The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-01
A FRANKFRBB TRADER.
sMt Macbeth 't::E Admits That He
Wants Free Soda-Asb
FOR SELFISH PURPOSES ONLY.
The Hearing OF Glass and Pottery
Men blythe Ways and Mcans Com.
mittee --Tho i.aborins Men
Heard from on the Subject.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. 3l.-Al.
though the Ways and Means Committee
Shaa assigned to-day to the hearing OF
fpesaons Interested In the manufacture
.s!o'tglass and earthenware, tho committee
stiiretlistened to IN argument from Robert
M. Thompson, OF New York, In favor Of
tho free importation Of "copper" ore, in.
Tended for expectation rs refined copper
=. I. Roline, Of New Jersey, impress.
sed upon the, committee the necessity Of
sSestorlng the rates oil duty which pre-.
yailed prior TO 1883 on cylinder window
glass and bottles, greea and French.
Since the act Of 1883 tho foreign glass
had been taking the place OF American
glass, although there existed in the
United States FURNACES enough 10 pro.
hlcc glass Tor the whole country. s3,,j
Ex-Copgrecstnan J. Hart Brewer, of
Tfenton, represented the pottericsJ@All
their trouble grew out OF tho SYSTEM Of
'advalorem duties The pottery h indus.
fy had never been acknowledgement
ID. 1t had maintained its market not
BECAUSE Of the duty, but becanse Of the
locality aud because Iof certain
styles which had * been produced
and which a had M pleased the pub.
lie taste. 1T was his honest opin.
ion that IL something was not done
to check the . importation OF German
goods bohemian wares would have
the market%of the United States
within live years, aud the American not.
ters would have to succumb or would
have to reduce the wages Of labor very
materially. The only reason the foreign
manufacturers did not sell all the goods
used i'll the United States was that they
We're not ables at the present TO pro-
duce them. S5
". LIANT GLASS INTERESTS.
y The committee listened to an argu-
ment from Georgia. Macbeth, OF Pitts.
.bafgh, who lis Sa manufacturer Of lamp
glass. lie stated that he manufactured
two hundred styles Of lamp glass aud Of
that tuRadat&saa st yles only twenty
We're competed with ny ffss.eign pro
,ducers. A One tof 4 the principal articles
used in his business was aoda.ash, wiiGh
now bore duty OF % per- Cent, andsh he
favored the,reduction OF the duty on thai
article. He could take duty receiyd
from soda-ash last year and buy 4'tle
5soda'ash tmanutactory at Syracuse four
times over "a tg5FEt(Eth
q He bought foreign soda ash though l.e
Gould get the domestic as cheap. He
tthought:of going into the business 81
making soda ash. .iand believed that be
Gould %mannlactnre it ut the ralett Of. 10
Gents a hundred pounds. The preseht
price was one dollar aud forty.five cents.
The. location Ola factory was zant esssp-
.tial feature inftheE manufacture ofIs0da
ash: Fl reply to :as Question 81 the
he, stated staldatsf lie had to get
something not jyatsfoundsto: enable him,
to make soda asil ut the price statef,.
Another ingredient which entered Sirto
his manufacture was carbonate Eof S36tt
ash which bore duty of 20 pers3xnt.
There was not enough of that article in
This country to supplFhis factory alone.
The increase OF duty he argued, would
not cut oil the impGtation OF foreign
glassware or crocker. 1t would make
The people who varied that identical
kind OF ware pay iuote for it than now,
butit would not pressnt its importation.
The foreign and bnestic producers
would compete rs huch rs ever THE
only effect woull Fe to increasef the.
price-of lie $50 lina OF lamp glass for
/ which be had no competition. e He
Y wished TO: have thealuties remilted on
!; soda ash, carbonate OF potash and
lead. iSi;.ei$ 5ysI5I5r
Mr.. Bayne-If the iermans came into
competition with y6t with their lower
s-rateut-wagessc could C5I 5ISS I'll i with