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importation of copper ore intended for
expectation as refined copper.

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expectation as refined copper.
/. l. Bodine, of New Jersey, impressed
upon the committee the necessity Of re-
storing the rates of duty which prevailed
prior to 1888 on window glass and bottles,
green and French. Since the act of 1883
foreign glass has been taking the place
OF American glass, although there exist
in the United States enough furnaces to
produce glass for the whole country.
Ex- Congressman Brewer, of Trenton,
representing the pottere. thought ail
their trouble grew out of ad vslorem
duties. The pottery industry never had
been adequately protected. If something
was not done to check the importation OF
German goods. Bohemian wares would
have the market of the United States
within five years, and the American pot.
teries would have to succomb or reduce
wages very materially.
George A. Macbeth, of Pittsburg, a
manufacturer of lamp glass, testified that
he manufactured two hundred styles of
lamp glass, and of those two hundred
styles only twenty were competed with
by foreign producers. One of the prin-
cipal articles used in his business was
soda-ash, and he favored reduction of
the duty on that article. He would take
the duty received from soda-ssh last
year and buy the soda.ash manu-
factory at Syracuse four times over.
He bought foreign soda-ash and believed
he could manufacture it at the rate OF
sixty cents hundred pounds. The
present price was one dollar and forty.
| five cents. Another ingredient which
entered into his manufacture was car
Donate Of potash, which bore duty of
twenty per cent. There was not enough
of that article in this country to supply
his factory alone. An increase of duty
he argued, would not cut off the i'm,
portation of foreign glass ware or crock
cry. 1t would make the people who
wanted that identical kind of ware pay
more for itthan now, but would not pre-
vent it's importation. The only effect
would be to increase the price of the $50
kinds Of lamp glass for which he had no
competition. He wished to have the
duty remitted on soda-ash, carbonate of
potash and lead.
''Give me free tiade or free material
such as England has," said Macbeth
'and give me protection for the products
of my labor, and DEFY any competition
on the face of the earth"
Mr., Bayne-And pay your workmen
the wages you now pay them?
| Macbeth will pay them more.
| Macbeth admitted that he at one time
contemplated moving his works to Ger.
many. He said Gemm workmen were
not as effic ent and skiliful as Americans
but had he found it difficult to work with
them, he would have taken from here
Bayne asked him If he would have paic
them the wages he pays here, and Mac
beth admitted that he would not. Hi
leading idea in going to Germany wa,
the cheapness of material and plant. l
he had free trade in his raw materials
he would be perfectly willing to have fres
trade in his product.
The chairman inquired whether tht
consumers of lamp chimneys would b.
benefited by allowing the raw materia
as we'll as the finished products to b.
admitted free.
MIR. Macbeth said the difference il
price would be three or four cents
dozen.
Mr.. Gear-That is to the retailer
Would o woman who goes to store t
buy chimney, get it for less?
| Macbeth-My individual opinion i
that l doubt it.
| James Ollsnder, of Philadelphia, sai
the lamp chimneys mostly used in thi
country we're manufactured here, AM
sold for lezs than imported chimneya
Imported chimneys were used princi
pally on special lamps, and were bough
by people of means. He did not wan
free raw material, but advocated an in
crease of the duty on various grades @
glass. II the raw material as we'll as th
finished article was admitted free, h
could not pay the present wages an,
compete with foreign goods.
| d: G. Ripley, of Pittsburg, Presiden
OF the American Flint and Wine Glass
Association, advocated protective dutie
specimens of Belgium glass, ana state,
that they could be laid down here at
less price than they could be cut for il
this country.