The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-05
WHO GOT THE BENEFIT
What Became Of the Profits OF the Jute
Baesins Trust.
A Remarkable statement Made BeTsre
the Ways and Means communicative
Manufacturers Were ltsily scared
by the Mills HiIl.

WAsiiiNtroS, Jan. AT the bearing of
the ways and means committee to-day.
William Bright of Newark, y. j., repre-
scnting the tiaN dresser operatives of that
section allied to the knights of Labor,
asked that the duty on dressed fax Ice in-
creased from $40 to- $40 per ton. lie said
the industry in this country il languishing
because of Insufficient protection. The
cost OF dressing "a ton of flax in this coun-
try is Sii, while in Europe il is but SSs5.
He asked the additional duty upon the
difference IN wages alone.
Abram Bentley, ~ twinc spinner. asked
that the present duties be retained on
jute. sisal and manila. He asserted that
under conditions THAI obtaincd formerly
and which could be reproduced with AIDE
auatc encouragement the existence of a
bagging trust would have been impossi-
BILE.
Treasurer Babhiu of the Chelsea Jutc
Mills SAID that iaborcrs in Amcricau jutc
mills are paid NOR, than twice as In,Ich
in Scotland and from five to ten times as
much as in India. lie read telegram
from the Dolphin Manufacturing com
pany Of Patterson, y. j., saying that un-
less congress gave them free raw jute
they wouid he obliged Ia suspend, bsIng
no longer able to meet the competition of
the Duudee manufacturers. The witness
argued M favor of free jute.
Charles l.. Pearcc ,,f 81. Louis made "A
comparison of the cost of Calcutta and
American bapgine IL show that with jutc
| butts free, u duty of at least cents per
| yal al upon the manufactured product must
| he laid IN order to maintain the industry
| 81 per ton is retained then the duty the
manufactured product must bc "a cents
| per yard.
| Mr.. McAiIlin questions, 4 Peace as to
the cause of the exiraorl nary rise in the
| price of bagging from ~. in lSS. tn ia
cents in ISIS. Mr.. Pearcc explained al
| length that IN the srring of lsss. seven of
| the probable twenty-five manufacturers in
| the country corIcrcd the prosIIct. The
| manufacturers were badly scared 10y the.
| probability OF the passage of the Mills
| bill.
Mr.. McMiliin asked Pearce IL he justi-
| fled the organizaiion of the trust or
| corner.
II say" responded the witness, ..that
| when you uu'icrtah. to destroy my bust
| ness 1 am Justified in protecting myself,
| and will ,lo ~ every time
| Mr.. McMillin remarked that the org sni-
zation did not release its grip on the peo-
| Pile after the danger of the passage of the
| Mills bill WAS over.
| Mr.. Breckenridge asked:
"po yon know of any manufacturer re-.
turniI. ). the Increased price of b,gsying?' -
81 do not" SAID Mr.. Pearcc, "Ihcy
do not have it,
put that S..VD,UtO of increased price into
your pocket: Why did You not"
| ave daln't get IT,"
| "Who slid get it.'
! II don't know we didn't" To further
| questions 10y MIR. Mckinley. Pearrc sai,
the Mills bill. if il had passed would have
destroyed every bagving nnanIfictory III
the country. aud probably bankruptc,l
seveu-eighths of the manufacturers. 1,
|
| eight and a half millions capital. and the
organization that corncr,l the pro,
% due, OF ,, ,sss wns VA, due m;,, solely I" the ,h.
hostile Legislation to invested capital. In
| regard to the hemp industry. Pearce sal,
| il II were properly encouraged he had nc
doubt that within three years there would
h,, instead of l2WD tons as now. from 40.
UO to sO.UD tons of hemp raised IN the
| United States.
| A. L. Bemis. of BeInis X Co.. Boston
with bag factories in st. Louis. Mime
apolis and Omaha, made a plea foi
adequate rates of duty on manufac turct
jitc and free raw jute.