The morning times., 1897-01-12
BrookIyn's Ex-Mayor in 1t.

Ex-Mayor Schieren of brooklyn filed
paper. protesting against any increase in
the duty on hides.
]. C Storey and c. C. Kemp OF Boston
protested against placing tax on coal
tar The domestic supply was insufficient
TO meet the demand and if duty were
placed on the product manufacturers using
il would be driven out of business.
W Colder of Chicago, a manufactures
of moss peat asked a duty of $4 per
ton on that article. Before domestic
competition began the foreign price was
$40 per ton When the home supply began
TO appear the price was dropped to S12
per ton 1t was an article used by the
| wealthy and the duty on the so 600 tons
imported annually would yield consider
able revenue and allow the domestic in
dustry TO live.
Abe Graber, OF New York, spoke on the
subject of wearing apparel brought in by
tourists A duty on this class of goods
| would yield a revenue of Io,ooo,o00 per
annum In this connection he cited the
Astor case, which caused member of the
committee to remark that ali tourists'were
not AstOrs.
Mr. Graber replied: No, and there will
bC+At1o 49, - N''.N - " -
Astors and Their Clothes.
l. Littauer, Of New York, advocated duties
| on gloves 1T ttfe-rnte of 50, So, and 81
per dozen, according TO grade.
W j Curtis, of New York, asked the
committee not To discriminate against any
particular class of gloves.
Mr. LitUaIer inteTupting. said that the
rates suggested were particularly desired
on ladies' gloves.
Kenneth Barnhart, representing Marshal,
| Field 81 Co., of Chicago, counselled modera-
| ton in duties, and submitted schedule
covering goods imported by his firm.
b Charles Z. Smith of New York, a glove
| importer, was willing to have 20 per cent
| added1o the present. duty oil gloves. Specific
| duties on the basis he recommended, he
| said, would yield a revenue of about ST.
! 900, 600 annually,
Representative keifer of Minnesota, on
| behalf of mis- constituents, requested
restoration OF the Mckinley rates on
| potatoes and starch.
New Carolina Industry.
Representative Linney of North Caro-
lima said that North Carolina had new
| industry, the mining OF 'monezite,'
! product used in a patent light apparatus.
| Brazil was driving the domestic article
| out OF the market, and he desired as high
| duty as the committee could give.
w ]. Farrell, of New York, an importer
| of corks,3 requested a, reduction in the
! duty on corks, the duty to be made specific
at cents per pound on those manufactured
1 with cork squares on the free list.
If the present tariff were moderately re-
| duced, he said, competition would be
| broadencd and the revenue increased. No
| matter how low n rate was imposed, it
| always afforded some protection by max
| ing it hard, if not impossible, to import
| certain kinds of corks This was on &C
| count of the nature of the business.
Cork bark was produced by nature in
| irregular cnnditions-thick and thin, good,
bad and Indifferent. 1t was impossible,
| in the process Of manufacture, to control
| the output, either here or abroad; and the
| merchant must dispose of all the grades
| produced. The accumulation of a by
product is a fatal handicap in the busi-
| ness One-half of the present tariff would
| afford ample protection to the home
product.
H. Wanerstein of New York, represent
| ing the importers of shoe leather, spoke
| against any increase in the duty on this
article
H. Burke OF Philadelphia, representing
the makers of glazed kid and morocco
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