other word!s, this gives cur home jobbers
a reduction in the freight rate amountih:g
to 75 cents per ton, and places this point
on an equal basis with Baton Rouge in
the matter of salt shipments.
Annymous-Attached hereto is an un
signed communication which is respect
fually submitted to you for your considera
tion and disposal. Not knowing the
author of the letter, and not fully under
standing the nature of his complaint, no
attention has so far been paid to the
missive by either your secretary or the
press, to whom it was addressed.
Resolution-I also submit for your con
sideration and attention a resolution en
dorsing New Orleans as "The Logical
Point" for the holding of the proposed
Panama Exposition in 1915.
Vacancies-There is at present a va
cancy in the chairmanship of the finance
committee, caused by the resignation of
Mr. W. D. Park; a vacancy in the health
and quarantine committee, caused by
i the resignation of Dr. Paul T. Thibodaux,
and a vacancy in the chairmanship of
the rules and by-laws committee, caused
by the dea'h of Mr. M. Tobias.
Auditing accounts-As the books and
accounts of your secretary have never
been inspected since the organization of
the Union, and as the end of the fiscal
year is now at hand, I would respectfully
request that the records of the secretary's
office be ordered placed in the han:s of
the auditing committee for the proper ex
amination and verification.
Silk factory-The communication from
the K. Joseph Company, with reference to
the establishment of a silk factory at this
place, is being given the proper attention,
and a detailed report upoo this subject
I will be furnished you as soon as the mat
ter has made further and more satisfac
tory progress.
