Show I Will i Boost o Tariff ft on Silk Washington March CO Information n that Japan soon on will compete m with the United States in manufacturing every character of silk goods for which raw material is now imported Into this country countr entered largely into the con consideration consideration of the silk schedules today toda by the senate committee on finance The result was a decision not to adopt the rates of the Ue t Payne bill which for the most part provide roId for the reenactment of the Dingley rates In Instead Instead Instead stead a table was waa as prepared fixing specific duties for every ever article These are arc Intended to equal the compound rates rat now existing which are a com corn combination combination of Specific and ad valorem duties The facts place the committee In regard re ard to the ability of Japan to manufacture every form of silk goods used in the United States were startling as to the cheapness of the thc manufacture If the ad valorem rate Is Isto Isto Isto to be continued the actual values and the consequent low rate of duty paid would in the th opinion of the committee prove a greater menace to the 4 American manufacturer than ns hi to European and other Asi Asiatic Asir Asir r r site countries With continued improvements in Japan it ft was asserted that the cost of or manufacture will be reduced to a figure that will prove appalling No o decision has been reached as to rates of or specific duties necessary to furnish adequate protection but the committee was unanimous in the th opinion opinion opinIon ion that the recourse lies in the specific form Corm of oC duty dut Between thirty and forty Cort silk men were before the thc committee II |