The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-06
The Permanent Committee APP
pointed for That Purpose
Meets.
WILL FIGHT FOR LOW RATES.
No Other Port in the Country Suffers
Heavier Ship Taxation Than
Ours.

YentlOn 10 take steps to"'ilo icooeiiiliS VIC
taxation and otherwise alternating the bur-
dens imposed on the shipping of this port
held its first meeting yesterday afternoon
in the Chamber of Commerce.
Since the creation of the committee it
has been busily organizing, and it settled
down to serious business only yesterday.
The resolution of the committee read as
follows:
That there shall be formed permanent COM
mittee to be called the San francisco Com
mittee,, to consist OF Two ueiegates rom
each of the commercial organizations repre-
sented at this conference
The following are the delegates:
Shin-owners' Assoc ation of the Pacific Coast
Charles Nelson, ship-owner, California
street; George E. Plummer, ship-owner, "a
Steuart street.
ping and commission merchant, % California
Street; J. J. McKinnon, sh1powner, pier
Steuart street.
ing Company, lO7 California street; Frank
Harold, Wellman, Peck &i Co., 2O1-2O3 Mar
Manufacturers and Producers Association
George w Dickie, manager Union Iron Works,
Potrero; ]. n. Knowles, Arctlc on Works, 80
California street.
Board OF Manufacturers and Employers OF
California-S. Nickelsburg, Calm, Nickelsburg
Saroni & Co., sos Front street.
Half-million CIub-W. L. Merry, Consul-Gen-
eral Nicaragua 204 Sansome street; Alfred
Bouyier, manager Baldwin Theater, $50 Mar
ket street.
State Development Committee William NJ.
Bunker, Daily Report Publishing Company,
800 Sansome street; David Rich, capitalist,
10S Oak street.
berg, Bowen & Lebenbaum. 432 Pine street; J.
Richard Freud, J. K. Freud d Co., SIG Market
street.
Mechanics Institute-Henry L. Davis, Cali
fornia Wire Works, $40 Pine street; Isaac Up.
ham, Payot Upham Il Co., 10l Battery street.
Traffic AssociatOn-Hugh Craig, manager,
New Zealand Insurance Company 312 Califor-
MIA street; John T. Doyle, attorney -at-law, 30
Columbian building.
The delegates present yesterday were:
George E. Plummer, |. T.. Thayer, Isidore
Jacobs, }. ]. McKinnon, r. Parsons,
George ". Dickie, J. N.tKnowles, S. Nick
elsburg. Louis Saroni, William NJ Bunker,
J. Richard Freud, Henry L. Davis, Isaac
Upham and II. Craig.
J. Parsons was appointed permanent
chairman, Hugh Craig vice chairman,
and George E. WaltheW secretary.
Mr. Parsons, opening the meeting, said:
s'We come here, gentlemen, to discuss the
taxes and burdens laid on the shipping of
this port. 1t is a notorious fact that the
port of San Francisco, instead of being the
cheapest port in the country. is the most
expensive. The old order of things that
obtained in early days is still carried on,
vet the condition of things has changed
vastly. This is to be a committee for work"
1t was moved and seconded that the
Fruit Exchange be admitted to the COM
mittee and that Isdore Jacobs and Frank
Dalton be accepted as delegates from that
body.
Also the motion was passed that the
Produce Exchange be invited tc send dele
gates.
The following resolution was submitted
by George E. Plummer, and adopted:
Resolved That there shall be appointed four
subcommittee of five members each to which
shall be assigned the following subjects: First,
harbor property; second, pflotage; third, tax
alton OF shipping; fourth, unspeclhed matters:
The said subcommittee shall investigate and
consider the matters assigned to them and
shall decide upon and report to the main body
what reforms shall be demanded and to what
extent and manner, clearly specified in detail.
The subcommittee on unspecifed matters
shall have jurisdiction over and shall take
under consideration all matters affecting the
maritime commerce OF San Francisco not coy
cred by the topics assigned to the other three
subcommittee.
The word compulsory, in the committee
on compulsory pilotage, was stricken out
as not being entirely comprehensive.
The following outlined campaign of the
committee to be formed was also submitted
| Dy MT. RUNNER.
| RESOLVED. That the plan of campaign of this
committee shall be as follows:
Subscription lists shall be opened and the
members of the various associations repre-
sented upon this committee shall be asked to
contribute a monthly sum the amount of
which shall be left to the contributor but to
be paid each month until the adjournment of
the California State Legislature OF 1897.
There shall be employed competent news
paper man at an adequate fixed salary, who
shall be required constantly to prepare data
and ascertain facts and to write articles statis-
tics news items, editorials ana other forms of
conveying information.
The secretary of this committee shall edit
all the writings above mentioned and shall
disseminate them in the widest possible man
ner for which purpose he shall be authorized
to employ necessary Office help and to procure
necessary printing, postage and stationery.
At the proper time efforts shall be made to
have planks mbodying the desired reforms in
corporated in the platforms OF the various po-
itical parties.
The Legislature of 1897 shall be asked to
pass the desired bills.
From this the question arose as to
whether it would be the proper thing to
define modus operandi OF the commit
tees pushing their investigations.
81 do not believe it is necessary to be in
too great haste" said S. Nickelsburg.
Taxation is a matter that requires years
to adjust and do not think that now we
should formulate any plan OF action. We