Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-09
TARIFF HEARING
ON EARThFNWARE
CONTINUED TODAY
Representatives Of Industry
Appear Before the House
Committee to Protest
Against Reducing Duties.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The earth,
earthenware and glass schedule of the
Payne Aldrich bill was up before the
house committee on ways and means
again today. About % witnesses were
scheduled to be heard
John Surell, of the Giants quarry of
the Alabama Marble company con-
tended that the only result of the re-
duction of the tariff on marble in
blocks, now 65 cents per cubic foot,
would be to diminish the governments
revenue. Surell said American pro-
ducers were not putting a penny's
worth Of interiar marble into Greater
New York because of the imported
marble. Frank Wilder, of Cous Houl-
ston. Va. representing gypsum COM
pany, wanted the present tariff on
gypsum undisturbed. Jerome Jones, of
Boston, chairman OF the committee of
pottery jobbers, urged a reduction of
pottery OF from so to IS per cent.
Talk of trusts of domestic and for
eign varieties of low wages and women
toilers in industries abroad that en-
abled strong foreign competition with
American enterprises, and of capitals
great stake in the tariff tinkering en-
livened the hearing on the earthenware
and glassware schedule from Payne
Aldrich law before the committee.
1t was the first of the two days of
arguments on the second schedule from
the existing law. A declaration of
Chairman Underwood of the commit
tee, the Democratic leader of the house,
that he was satisfied with the showing
made of the keenly competitive condi-
tions in the pottery industry was ac-
cepted as an assurance of nundis-
turbed pottery tariff.
All the representatives OF the diff
ferent window glass, stained glass win
dow and the plate glass interests de-
MED the existence OF any trust in their
particular business. But running
through most OF the testimony were
references to trust abroad in various
lines of capital, a constant specter that
stalked on the customs border lines
threatening to invade this country if
the tariff bars were let down.
Former Governor w. A. Stone OF
Pennsylvania insisted that the national
Window Glass association depended
solely on supply and demand and that
a reduction in tariff would be followed
by reduction of wages or suspension
of factories. He said there had been
no attempt among the window glass
companies to regulate prices since the
successful government prosecution FIVE
years ago.
Wages Are Compared
G. 2 Ailenberg fCincinnati com
pared wages in the manufacture of
thermos here and abroad and said Ger
man manufacturers were able to secure
girls who stood over a big hot flame
for II hours a day for four dollars
week and upward.
Joseph S. Auerbach, lifelong Dem
ocrat, speaking for the plate glass
manufacturers, suggested that the
tariff way should be Il toll road, not
q highway where highwaymen ply their
trade"
He charged that manufacturers
abroad We're controlled in output and
distribution By a dietatorial trust and
urged that the commission consider
what would be the lower and real cost
of output Il the foreign factories were
permitted to Iun freely, as they would
run II you open the flood gates of d
cut throat, ruinous and unlawful COM
petition upon home manufacture