Deseret Evening News | 1900-05-29 | Page 3 | Change Tariff on Rice and Oil

o mill Oil tOb May 11 secretary of stat hu has sent to Congress tIle rose of at lb chamber of oC commerce at al alan Sin an Juan Rico asking to reduce the tariff oi Ilce from 2 per Cr to ro 10 cents per r hundred hundredweight weight until January 1 1602 end the duty fm esi olive oil from rota 60 cents cent to tn ten gallon allon until the same me date TJi The address bears the following en house hOlle referred to tn the seer He 0 Of tire of the or Of C mJ a 0 tieman or of sanding and position In the Mand II lie represents the matter hue here hereIn In referred to u an being very Vry unjust ea ci In view of the fact that tbt the en entire n tire rice product of the United States Statu It wet were all would not be quat to aboVe 50 per cent of the want wan of the island Imm Immediate lat notion II requested Sighed II If ALLEN