The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-28
PAYNE REPLIES TO
MR.. VAN CLEAVE
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which was to finish up the hearing on
! the metal schedule
While automobiles are to be dis
cussed fully at later hearing, Charles
| II. Sherill Of New York appeared to.
| day for the importers of automobiles,
tavoring n reduction in tho tariff for
automobiles. He charged that there
is an automobile trust which expects
to get the duty increased. ''Instead
of an infant industry seeking pro-
lection at the hands of your honorable
more properly be called a trust. The
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 Selden patents,
and the other, the American Motor Car
Manufacturers association, which does
not owe allegiance to the Selden pa
tent. Tho Selden patent is an ingen
lous device TO maintain the price for
automobiles among the manufacturers
using it. Up to now all attempts to
break this trust have failed because
its foundation is a Z United States patent
which is monopoly granted by the
government
Mr.. Sheriff. asked that the duty on
automobiles be reduced about % per
cent TO 80 per cent ad valorum, claim
ing that the manufacture of foreign
automobiles involved the use of much
American machinery besides bringing
large business to the American carriage
builders, who. he said, make 90 per
cent of the bodies for foreign motor
cars,
The committee was in session until
late hour tonight.
Labor Interests Heard.
Representatives of labor appeared be-
fore the ways and means committee OF
the house today to advocate the main
tenance of the duty on tin.
John Williams, an official of tho
Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel
and Tin Workers, asked that the duty
on tin plates be maintained and that
the system Of drawback in exported
tin manufactures be abolished. The
reduction of the duty, he said, would
demoralize the American industry.
AS Williams was about to leave the
stand, Chairman Payne read a letter
under the seal of the United Sons of
Vulcan of Pittsburg, protesting against
Williams appearing before the com
mittee TO represent the tin workers.
The letter gave as a reason the fact
that he had advocated Bryan's cleo
ton.
This led Mr.. Williams to denounce
the rival union,
"But are you in the employ of manu-
facturers7' asked Mr.. Payne.
Positively not, sir,p was the reply.
Tariff reform so radical as to ex-
ceed that urged by Democrats was
advocated by Jesse F. Horton Of the
New York Tariff Reform club.
j. II. Mutt, employed by the West
ern Bar Iron association, including
plants in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri, asked that the same differen.
fiu1c hot Gnr La
observed and that the duties DO high
enough to maintain the small establish
ments.
Asks for Reduction.
John w. Walton OF Cleveland, a
dealer, importer and consumer of wire
rope, asked that the duty on that ar
ticle be reduced.
of you want to raise revenue you
should reduce the rates. advised Mr. |
facturers get all the benefits and the
government nothing, for the rates are
prohlbitive. -
When Nelson Lyon, secretary~trea5,
uror of company manufacturing wire |
articles in Tarrytown, n. Y, took the !
stand to ask for removal of the tariff |
on pig iron, Representative Griggs in |
quired;
" Are you making any money!"
GA little, but not much,' was the |
response.
He claimed that if the tariff had |
been removed from pig iron during the |
last year American manufacturers would !
have received S153,000,000 more than |
they received for the product IN 1904. |
In that year, he added, profit was |
made, 'ffor the steel trust does not |
produce unless IL produces at q profit
Mr., Lvon said that the removal of |
the duty on pig iron would mean re,
duction of cost of material Of 5000 on |
his output of wire articles, amounting !
to $4,000 n year.
"How much would that reduce the /
price Of egg-beaters to the consumers,
for no family is complete without an
egg. .bcater2' inquired Mr., Cochran.
'Woll. they arc very cheap now,'
replied Mr., Lyon,
"Would you reduce your price 81 \
a ton?' insisted Mr.. Cochran,
~ hope to be able to do so, re-
piled Mr.. Lyon.
Attack on Steel Trust
In an attack on the steel trust Mr..
Lyon said that during the panic last !
fall "our great president, Roosevelt, (
who rules our land III righteousness,
allowed the steel trust to turn 20 per
cent Of their employees out to starve.'
He said the president ENCOURAGED
this corporation to absorb its eompetl
tors, the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company. "We are also told, - CON
tinued Mr.. Lyon, THAT President
Roosevelt promised this trust immunity
from prosecution; so they came out
boldly and told us they would not re-
duce their price of production. Why
our great president is following the
Standard Oil company to prevent 1T
shipping oil few cents cheaper than
It's competitors and lets this steel trust
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