| Show TARIFF I ARGUMENTS Agricultural Products and Cattle Discussed OLTOSITIOX 10 mUll IIUl1S A Prohibitory Hate Asked 1cr on All Products that fun be Ua ted In Ilia ounlrj WASHINGTON Jan 5A largo delegation of gentlemen Irom the I West wore before the ways nod menus committee today the cchedulo being agricultural products and cattle The first speaker was F N Rockwell I Rock-well IO Warren Pa a cattle ratter grazing In both Mexico and Kansas lie opposed high duties Tbe Mo Klnley rate on cattle bo said was prohibitive and Injured tbo farmers of Kansas wbo wero benefited by Inter notional greening Herd tweet token to Kansas for periods of six to eight i mouths I M M Sherman of Halira Kansas represented that twothirds of the collie iulppedfromMexloototheUulttd3iatiB were owned by Americans Bbermau thought the high duties ou cattle had been decided upou by Congress to keep out Canadian competition without thought 01110 Mexican butler He argued as llockwell had tint tic I chief effect of the law was lo Injure Amerlcnua wbo invested their money In Mexico Then you think Ibo tariff should be governed by the nationality of the produced 01 geod Uroavonor naked Ice Bherman assented to Ibis whereupon where-upon Grosvenor Inquired t what cued tbls system would buTt on Imported goods lu other lines Asked why be bad removed to Mexico BhimiiKn said becauto of the lack 0 nuibeajbero Cbahinau Uiugley said thero wore plenty of ranches lu Colorado WOW inv and other Western sUtes It waa Impossible lo acquire title to ranches in this country was the answer Moreover said witness American laws give a mans competitors com-petitors the advantage of all Improvements Improve-ments be introduces Into bin builneis Itepresentatlve Curtis Kansas raid be reprisented a district lu which more Mexican cattle were fed thau coy other of the United males In behalf ot tbe American caltlu gaiter feeders and farmers of Kansas be noted to bovu rlord thee duty ul 11I ahead on all oattle oue year old acm over and J2 a head on calves loss I than a > ear old i would baTe tho duly abiolutely T prohibitory au very agricultural tl product Ihnt cn be raised lu this country said Curtis Kansas would like duties on bay oats and lion How about olive lit large uuty ou silver would Le a good plan 1 Itepreseulatlve Bowers Calif declared de-clared Ibe Wilson law killed the cattle business I or California I I flooding the elate with Mexican oattle He com batted the statements of cattle raisers that but few Mexican stock Imported were sold being brought In for feedIng feed-Ing On behalf of California fruit Krowerr Dowers asked higher omits on fruit 10000000 worth of Iruit was Imported annually be suu aim might be grown by American lie suggested suggest-ed a duly oil coot a pound ou raisins plums prunes and all otter dried v bruit and ZO cents a cublo foot on oranges lie laid Americans were peculiar about noun things aid preferred foreign fruits at blgner prices Just as borne of tbclr daughters preferred l greasy libertines and gambitiri because be-cause they bad a foreign label Ho read petitions from Ilia raisin growers Senator Perkins Cal presented a memorial recently adopted by tbe I itale Fruit Growers organization In r addition to recommendations by Doe he asked for duties ou cut LIma beans coil chicory and that tin duty of Ibe Wilton law on coooannts be dropped The duty on Lima beans was 60 cents ou 100 pounds on raw chicory li cents leans ou manufao lured tin present rate we Iwo coot A duty on pearl barley was asked lorI Bill lor-I BillThe The almond growers of California I were represented by T II Armstmng of Carapo lie stated tot tlOOUOOl I to 15000000 ws luvelttd lu too bust ness auu irom 0000 to 80010 hands employed Ito business Cod been brought la the verge ol bankruptcy by the Wlliontlaw and an boron of tie rates from a cents to 0 cents wet aked for |
