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Show WOULD REMOVE THE TARIFF ON HIDES NEW YORK. Oct. 27. Gov. Douglass'-will Douglass'-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 State, and to recommend legislation legisla-tion looking to the removal of tariff on hides and 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 advance the price of sole leather. The statements caused consternation among the great boot and shoe manufacturers of New England, who have been paying high record prices for many months for their raw material. So great was the wave of opposition among f he shoemakers shoema-kers to the contemplated advance In leather prices that the Central company postponed or at least did not announce the price advance. |