Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-22
rHE aGnIE coNrRAcTS.
Our Fcitered Tobacco Interests
stfn Praying for fReIteT-A Strong
SEeanarsai on the subject.

nj sented the following preamble ans
g resolutions In the house of repre-
ID sentatives:
le Whereas, Under date of Feb. 9
y 1880, memorial was addressed bN
3 the tobacco board OF trade OF Nash
- vile" to tile congress of the Unitec
ie States, setting forth the fact athat 1
L great injury and manifest injustice
'e Is being done to one of the largest
e agricultural interests in this country
e and to everyone interested in the
/ purchase or sale of one of our great
staples produced i'll thirteen differ,
+ ent states of this Uni0n,' viz, leai
a tobacco; and,
= Whereas, "This great injury and
e manifest injustice, /" is caused by the
/ fact, as further set forth in said me-
y mortal, that Ia the countries of
4 France, Spain, Italy and Austria,
4 in Europe, the importation and sal
: of this great staple is made 4 gov
5 ernment monopoly and that in no
! other way than through this gov
: ernment monopoly is tobacco al
I. lowed to be imported into their
= dominionS, and this TO the great
: detriment of the thousands in this
country interested as producers or
dealers therein, by depriying them
: of competition in the sale thereof !;
and,
Whereas, A further memorial
was by his excellency, the governor
: of Tennessee, the members of the
supreme court and many other
prominent officials of this state, as
well as by the Hon. Connally +.
'Trigg, Judge of the u. S. circuit
4 court; w. M. Woodcock, collector
of internal revenue, and many other
worthy officers of the United States
government resident in Tennessee,
addressed to the4 4congress of the
United States, referring TO said me-
!. mortal of the Nashville tobacco
board of trade, " and expressing the
"desire fully to endorse all the allie
CATIONS and complaints and unite in
the prayer of said memorial for re-
| lief" and further setting forth
"that the grievances complained of
not only affect preiudiciaIly-and dis /
| astrously all dealers in leaf tobacco |
| in the several markets OF the United I
States, and are ruinous TO the pro- I
| ducer, who is dependent upon the f
! lOI sAIiG Vi Iitll- 4
self and family; but being one OF
chief staples, is intimately inter
woven with the general commerce
Of this and the many other states of
this Union in which it is produced;
further, any fact or circumstance or
influence that affects injuriously this
great staple by depressing its great
value, impeding its sale, or in any
other way, permeates all the indus
trial and commercial interests of the
many states of this Union which
produce or deal therein, and is alike
Injurious and hurtful to all these
interests; !" and,
Whereas, Many other memorials
were addressed to the congress of
the United States by the board of
trade of ClarksvilIe and other inn
portant tobacco markets, and by
planters of this and other states
interested, endorsing the allegations
and complains, aud uniting In the
prayer for relief contained Ia the
memorial of the Nashville board Of
trade !" and,
Where's, During the month of
February, 1880, the legislatures of
Virginia and Kentucky did pass
resolutions instructing their senators
in congress, and requesting the rep
resentatives 'sto use their influence
and all legitimate and honorable
sIneans to induce congress and the
state department at Washington TO
take Steps and use every effort to do
away with this unjust and unreason-
able discrimination against this our
great staple, and to cause the pres
ent regie system for the purchase
and sale of leaf tobacco, within the
dominions of the aforementioned :
European governments, to be abOl- {
ished, and the markets OF these four
great governments made open mar {
kets, into which all persons, who (
desire to do so, may import and !
thus protect this great staple, which
furnishes the means of support not [
only to thousands of families in this
commonwealth, but in thirteen diff I
ferent states af this Union - and,
Whereas, The Hon. John +.
HOdse, III snalrsuance of said memo {
rial Of the Nashville board of trade, [
and a letter previously addressed by |
him to the secrHtary Of state of the t
United States, did on the - day
OF February, 1880, Introduce i'm the I
congress of the United States a iointt /
resolution requesting the president +
of the United States to open neg0- s
tiations with the four great govern
ments before mention, viz: France, n
Spain, Italy and AuStria, with Y
view TO securing the relief asked in h
the aforementioned memorials and
which joint resolution {
was passed by bOta houses of con- p
gresS and, il
Whereas, His excelIency, the ii
president of the United States, has a
as yet taken no action, as requested 81
by said joint resolution of congress, e
to relieve this great staple OF the a
burden and the unjust
discrimination to which it is sub
iected blythe operation of the. regie
of the four governments q
of Europe before mentioned, viz: 4
France, Spain, Italy and Austria !,
and, i
Whereas, The people of this COM "
monwealth are largely engaged in r
the production, purchase and sale of =.
lear tobacco, consequently suffer i
great damage and loss by the opera =
ton Of these regie mOnOpolies of
European governments; therefore n
be it i
Resolved, by the senate and :
house Of representatives, That his ~
the president of the
United States, be and he is hereby f,
most urgently requested to take inn n
action in this matter, in i
accordance with the aforementioned h
Joint resolution Of the congress of i
the United States, and to the great :,
relief of the citizens Of this and
many other states of this Union .;
therefore be it further j,
Resolved, That our senators in
be and they are hereby in n
structed and our representative re- Il
Juested to exert themselves to the ~
utmost of their Influence and ability Il
to secure the relief pr yed for in the ~
memorials, as of the II
greatest importance to the agricul- =,
tural and commercial interests Of
this state. =,
Resolved, That copies of this pre- ~
lmble and these resolutions be for -
warded to his excellency the preSi- n,
lent of the United States and to
zach of our senators and representa-
lives In congress.
RacaIyod That eonipe of fhq S.l me-