY ARE AND OUGHT TO BE-
"A NEW SYSTEM TO BE. IN OPERATION. |,
"A meeting Of the tobacco buyers OF the
city was held at tthe Tobacco Exchange yes
] terday evening, commencing at O'clock
b. G. Gray, Esq, in the chair, and General
! Peyton Wise secretary. At the beginning
the. attendance was rather small, but before
the meeting adjourned enough members had
come in to make the assemblage repre-
sentative and highly-infuential one.
Mir. J.P. George, from the committee ap-
pointed some four or FIVE weeks ago (bef0re
the great tobacco law was passed. sub
mitted the following report (Which was read
by the secretary, embodying their views
and the views of like committee OF manu-
facturers:
Whereas gross Irregularities growing out
OF system Of inaccurate weights, and Of
careless, irresponsible inspection, the inev-
liable result OF unjust and unequal laws Of
this State, have, through series OF years,
crept into the administration OF the to-
bacco trade of this city !; and whereas
lthese irregularities so arising are daily i'm
posing severe and almost unendurnble bur-
dens upon the classes herinafter named-as
follows:
First. Upon the manufacturers, by not
only causing them to pay, in the course OF 4
years transactions, for very considerable
quantities OF leaf tobacco which they do not
receive, but by involving them, through this
means, in serious embarrassments with the
internal Revenue Department OF the United
States, which department, under recent
stringent instructions to its officers and
agents, while requiring the said manufac-
for every pound OF leaf tobacco bought by
them, assumes as real the inaccurate and ex-
cessivc weights hereinbefore alluded to.
Secondly. Upon the shippers to foreign
markets by causing them also to suffer such
losses in weights as not only to impair Sc
riously the legitimate results Of their yen-
lures, but to render hazardous and uncer-
tain any calculations based upon quotations
OF foreign markets. .. ....-
Thirdly. Upon those persons who buy on
order, either for foreign or domestic ac-
count, by subiecting them to such constant
complaints and reclamations from their con-
sgnees as are tending to destroy at once
their business and the value to the producer
of their competition in the market.
Fourthly. Upon all the classes bercinbe-
fore named, by introducing, through the
medium OF declared irresponsible land
therefore careless) inspection, operating on
not prescriptions prizing, such uncer-
tainty as to the correspondence between
packages and samples by which bought, and
as to any just recompense where want OF
correspondence exists, that they are being
driven, against their natural inclinations,
ut much expense and great inconvenience,
to other fields Of purchase, where greater
certainty and better systems prevail.
Filthy. Upon the producer OF tobacco,
by so iniurng every class OF buyers in this
market, and by rendering SO hazardous all
their operations in the leaf Of Virginia
growth offered here, as to seriously impair
competition for that article in this market,
and to create and enhance a demand for
other growths, and as by both these means
to damagingly affect the value OF the lead
ing market of Virginia to Virginia planters
and to take away from them in very natural
course part Of the true price OF their to-
bacco; and
Whereas the buyers in this market are so
identified alike in interest and in feeling
with the planters Of Virginia that whatever
will tend to iniure either as class must
inevitably rebound to the disadvantage OF
the other; and N s.. >.-rt
Whereas only benefits to all can ac-
crue by the avoidance OF present systems
and the inf1exible pursuit of some others
which will commend themselves to all
concerned by their fairness and integrity,
and thus our market may be rescued from
its present threatened attitude OF final de-
| Struction--.r,.. ... .t.,- ....-... ..... f..
Now, therefore, the undersigned commit
tee, representing the joint action OF the To-
bacco Manufacturers Association OF this
CITY, and of other dealers in this market,
do hereby recommend to all the buyers Of
this trade that they will buy no hogshead or
other package of tobacco in the case OF
which the following conditions are not
agreed upon and observed-viz.
l. The weights to be paid for are to be
ascertained after inspection and cooper
ing-up," and the hogshead or other pack
age to be in good shipping order.
g. The weights, as provided for in the
foregoing condition, to be distinctly stated
in some form to be hereafter indicated, so
as that the contract between buyer and
seller in respect OF weights may be au-
thoritatively known.
3. Every hogshead OF other. package,
whenever resampled, to be reweighed in
the same manner as provided for in the first
condition-the fact of the resampling, the
be endorsed on the note. :
4. Every hogshead or other package
bought by sample to have It's correspond
ence with the sample guaranteed by the
seller. ''-' '~ '-.'' l-'
5. Every hogshead or otherpackage, when
ever resampled, to have stated on the label
Of its sample in a clear manner how many
times the said logshead or package has been
sampled, and when first sampled.
8. 1t is further recommended that this
paper shall be presented to every buyer in
this market for his signature, and that such
signature once made shall be considered rs
binding-the signer, in honor, to abide by
the prescriptions OF this paper.
Signed by Salmon Hancock Co., Hard
grove & Co, r. A. Patterson & Co., John
K. ChIdrey, T. Balmer, Thomas G. Will
liams & Co., J. B. Pace, Alexander Came
ron g. Co., Committee OF Tobacco Manufac-
turer's Association; J. P. George, Peyton
| Wise, James N. Boyd, G. Hotf bauer, W. j..
Yarbrough, Clement X. BarksGale, Commit
tee Of Buyers Generally; Matthew Gilmore,
Hawkins & Jones, Turpln Il Brother,
George Bell, Thomas NJ. Rutherford,
George g. Boykin, L. e. Gray IL Co., James
NJ. & Peyton Wise, John Fl. Greanor, 0. 2.
Gregory IL Co., Robert j. Christian, james
Leigh Jones, NJ. G. Macintosh, Joseph G.
Dill, r. A., Mills, William FL. Kelton, A. n.
Lyon g. Co., Scott & Clarke, Mayo & Knight,
John Enders g. Son, Samuel III. Bailey, n.
F. Wilson, P. H. Il A. Gary per W. E.
Gary, attorney; j. A. Eggleston, William
Y. Sheppard, Jr., Montague, Gentry & Co.,
L. j. Grant u Co. -.
Mr. a n HbocLloy noo1od 70 etrilra ont