Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-01
MISSOURI TO BE REPRESENTED AT
THE TARIFF HEARING.
WILSON BILL RATE TOO LOW.
OUR LEAD MINES MUST BE PRO-
TECTED FROM MEXICAN ORE.
Lumber, Pulp and Paper Schedules
Considered Mt Yesterdays Meet
ing of the Ways and Means
Committee-Lumber-
men Represented.

Washington, Dec. 31.-(Special) The Mis-
souri, lead interests will be represented at
the hearing of the ways and means COM
mittee next week. There will be no large
delegation, but from best accounts two or
three of the leading experts will argue the
cause of an increased tariff on lead i'm
ports. Representative Cobb, of st. Louis,
himself Democrat, says that if the lead
mines of Missouri are not protected from
Mexican and other ores they will have 10
shut down. This, he says, is not con-
tention for the sake of securing an in
creased tariff. but fact beyond contra
yention. The Missourians want the rate of
duty put back to where the Mckinley bill
placed it. The protection given by the Will
son bill has proven entirely inadequate.
Missouri is the greatest lead producing
state in the world, and it is something of
a problem how the Republicans will treat
the industries in which the state is most
vitality interested. in view of the record
which the Missourians made in the late
election against sound money and protec-
ton.
The opposition will also probably be rep
resented. Mr.. John Murray, representing
the Kansas City Consolidated Smelling and
Refining Company, is on hand. He has
represented that company here for three
years and on one occasion had memor-
able tilt with Senator Vest.
The chances are that, no matter what the
house may do with the lead tariff, the sem
ate committee receiving the bill will handle
Missouri interests as the senators from that
state may desire. When the big end of
any industry is in any one state, it usually
happens that the senate allows the SEN
ators from that state to dictate the busi-
ness rate sheet regulating the same.
In this way, If Missouri interests are not
cared for, it will be due to Senators Vest
and Cockrell.
The disputed existence of a paper trust
was bone of contention before the ways
and means committee this afternoon, and
furnished the most interesting episode of
the tariff hearings up to date. There was
warm controversy between Mr.. John
Norris. the business nanases' of the New
York Word, who attacked the alleged
trust, and ex-Congressman William A.
Russell, of Massachusetts, who is reputed
to be at the head of the combination, and
ex-senator Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N.
V who has large interests in paper man
Ufacturing. Messrs. Russell and Miller de-
MED absolutely the existence of a trust.
The lumber and pulp and paper schedules
were the order of the day. During the
morning session big delegation of lumber
men appeared, with c. w. Goodyear, of
| Buffalo, as spokesman, the choice of the
convention held in Cincinnati. Speaking
| for 81 O0O, ,OOO, 900 and 100000 workingmen, he
asked to have white pine hemlock, bass
wood and sycamore restored to the rate of
81 per thousand from the existing 81 rate.
| The Wilson bill, he declared, had given
market for $13,00O0OO worth of Canaf' :
lumber and diverted sl,5OO,00O of rev"
Representative Boutelle, of MAJ spoke
| at the request of the lumbe" in the
! East. The others who app on behalf
| of the lumber trade were Judge Page Nor
ris, congressman-elect from Duluth, Mimi;
| ]. B. Enochs of Jackson, Miss; T. B.
| Walker, of Minneapolis. and A. H. Win
| chester of West Virginia. All asked to
have the raw material kept on the free list.
Other speakers were: c. H. Lang, of
| Poston, for the rattan manufacturers;
louis C. Wagner, of New York, regarding
cigar labels; Wellington Smith, of Lee,
1 Mass, for tissue and copying paper man
| ufacturers; William G. Reed of Boston,
the maker of Photographic paper, and
| Henry Ives, of New York, for the book in
| terests. All asked the restoration of Nc
| Kinley schedules or higher rates.