The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-12

schedules was s5.oOo,O0a. the irnporta-
ton amounting to $4,000. 600.
Mr.. BacOn's amendment was defeated
by vote of Is 10 81, Senator LaFol-
voted in the affirmative with the Demo-
Gratis.
Explaining that he desired a rate of
duty on common crockeryware which
would reduce its cost to the consumer,
Mr.. Bacon offered an amendment to re-
duce the rate from So per cent ad va
loren as it stood in the bill. TO 40 per
cent. After considerable debate the
amendment was voted down, 80 to q.
Mr.. SmOOt offered an amendment re-
ducing the rates Of carbOns for electric
provided with a duty of 20 cents per
hundred feet. Mr.. Shoots amendment,
offered for the finance committee, made
the duty on carbons made entirely of
petroleum coke 30 cents per hundred
/ feet, while for carbons into the manu-
facture of which lamp black is used, So
cents per hundred feet.
The amendment was passed over at
the request of Mr.. LaFoIlette, who
made the request for Mr.. Bailey.
The Glass Industry.
/ When the glass schedule was reached
/ Mr.. Scott made plea for protection Of
the glass industry
! Taking from the shelf Of his desk one
piece Of glassware after another, and
/ holding them up in full view of the
| senate, Mr. Scott gave an object lesson
/ in the cheapness Of the ware.
Here" he said. lis a half gallon
pitcher we sell for 80 cents a dozen. 1t
]
Senators and visitors in the galleries
/ craned their necks to see the sample
/ held aloft by Mr.. Scott.
Here, again. he said, lis a tumbleT
/ When l first went into the glass bust
ness this .tumbler retailed at $3.50 a
| dozen. Now we sell il for III cents a
dozen, less than l cent apiece. Here is
/ glass dish to be bought in any store
/ for 20 cents a dozen.
! IF we-keep on we viii soon be pay
/ ing people to carry this glassware
dozen. Now We sell il for II cents a
away. Here is another goblet that for
merly sold for SO a dozen. and which
now under protection sells for % cents
Ia dozen"
Then, holding up a picture of an elev-
en- story building, Mr.. Scott said it was
/ the business place of a wholesaler and
retailer of glassware, and the added
/ that the men who owned the building
had made more money than all the
glass manufacturers.
Mr. Hale took advantage of Mr..
Scott's exhibition to make a point in
support of the protective policy as a
whole
Inquiry Proposed.
.Mr. Newiands suggested the appoint
ment of an official body to inquire into
tho diffnrnrpnC in Tx-aoTasa Ia nd n
prices so that congress might have
proper information.
Saying he had much information to
illustrate the great difference in whole
sale and retail prices, Senator Flint
said he had in mind an instance of a
set of Haviland china costing to i'm
port S5.T, with sc cents packing charges
and S4.66 duty. making in all s1O.S9,
which retailed for S36.
He instanced another case of an arti-
Gle costing Al cents TO import, which
retailed for $3.50. Those, he said, were
the prices in the great department
stores or the east. and in the northwest
states the prices were increased 50 per
cent.
Senator Smoot made another contri-
button to the fund of information con-
corning exorbitant prices. He instanced
a case of a razor, the manufacturers
wholesale price OF WnlCn was $3.50 a
dozen, which sold for 81 each to con-
sumers. Gloves, he said. manufactured
for 81 per dozen, sold for s. a pair, or
S24 a dozen These high prices, he said.
had nothing to do with the protective
tariff because, compared with the re-
tail price the tariff charges were small.
Possible Agreements.
Senator Fletcher inquired whether
there were not agreements be-
tween the manufacturers and the job
bers and later between the jobbeTs and
the retailers to sell at stipulated prices.
II have been manufacturing glass for
forty years. declared Mr.. Scott, indig-
nantly, ''and I never knew Of such con-
tract to maintain the price"
He added that I'VE should not be too
hard" on the jobber and retailer. He
said there was great breakage in glass
ware. charges for packing, etc, which
ran the price I'D.
Prices can be produced here to
show" said Mr.. Flint, that the retail
merchants make a larger percentage Of
profit than in any other line of bust
, ness. I undertake to say that if there
were no duty on Haviland china that
article would sell no cheaper than il
does today"