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Show MEXICAN LEAD IE; How Congressman McKinler's Tariff Bill is Being Successfully Evaded by the Greasers. 6000 T0KS A MONTH IUFC&TED. Shipment from the Buckhorn to b Doubled Antelope District On the Hanging Wall Major McKiniey's tariff bill a9 it relates re-lates to Mexican lead, is being evaded by the slippery greasers, and the Utah ore producers are iu no manner plea.-ed with it. When the law was passed imposing im-posing a duly of one and a half cents U Bound on lead imtmrtitious. it was thought that it would afford ample am-ple protection to western miners, jt would have done so had the so'uit of tho bill bfen observed. The Mckinley bill Imposes a XarilT of one cent a half a pound on lead ore and provides that silver ore shall pay a ddty of one and one half cents a a pound on the lead contained therein, according to the sample and assay at thn port of entry. There is a great deal of lead carbonate ore in Mexico which will run .10 per cent and upwards. If the duty on this was euforced it would compel the impoiteis to pay three cents a pound fur all tba lead the ore contained. When the law lirst went into effect it practically stopped importations, impor-tations, but it was not long before there was a quibble as to what constituted silver ore and w hat lead ore. The importers im-porters went before Secretary Window, and got him to fix the value of lead first at oue cent, uext at one snd a half and finally at two cents below New York quotations, quo-tations, thus reducing the ratio and making an ordinary ore como within the clause of silver ore making it pay a duty of one and one-half cents a pound on the lead it contained. Then the importers began mixing the lead ore with the dry silver ores ami still further fur-ther violating the intention ot the bill. By this sharp practice and the favor of the late secretary, the importations now assume the proportions of 5d(K) tons of ore a month, containing approximately approx-imately 1000 tons of lead. The ore producers took the case be- fore Secretary Windom who decided that the ore could not be doctored so as to change its character. The importers im-porters appealed from the decision of the secretary to the board of general appraisers who reversed the decision. 1 rom the appraisers' decision an appeal was taken by the ore producers to the United States court to the western district dis-trict of Texas at San Antoine, where the case rests at present. Some information infor-mation of an important nature has beon obtained by the ore producers within the past few days but which can not at this time be made public. |