The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-03

that little sswntils were sprsuEsng rp N
every little town. Fl. keps twice - many
carpenters employed nos tha. lumber
as s. Ne he did whea Is vas sis- He be-
li~vsd in letting congress decide the CUES
ton OF the tariff
Dr.. Ramsey read q telegram from the
superintendent Of ,he mine e sanairn0
SAYING that miners were paid 81 70 -
per day, that GO Chinese or Japs were
sfapsoyed in The mines an1 that no spprs-
ciabie differences IA values in the United
States va expected II the d1ty be re-
moved
Mr.. Smith and Judge Bond explained
that Chinese and laps we're employed ss
top men, and thai miners here were paid
81 70 = per dsy.
Judge Bond he'd that II this marke, vas
opened % British Columbia and divided
even ii lumber we're rot sold any cheaper.
the market wcnld require that mills -
run ~ half time. He cited the mills now
shut do~n for wan. OF a market and
thought IL absurd that people should talk
OF free lumber
Z. o. Graves fMr. Goldsmith in the
chair, had deprecated the Introduction OF
the memorial, for. although Il was bus.-
mixed up in politics lie discussed the
tariff question from general standpoint
aud reasoned that # aay changes were 10
be made in the tarIf1 il must be in the raw
material. Of industry He believed the re-
nova! of the duty on coal and lumber
would benefit those industries more than
they wonid suffer.
Jacob Farth disagreed With Mr. Graves
4
small and needed protection. The profits
on coal now being only 40 cents per ton. if
the tariff were removed the market would
oe divided with British Columbia. Then
the mines would struggle along. assess
meBts would DC made on the stockholders
until they wouId no; stand IL longer and
the mines weuld shut down. He believed
it the duty of the ehaInber of commerce 10
pass the memorial and let the states rep
resentatives know what vas desired
+. :. Meany read a portion Of an article
written BY ". 4. Curtis. secretary of the
Pan-Americaa congress, bearing directly
on the question.
George III. Hebron. speaking with ref
erence TO this being q political question.
said that the situation at Birmingham.
Ala, was almost exactly like that of Seat
tie. The political sentiment there was
well known TO he Democratic, yet the
Chamber OF Commerce there had unan;-
mous!y passed . memorial asking that
coal and iron he not pH on the free list.
Both OF Ala6ana's senators and q major
iiy of her Democratic congressman OPP
posed removal Of the tariff on these arti-
cies. lie believed that Seattle should look
after its own interests. or they would NOT
be looked after
The question being called for the svote
by division resulted in 70 in favor and
against the memorial concerning coal.
The lumber memorial. was passed by viva
voce vote. On motion Of Andrew Knox
the committee on resolutions was in
strueted 10 also forward 10 congress a
similar memorial asking the reter tion OF
the present duty on iron ore.
After the disposition of the question OF
the evening several other questions were
taken up. TIE chamber took action look
ing TO the laying out OF waterways on the
tide hats, aud instructed a committee TO
urge the county commissioners 10 EN- ploy
competent engineer TO thoroughly exam
inc the question of preventing floods in
the country around Lake Washington.