The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-26
SENDS LETTER
TO CHAIRMAN
OF COMMITTEE
Andrew Carnegie Says We
Must Reduce Duties and
Finally Abolish Them.
METAL SCHEDULE OF
THE TARIFF TAKEN UP
STEEL MEN APPEAR IN FORCE
TO URGE UPON CONGRESS NE
CESStTY OF STANDING PAT.

Washington. Nov 25.-Sereno Payne,
chairman of the house ways and means
committee, today received a reply to
the invitation which was extended to
Andrew Carnegie to appear before the
committee at the hearing on the metal
schedule. Mr. Carnegie thanks MI.
Payne for his invitation. but asks to be
excused.
Il am no longer in business. and in
my Century article read the letter,
companion to that of My Experience
With Railway Rates and Rebates, l
have said all that have to say upon
the subject Manufacturers will appear
before You from whom you can obtain
the required details-f
Speaking of his article, he continues:
when you read it you will discover
that my faith in protection, wherever it
is proved TO be necessary. is as strong
as ever. and that | continue also to be-
heve that the surest way to secure
needed protection is to reduce protec-
tive duties from time TO time and finally
abolish them when no longer needed.
Policy of Reduction.
Pursuing this policy, our party has
already reduced duty upon steel rails
from SIS to 81. and other duties in great
er or less degree The Mckinley tariff.
which made great reductions, is a case
in point. 1t would prove false in its
history and its pledges if it failed now.
In the most critical times the prOtec-
ton policy received indispensable aid
from patriotic Democrats in congress,
as I have shown. This is as il should
be. Duties upon imports should cease
to be a party question Only what is
best for our common country should be
thought Of
For Revenue Only.
Il attach supreme Importance to the
maintenance of present duties upon lux
ufies used chiefly by the rich. not from
the protective. but from the revenut
point of view Special attention is re-
quired TO revenue needs OF the country
these days to meet increased eXpendi-
ture, and so far as 1 know none can be
obtained with 50 little pressure upon the
people as the two hundred odd millions
now floating into the treasury from
such articles.
Yours as a true protectionist,
(Signed) ANDREW CARNEG IE."
In reply to Mr.. Camegie's letter
Chairman Payne presented the regrets
of the committee that he would not ac-
cept the Invitation. I'VE are seeking
all the information possible from every
intelligent source" said Mr.. Payne
and welcome the attendance of any
man. no matter what his views may be
upon the question of tariff rates OF
course the committee in adjusting rates
must be governed by the facts pre-
scented"
Metal Hearing BEGUN.
There was a large crowd in attend
ance when the hearing on the metal
schedule of the tariff was begun. Zinc
was first taken up and 8. D. Mitchell
of Carthage. Mo. and Alexander o.
Ihlsing of Oronogo, Mo-, asked that
calamine or zinc oxide be removed
from the free list and assessed a duty
of IL cents pound.
Representative Boutell brought out
the admission that the prices on zinc
ore and sheet and pig lead would be in
creased if the duty should be imposed.
Bourke Cochran of New York was en-
deavoring to show that the protection
asked was much more than was re-
quired to equaliZe labor cost in this
country and abroad, when Chairman
Payne asked:
rs it worth while arguing these eco
nOmic facts?"
That's what I thought the purpose
of this inquiry waste determine who
shall pay the taxes" asserted Mr.. Cock
ran, but in view of the sensibility OF
the chairman, 1 won't proceed with my
inquiry further"
iron and Steel Bars.
Willis L. King of Pittsburg asked that
iron and steel bars be similarly CLASH
s. he
should be increased One-tenth of a cent
MIR. King suggested a reduction of two
tenths of a cent in the duty on iron
/ bars.
Mr.. King asked that the duty of five
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