Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-15
New York Coffee Conference
CLOSES IT'S SESSIONS,
Seeks Reduced Production

New York, Oct. 27.-The report OF
the committee on production which
was submitted at a previous meeting
Of the International American Coffee
Commission came up for discussion at
todays meeting, held at the Coffee Elk.
change, and was unanimously adopt.
ed as read.
Senior de la Madriz, one Of the Ven.
ezuelan delegates, suggested an
amendment to the report Of the com.
mittee on the causes OF the crisis, in
which he recommended the commits.
sion to request the Governments Of
the coffee producing countries to form
collective society for the protection
Of the universal interests Of the cof.
fee industry; TO authorize the incor.
poration Of wealthy capitalists to help
them in these undertakings; to decree
duty OF 81 on each bag of coffee that
shall be exported, so as to make up
the capital that Is to be apportioned
by the united Governments; and 10
proceed Immediately TO the formation
Of the company, as has already been
advised by Senior J. +. de Assis Bra.
sill. Action was deferred until the
meeting at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
Cost OF Production.
Senior Mariani, the delegate from
Porto Rico, also presented an amend.
ment to this report, in which he gave
statistics regarding the cost Of pro.
duction, which tend to show that II
the demand is reduced to half coffee
could be produced more profitably.
The committees recommendation to
gather the crop and deposit In Govern
ment warehouses, the excess Of the
production over the demand to be
there destroyed by the respective own.
ers, does not appear to Senior Mariani
as practicable.
The report of the committee on dis.
tribution, which was submitted pro-
poses among other things the imposi.
ton of heavy penalties for those who
are detected changing the brands on
coffee bags. and suggests that the nee.
essary influence from the Govern.
ments be obtained to extend the use
of coffee and open new markets for it;
to bring about the abolition of domes.
tic duties on coffee: and TO permit the
sale Of coffee at auction, when that
be advisable, In markets where this is
not practiced.
AS purely domestic features of these
1t was suggested
that transportation facilities be de.
veloped to increase international com.
merce In coffee; the adoption of bet
ter means of protection for coffee in
transit, to prevent its arrival in bad
condition; and TO establish regulations
for the classification and indelible
marking OF each individual bag of cot.
fee with the name OF the country
where 1t has been produced.
New York, Oct, 2S.-At the meet.
fee Commission held this morning at
the Coffee Exchange the report Of the
committee on the causes of the crisis,
with the two recommendations prev.
iously submitted, came up for discus
sion.
Submit TO Governments.
The first amendment submitted by
Senior de la Madriz of the Venezuelan
delegation was discussed at some
length by Senior Gonzalez, who said,
among other things, that as they had
given all their attention TO the matter
and they now felt II must come to
some good result, but that being a mat
ter of such vast Importance, they
found that the majority Of the dele.
gates had not special powers 10 ap.
prove It even ad referendum, and that
the best thing to be done was to sub.
init it to the Governments, the lat
ter to name economists with special
powers to meet again as early as pos.
sible and arrive at a means of bring,
ing together the coffee producing
countries.
Senior de al Madriz said that he was