The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-04
KEPT OUT BY QUARANTINE.
Naval Stores Producers Unable to Get
to Savannah.

A Small Attendance at To-day's Meet
ing and Doubts of Quorum Being
Present-The Charges Against Mr..
williams to Come Up and Similar
Charges to be Preferred Against
President Miller-The Plan of Next
Years Operations to be Agreed
Upon.
The meeting of the Naval Stores Pro-
| ducers Association to-day promises to be
lively and interesting. 1t Is possible,
however, that there may not be quorum
present. No business can be transacted
without quorum, which requires a rep
resentation of a majority of the sub asso-
| Citations.
1t is expected that the attendance upon
the meeting will be small. The quaran-
tine against Jesup, it is thought, will pre-
vent the attendance of number of oper-
ators in South Georgia. Many of the
prominent operators are in attendance
upon the worlds fair and others are abb
sent from the state enjoying brief vaca-
tions.
Several of the leading Savannah naval
stores factors who have taken a promi-
nent part heretofore in the meetings of
the association are absent from the city.
Among the number are President w. G.
Powell of the Savannah Naval Stores
Company MIR. John r. Young of Ellis,
Young and Co, and Mr.. j. B. Chestnut of
Chestnut & O'Neill. A communication
was received last night by the MORNING
NEWS from Secretary Cassels who is on
his return from the worlds fair in which
he said that he would arrive in the city
this morning
LIVELY MEETING IF ANY AT ALL.
There are numoer of very live sub
jects that will come before the meeting,
if there is a quorum. The much-discussed
charge against Mr. j. sP. Williams of
J. p. Williams & Co., for violating the
agreement reached by the association at
its August meeting to shut down the
working of all except virgin boxes win be
taken up.
Mr. Williams, it is charged, violated
this agreement by advising his customers
to continue working their old boxes
as long as they could do so at a profit,
contrary to the resolution Of the associa-
ton.
There is great deal of feeling among
! the operatorsOn this subject, and the dis
cussion is likely to take on an exciting
| turn. Mr.. Williams is known to be a
! man who is not at all backward in a fight
| to hold up his side of the question and
| carry the war into the enemy's camp be-
| sides.
One of the sensations of the meeting
| is very likely to be the
| preferring of charges against President
| E. p. Miller similar to those pre-
| ferred against Mr.. Williams, and it is
| likely that move will be made to drop
both Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Miller 1t is
said that charges will be made against
number of operators for failure to observe
the agreement.
A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION.
One of the best posted members of the
| association said last night, in discussing
the subject, that neither Mr.. Williams
nor Mr.. Miller could be expelled for vio-
lation of the resolution of Aug. 16, be-
| stitutional. The constitution provides,
he said, that no ac-
ton similar to the resolution
of Aug. 16 can be taken by the association
| unless it is brought up by a sub-associa-
! tion before the general association, and
| after adoption by the general association
| is referred back to the sub-associations
at the succeeding meeting Of the general
| associations.
If the measure has been approved by
! a majority of the sub-associations
| it may then be finally adopted by the gen
| eral association
while bad faith may be proved on the
| part of Mr.. Williams ana President Miller
! in not abiding by the resolution" said the
! operator referred toy they cannot be ex-
| PEELED form rviolating it, because
! that resolution itself is clearly
! in violation of the constitution
! Consequently l dc not think there will be
| any expulsions on these charges"
! The most important work before to-
| days meeting is the adoption of plan
| of operations for next!year's work 1t is
desired to reach such an agreement
among the factors and oper-
| atorS that next years crop
may be limited by conducting the
operations only upon a certain scale and
| by limiting the amount of new timber o
be cut. Conservative operators are salts
| fed that this can be done successfully
and that the result will be very beneficial
to the producers. A scale of wages will
also be considered. The present scale