The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-16
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WHEELING. OCTOBER ic, 1893



and do no. make tin plate some facts
are here submitted.
The Mckinley bill provides that tho
present duty shall stand ii it can be
shown TO the satisfaction OF the Presl-
dent that the American manufacture
OF tin plate weighing less than G3
pounds per 100 square feet is equal to
one.third OF the mportations in any one
OF the fiscal years up to June So 1877
For the information OF manufacturers
and that the people might know what
progress was being made, the treasury
department, under President Harrlsons
administration, published quarterly the
amount Of plate produced in the United
States.
After Mr.. Carlisle became secretary OF
the treasury it took Eve months TO cook
up a report OF the production from
January / to April ! (; and when the re-
port was published it was found thatin
order to reduce the amount as much as
possible tho department had issued the
following instructions to the statisticlan:
You mr., informed that after careful consider.
alton OF the matter the department has come TO
The conclusion that tho word "producGd which
appears in the second JTOpiso OF PARAGRAPH ~" ol
tiS tariff net OF october |, 1880, was inlehdcI Dy
Congress 10 exclude from the computation oi re-
suits all tuned plates made from imported DUCK
plates.
The report for the quarter ending
March 81, 1898. was finally published,
and, excluding black plates made in
Europe and timed in the United States,
showed that the production for that
quarter OF plates made entirely from
American material amounted to ll,37l,-
0BS pounds, and estimating that
tho annual product would be
three and one-half times that
amount, it informs Mr.. Wilson and
the ways and means committee that
tho annual product will DO 6T4GO,OOO
pounds. That the report as published
was cooked" for q purpose is shown in
the following letters to THE Iron Age:
TO the Eilor:-WG would rather enjoy your
comments in issue of iith inst, respecting ths
information given ont by the bureau OF statistics
We're not the evident twisting OF reports 100 serl
OnS TO be laughed ut Possibly nl American
manufacturers may take earnest exception 10
this report. We spenf ior our own INTERESTS, Us
embraced ~ our own factory ~ ms cry anu Iho
plant OF the Bnirsyile Rolling MIL and III
Finite Company, of BairSyille, Pa, tue entire
output Of which We market We know oil no
theory from which it proper TO specmtntS upon
annual output upon the basis gwen ~ ms IT,
port At BlairsvlllC was erected M entirely new
plnnt consisting OF hot and cold rjllng mills.
heating and nunCallng furnaces and picking
machines. together with n complete INNING
house This plant only began ptncLcai opSFh
lion in The month ending March u, 1928, and TO
TO make an estimate OF It's annual chphcltN NlS
attempted IN this report upon the basis OF ihrec
and 0nG.hali times the Hctnnt output OF the
quarter, most OF which was pissed before Inc
actual completion OF this plant, is evidently i'm,
PROPER As the bureau OF statistics had III hand
Ions since the nCtual returns IRON the quarter
ending June 20, II may be pertinent 10 inquire
why same are not published. we may SLlIe tnhL
in a sipg'c month Of tho quarter ending June W.
nc d,h,rr,d from Bldirsrllc 10 CONSUMERS quantity
Of finished Plates ~ crceJ ofthtS bureau Of statistics
ts.iHldtc OF mG annual Output Of miS nltE Every
sheet coated ut Bnirsvlle Is rolled in the mill
there the output being tho product Of q. COM
plcle American plant. within few days tile
additional mill erected as tho BIairsyllIe plant
has been put In operation, tins giving at Inc
present time daily output OF 3D boSe1.
JAMES u SCUTr & Co,
Pas6urgh Pa, September -, 1898.
To The Editor: We notice In your journal n
report OF tho domestic manufacture Of tin aud
terlIc platuS We ARE pleased to note that in
publishing 1t you take the opportunity To stale
that 1t Is more or less inaccurate rs lar as our
firm Is concerned the statements are inaccurate
Indeed are rlllcuOusy 50. For instance. our
capital Invested Is put down ~ S!,OJl As this
represents JUS OuG-titccnth OF the cost oil tue
real estate on which our WORKS are erected 10
say nothing oil buildings, machinery. &c, II Is
needless for u3 10 comment further on the value
OF such reports to the public
iouS truly.
MERCHANT & Co
Philadelphia, sPemJr25
1t is at last known that the produc-
ton Tor tho quarter ending June so,
1893, of purely American plates amount
cd to 10, 4S9, l5j pounds. Figuring on tho
came basis as the department followed
before, tho estimated annual production
would be 70,OOO,OO0, which is one.third
the amount imported for the year end
Ing June 50, 1892. So that American
manufacturers have about reached the
mark they were given Tour years more
to attain.
What is to DO thought OF great par.
ty, claiming to represent more than
half the people, using such means as we
have shown to deny the facts and twist
the truth about n great American indus
try? What is to be thought OF tho pa.
triotism OF an American secretary OF
the treasury who stoops 10 such means
to support his theory that tin plate can.
no. be made in the United States?
The American manufacturers have
done better than was expected OF them 4;
the government has derived large rev.
onue from tho increased tariff on tin
plate; tho price has not advanced; but
tho tariff is tax" and tho manuiac.
turors will probably be knocked out by
the Wilson bill and tho government &c.
loss revenue from tin plate importation
to carry out sonscles5 theory.
Taking tho returns as givon by the
latc0t report issued by auth ority OF the