Show TALK ON TARIFF ML aeed smoot home from the east OF BUSINESS MEN they are favor as a moderate tariff heavy importations discourage them aeed manager of the provo woolen milla has returned from a couple of visit with manufactures inthe east and legislators at the national capital when been by an enquirer reporter this morning he talked freely on what he had seen and heard while anav yon may tell the wool he said that there is a common sentiment in washington in favor of a moderate tariff wool men are asking for 12 cents specific duty but I 1 am more inclined to believe it will be only 5 or 6 cents the committee on way and means is working hard to prepare a schedule for an extra session of congress which it is now certain will be called and during my stay in the capital ment seemed to be in favor of such a tariff as would be permanent mann facture rs would have a ate tariff that would remain in force for an indefinite period than a high protective measure that likely be changed at the very airet opportunity how did you find sentiment among the are they hopeful no they are not I 1 found them extremely downcast mills in england and germany are running night and day on american orders which goods importers want delivered here before the new tariff that they know is coming and takes effect the result is that ane country is beng be ng flooded with cheap foreign goods more now than any other time in the last four years it will take 12 or 18 months manufacturers fear to remove that surplus stock with the prospects of business stringency this entire year lu a few months pay day will ha on for the goods now import ed and then the gold ahl commence going across the sea in such sums as to create consternation in our domestic trade home manufacturers feel keenly the effects of he speculative rashness on the part of the speculators wool men will also feel it there is already enough wool in the united states piled up for speculative purposes to keep the mills of the country going an entire year were none raised or imported so utah sheep men who are calculating on stiff ancas for their clip thia season will be doomed to disappointment it will ba along in 1898 before the business of this country can get back into normal channels what was the opinion of legislators at washington as to the duty 0 a man woolens it seemed to me they favored ibe mckinley tariff classification the eastern manufacturers with well established plants are not anxious for a high protection in some lines of business they want no duty at all which is true of the ames shovel co and the dison aw file co they have well established plants promoted by pro lection tec tion and do not care for further tariff it is the west where manufacturing is yet in its infancy where there should be the greatest demand for protection tec tion Mr Smoot saw senator brown at washington and also mrs brown who he said is socially well suited to be the wife of a senator senator cannon was out of the city are all running along the grooves of the in coming administration and areat pre para tiona are being made for the inauguration augu ration |