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Show PROTEST ..AGAINST A TARIFF. The Carpet Weavers Want Raw Material Mate-rial Free. W'asiiimjton, April 11. The carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia, representing repre-senting 3000 looms, had a hearing before be-fore the republican members of the ways and means committee today in reference lo the proposed increase of duty on carpet wools. They opposed the proposition and declared the increase in-crease would make raw material for ingrain in-grain carpet cost more than the carpets now sold for in open market. |