The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-05
MUNICIPAL.
THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
pet,tson Of merchandising AdminsstrH'
linn and the Cotton Exchange.


t,cu .uA the Cotton Exchange,
Yesterday n the meeting the City Council the
following petition was read
IA fia honor l. w. Patton. Mayor. and 10 the
honorable the Board Of Administrators OF
the CITY of New Orleans. La.
The undersigned. merchants and receivers
of grain of the city of New Orleans. urged by
the unnecessary removal Of grain from the
leyee by the orders of the wharfmaster. do most
respectfully submit to yoor honorable body Tor
careful consideration the following facts as
enumerated below, which threaten to eonsid-
able extent great injury TO the grain trade
of this port. Your honorable body. no
doubt, has and should have +he future welfare
OF the grain trade Of New Orleans a. heart. and
especially now. since the Eads' ieiiies have 50
far given us ample water 10 facilitate Mberai
exports OF that commodity.
This business. SO your honorable body will
no doubt admit, has greatly increased during
the paat few years, nd Ia vet susceptible OF such
immense expansion. that 1t should be carefully
aided and assisted Ia every possible featureby
that portion of your honorable body under
whose special eehtroi ana projection it is
TO attain from your honorable body such
special aid and protection of this business as Is
In your power to give Ia the object of our
pres eat appeal and we herewith ask nothing
except what we know to be In your power to
/. Grain and hay is being ordered from the
ievee by the wharfmasters, while over one halt
Of the levee is bare and empy while no new
arrivals are In nor AM. expected, for elk TO ten
days to come, apparently because IL 50 pleased
the wharfmaster. without any consideration on
his part o. to how seriously be might inconva-
nlence the owner, pr WIN what ~ nnece necessary
Grain cannot stand sueh heavy expenses, and
" 1t Is permitted to be so heavily taxed 1t will
soon
SEEK OTHER MARKETS
WHARF o. neuaes are lass
The competition OF other markets in this ar
ticle Il so great that saving or an inerease OF
one cent per buahel will quickly aid 1t or drive
II away. as the case may be.
III. After sales have been made and while the
purchasers teams wefe hauling the produce
the wharfmasters drove off the ANS OF the
owner and hauled tho came with his teams TO
any warehouse he chooses against the wish and
will Of the owner and threatened to arrest the
teams of the owner " they attempted to inter
fere This occurred while the levee was almost
bare.
iii. After sales had been made and the drafts
were sent out to haul tbs produce aun the
wbarfma eter was 80 notified he nevertheless
stored the same with bis teams, and the owner
was advised officially that the whaIfmaster bad
contracted to fill a warehouse, and he was going
to do It. This also occurred while the leyee
was almost bare
~ Buyers bought produce with the provIso
that hey would be granted sufficient time 10
haul II las the roads are In veIy Tad condition
the hauling of SO long distance progresses
6t mps %ond no. ee tbe
necessary time and the produce was stored un-
der heavy expenses. This also occurred when
the levee was nearly bare.
" A sale of 1000 sacks Of corn for which the
price had been agreed upon by the buyer and
seller, fell through from the simple fact that
the wharfmaster had begun TO haul the same 70
warehouse Of bits choosing. and the buyer
could not take II on account Of the heavy ex-
penses accrued TO the same by action Of the
wharfmaster This also occurred while the
vi, sacrifices OF from two to four cents per
bushe on grain were made by the owners, In
consequence OF the arbitrary measures OF the
wharfmaster In the face OF
OUR EMPTY LEvEE
and no expected arrival OF boats. During the
past twenty five years the space assigned for or
designated for the handling of Western pro-
duce has become very much contracted by the
railroads, by the sale OF squares near the levee
front and BY the encroachment Of cotton and
cotton seed on that territory: hence We are
working under less favorable facilities, and W.
the Western produce levee which Is being
u-ed now for cotton and cotton seed be restored
to US. which would give us great relief.
We. would finally state to your. honorable
board that we are ready ut all times to
promptly meet the demands OF the wharfmaEer
when he requires room on the levee for fhe
poses; but that we sincerely prote, against any
arbitrary removal OF produce when the room Is
NV HOWARD 4 PRESTON.
JOS WESTiS Co.,,
yAIRIN 4 MORTIMER.
GLOVER 4 onENHAHLs
w, r. MATTHEWS & BRO.
SEARS q KINsr Liza.
CHAS. PLEA-ANTS.
G, PASCAL & co.
sdHW sow. FRowENFELD 4
sCHwABACHiER 4 HIRscH.
On the question Of the report of committee