Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-25

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Preside
 to-day appointed Wm. D. Lee of Ne
 Mexico, and Jas. w. Savage of Omah as government directors of the UniC
 Pacific Railway; John R. Lynch (colore of Mississippi, fourth auditor of u treasury, l.. W. Haber commissioner the district of Columbia, fifth audit, , of the Treasury
 BOSTON, May 1.-The fifty eighth al
 nual meeting of the American bapti.
 home mission society began this for,
 noon. The past year shows the large.
 number of missionaries ever under al
 pointment. There are three millio
 baptist in this country, The report (
 the treasury showed s375,OOO receive
 with total expenditures s4O4,OOO. 1
 resolution was adopted showing tha
 great religious destitution prevaile
 among the army of the United State
 and asking the corporation other relig
 ious bodies to improve it.
 Boston, May 16.-Boston IA, Pitts
 burg 4, Batteries: Boston, Clarksol
 and Bonnet; Pittsburg, Maui and Fields Washington, May 16.-The home
 team outplayed Indianapolis at all point
 to-day. Washington 3; Indianapolis ]
 Batteries: Washington, Pearson and Mack; Indianapolis, Getzein and Buck ley.
 Philadelphia May 16.-Philadelphi, 16; Chicago 12. Batteries: Philadel pkia, Gleason and Schriver; Chicago Gumbert, Hutchinson and Farrell.
 New York, May 16.-New York, 6
 Cleveland 3. Batteries: New York
 Ewing and Brown; Cleveland, Grubel
 and Siemmer.
 WASHINGTON, May 1.-The hearing
 in regard to the classification of lead ore
 was continued before Assistant Secre-
 tary Tichenor at the treasury depart
 ment. Arguments in support of the
 present ruling, under which lead ore mixed with silver of greater value is ad- mitted free, were made by ex-Governor McCrarry, Judge J. K. McCawon, Oscar Keen, of Newark, and A. J. Meyer, of Kansas City. Arguments in favor of a change in the practice to compel lead ore to pay duty as lead, no matter how much silver in contained in the ore, were made by Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, ex- Governor Grant, of Utah, MT. Shee- dy, of Colorado, and R. M. White, of New Mexico. The closing argument was made by Senator Wolcott, who said he represented no clients in particular, but spoke against the free admission of foreign lead in the interest of the whole people of his state.
 The advocates of the protection of American lead mining interests intro duced testimony from nearly all the leading mine operators. business men of the inter mountain country, showing what the universal designation and of ores was and had been for twenty years past as follows: That whenever ore contained enough lead to be reduced and form lead bullion, it was lead ore, that this distinction exist ed at the time of the passage of the tar if act, and contemplated by that act which was passed to protect the mining of just such ore. They further submit ted long line of technicalities of high repute to support their definition of lead ore. They asserted that the law was passed to protect the industry, that the ruling of the secretary of the treasury in 1880 was not on ore of lead, but was ruling on a special lot of iron ore con- 5aining silver, and applied to only that. This did no harm to any protected in- lustry, they said, because the iron was ost in slag in reduction. They held this ruling was no support to the subse- luent rulings admitting lead ore con- aiming silver fuee of duty, and that the application of the component part of the chief value, running to such ores was lncalled for. The extension of the prin- ,iple of the former ruling was not war .anted by the wording of it. They also insisted that the opinion of the judiciary committee was founded on the false as- sumption of the fact based on untrue as to the commercial desig- nation of such ores and that such mis- eading information came from the sec 'etary of the treasury was unfriendly to he protection of American industries.
 A large number of affidavids were sub nitted to show that ore containing lead, known as lead ore, regard ess of the percentage of silver contained n it, and Professor Gray, of Yale Col ege, submitted paper practically sus aiming this view from scientific stand Ird. He argued that compound ores of his kind should be described by the names of both constituents. White, of New Mexico, stated that it was not true hat Mexican ore was necessary for melting the domestic product. The ad- locates of continuance of the present practice. classifying silver ores contain ng lead, argued that those ores, com nercially and technically were known IS silver ores and that congress was we'll Lware of that fact when the present ariff was enacted. They held that the question had been already adjudicated md settled, and that our smelting in- lustries were born and grown up under he present construction of the law. fudge McComas in his argument said he case was free from any question of act, because the highest known official xpert authority, designated ores con- aiming silver greater in value than base metal, technically and commercially ,nown as silver ores classification were ,nown and acted on he said, when the Ict of 1883 became a law, which did not hange the status of ore in respect to ,aying duties thereon except as pointed ut by the judiciary committee. J. ID. Wilson and B. Brewster, representing he board of trade of Laredo, Texas, filed paper protesting against any change in he present classification. Senator Vol 'ott said he appeared for no client nor but for ninety-nine per cent # the people of Colorado, as we'll as the inning states and territories of the north vest. The question was simply whether here is law for the protection of the cad interests of the United States, and f so whether that law was being violat- d by construction under which lead ore rom Mexico was admitted free of duty. l He contended that there is such a law md that it is being violated every day. l If the law meant anything, said he, it l meant that the lead interest of the Unit | d States should be protected from for ign competition, and not that foreign | cad should be admitted free simply be- 1 .ause silver of a greater value was con- aimed in the ore. He gave statistics to | how that 600 hundred pounds of lead we're brought in free with every ton of | re carrying silver. In 1886 5000 tons f laaH u,ara hrO,,oht n, fraa frO,n May