Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 11 | [Illegible] Report on Effect of Tariff

BREW OIU IffECT OF TARIFF as to Truth of Con-rcs8inan's Con-rcs8inan's Speech. ittvCTON Peb' 18, ccrctftr-v iBTtodal' senL to Representative ' vmct Washington a copy of a lEde to him by T. M. Robert-flHriitam Robert-flHriitam England, special IKf tho department of commerce, IKfect of the new tariff on the Md shlns' industry ln Wasl" 'itt'. . ..... Humphrey recently de- flfcr ifouse that the tariff had f.tarrt number of the shins c Svlng the duty on their liflK The department's nfjent.s re-Kiit re-Kiit ; investigation of the condl-frMdrlbcd condl-frMdrlbcd by the congressman MhWect of the removal of the Rmber la universally considered lr It h.is had any effect i Ihclr report said: Lmolircv declared that when His- ciirtipalsn In the (Mho aliinglo Industry was very that the mills were running ' moro men were employed than Je. and that higher wiigca were n ever before. Investigation of m nt the tlmo referred to fails tntlate the correctness of IIr. statements In respect to IKtters. As a mutter of fact. 51 month of October. 1012. Hie Thich Mr. Humphrey was mnk-5Ke mnk-5Ke mills were Hosed. In fact. were closed In sonic of the Ins "i" which Mr. Jluiiiphroy u on the very date on which Ejjf u'cre jnnde. KTiefore Impossible for It to he J more men were employed In that time than ever before. 8 Jo wages, the facts arc that 4 been no material changu In iH In the shingle Industry since i'rr Hcdfiold pointed out In his ( the report showed the clos-le clos-le shingle mills In the stale of (on Is not an unusual occur-t occur-t is nob claimed by mnnufac-( mnnufac-( ilio dosing down of the mills literPart of IMS was due to a of the duty on shingles, that irfcan mills arc being built and i enlarged, there arc not more i'jn the Mate of Washington at t$uc (o the i losing down of (ijlls limit I here have been. a I tlms under a prototlv larlff, I tin competition of substitutes lafreros to bo feared iikhc than flltfon of Canadian shlnglep.