Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10
TARIFF ON BRICK
URGED AT HEARING.
House Committee Tackles
Earth, EarthenWare and
Glassware Schedules.

Opening up of the earths, earthen-
ware and glassware schedule of the tar
LII act brought another army of wit
nesses to the House ways and means
committee today bearing suggestions for
changes in import duties. The commit
tee has concluded it's hearings on the
krst schedule, embracing chemicals, oils
and paints.
The first witness today Frank Hasten
bf Chicago, representing the Brick and
Clay Workers of America, requested a
tariff of from $3.50 to $500 thousand
on common building brick to enable
American producers to meet Belgian
competition.
Common brick now enters this coun-
try duty-free, and hasten said the Bel
Eian imports were hurting prices on the
eastern coast of the United States.
Opposition to any increase in duties
on tiles, now ranging between 20 and
80 per cent on declared value, was ex-
pressed by representatives of the HanSa
Co. of New York and the Foreign Tile
importers Association of America on
the ground that there is no serious COM
petition between the domestic and for
eign product.
Stuart Mannell of Stuart Mannell g.
Co of Seattle urged placing on the free
aist various grades of limestone, now
Cutiable at from to IL cents per 100
pounds, to enable producers in the
Northwest to expand growing indus
try. He contended the American supply
was inadequate and of inferior grade
and imports from British Columbia were
needed.
s Speeding its hearings to wind up
work on the first schedule in three days
as originally planned, the committee
Yesterday heard from long list OF
farm organization representatives a
Recommendation for a sweeping change
in duties on vegetable oils and fats.
ID Under the proposal all major oils
and fats now bearing varying specific
and other rates of duty would be given
asflat As per cent ad valorem rate, re-
Sulting in increases for all of the
products.
Many Would Benefit.
!. The farm representatives said that
domestic producers of cottonseed, flax
seed, corn, hogs, beef, soya beans,
peanuts and milk, fishermen on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and large
number of independent crusherS of oil
They commended that the present
tariff rates on oils and fats were
s.illogical, inadequate and Ineffective"
Because the Philippines have been
absorbing much of the export business
In oils formerly held by countries
against whom duties are levied, the
farm representatives advocated applying
the full As per cent rate on all oils and
fats coming from the Islands.
The contended that Sc per cent OF
the imported coconut oils enter the
United States duty free from the
Philippines, which was sufficient to
control prices here, and they believed
ample precedents existed for levying a
duty against the islands.
Mai. Mcintyre Appears.
U Mai. Gen. Frank H. Mcintyre, re-
GENTLY retired as chief of the Bureau
of Insular Affairs of the War Depart
inent, on the contrary, declared the
interest of the Philippine people in the
american tariff primarily was one
based on continuance Of the free
trade principle embodied in the last
two tariff acts with certain limitations
now in force. He appeared as repre-
sentative of the governor general OF the
Islands.
F. M. Barnes, Cincinnati, represent
ing the Laundry Soap Manufacturers
Association, large users of coconut oil,
declared the proposed increase would
raise the price of soap SO per cent,
while D. w. Corbin, representing the
Laundry Owners National Association,
contended it would raise the laundry
mems soap bill from $30,000,00o to
$45,000,000 year.