Show ON WAYS AND MEANS Another Siege from Representatives of Various Industries WASHINGTON Sept 15The importers of hoisery glove manufacturers plush and velvets cotton yarns pearl buttons felts gold beaters straw hats and pearl workers were represented before the Ways and Means committee in the tariff arguments today The first speaker was Maurice Lowy importer of hosiery and gloves He asked for a specific duty on these articles in preference to an ad valorem duty Owen Asborne next argued for the retention re-tention of duties on cotton goods Titus S Heard championed the knit goods Industry and favored a system of ad valorem and specific duties combined and asked that the duties be permitted to remain as they now are Fred E Kip in the interest of the plush and velvet industry declared that i the specific and ad valorem duties now imposed im-posed were removed it would inflict a in great the injury industry on all wage earners employed A Sanford representing the cotton coton yarn industry declared that i the tariff was reduced it would be necessary to decrease de-crease the wages of workmen S P Chose wanted no change in the tariff schedules of the cotton industry but if a change were necessary would prefer pre-fer areduetion than to have an advance in ad valorem duties J OConnell importer of knit goods wanted a specific duty He said the ad valorem duty was open to many avenues of fraud After recess Gustave Blumenthal of New York was heard in the interest of the importation of buttons He thought the tariff on buttons was too high and said the tariff under the old law was sufficient to protect the manufacturers here Richard Ruft wanted felts transferred to the wool schedule and said he was willing to pay whatever tariff was imposed im-posed on wool A C Raymond an attorney renresent ing the Notional Pearl Button association associa-tion said they were satisfied with the present duty on Dear buttons Charles Brice a gold beater argued for high protective tariff on the product of the industry he represented Christian Schmidt wanted raw material entering into the manufacture of straw hats admitted free of duty H R Riddle representing a trade association as-sociation of New York said the association associa-tion desired to have a uniform rate of duty imposed on all classes of linens H D Cooper of New York wanted ad valorem duties imposed on jute and burlap bur-lap E C Frisley of Hartford Conn wanted to modify the duty on Liebigs extract of meat Adjourned |