The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11
TO SEND A BIG DELEGATION.
The Wholesale GrOcers Do Not Like
the New Sugar Schedule.


Mr.. E. E. Hooker secretary of the
Southern Wholesale Grocers Association.
arrived in Savannah yesterday for the
purpose Of securing as large a delegation
as possible to attend the convention of
the association at Richmond beginning
June %.
A meeting of the Wholesale Grocets' As
ISOLATION of Savannah was held last night
in the genuemen's parlor at the De Soto.
There We're fourteen members present
The association decided to send as many
to the Richmond meeting as can possibly
get away, and it is likely there will be
anywhere from four to eight in the dele
cation. Among those who said they
would go If it is possible for them to do
so are Messrs. Julian NJ. Solomon, I. b.
Tiedeman, James NJ. Dixon, Herman Ny
ers, Joseph Ferst and F. c. Battey
Besides the question of delegates to this
convention the association took up the
matter of the sugar trade and discussed
the code of rules recently adopted by
committee of representative merchants
of the country, which code has been ap-
proved by the American Sugar Refining
Company. Some of the rules are consid-
cred very arbitrary, and the convention
VIII no doubt take action with regard
to them. Especially are the rules with
regard to the manner Of billing consider
ed arbitrary. These rules are as follows:
All orders for sugar, whether taken by
statesmen or sent direct by customers by
mail, telephone, telegraph or otherwise
shall and must be billed at the price rul-
ing at the hour and minute of time the
order is so taken or sent, the time of tax
ing or forwarding the order being stated
on same, and no order shall be taken to
be billed at a future date.
Sugars must not be sold on longer time
than thirty days, nor with a greater dis
count than one per cent for cash within
ten days, sharp, from date, Of invoice
When remittance is received later than
the tenth day the cash discount must not
exceed 8 per cent per annum for uneX-
pred time. If invoice is not paid at ma
turity, interest must be charged to pur-
chaser's account for all time over thirty
days
| invoices from other goods, and terms
printed or stamped plainly on same.
A trade discount of per cent may be
allowed on sales of 1O0-barrel lots, or
more, which must be Sold charged and
billed at one time, and to one purchaser
No shipment shall be made without a
| bona fde order Any shipment made on
account of an anticipated change in price
shall be considered n direct violation OF
the factor plan of selling sugars.
In billing sugars, the actual date and
/ time order was taken or sent must be
plainly stamped or written on the invoice
These are the rules TO which the assoc
citation especially objects. They afford the
Wholesale dealers practically no discretion
in connection with the sugar trade. and
are not only Objectionable to the jObbers
but TO the majority of their customers.
The association passed a resolution pro-
Vtding that no travelling man should be
notified at any time Of the price of sugar
in the Savannah market. It will be seen
therefore, that the buyer and the sales
man are both in ignorance of the price
They only know that the price to be paid
and minute at which the transaction is
made