Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
CHAIRMAN PAYNE
ANSWERS CRITICS
Fully Aware That Proposed New
Tariff Bill viii be Judged by
People on Its Merits.
SARCASTIC TO VIVIAN CLEAvE.
4 II lie Has No Information TO Impart
Can Understand Willy Hc
Doesn't Appear.

Washington Nov. Give are fully
aware that the bill reported. from the
committee VIII be judged by the people
not in the light or view of those wise
prophets Or critics who are Judging 't
in advance, but in the light of what
wllgbe learned from the bill itself, and
from an examination oil the hlateTidl
before the committee.
In these words Serene Payne. CHAIR
man of the house ways and means com
nittee, today replied 10 the letter OF j.
w. Van Cleave, president OF the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
criticising the methods pursued III re-
vising the tariff.
.sOf2 course, if you have ND inforna-
lion at yoa1r disposal which would aid
the committee in the formation of
bill i can&understand your refusal to
appear. If you have such Information,
/ cannot see. why you do not accept the
Invitation which has been extended to
you, and which is still held out to you
should YOU reconsider your determine
lion" concluded Mr.. Payne.
In his letter to the chairman of the
ways and means committee winch was
in reply to an Invitation to testify ut
the tariff hearings, Mr.. Van CleaVc
Y says:
I'VE would rather bear the ills of the
pingley tariff than TO be a party to a
tariff revision madein the old manner.
To6aprear before you to plead for GER
tain schedules. would be to acquiesce
in the unbusnessike methods of inyes-
tigation against which we protest. We
have carefully watched all the state
ments that have beeuf1nade by you and
your associates in recent years and. in
stead of convincing us of the error of
our ways, we are more than ever con-
WINGED that your present plans of gath.
erffE information on which the read
justment is proposed TO be based is
wrong, radically, absurdily. fatally
e wrong.
MI. Van Cleave sets forth his views
regarding an expert non-partfsan tar
e IF commission and claims that it is
IMPOSSIBLE for the ways and means
committee in the limited time 1t has at
its disposalto make an inquiry which
can furnish an adequate basis for any
such tariff as the country demands.
LITTLE BROUGHT OUT.
There was little of interest brought
olttg;it today'ss session OF the committee
4 which was to finish up the hearing on
he metal schedule.
While automobiles are to be dis
rissed fully at Il later hearing, Charles
f H. Sheriff., Sof New York. appeared to-
= day for the Importers of automobiles
faynring d reduction In the tariff for
automobiles. He charged that there
is an automobile trust which expects
Ito get the duty Increased. Instead
of an infant industry seeking protec-
tim Mt the hands of your honorable
4 committee" said Mr.. Sheriff.. lit could
more properly be called a trust. The
y American manufacturers of automo-
biles are divided into two large groups,
one the Association of Licensed Auto
mobile Manufacturers. which is organ
lied about the so-called Seldom patents.
and the other the American Motor
Gar Manufacturers association, which
adoes not owe allegiance to the Seldcn
y patent. The Selden patent Is an in
{ Benious device to maintain the price
Tor automobiles among the manufac-
turers using it. Up to now all attempts
10 break this trust have failed because
ITS foundation is a United States patent
which is monopoly granted by the
government
Mr.. Sheriff. asked that the duty on an-
t3mobles be reduced about 45 per cen.
Ito 80 per cent ad valorem, claiming
that the manufacture of foreign auto
mobiles involved the use of much
American machinery besides bringing
large business to the American carriage
builders. who, he said, make 80 per
rent OF the bodies for foreign motor
cars.
At the night session. "a. Fl. Wash5-
nrr, of New York, representing inn
poIters Of bronze powder, used fer the
sWtlli paper ana gOIn2r- CplOfS
for the purpose, asked that the specific
duty of 70 cents a pound on that ar
ticle be changed to 80 per cent ad va
lorem rs to favor the lower grades.
c.. w. Jefferson of New York, rep
representing an importer of mica, asked
that the specific duty Of cents per
pound on unmnnufactured mica be
a bolished. leaving only the 90 per cent
ad valorem duty
II. w :. ANaveIt of Boston,, IL filanufdC-
turer, asked that only ad valorem duty
be increased from 20 per cent to AZ per
4 cent.
Vance Brown. of Ashevlle, N c., a
manufacturer, and b. c. Grindstaff. Of
Sylvia, n. c., u manufacturer Of do
nestle mica, asked for a modification
on the tariff rates upward.
Arthur V. Davis of Pittsburg. a
& manufacturer of aluminium. asked that
the duties on aluminium be retained.
The same rates on ailverware. as the
present, was asked for by Samuel Bar
Der, Of the New England Manufac-
turing company.
LEAD INDUSTRY.
Asking that the present duty of $50
on lead in ore be retained. 9. e. Allen
of Salt Lake City. representing mine
owners in Utah. and Edward A Ros-
cier, speaking for the lead industry
of southeastern Missouri. addressed the
committee.
Milton Il, Lissburger, speaking for the
lead manufacturers, asked for a reduc-
ton On lead ore. and said that the
manufacturers are willing TO have the
duty taken off of manufactured lend
articles provided they get IL III. raw
rlnteE.als free of duty.
AT II 40 the committee adjuuirc. I'M
til 9SG q. m. tomorrow.
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A PITTSBURG TRAGEDY.