The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-05
. D. LAUTER CO.,,
Broad ST.. Newark.


%. Give the amount of imports and value of
your goods yearly for the past four years.
"a. How do you manage to compete with
domestic productions?
IS. Please give for a period of ten years the
cost of transportation from point OF manufac-
ture 10 destination IN this country.
20. So far as your knowledge extends, which
of the European countries has been most pros
porous during the past twelve months, and
to what cause was such prosperity, If any,
due?
corning the administrative features OF the Gus
toms laws?
MERCHANTS.
Only fourteen questions are addressed to
the merchants. Each one, however, is to the
point. The questions are as follows
/. What class of goods do you deal in?
2. nas your business increased or decreased
during this past four years!
8. Upon what Glasses Of the population do
you depend for your sales?
4. What has been the tendency of purchasers
as to the amount of purchases during the past
six months compared with previous years?
5. If there has been any depression 10 your
trade, will you explain. in detail. your views as
to the causes?
6. How can this depression be counteracted by
legislation. or otherwise?
Z. What is the rate and character or taxation
to which you are subjected?
8. What rate of interest do you pay now. and
what has the rate been for the past ten years?
9. Has there been a scarcity Of currency
in your section of country within the past
year?
10, Do you use a cash or credit system in your
IL. Have collections been quick or slow during
the past year?
~. Have any new industries been established
in your section during the past three years; aud
+ so, name them?
IS. Has the increase in population been largo
ly from immigration?
ID. State generally your views as to the pest
remedy for existing Industrial depression?
BOARD OF TRADE.
At the meeting of the local Board of Trade
tonight President VOORHEES, could do moth
ing better than to appoint a committee to an
swer the following questions OF the Senate
Finance Committee:
/. STATE the amount of capital invested, num-
Der of laborers employed and amount of produc-
ton In the various trades and Industries of your
city from the latest available data.
2. State the character and extent of your inn
ports and exports.
8. Give q summary by years, if possible for the
past five years, of the value of your trade and
industries gross value and net profit.
4. State whether or not the trade and in
dustries of your city are at present depressed,
aud if SO, explain as clearly as possible your
views of the causes which have led to such de-
preston.
&. State the length of time during which the
depression has existed, its character aud effect.
+. Have the trades and industries been uni
fcrmly affected?
e Is money available on usual collaterals or
indorsers?
s. Has the tendency in the rate of interest
been stationary or otherwise?
9. How do the rates OF wages for both skilled
and unskilled labor at the present time compare
with wages in 1891 and 1892?
10. What in your opinion would be the effect
of q change in our Tariff laws, from a protective
basis to q tariff for revenue?
IL. State fully your views as to the causes of
existing trade conditions, and to what extent
they have been induced by over production. for
eign competition. lack of transportation facil-
tiles with foreign countries, over-speculation,
unprecedented Legislation or other causes.
IL. Give your views as TO The policy OF SUBJ
shutting an ad yalorem for q specific duty on
imports.
tive part of the customs laws which need to he
changed?
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
The members of the Finance Committee
are evidently determined to hear all sides.
The w~orkingmen are given the same oppor-
tunity as others and the various labor organ-
izations Of Hudson County should take steps
to Immediately answer the following ques-
lions propounded by the committee
/. To what particular trade or industry doss
your society belong?
Q. State as nearly as you can the number and
character OF people engaged in the various in
dustries in your district.
,. Have the wages. hours OF employment, ana
production eesn eurtaiied within the last last
causes?
4. Ia your industry, from the workingmen's
standpoint, at present IN a depressed conol-
ton? Ii depressed, what remedy do you sus-
gest?
5. Have the expenditures OF the families of
workingmen been lesssned by reason of any re-
duction of wages or lack of work during che
past twelve mouths?
6, Please give a comparative statement of
wages for the past five years, aud number of
hours per week employed
Z. WHAT, in your opinion, would be the effect
of a reduction of import duties TO a point which
would encourage the Importation OF goods sim
liar to those manufactures in which you are en-
gagged?
s. Give your views. generally, as to the best
methods of placing the Industries 10 which you
are engaged upon a prosperous basis.
9. To what extent has Immigration affected
the cond ition OF the workingmen of this coun-
try?
10. State, genera lily, any Information which