The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
Pleaders Before the Ways and
Means Committee.
"HELP, OR WE PERISH !"
MEN WHO WANT GOVERNMENT
AS A PARTNER.
Cattle, Salt, Fruit, Hops, Rice, Mac
aroni, Fish, Flowers, Hay, Beets,
Garden Seeds, Potatoes, Carrots
and General Agricultural Prod
ucts Discussed.

Washington, Jan. 5.-1he seventh days
| session of the ways and means committee
met today. The room was well filed with
interested delegates.
Representative Curtain, of Kansas asked
for a duty of 10 per cent on cattle for
one year. The Kansas farmers and feed
ers. he said. were injured and not bene-
nted by the Importation of Mexican cat
tie.
Representative Bowers. of California.
then took up the matter on which he
appeared, the fruit trade 1t was he
SAID, in the interest of ALL the raiser and
producer TO raise the present rates on
fruit. The law now affords no protec-
ton TO the growers and did not yield any
revenue to speak of.
The fruit growers of his state would
guarantee to increase production and de
crease prices. On raisins, prunes, plums
and all dried fruit. he asked a duty of
3 cents per pound. This would insure
Americans a market and stimulate the
industry.
Senator Perkins. of California, pre-
sented the memorial of the fruit growers
of California, requiring the duties men,
toned by Mr.. Bowers. He also endorsed
what his colleague had said.
Davis Lobin. of California, required an
export duty on all agricultural products.
A. ]. Wedderburn, representing the
state grange of Virginia. appealed for an
export bounty on agricultural products.
e. n. Loomts represented the produce
merchants of New York city, and asked
for low duty on early vegetables. es-
pecially potatoes and onions.
Representative Russell. of Connecticut.
presented the petition of the seed farmers
of southern New England, advocating a
specific duty according TO the following
schedule: Five cents per pound on all
turnip, rape, spinach parsley and beet.
Ten cents per pound on carrot, leek and
radish; 10 cents per. pound on celery and
lettuce; % cents per pound on cabbage,
kale onion, tOmatoe; 20 cents per buShel
on peas and beans; 40 cents per pound on
kohlrabi 80 cents per pound on cault-
flower; all seeds not enumerated, 90 per
cent advalorem.
committee composed of Burnet Land
redth. w. F. Greer and w. A: Buroee.
all of Philadelphia, appeared in behalf
of the seed farmers, seed importers and
laborers.
Mr.. Landreth urged specific duty be
levied the bushel or pound and an
increase in the rates on garden seeds
He suggested the following schedule;
Five cents per pound on all seed OF
table beets. sugar beets, kale leak. let
tuce: mangel wurzel, parsley. raddisn,
rutabaga, rape, spinach, turnip and on
all vegetable seeds not otherwise pro-
vded for; 10 cents per pound on all SEEDS
of carrot, celery, onion and satisfy; ~
cents per pound on all seeds of cabbage,
cauliflower and tomato; 10 cents per
bushel of go pounds on potatoes 40
cents per bushel of 60 pounds on all beans
and peas; 20 per cent on all flower seeds;
kind in packets; the free list TO include
mushroom spawn. aromatic seeds. pot
herbs, medicinal seeds, castor beans.
cotton, canary, clover, hemp. tree. to-
bacco. mustard. fax. poppy. sorghum and
grass and oil seeds and vetches
Representative d. w. Wilbor of New
York, presented the petition of the Ma
tional Hay association requiring a duty
the hop farmers of New York, who, ne
said. since the Communication bill be-
came law, which reduced the duty on
hops from 10 to cents per pound, had
been forced to sell their product for less
than the cost of production
T. j. Baker of Charleston. 5, G. ana
F. CT. Ernst of New Orleans on behalf of
the rice growers. asked for a protective
duty on this product
A J. Toomey of New York asked for a |
duty of cents per pound on macaron
to make up the difference in labor be-
tween the United States and abroad
F. Woodruff of Brooklyn opposed any |
change in the salt schedule of the present |
Z. w. Brown of New York, represent,
ng the salt manufacturers of the United |
States. suggested the re-enactment of the |
Mckinley law provisions regarding salt I
W A. Hadley of Boston held that a |
iuty on foreign salt was entirely I'M
r. r. Backer spoke for the Michigan
salt makers many of whose mills had
1een compelled to close down, he said
III account u lON HilNCfo- N4'4ANNt liz
,alt clause of the Mckinley law re-
c. Fl. McCue of Boston spoke for the
ishermen of the United states. lie
Isked for an increase of q of cent per
pound in the duty on mackerel. Il cent on
cd and q new clause giving IL cents on
l-,nned and homeless and all other tish.
+ w Kelsey, representing the FLORISTS
lub of New York City. advocated a duty
+ 10 per cent ad valorem on all trees,
prouts. vines and bulbs.
The committee adjourned until tomor,
oW when schedule K, raw WOOL viii
10 taken I'D.