The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-15
/ TO TRY FOR ASETTLEMENT.
The Board Of Trade asked 10 Act in
the LOlgShOTemel'S Troubles.


President Purse Thinks, However,
That the Matter Is One Which
Should First Be Referred to the Cot
ton Exchange If That Body Re
fuses to Act Then the Board Of Trade
May Take it Up-Robert Priley and
Gabriel Young Surrender to the Po-
lice.
Mayor McDonough has not given up
hope of bringing about a settlement OF
the longshoremen's trouble. He has
written a letter to President Purse Of the
board Of trade in which he requested the
good offices Of that body in bringing
about settlement of the differences.
Mayor McDonough stated in his letter
/ that, having brought about a conference
/ between the two parties interested,
/ which. unfortunately, resulted in nothing.
and considering it important to the inter
/ ests Of the port that this matter should
! be settled as early as possible, he urgently
4 requested President Purse to take the
matter in hand and lay it be-
| fore his board of directors with
the view to having that body take steps to
/ bring about a conference between the
brokers and the longshoremen to take
such other steps as they nigh Judge
would be effective in bringing about a
satisfactory arrangement
Themayor stated that under the circum-
| stances being matter affecting the com
mercial interest of the port, he regarded
it as his duty to bring the matter to the
attention of the board of trade.
CAPT. PURSES REPLY.
Capt. Purse was out Of the city yester-
day afternoon and did not return until
night. He was seen at his residence by a
MORNING News reporter. Capt. Purse
said that he had just mailed his reply to
Mayor McDonough's letter. AS the re-
ply would not be received by Mayor Nc
DonOugh until to-day he did not feel at
liberty, he said, to make his reply public.
| The substance of it, however, is: That
he will lay the matter before the direc
tors of the board of trade at
their meeting to-day but that as the
question involved is one strictly apper-
tanning to single interest which has its
own recognized organization, the cotton
| exchange, within whose province the
matter probably lays, he did not feel
that he could recommend the directors of
| the board of trade to take action in the
matter unless the cotton exchange had
been first appealed to and had declined to
take action.
Capt. Purse suggested that the mayor
pursue this course and lay the matter be-
fore the cotton exchange, which he had
no doubt would readily take hold of the
matter and do everything in its power to
bring about the result desired by the
mayor In such an effort, President
Purse said, the cotton exchange would
have the hearty cooperation of the board
OF trade, President Purse also gave as
an additional reason why the board of
trade should not take up the question at
present that it had already made an in
formal effort to this purpose some time
before without accomplishing anything.
THE COTTON EXCHANGE To BE ASKED.
1t is not unlikely that as a result of the
correspondence between Mayor Nc
DOnOugh and President Purse, that the
cotton exchange will shortly receive re-
quest from the mayor to take the matter
| in hand. The result will be watched with
interest.
Everything was very quiet in the neigh
borhood of the Berenguer ell Grande yes
terday, and the work appeared to be pro-
crossing satisfactorily. Strachan q Co
expect to begin loading two of their
steamships, the Enrique and Altoona,
next week. The Beltisloe. which is being
loaded by Minis g. Co., is taking on phos-
plate at the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway wharf Mr.. J. F. Minis
said yesterday that the Beltisloe will
take on $50 tons of phosphate, and will
then take on about $500 bales of cotton
Robert Priley and Gabriel Young, two
of the men wanted for taking part in the
rioting last Saturday morning, came in to
| the police barracks yesterday afternoon
ana gave themselves up. Detective Bos-
sell found where the men lived, and
called at their homes in the southwestern
part of the city yesterday. The men
were not at home, but when they heard
that the detective was looking for them,
they went to the barracks and surren-
dered They only remained in the
lookup a short while when bail was
found for them by their friends, and they
were released, to appear in the police
court this morning. Young claimed that
he had been down on the Bay early Satur-
| day morning, but was at home eating his
breakfast when the row occurred Prilev
said that he was on Bay street at the
time and viewed the fight from a distance
AS q result he was struck in the thigh by
stray bullet. The bullet struck lust
over the femoral artery, and if it had
| penetrated half an inch deeper Priley
would have been dead and buried nearly
a week ago