The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-12
DEMOCRATS WOULD BOOST TARIFF RATE |nique Spectacle Presented in Committeeman Crying for
 Protective Rate on
 Imports. REPUBLICANS AGAINST IT Iissouri Thought It Was Entitled to Consideration for Having Swung Its Electoral Vote Taft ward.
REPUBLICANS AGAINST IT

X Washington, Nov. 11.-The democra- . members of the house ways and
 cans committee favoring an increased
 lte of duty and the republican mem-
 ITS assuming an attitude against a rotectlve rate on "Barytes," an article sted in schedule "A" of the tariff, ' as the unusual situation which deyel- oed at today's hearing before the com |. ittee Former Representative M, p.
 nodes and A. c. Hulson, s. M. Evans, I- North Carolina, and Charles J. Sta . les of Buffalo, N. r., spoke In favor |r Increasing the duty on crude barytes p nd when Mir Evans took up the argu-
 ent speaking of the barytes deposits h North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, I Id Tennessee, the democratic mem -ars of the ways and means committee ll ,came interested.
 lr Representative Pou of North Caro- b la, a democrat, told MT. Evans that
 he would show that the mining of { tirytes was made unprofitable because ! the prevailing tariff, he would have le support of the minority members of
 committee in the recommendation
 an incrdease in the duties. Despite
 e assertion by MT Rhodes that Mis- N uri was carried in the last election Fr William H. Taft because of tho be- II # that a higher protective tariff ould be enacted, the republican mem- 4, ITS of the committee, led by Chairman |Ii line and Representative Longworth | Cld Representative Boutelle, apparent
 desired to bring out the fact that no gher duty was necessary on barytes l {, The hearing on the proposed revision Il affecting the schedule on chemicals, s and paints, was completed at 3 | E clock. and tomorrow the hearing on |t hedule "H' of the tariff covering | irits. wines and other beverages, will gin.
 l The arguments presented today were
 the main technical and In favor of
 e retention of the present rates. The Te evatlng attitude with regard to hedule "A" Is epitomized fin the fol-
 wing words of Eugene Merz, paint i'd color manufacturer of New >rk, who submitted a brief:
 "Tt will be seen that the duty at
 resent levied Is but moderate and Is
 ,cessary to equaliZe American and
 uropean conditions; and we respect fly submit that the present rates of E,ity on our products should be left un- sturbed
 ;The committee has been requested to 9ake few changes either higher or
 wer in the rates of duty for articles f ming under schedule "A" but many |2 ggestions have been made for revis- ,In of the phrasing fin certain para aphs
 M. B. snevily, of New York, repre- ,- ntlng the importers and consumers of |i;lve oil for manufacturing purposes, I,,ld of the difficulty experienced fin se-
 ring the free entry of olive oil for
 is use Teodore Rickseicker. of New
 ,rk, for the Manufacturing Per
 mers' association, told the committee at the schedule of rates affecting Ss cir products which have applied dur .sg 2 the past ten years, are very satis- Victory and should be retained. Albert of Boston, asked that no reduc- 1 4 ,n be made In the present rates on l c digo products and preparations for |tIeing,
 yNThe idea of court room suggested |ti. the raised platform In the commit room was further carried out to- Ply when Representative Underwood, Alabama, referred to ono of the Manufacturers who appeared before |tle committee, as "witness"