Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-07
The IRoN TARIFF.
Arguments Before the Ways and Means
Committee.

Arguments Before the Ways and Means
Committee.
WASHINGTON, &arch 6.-The Ways and
Means Committee 20 cay listened 20 srgu'
msurs on the iron ore and pig IRON sched'
ulss of the Morrison Tariff Bill,
Mc Wn. i Iagrabem, Of Poilade l9his,
manufacturer Of pig iron and
8 member Of rte Eastern Pig
Iron Association. read q paPsr prepared
bv that association earnestly protesting
and demonstrating against the proposed
reduction Of the da'y on pig iron and
wrought scrsp iron, aud Earning the com
uirtee and Congress- Of the alarmig conse'
oospces certain TO fOllo% sach reduction.
The squences, ha sid, OF the redue,
lions Of 1871 aud 1888, have been most
disastrous The msnutaclUce OF pig iron
js in a very depressed condition. Prices
have farea s.sa&"y 10 September, 1885,
since when rEe-v l-s oeen slight rally.
There has been
most rSExvAL c3g?E-TTITE STRUGGLE
between he foreign producers AZ low
wages and the home producers at higher
WAS one by one our furnaces closed and
spgr their 6ses, aud many of those VINO con-
1in1-d The 6ght wers driven into bank
r,n,cv and ruin with th3usand5 Of work
lm,n II ,e az home. Large quantities OF tRe
t5yelgu pi. aud scrap iron, nave connnued
Ito arrive and suppl: 0uc market 10 tae sX
tclu-ion Of nom- DJ&lGt. The sut=rings
|oF ou- go,kneu aud i0ssss OF their employ
p, thus wanronly sacrificed in favor OF
toreign capial and cheap labor vii,
NEE ae .y2irinilsiy snoFn. u
.she.e WAS auylhjIg 20 hope I'om
rh- present C)1grlss. TIE assoc'aron Wouia
Bss TO have ,h- du J on p'2 IRON pat a' %
1p-r ton. which is 10 more lhan would over,
Rome the dl5eraace ia Wa}es paid soEoAo
and b. hon. The duty On wrought scrap
iron .boa.i 5e fxst - SIC The makers
cf pg ivoa are utterly weary Of this COZ
Aiuual
,M SAGgtNG A. .EE 4ASlAF-
n he vsr,ergal t.uksfiuy paralyzas business
a-,l57...,. - l.A.e aui has reduced the
la .srr, 10 sucn O state ot mJnd that they
soald O. glad 10 get Oack Gi'y cents on
lhe G.. - II their moGey invested. Ihey
SoGld prefer ices trade % the proto go
fats - au'y because tGsy believe that the
stronyes IA i :ss toe more rapid wall De
khe recovsrg OF the, patient.
Nr Wlsrting. representing the I. ,.
Assoc,a.iou Of Charcoal ISoa Workers
had p.o-- Uco'ssIiug Egsinst the pas
D.. Z Of the Q5rrlsoa Bill Tdey not only
p.O.es.ai against reduction OF duty on
SroR out requested that the rules pre-
&aIhrg preva,iIOg prior 90 1883 Do re-
btoret, that ell duues made speclnc
Aud shat "a du'v "a imposed to protect the
hauui -c,1r-rs OF tin plate Nc. Geo. d
j =, representing the o7e producers, told
b the o1,.ac,-s IN rbs Say Of developing
y ncrlca1 ura Ge2 )sl5s ss compared WITH
b. easy Production or ioReign countrlesr
sheu :. N,s Oalg necessary " Dig up IN
eRyth !ae mju.rg business IN the eoGutry
b. sa, Has uor o-eG q prof able lnVsst
h.. More moLsT hGd been sunk 10 L1Ss
Superior d,.trlCt iaau sOuld be gotten out
Mr. Thro2 u a-PeunsyisSnis ironmsSer,
bid that toe ore should Be protected. II
D. Snulh could &c. better ores and mEkr
ebespar lrou he would say God speed,
s; ,bs South Ss built up. Any ieRlsls'
On los: a.'ghi prove detrimental 10 ZlO,'
3 pOD workmcu sboali os very carefully con
&dersd