The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-30
RETAIL HARDWARE MEN.
Some Important Changes Made 10
the Original By Laws.
STRONG APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION
They Want Circular No. go AbrO.
gated ma Former Rates and
Considerations Restored.


Retail Hardware Dealers convened this
morning al 9:30 to hear the report of the
committee on resolutions and address. Be-
fore the report was heard, however. some
unimportant changes were ma lie in the by
laws and a resolution admitting hardware
and implement drummers as associate men,
beis was adopted. A number of travelling
names.
The committee on resolutions reported
the following which were adopted;
Resolved, That whereas we, the retail
hardware and implement dealers of Texas,
by the recent ruling of the railroad com
mission, in effect June /. 1898, are forced
to give up certain lines OF our business or
considerably advance the cost OF the same
to the consumer. hereby enter our protest
against said ruling and ask its immediate
repeal and the restoration of the freight
rates and classifications in existence prior
to that time.
Resolved, That whereas the Texas con-
sumner is vitality interested In the restora-
ton OF former rates and classifications, as
w
executive committee is hereby instructed
to prepare and furnish to the members Of
this association at as early date as prac-
t;cable u petition 10 the railroad commits
sion asking a restoration of the ra-es and
Classficatons in force prior TO June i,
and that the members OF this ass JciG ton
secure signatures to said petitions from
their respective customers throughout the
State, and that the executive committee
little delay as possible.
Resolved, That it is hereby made n part
Of the duties of the executive committee OF
this association to keep d constant watch
upon the proposed rulings of the state rail-
roads commission and the tariffs and classl-
iications of the various railroads running
into the state, and to rake such action as
the circumstances seem to require to prop
erly protect the members OF this associa-
tion full report OF such action to be made
TO l.-.s association at its next annual meet
ing.
Whereas. under a recent decision Of the
court of criminal appeals of our State, GER
tain lines of goods which we handle are
being brought to the State and peddled out
to our people by outside parties without
the payment OF any occupation tax what
ever, and
Whereas, the present occupation tax
laws of our STATE, as they are now COLI
strued, are a gross imposition upon the
merchants OF our State, therefore, he il
Resolved by this association. that its ex-
ecutive committee be instructed to proceed
at once to prepare data and take such steps
as may be necessary to secure the enact
ment of just and equitable occupation
tax law, and one which will put stop to
unrostraintd piracy in our State.
The following Is the address, "igned by
the executive committee. as recommended
by the committee on resolutions:
To the Honorable Railroad Commission OF
Texas, Austin, Texas
Waco. Texas, June 29.-Gentlemen: The
Retail Dealers Hardware and Implement
association of Texas was organized at
Waco, Texas, June rs, 1898. The officers
and executive committee for the ensuing
year are as follows: President, w. II. Rich
ardson; vice president, ]. r. Thompson;
second vice president, s. l.. Erwin; secre-
tary. C. B. smith treasurer. C. Dickson.
Executive committee: R. P. Lowe of
Weatherford, l., T. Fuller of Calvert,
James G. Blaine of Taylor, f. G. Wilson
of Cleburne, w. Il. Watkins of Kaufman.
Said association comprises persons, firms
and companies doing retail hardware and
implement business in Texas and have
now a membership of no. And. among
other towns and cities represented by one
or more dealers, as members of this as
socldlOu are lHe following. waco, HUI
bard City, Austin, Comanche, Cisco, Dub
lin, Dallas, Rosebud, Lott, Taylor. Granger,
Quanah, Marlin, Temple, Mount Vernon,
Gonzales, Bolton. Corsicana, Bonham,
Whitewright Sulphur Springs. Mckinney,
calvert, Moody. Atlanta Round Rock,
Groesbeeck, Thornton, Columbus, Rockda'e,
New Braunfes, Houston, Huntsville,
Kaufman, Hutto, Mount Calm, Fort Worth,
Cleburne. Bartlett. Mexia Workman, Bry-
an, Honey Grove, Weatherford, Hilsboro,
Forney, Mesquite. Waxahachie and Fair
field.
AT the meeting Of the association referred
to above, among others the following reso-
lutions were adopted
Whereas. Circular No 619 OF May 6.
1898, issued by the railroad commission of
Texas changing the classification upon
number of staple articles handled by the
retail hardware dealers of Texas seems
to have been the result of an agreement
entered into between certain railroad Off
Gals and jobhers of Texas and only con-
CURED in by the railroad commission rather
than an order issued by said commission;
and,
Whereas, The effect of said circular sl9
mas been to make radical advances in inter-
state freight rates discontinue mixed car
ioads permitted In other territories, there
by increasing the cost of such articles as
wire, nails. hay bale ties. sheet iron, stoves
and hollowware, tinware and galvanized
IRON ware and other staple articles, not
only to the retail dealers of Texas but
TO the consumers as we'll; therefore,
RESOLVED. That the executive committee
OF this association is hereby instructed
10 prepare and present in the name Of this
association memorial to the railroad com
mission of Texas requesting the immediate
cancellation OF said circular 619, and that
no similar order be issued in the future
until full and complete hearing OF the
retaii dealers and their customers, the
consumers OF Texas
RESOLVED, That In the event the railroad
commission refuses TO cancel said circular
Oh until after a bearing that 1t be asked
70 set the earliest date possible for such
nearing and that the executive committee
mis- association Is hereby instructed to
prepare and present such evidence as NAV
ne needed to show the gross injustice of
the present rule.
based upon the forevoing We the exeeu-
i've committee OF the Retail Dealers
Hardware and Implement association ~