Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-01-10
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Bsan Growers. CHAIR. Paper. wood
Rulps Button and Rax0r Manufac-
tursrs HAVE Hearing.
WILMINGTON, Jan. 9.-The ways and means
committee this morning listened again to
the needs Of the farmers in the way Of pro-
lection.
8. O. Bowen Of Medina, N. Y, said that
he represented the most important bean.
growing section Of the United States. The
present duty Of 10 per cent. ad valorem does
NOT keep out foreign beans, nor doea the pro-
vision in the Senate bill reach the difficulty.
The bean growers want duty Of 80 cents .
bushel. The consumer would not suffer by
the exclusion Of foreign beans.
! s. W. Smith Of Albion, N. r, bean
grower. was willing to protect sugar or rice,
81 any industry ,sin this country and, in 70
turn, he wanted protection for beans The
Of the North had done more thinking in the
last four months than in years before. Tho
only thing that was high was money, and II
was hard enough toget. The farmers had
decided that they must be protected, as were
the manufacturers. The witness admitted
that when the Importation Of beans was the
largest the price was always higher than ct
other times, and adhered to this paradoxical
statement on cross.examination. But the
northern farmers could not thresh their
beans now, because of the extraordinarily
damp season, and when they were threshed
and placed ON the market the price would
drop below the profitable point, and the far
mer would be discouraged and refrain from
planting next year.
w. J. Colgan, of New York, opposed the
proposition to increase the tax on reed and
chair-oane. The effect of a tax on these arti-
Giles, grown mainly in the East Indies, would
operate to protect one monopoly against the
interest of nearly all of the manufacturers
of chairs and cane goods. The witness read
q letter from Western chair making conn
pany protesting against the proposed adj
vance, saying that the people were tired Of
hearing Of the rings and monopolies appear
ing before the Conversational Committees,
and threatening to be heard from at the polls
at the next general election.
Representative Flower also read letter
from ba6y-carriage manufacturer adverse
to the increase Of the duties on cane.
The witness said that there was now but
one firm making chair cane in this country,
and upon their application the Senate Com
mittee had provided for an increase of per
cent. in the duty. There had been Trust
In the business, and whenever opposition
developed it had cut prices to kill off their
rivals.
B. F. Birmingham, of Dexter, New York,
asked that duty of SO per ton be levied
on unbleached bisulphide, and SIS on
bleached. At present it was imported as
wood pulp.
Mr.. a. q. knight, of Easthampton, Con-
necticut, representing the button manufac-
turers of the United States, said that the
manufacture of sshard" buttons and Of GER
tain classes Of metal buttons had greatly de-
clined in the United States within the last
few years, owing to European competition
and custom house under valuations. They
wanted reasonable protection, viz: On
ivory, horn, and other shard" buttons one
cent line per gross and Is per cent ad val
orem.
Mr.. McMillin-Your proposition would in
crease the duty on the common buttons the
laborer wears, and would not affect the ex-
pensive buttons.
Nelson @. Newell, of Springfield, Maasa-
chusetts, also asked more duty on vegetable
buttons. Formerly there were thirty fac
tories here, he said, and now only Ave were
Our women got about So day and for.
eigners sixty cents. Our machinery, how.
ever, was somewhat better he admitted t.
Mr.. Carlisle.
Mr.. R. Lehman, of New York, said tina
through under-valuations only small frac-
ton of the proper duties was now COLLECTED
on buttons.
Bohemia, he continued, was the curse o
| this country, far as manufactures wer,
concerned. People there lived like csttl
worked for almost nothing, and children
to years old worked too. 'sDo you sup
| pose" he asked, sthat our men can com
pete against thema"
Mr.. Flower-Why don't they come owe
here?