Show 9 FREE pREE COAL FROM CANADA From present indications coal will he be beon heon heon on th the free list when the tariff bill emerges from conference between the committees representing the two houses of congress Senators and representatives tives from only three states are In favor faVOl of retaining the duty dut and it Is not lively likely I el that any an combination can ron be he made to continue this particular form of oC extortion The three states In Interested Interested interested are West Virginia Washing Washington r ton and Wyoming and the outcry of Senators Scott and Elkins is therefore easily explained West Virginia coal Is arGel argei used In the th mills milia and factories of Massachusetts sett The New England era rs desire to use ise Nova ioa Scotia coal Is hi cheaper r but not nearly so 50 good The Tue evidence et ence tak l by the ways and means reans ShOWEd that the coal producers of Washington who who sell to private pr ate purchasers s as s distinguished from rom the Ule railroads are making a profit of QC 48 per ton oi to their coal or ap approximately proximately that figure as the cost of or handling from mine to the jon Con Consumer on sumer is he very r small In reference reCer nce to the f a situation In tn the northwest t I Chairman Payne P n gave the cost of oC Washington coal e al as WI a at the nine and anil said that lh th price at the nearest town too miles mn s distant was I c 50 and he ho upbraided the gentlemen n from fri the th Puget pug t Sound und country who vho wanted w nt congress con tn to aid and abet in the of the people of or their own state t I Coal Coalts Is not zt on u free In the Hie Payne l but a reciprocal r feature Je is which amounts amo to t same so o J far u az is Ia Concerned I t l 7 t f S 1 L I the Dominion being anxious r p for Ifor free I coal from Pennsylvania to supply its vast Inland territory So far as us Utah Is concerned the re to moal of the duty will probably cut no figure in the cost to the consumer t |