The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-05
THE TARIFF on JUTE.
Arguments in Favor Of Home
Manufacture.
BOLD DEFENSE or = CORNER
The ways and Means cemmitsee Talk
FARTHER Testlmoay a. 10 the Dmty
On Raging matesiaL

wBaExevos CRY, Jan. 4--At the hear
Eur before the wavs and means COMMITTEES
today william Bright Of Newark. y. j.,
representing he iax-dressirg operatives IN
that sectsen allied 70 the Knights Of Labor.
ashes ttat the duty on dressed lax be in-
creased from SO 10 80 per ton He said
the Industry "a this country Vas langalsn-
ina because Of insufficient protection. The
cost OF dressing ton Of asx n talis cotIf'-
try i SCI, While IN Europe Il ID but 80 he
asked additional duty upon the difference
IN wages si0tse-
A. Rrantiey. twfne spinner, asked that
che present duties ~ retained on 1aie, sisai
and manila he said that under the con
dftlons that prevailed formerly, and which
could be reproduced with adequate ercour-
agemsnf. the existence Of the bagging trust
would have been impossible
Treasurer BssfHtt, Of the Chelsea lute
mills. said EahoreTs IN American inte mills
are paid more than twice - much ~ IN
Scotland aud from FIVE 70 ten times as
much as in Inssia. He read telegram
from the Dolphin Manufacturing Com
pany. of Patterson, y. j., saying that I'M
less congress gave them free raw juie they
would be obliged 10 suspend. being no
longer able to stand the competition Of
Dundee manufacturers. Witness argued
In favor OF free jnte.
Charles r. Pearce. OF st. Louis made 3
comparison Of the cost OF Calcutta and
American bzEEing to show that with Jute
butts free duty Of st least 2 cents Per
yard upon the manufactured product must
be made in order to maintain the industry
IN this country. and If the present duty OF
S. per ton is retained then the duty on the
manufactured product must be ~ cents
per yard.
Mcmillan questioned Pearoe as 10 the
cause Of the extraordinary rise in the price
ri bagging from Z X cents in iSs7to i2tt
cents in ISsS.
Pearoe explained at length that in the
spring Of lsss seven of the probably TWEEN
ty-fiye manufacturers IN the country cor
nered the product Manufacturers were
badly scared by the probability OF the pass
age Of the Mills bill.
Mcmillan asked PcaYce If be justified the
organization of trust or corner.
II say, responded witness, that when
ynu undertake 10 destroy my business |
am justified in protecting myself and win
do IL every time.
MeMillen remarked that the oreaniEa-
ton did not release its grip upon the peo-
rls after the danger OF the passage OF the
Mills bin was over.
Mr.. Breckenridge said do you know
OF manufacturers returning the increased
price Of baggingg'
II do not, . said Mr.. rearce; "they did
not have IT,
The chairman-Yous say you did not put
that $4,000 of increased price into your
pockets. Why did you not?
We did not get Il, /" replied Pearce.
Who did get itg"
Il don't know; we didn't
To further questions by Mckinley Pearce
said the Mills bill, If II had passed, would
have destroyed every hagging mandatory
in the country and probably have bank
rupted seven-eighths OF the manufacturers.
I: wonld have wiped out from six 10 eight
ard half millions Of capital The organ
isstion that corncred the product OF 1855
was due solely 70 belief that the Mills bill
vas hostile legislation 10 invested capital
la regard 10 helping the industry, PeArce
sald II il were properly encouraged he had
no doubt within three years there would
he. instead OF 1900 tons as now, from
5000 30 5000 tons of hemp raised in the
United States.
A. L. Remss, Of Bemls & Co, Boston,
who have bag factories ia 81 Louis, Min
neapolis and Omaha, made a plea for ade.
quste rates OF duty on manufactured juse
and free raw iute