Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-16
NATIONAL GR.NGE.
PAPER MONEY AND SILVER COINAGE
UNDER CONSIDERATION.
a Petition from the Southern Delegates
Regarding the Tare on Cotton
Election of Officers To-day.

Election of Officers To-day.
The National Grange did not meet until
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the ses-
sion was mainly taken up by discussions
on various resolutions That regarding
laws for the prevention of the adulteration
of food, ETC.. was adopted, and one relating
to foreign immigration was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
The resolutions of the California State
Grange, in favor of retaining the tax on the
importation and manufacture or sale of
spurious or malt liquors, was respectfully
referred back to the California State
Grange.
Proclamation was made through the
Secretary of an amendment to the Consti-
tuition permitting more than one Pomona
Grange in one county.
A resolution in regard to the issuance of
paper money and the coinage of silver was
transferred to unfinished business.
A vote of thanks was extended to the
Museum Association for its polite invita-
ton to visit the Croker Art Gallery, and
the city of Sacramento was congratulated
upon the possession OF such valuable
treasure.
The ladies of the National Grange ex-
pressed thanks to Mrs. John L. Huntoon
of Sacramento and Mrs. G. a. Hull for
gifts of beautiful shells.
THE TARE ON COTTON.
The delegates from the Southern States
presented the following petition to the Ma
tienal Grange:
Worthy Master and Brethren Of the National
Grange: We, the undersigned, delegates from
the Southern States, ask 10 call your attention
once more to the injustice of the tare i'm
posed upon cotton baled by the European Ex-
changes, and beg your indulgence while pre-
senting few facts connected with the same.
Originally The canvas made of India bagging
weighed about 49, pounds per bale; the bands,
or roping, about 1877. Total q pounds. TIE
average weight of an American bale of cotton
was $50 pounds At this time a tare of 6 per
cent was adopted by the European associations.
More recently the weight of canvas and bands
has been reduced by the manufacturers, until
the actual tare is only 20 pounds per bale, while
the average weight of an American bale of cot
ton, by latest statistics, is 605 pounds, showing
conclusively that there is gross injustice i'm
bedded in this question OF tare against the
American cotton producer of 10 pounds per
bale, aggregating 100000 per annum.
We would also call attention TO the fact that
the canvas and bands REFEREED 10, and
which constitute the tare, is worth about
one-third its original cost to the manufacturer,
which is an exception 10 the general rule on ar
ticles constituting tare, for on no other article
of tare is the purchaser able TO realize anything
from articles constituting tare. We also call at
tention to the fact that commerce in no other
instance hiss refused to purchase and sell by net
weight.
Now Worthy Master we are well aware of
the fact that no legislation can be had on this
question by any association, organization, legis-
lative or representative body in the United
Stales but feel that every influence should be
brought to bear on the European exchanges.
As this question originated and the work was
first begun in our order, We ask you to help US
in pushing this work and in the securement of
all the influence possible on the question. We
hope to succeed by impIessing the importance
OF this question upon our representatives in
Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture, our agri-
cultural departments, our Consuls in foreign
countries, our American exchanges, our Boards
of Trade and all our agricultural org CARNATIONS
We ask that the efforts of our Executive Com
mittee through our Consularsystenl be continued
and pressed until our American exchanges in
dorse our efforts and until England, Germany
and France yield to the oVertures of the Ameri-
can cotton producer.
Il is also proper for us to state that we believe
this reform would have been secured through
the efforts of our Executive Committee from the
instructions of the National Grange at its
twenty second session in Topeka, in 1888, but
for the selfish and meIcenary motives actuating
our American exchanges and Indifference on
part of our representative bodies
Still another point on this question is the un-
reasonable demand and exoIbitant profits put
into the gaping pockets of the INSCRIPTIONS
jute combine aggregating above a reasonable
profit during the years 1888 and 1889 g. $50 600.
Now, Worthy Master we desire and ask your
influence upon the National Government for
the announcement of the production of such
fibrous materials as will enable us to success
fully compete with jute produced in India The
true position of the cotton producer can only be
well understood, and the situation can only be
appreciated by the presentation of another fact
Jute in India costs only about two cents per
pound, while American cotton costs ten cents
pound Our cotton is not protected by ma
tional legislation, yet we have been compelled
to use as canvas for the protection of our
1eeey staple this highly protected article called
jute bagging.
We claim this to be direct discrimination
against the cotton producer, and that there is
in it no protection except to the jute bagging
combine in its determination to rob the cotton
planter-and we ask your influence upon our
national counsels that we may not be discrim-
mated against in this matter and no longer be
robbed of our hard-earned dollars by the jute
combine.
T. d. KIMBRoUGH, Georgia,
A. J. Rose, Texas,
j. D. CLARDRY Kentucky,
W. R. WILLIAMS, No tn Carolina,
W. X. THoMPsoN, South Carolina,
j. B. BA LEY, NJ ssissippi,
y. Y. CHARTERS, Virginia.
Worthy Master: Your Comm tee on Good of
the Order, to whom was referred the memorial
of delegates from the Southern States on sub
] ect of Iare on cotton, etc, has been considered
by u.s. and we recommend as follows:
First-That the prayer of petitioners be COM
piled with and that the work on this question,
begun by Executive Committee through in
struetions of National at its twenty-second ses-
sion, be continued and pressed as requested by
petitioners.
Second-For special and good reasons pre-
scented by petitioners, we recommend that a
memorial be prepared asking the National
Government to place jute butts and jute bag
gipg on the free list.
Respectfully submitted,
AVA PAGE,
WILLIAM SIMS,
THOMAS MARS,
I. q. KmBRAUGH.
Committee.