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Show TUNGSTEN PRODUCERS REQUEST PROTECTION WASHINGTON, June 22. Tungsten was the first war mineral to receive attention at-tention by the house ways and means committee, under a proposed tariff to protect the mining and milliner of tuntrsten ores. This measure was introduced bv Congressman Charles B. Tlmberlake of Colorado, who asked for a tariff of $10 ner unit. Witnesses who appeared before the committee were: J. H Holmes, a Colorado producer; Koy McKerma of the Vanadium Alloys companv; A. IT. Riddle, engineer of the United States tariff commission; com-mission; Georce Otis Smith, director, eeoloeical survev; Frank R. Hess, geologist, ge-ologist, t'nitpd States geological survey, and Georere H. Bailv. assistant secretary of the American Mining congress, who snoke In behalf of tho entire tungsten industry. It wai shown that Chinese. Burmese ind Bolivian tungsten would drive American Amer-ican producers f rom the field unless domestic do-mestic ore is projected. HI ch-class American miners cannot compete with rooii" or Indian labor abroad. Colorado, California and Nevada nroduce GO per cent of the tnnesten used In the TiJied States. The committee of maeneslte producers pro-ducers has lust closed a two-dav battle-royal battle-royal with the representatives of certain furnace Interests who attempted to show the ways and means committee that Congressman Hndley's hill to protect meri,fin matrnoslte should not be adopted. adopt-ed. The question of American imn as aeraln5t American Interests In Austria was v.T-oncht into i ho discussions, which furnished fur-nished livelv dramatic incidents. A discussion of zinc tariff Is now proceeding. pro-ceeding. A merk'uti Minim; Congress. |