St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-17

feared he might take advantage of
them, in the event of his appoint
ment, should they refuse. Besides
they did not have any previous rea-
son to find fault with his work, as
he had constantly passed the same
stock he now refuses to pass.
This matter was called to the attent
ton of Mr.. Geraghty, collectcr for this
district, but he said the only thing that
could be done was to appeal or pro-
test to the board of general apprais-
ers at the port of New York, and that
we would probably have to go there
and take our witnesses, as he did not
think the appraisers would come here.
We have made a request to have the
appraisers sent here to investigate, and
we desise that your honorable body
second us in the matter by urging that
they be sent, as this is the only way
in which justice can be done. 1t would
be futile for us to go to New York,
for the reason that the appraiser could
undoubtedly secure witnesses to go
there and offset any testimony we
might offer, the same as he went to
Minneapolis and found an inexperi-
enced man to come over here and in
dorse his appraisement.
1--WE lay the matter before your body,
hoping that you will recognize the JUS
tice of our position and take such &C
ton as you may deem best
MIR. MAYO TALKS.
A GLOBE reporter called on Mr.
Mayo last night and asked him in re-
gard to the matter: 81 think Mitchell
son & Spencer are very foolish to go to
so much trouble in the matter" he
said. 1T is true 1 refused to pass six
teen bales of their tobacco, but ii is
my conscientious judgment that it
contains more than Is per cent of wrap
per tobacco. The question is purely
one of judgment. Even the best eX-
perts cannot always tell to a nicely
whether a bale of tobacco contains
more than Is per cent of wrapper stock
1t is true, l have never had any eX-
perience in the judging of tobacco
other than what L have learned in my
five years service as a deputy collec-
tor Of customs, but have never found
any more difficulty in forming a judg-
ment than if / had known more about
tobaccos, for the most difficult ques-
or that is filler and binder or wrapper
stock, but as to whether Is per cent
of the bale is wrapper. Whenever
there has been any doubt I have al
ways made it rule to give to the I'M
porter the benefit of it, and / am sat
isf1ed that in this case my Judgment
will be sustained by an expert.
1T is possible, however, that an eX-
pert may say some portion of 1t should
be passed, but 1 doubt it very much,
and beyond all question no expert will
ever pass the whole of it. The man I
brought over here from Minneapolis
was not an inexperienced man, but
clgarmaker and thorough tobacconist,
and his judgment did not differ from
mine. | do not see what Nicholson &
Spencer hope to gain by petitioning
the Commercial club, for they will be
heard
JUST AS WE'LL WITHOUT IT.
1T may be that an expert will be
sent here, and if not, samples of the
stock will have to be sent to the board
of appraisers. AS far as [ am con.
cerned, 1 have no interest either One.
way or the other. | have given my
judgment. If it is overrruled, well and
good, and if not, why it will stand,
and that is all there will be about it,
"As for the complaint that 1 opened
too many bales, the law gives me that
privilege in cases where I have any
doubt. 1 first opened one bale in ten,
and finding that some of these con-
tanned too much of the higher class
stock, 1 opened about half of the 9TH
ers, and found these sixteen bales in
what | opened. 1 do not know how
many more I might have found had I
opened all the bales in the shipment
There were two consignme nts-ons of
AZ and the other of 100 bales. Both
lots were there together. 1 selected
five bales from the forty-eight bale
lot, and, finding them all right, passed
the lot. The stock 1 refused to pass
was all in the 100-bale lot. 1 did at
first refuse to pass twenty-one bales,
but afterwards passed five of them,
and only reported sixteen to the Office.
This change of judgment took place
before there was any protest on the
part Of Mr.. Nicholson, however,