Show Gashing Crashing Interests Washington April 23 The Joplin Mo zinc producers and representatives of or American smelters were arrayed against each other at a hearing today by Senator Smoot to whom the zinc schedules were referred by the Ule senate finance committee The smelters contended that the proposition proposition proposition tion to transfer zinc ore front the free list and and make it dutiable at 1 cent a pound would result In Mexican ore being shipped to Belgium for smelting and that the tho American mills would be driven drivon out of business so far as zinc smelting was concerned Senator Smoot told the different Inter Interests sets ests that they would have bave to get together on sonic some mutual agreement or the thc com committee committee would exercise its judgment with without without without out regard to the claims of either her side The indications are that an agreement a nt may IDa be reached whereby thereby the Ute ore will be made madeo dutiable at cent a pound and that ore 0 containing ing 36 iii per cent or less lessof lessof lessof of zinc shall be admitted free rr and that some agreement will in b bP be reached concern concerning conc concerning rn ing spelter as aa a compromise of oft ofa a t cent has been suggested |