Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
District Business Engages the
Attention of the House.
RECEIPTS OF WAREHOUSES
Adopting the Form Employed in
Seventeen States.
PUNISHMENT OF KIDNAPPING
Extension Of Railway Line East on
Monroe Street to 18th, Thence
North to District Line Favored.

North to District Line Favored.
The House passed a number OF meas
ures of local interest and Importance
1T yesterdays session. including the uni
form warehouse receipts bill. the Camp
bell anti kidnapinS bin, the bill for the
extension Of tho City and Suburban Rail-
way Company. the Bill 10 regulate the
height Of buildings and the bill to in
crease tho numbers Of incorporates OF
st. vincsnt's Orphan Asylum. 1t devei-
opsd during tho debate that the District
committee intends to take UP the free
tramsfer measure tomorrow and pass It,
30 that it can come before the House
next District deg.
Warehouse Receipts.
After the row over the conference re-
port on the legislative bill had been fin
ished by the House shortly before 3
o'clock yesterday Representative Camp
hell of Kansas. member of the Dis
trict committee. called up Senate bill 1882
to make uniform the law Of warehouse
receipts in the District of Columbia. This
was the unfinished business Of District
day.
The criticisms of this bill by the gen.
tleman from kentucky, Mr. Johnson
said Mr.. Campbell, simply show that
an able lawyer can take up almost any
statute or any court decision or any con-
tract and make an interesting criticism
of ii. This bill has been under considera-
ton by eminent lawyers and publicists
for many years. A conference of the
Commissioners on uniform laws. repre-
senting the several states OF the Union,
have spent years in the preparation OF
this bill 1t was first suggested by the
American Bar association to the states
that they select commissioners upon uni
form laws, notes and bills, divorce and
warehouses and so forth. The uniform
law for notes and bills was prepared a
number of years ago, and has been
adopted by many of the states. This
bill was prepared some four years ago.
and has been adopted in eighteen of the
states. They are not states without bust
ness Of this character
Representative Goulden of New York
interrupted Mr.. Campbell to say that he
was a member of the National Board Of
Trade, which had been in existence about
fifty years. and was one of the most care
fully organized and one of the most in
f1uential bodies Of the country.
After a careful examination of the
subject they Endorsed this bill in TOTO
Mr.. Goulden declared.
Thanks said Mr.. Campbell. This
bill has not only been Endorsed by the
National Board of Trade but has been
Endorsed by the Association of Ware
lhousemen, the American Bankers Asso-
citation and the American Bar Assocfa-
ton. This bill was considered section by
section at the meeting of the Bar Asso-
citation in Minneapolis In 1903.
In the course of further colloquy Mr..
Campbell suggested that Mr.. Johnson of
kentucky, his colleague on the House
criticisms of the bill, but had offered no
amendments.
Mr.. Johnson replied that there were, in
his opinion, SO many Objectionable fea-
general substitute for it would be the
best way out of the difficulty.
We have a very imperfect warehouse
receipt law In the District of Columbia, -
said Mr.. Campbell. There are only about
four sections of it. which give neither the
warehouseman nor the owner of the
goods very much information of what
his rights are under the law"
A long wrangle then ensued over the
section prescribing the manner in which
private sale, without advertising. goods
OF perishable or inflammable nature.
Provisions of the Bill.
Mr.. Campbell then briefly outlined the
various sections of the measure, as fol-
lows:
THE purpose of the act is, as shown
in its title, to make uniform the law of
warehouse receipts.
Part ! of the act, embracing sections
] to {, states who may issue warehouse
the essential and permissible terms. de-
fines negotiable and non-negotiable re-
Iceipts and determines when duplicate re-
iceipts may be issued
Part III sets forth the obligations and
rights of the warehousemen upon their
receipts. In section it provides the OBJ
.ligations of the warehouseman to deliver
goods in his possession, and in section
provides his justification for making de-
livery to certain persons.
Section 10 provides his liability for
imisdelvery.
Sections II and IL require that nego-
table receipts must be Cancelled when all
goods covered by it are delivered or de-
!liveries noted upon II in cases OF partial
delivery.
Section ID directs procedure in case OF
lost or destroyed receipts.
Section L. provides the liability as
fumed by warehousemen in issuing dupii-
cate receipts.
Section 10 debars a warehouseman from
setting up title in himself as an excuse
from liza bility for refusing to deliver good.
according to the terms of the receipt eX.
cept in certain cases
Sections L. is and 10 give warehouse
men. in case of adverse claimants, right
10 require all known claimants to inter
plead and reasonable time to determine
validity of claims.
Section 20 makes the warehousemar
liable for non-existence OF misdescriptior
of the goods in his receipt.
Section 81 provides the rule of liability
for the care of goods in his custody as
that which a reasonably careful owner o,
similar goods would exercise.
SECTION % requires goods TO be KEEP,
separate. SO az to permit the identified
fion and redelivery Of the goods deposited
SECTIONS q and "a provide when
warehouseman may commingle goods, ant
state his liability to the depositor UNI
Der such commingling.
Sections IS and % provide the cred
ftors' remedies against warehoused goods
upon which negotiable receipt has beer
issued, and deny the right to him OF at
tachgnent by garnishment or otherwise, OF
levy under execution unless the receipt b,
first surrendered to the warehouseInan Of
its negotiation entoined.
Sections u to SO. inclusive, relate t
the lieu Of warehousemen: how it may b,
enforced how lost, how satisfied. etc.
and the effect of enforced sale hereunder
SECTIONS 81, 80 and 80 provide how
receipt may be negotiated and transferred
Section 40 provides who may negotiate
o receipt.
Sections Al and AZ define the rights O
q person to whom a receipt has been ne
Rotiated or transferred.
Section 43 gives the holder negotia
bic receipt transferred to him by delev
cry the right to compel the transferre
to indorse the receipt unless contrar
intention appears.
Sections a.. As and 40 provide the war
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