Show II ilk New York 28Tbe silk association of America held a secret conference on Tuesday night The result was the appointment ap-pointment of a commission which startea for Washington yesterday to Lave a conference with the Senate committee Manufacturers are not opposed to the suggestions of the tariff commission in regard to the revision of the tariff on silk They admitted at the meeting that a duty of 50 per cent advalorem as proposed pro-posed would if rigidly collected be band b-and would afford them ample protection |