The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-30
RUSH TO GET GOODS oUE
New York Custom House Brokers P'nns
 Over One Another in Their Eagcrness'


 New York Custom House Brokers Pihns Over One Another in Their Eagernsss.
 New York, Aug. 2e.-collector Kil' breth of the port of New York said to- day that tho rush of business nt the custom house was enormous. Deputy Collector King pointed to Il snrg'he throng of wild-eyed brokers In fron' or the desk. Many of them, In their ct er- ness to withdraw wool, silk and other goods on which the duties nave peen lowered by the new law, came 10 the custom house almost before dayoreak' Some of them camped out over n'sh'ph the steps and others sent their clerks down soon after midnight to Keep . front place for them in the row
 The record for duties paid In Is ss,- 500, 1000. This amount was paio III ohe day. that day being inc one peiore 'he Mckinley bill, with its increased duties, became law. Yesterday the amount oi duties paid in waa sGoO,0Oo
 The brokers to-day, as they poured up the steps and rushed with hy'ng mar and painting breath through the corr, ,dors, looked askance at each other ahu showed signs of the hardships they haa suffered during the night of V'gii anu watching. ., One man sang song he called, "A Brokers Life is not Happy one' I'ap- py One" He was standing Just III front of Collector Kings desk at tne time. MT. King looked up and said: "No, 1t isn't just now. nor is It hkely 10 be while this rush continues He saio more but his words were smothered oe- meath the deluge of papers poured over the railing by the hurried ana restless brokers.
 | In MT. Phelps office new custom house brokers are still applying for ana re- ceivIng licenses, and this in itseif IS good indication of the amount or work | that is being done All goods that are | free under the new law and all on wnlcn the duty has been lowered are being withdrawn, and these conditions ad- init an enormous variety of merchan- disc and things.
 Numbers of protests-and vigorous protests. too-are being entered by inn l porters who paid duty between August and August 2s. The bill became Ia" on August 2S, but it reads for the change in duties August l. The lm- | porters who paid duties between those | dates will continue to pile in their protests until the point at issue is set tied by a legal decision.
 | Another difficulty is arising from sec tlon and causing lots of annoyance and trouble This section provides that all articles have to be marked with the country of their origin, as in the Mc- Kinley bill,but also that the quantity of their contents be exactly stated be- fore the goods can be delivered | This means that all goods now in bond that are not marked will have to be re-examined and remarked with the exact quantity of their contents. l. In the matter of wine. for instance, luuart bottles cannot be delivered until the exact quantity of their contents has been marked on them. =
 Yet it is a matter of common knowl- edge that quart bottle does not con- tain an exact quart, but something less than quart. V "|
 In the matter of pins, to take another example, unless the number of this
 valuable commodity is exact the goods cannot be delivered.
 Some one will have to get to work and count pins and similar things for
 the next few months, or else the letter
 of the new law will have to give way to
 the spirit of it. .. ,.>
 The Mckinley bill gave three months 'notice of such provision regarding exact
 quantity of contents. The German tariff
 law gave no notice. Hence the sudden
 confusion likely, and the probable
 trouble and annoyance.