St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-18

at this meeting. Inc assessment de-
cided upon was 81 per unit of capacity,
The executive committee had held three
meetings during the year, and their ex-
penses in settling matters between diff
ferent members of the trade and ma
chinery companies, patentees and other
persons, had amounted to $500. The
committee in its report complimented
the secretary, Frank Barry, for the man.
ner in which he had performed the du-
ties of his Office. rAsasA
The report of Secretary Barry gave
comprehensive review of the work per-
formed during the year. he reviewed
the attempts made to get satisfactory
export bill of lading adopted. Three
committees had labored over it, but up
to date nothing had been accomplished.
Through his efforts now. however, some
thing may be done. His negotiations
with one trunk line from the West
had resulted in promise on the part
of the railroad company to give the
millers direct communication to the
seaboard and to connect with trans
Atlantic line of steamers. provided that
the millerS would agree to give the road
certain amount of flour to carry, the
amount to be mutually agreed upon.
He recommended that this offer be ac
cepted, as it would prove an entering
wedge and in short time all the other
lines would be compelled to follow. One
great trouble the millerS had expert
enced, and that was the discrimination
against -four when it reached the steam
ship docks. Mr.. Barry recommended
that congress be petitioned to pass an
act requiring all freight sent to the
steamship docks to be sent out in the
order in which it was received. Should
such a law be passed the millers would
at once secure the relief so much sought
after; for if there wer any discrimination
against flour in transit to European
ports the courts could be appealed to
for redress. A number of complaints
had been received and investigated.
The Consolidated Roller Mills company
had continued to send threatening liter
ature to the millers during the year,
but had done nothing else. There had
been one suit lost, and that was on one
of the machines in use in the Pillsbury
mills, when jury gave sympathetic
verdict of 81 800 to the poor inventor as
against the rich miller. Mr.. Barry de-
scribed at length his labors before con-
greSs in having the tariff on jute low
cred, and said that the reduction secured
meant saving to the millers of some
thing over $4,000 year.
Treasurer 5. FL. Leamans reported
the amount received for dues was as
follows: Kentucky, SIS; illinois,
81, 1898; Minnesota, $140; Pennsyl-
vania, $50; Ohio, $40; Wisconsin, $40;
South Dakota, $40: North Dakota, $40:
West Virginia, $40; New Jersey, s1O;'
Michigan, $50; Nebraska, S25. There
was balance on hand from last year
of So. 5S415, and this gave total of
81, 1S3.4S. The expenditures were
So, 769. rs, leaving balance in the treas
ury of s4l3.72. After accepting the re-
ports of the officers, the convention
took recess until 2:30p. m. The chair,
on behalf of the Minneapolis chamber
of commerce, invited the delegates to
visit that body at any time during the
convention, and the delegates were also
invited to inspect the new Guaranty
Loan building.
The afternoon session was taken up
in discussing the export bill of lading,
which for a long time has been thorn
in the miIlers' side. A. G. Loring, the
chairman of the committee having the
matter in charge, said that his COM
mittee had agreed not to make any
formal report. The committee had
written to all the different steamship
companies, but the companies said in
Variably they were not interested in the
matter. When the railroads were ap-
pealed to the answer was always the
same. and that was to the effect that the
New York chamber of commerce prac-
tically made the bills of lading Tor this
country, and the railroads were salts
fed with it. Now the committee has
been able to secure promise from one
line which runs to Chicago, that If the
millers could make the same agreement
between Chicago and the Seab0ard, they
would introduce a bill Of lading that
would be satisfactory to the millers.
The trouble, Mr.. Lorig said, had been
that all of the miIIers had been looking
for cheap rates. He did not think it
possible for the millers to agree on any
one line of steamers or railroads over
which to ship, but he did think it was
possible to give one line enough freight
to secure the bill of lading, and when
that was once introduced there would
be no trouble in having it adopted, as
the other lines would be compelled to
follow the example set in Self-defenSe.
If the rate were As cents from Minneapo-
lis to London under the system pro-
posed it would be cheaper for the mill
ers to pay that, even if the regular rate
were only SO cents. The trouble
with -four as freight Is that it
is a package commodity, and
the carriers object to. When it is placed
in the stOrehOuse it takes up consider
able room, and the freight which come
in last is the first to go out, because it
is the easier handled. On behalf of the
committee he asked for further time.
when he expected the committee would
have a proposition to make, which it
was hoped would prevent the export
trade from slipping away from the
American miller.
Josiah Wilson. of the firm of Buell. &
Wilson, Glasgow, Scotland, who repre-
scented the Glasgow Corn Trade associa-
ton. followed Mr.. Loring. MIR. Wilson
explained the porterage work of the
steamers on the other side of the ocean,
and said that the freight. when it
reached European ports. was quickly
handled, and he was satisfied that the
delay was all in this country. The for
Americans competitors in the manu-
facture of flour, were able to make
time shipments of wheat to the sea-
board. That is. they could and did
"make contracts with the railroad COM
panies to ship the wheat through to the
seaboard in certain time.
1.-The committee knows that" inter
rupted Mr.. Loring, ''and is one of the
points we intend to bring before the in
terstate commerce commission"
Mr.. Wilson quoted number of in
stances where shipments of flour had
been split into several lots when some
of the packages arrived at their destina
ton all the way from one to three
months before the others were received.
A. A. Freeman, of La Crosse, said
the mlllers of the country should go to
work at once and get congress to pass
law compelling the transportation COM
panies to send out ocean freight in the
order in which it was received. The
only remedy was legislation. and there
should be an assessment large enough
to give sufficient amount of money to
fight with. He thought the millers
could furnish more cowardice than any
other line of business. The average
American miller was the worst coward
in the world, and if there were only
few cases in the courts there would be
some redress.
Mr.. Hamm, of London, followed and
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