| Show THE FOREIGN MARKET t Mr GAULISH is now in the Senate and L is being heard from in a manner that quite upsets the Republican members who have hitherto had things pretty much their own way in that aristocratic little group A few days since in discussing the McKixmr bill paragraph 178 relating to wood screws having been reached Mr CAIILISLE said that was another article which American L manufacturers were selling abroad very much lower than they were selling them at home He produced pricelists in support of his statement a letter from the Ameri canScrew company of Providence R L That was another illustration ho said of the policy adopted by the other sidein allowing al-lowing drawbacks on exported articles Mr ALDHICH asked Does the Senator object that policy tlt Mr CARLISLE replied I do unless it Is extended further I hold that it is not good policy or justice to givo to the American manufacturers free or substantially free raw material on their exported products and to refuse it on the products consumed iff home There is where I object to your policy Ho went on to say that the offering offer-ing of American goods abroad at cheaper prices than they were offered at home was not confined to goods where a drawback was allowed on the raw material Ho presented pre-sented a bill of sale for a gross of knives to R foreign purchaser in which the stipulation stipula-tion was printed in red ink That the goods shall not be sold in the United z States Mr PLAIT said that the case was not made out until it was shown that the same z goods were sold at a higher price at home Mr CARLISLE said that if Mr PLATT would deny the fact ho would undertaketo furnish proof of it And these were statements I state-ments he said made by manufacturers arid I their authorized agents They showed that even where a drawback was not al r Z l 1 t i J S I 1 a owed American manuaclu ers were able to soil their goods abroad at cheaper rates than athome And yet it was demanded not that the present rats of duty be maintained main-tained but it should be increased enormously enorm-ously so as to prevent them being driven out of business He would suggest to them that if they were driven out of business in the American market they might confine themselves to the foreign market in which hey were now able to make a profit and let somebody else come into the business here who would sell goods to the American Ameri-can people as cheap as those gentlemen sold them tc foreigners Mr CAULISLC said he had sjch bills in the case of the Northamptn Cutlery company He produced them quoted their figures and asserted that they proved conclusively that the prices to the American dealers were from 24 to 2S per cent higher than to the foreign dealers Mr CARLISLE said tnathis complaint was not against the American manufacturers who sought foreign markets but agains the policy which enabled them to sell their goods abroad cheaper than at home und his contention was that free raw materials ought to be allowed for all American manufactures I man-ufactures so as to reduce the cost production pro-duction and enable American manufactures not only to sell their goods cheaper at home but to export them to all countries of the world The case of ploughs which aro sold to the foreigner for 9 i and to the American farmer for SIS was also referred to and the fact lint American manufacturers are supplying sup-plying saws within the shadow of the Eng lishsaw factories in competition with foreign for-eign labor also received attention Tho explanations of tho Republican senators I sena-tors were varied Mr STEWART admitted that American manufactures were sold abroad cheaper than in this country but said there was nothing wrong in that as I England pursued the bamo policy Mn PL YTT did not believe that any American I manufacturer sold his goods for exportation exporta-tion 50 percent lower than for home consumption con-sumption Mil STOCKIUDOE explained that the prices advertised in homo papers though 50 per cent higher than those in foreign editions were subject to a 30 percent per-cent discount Which one of these explanations was correct cor-rect or whether either was correct is a grave question MR GVKLISLE must have felt like a person equally pushed on every side and maintained a very comfortable equilibrium His opponents made no answer to his facts |
