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Show REMOVE TARIFF ON HIDES Boot and Shoe Interests Will -See' President Roosevelt. NEW YORK. Oct. 27. Gov Douglas will call upon President Roosevelt In the near future to lay before him the conditions condi-tions of the boot and shoe Industry of the United States, and to recommend legislation legisla-tion looking to the removal of tariff on hides nnd a change In the foreign trade relations of this country, according to a dispatch to the Herald from Boston Reports were current last week that the Central Leather company proposed to advanco the price of sole leather. The statements caused consternation among the great boot and shoe manufacturers of Now England, who have been paying high record prices for many months for their raw matorjnl. So great was the wave of opposition among the shoemakers shoema-kers to tho contemplated advance In leather prices that the Central company postponed or at least did not announce the price advance. |