The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-16

yoafseif IN the position OIL the rnifOau
official you so empnaticaly conuemn in
| your report for 49,. Nnether you run the
| congresses yourselves, or whether you
pass rules forcing the cotton OF the STATE
! to certain congresses of your own seloc-
| uon ana thus lake our business out OF
our hands and put 1t In the hands OF our
| competitors. Is, IL seems TO me, tanta-
mount to the very thing you complain CT,
| except that you get no direct pecun,aiy
benent. Did you allow the snlpper u
select his compress. then competition
| press doing the best and cheapcst Woik
would get the business, other things beng
! equal. Now you XIII competition between
the presses and destroy our business at
Against this consolidation of COM
| presses and railroads protests have before
been made to you. ! quote from a Lester
| of September "A. 1891 addressed 10 Com
| missioner Foster:
cotton from Goldthwaite to Galveston.
What Will It take when business is IN iul
swingy This means that cotton. which
we bought in GoldthwMte on .Srpi@nle r
9. Tor which we paid equal TO 9-l6 cents
| landed III galveston was worth nearly SlDp
| Der bale less when It reached Our press
| here owing to its having to stop al some
| COMPRESS on the way. under your ri,ing,
| while cotton belonging to the owner Of
| that press, or some of his friends, was
market. WHAT interest has the owner OF
the compress IN us or our cotton? We
can wait tll' his cotton Is all forwarded
| then, II he has not bought some more
| meanwhile. nc viii attcrd 10 Our business,
1--WE bought 376 bales Of cotton N Bel
! ton; rensonahlS quick service should have
| Given ~ that cotton In, say. three days;
/ hut you orlrIrp II 70 De stopp,u anu
C9H e.s5gu 5o l, on me r9au. -
- IL rvHo't" us '"GiVe Ualys uiu SOM "i
| IL ~ HVt u, ySl N-Iu WINE ~ ~ M =. 49,
| nas ltSIlteu @.;se per nale or Si'ly, SUI au
ulIW ." t"e g,i,.s W. I"ii, on
tH'PtuE or f,,w o1i, H. ,5V- ~, &
/ not aiiQrd TO lose IT, These are fHcts
t,p WIZ 1pG iosS Vas , o NV ~
| ~ l'V w., H'',,,.'si ~ t ''.- +n-I
! iif 90 a. - , t'i go, ''''' - q ''''
1 9.r't 49, - - ~. 49,. 80 C,,,,,,,,,
,tr t, -" tnd cte,,,Nr Ok is3t
~ l,uo vSs'e'' 0"''" ~
as loNoWs'
Dear SRA friend of ours has lust Re-.
I some OF tho cotton, TO which We referred
IN nr cur reGrn1 lSIter; Is stored IN . me com,
PreSss, ~ i,ei'.paY, sltGe WILING You on
9 iN,,''s ~ ~ "a ~ - W
,,,, ,,e,,tt,"n" ~ ~
I mn mat this Is an outrage which we are
/ u"t'l IS 10 prevent, thu,t ordinary
J on. ui.s lahces we could sue VIC ROAD or
/ 'oI!it.-' pul IN tIliS case lhey Simply
shied ,i,hsmselyss behina your order and
we WllIose any SUIT II we woula stins
/ IT, u YOU want airy turther PROOF OF NE
to the trade Of this community. 6oul In
theory ana practice, we think It would
+ ne hdrd to ma, No wonder Houston
I BUYERS ovadc your railing, an observance
Of 1t would ruin the richest firm IN the
business. Tour carly attention to this
matter would obhge.
7 " S.-Our informant further states
! that the prass Is blocked and that
! prompt shipment from that station VIII
! be an tmpns4ibllltv for same time m
come 4 shipm.ni n us from Toid1
( thwalte on tho 18TH instant is not I'm vet.
/ making II days SO far: it shoId come
/ through IN four DAYS at the very latest
! ALLOW ms one ,inv fn. rntnnrssstno
Again on the 2-th Of sep, ernber we