The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-29
IN THE BOARD OF TRADE.
PRESIDENT HULLs FIFTH ANNUAL
REPORT

An Effort to Have the River and
Harbor Committees 100000 Recon-
mendation Increased to 100000
The Quarantine Questionable Board
of Trades accommodation to the
City-The Naval Stores and Rice In
terests.
There was large attendance of members
at the annual meeting of the Board of Trade
yesterday. President F. NJ. Hull submitted
his annual report, which was compre-
hensive review of what the board is and
what it accomplished last year.
At the beginning of last year the board
had 81 members and two attorneys. Nine
new members were received during the year,
and the membership has been decreased
fifteen by death and resignation. The pres
ent membership is 50, with two
attorneys. President Huh announced the
resignation OF Superintendent John f. Hen
! derson, which will go into effect April /,
! and the election of his successor, S. McA.
White. He also announced the death of
Vice President Walter Mcneil and the
election of John r. Young to fill the
vacancy.
The money receipts of the board during
the year were 81, POS 10 The expenses were
| $3.50 rs, showing a deficit of $3.50 63. This
will be met by calling in some of the boards
securities.
There was but one case before the Com
mttees on Complaint, Arbitration or APP
peal, which was settled by the Arbitration
Committee The mmittee on lnforma-
| ton and Statistics reported the service as
| satisfactory, and the total cost was $776 81.
THE QUARANTINE QUESTION.
The President called special attention to
the Marine Committees report on quaran-
tine regulations, 1.-The matter" he said,
has been Il source OF frequent complaints
during the entire season. The first and
highest duty of our authorities should be to
do all in their power to preserve and guard
our city against sickness, and in this they
should not let the matter of cost or expense
enter, but do all that human skill and in
genuity can do to guard us against pesti-
lence and disease. | believe that 1T
is now acknowledged by the highest au-
| thority that fumigation is much more
effective than detention to kill all contagious
or infectious diseases. With the limited
facilities at our quarantine station for dis
charging ballast, and the regulations in re-
gard to detention from certain ports, we
have driven entirely from our city the i'm
| ports of coffee, and we are now i'll a fair
way to turn to other markets our exports Of
naval stores Our near competitors are do
ing all in their power to take this trade
! from us, and while they may claim to have
| the same quarantine regulations we have,
special cases brought to my attention the
past season show that the detention and ex-
pen-es are greater at our port than at the
port of our competitors. | am glad to see
| that our city authorities are moving in the
matter, and no time should be lost in max
ing our quarantine station all that money
| and skill can make it."
THE RIVER AND HARBoR.
In touching upon the harbor improve
ments President Hull said: 1.-The improve
ments to our harbor are at a standstill,
| owing to the failure of the river and harbor
bill, and it is of vital importance that the
present Congress should make a liberal ap-
preparation to commence the plan of the
engineers to give us % feet to the sea. We
have endeavored to keep this matter before
the public and to give to our immediate
representative in Congress such assistance
| as he may need, and in this we have been
greatly assisted by Lieut. o. NJ. Carter, of
the engineer corps in charge of the work,
but to accomplish anything we must keep
it continually before Congress, and neglect
nothing that will benefit our cause. We
have fully maintained the % feet, but this
NUT not rest until we have a depth of IS
feet to the sea"
In his summary of the year the President
said: ''Our city has been blessed with re-
markable good health and n fairly prosper
Gus business year. Our population has in
creased and a great many new buildings
have teen erected and are in the course of
erection. The great want of our city
more and better hotel accommodations
oh, en-, 10 h. e
and grand hotel on the Oglethorpe Barracks
site. The Federal government has pur-
chased a site for a post-otfice and court
house, aud will soon commence the erection
of building that will be an ornament to
our city"
THE RICE CROP.
1.-THE rice crops have been fairly good
except on the Savannah river, which was
visited by a severe freshet, which DESTROYED
about three-fourths of the crop OH that river
Prices have been good and our market
active until we have nearly consumed the
crop, and there is now in port a cargo of
foreign, with another cargo to arrive. 1t is
bringing a price that would be remunera-
tive to our planters and we need not fear
competition from this source unless it is sell
ing at a very large profit 1t is claSsed and
pays duties as unclean rice at 116c. per
pound, while clean rice would pay Pie.
| That it has been milled there is no doubt,
and it is question If it should not be IN de
to pay duties as clean rice. | think we
should petition Congress TO define more
clearly what constitutes rough and clean
rice, and all rice with the chaff removed
should be classed as clean, and that with the
chatf be claSsed as rough"
THE NAVAL STORES TRADE.
The following statistics show a big in
CrnaSn 1 the naval stores trade.
Receipts of spirits from April /, 1886 to
April !, ............... ....... 141 351
Receipts of rosin for same period ...... 582 $50
Receipts Of spirits from April /, 1887, to
Receipts of resin for same period ..... 62G S26
Showing an increase this year over last of:
SplritS' II %
NOSln. ............... ~ So1
MORE MONEY FOR THE HARBoR
After the reading OF the Presidents and
the committee reports, and their adoption,
the matter of harbor improvements was
| taken up, and after some discussion as to
| the best means To secure "A larger appropria-
ton than the one reported by the River and
! Harbor Committee, the following res0lu-
ton was unanimously adopted:
| sReSOlued, That a committee be appointed to
| memorable Congress for an increase in the APP.
preparation for the Savannah harDOr as report
ed by the River and Harbor Committee from
! 100000 to 100000. and that this committee
meet committees from the Cotton Exchange
the city Council and the Harbor improvement
} la ...s.