| Show STEEL MENS VIEWS t i i ON TARIFF REVISION ASKED i BY MANUFACTURERS Jones Loughlin Steel Company Company Com Com- pany So Informs the I Committee IT fr CREATES NO SURPRISE Substantial Reduction Likely I in ill Many Commodities of Business Washington n Nov ov 25 Time fhe The steel manufacturers a agreed at their conference conference confer confer- ence in N e York ort yesterday to submit t I to a substantial reduction In many of I tho ho commodities on or tho the tariff schedules i the ways and means committee e was told b by Willis L. L King iCing or of vice president of the he Jones Loughlin Lough lin Ito Steel company a u member of or the conference The Time statement tat created no surprise here ns as rc s have been rumors for mr some time that a reduced steel schedule sched nb ule was to be tie IJ Inserted In the now tariff 01 on 01 r t Trio I STEEL M MEN'S MENS VI VIEWS E ElS lS I V f ON JON TARIFF REVISION REVSON S ft 0 from e One he law Jaw with t the tho c consent of the tho steel cor cor- The Thc chief curiosity is hI to learn leant Just wherein the tho reductions are arc areto areto to be ma made c. c III In reply to Mr Underwood in Mr r King Kinc ln said salcI that the total production of oC steel in Iii the United States was five c cand and a half and six million tons in 1907 and amid that the tho total Importation oni only amounted to tons He lie admitted that the present present- tariff was ns practically prohibitive at times but lut said that If a tariff was wast not maintained maintained main main- tamed foreigners would dump clump their steel here at a IL price less than it was sold Hold for abro abroad d and injure the American Ameri can manufacture Inke Champ Clark of or Missouri who has hash b h en probing all witnesses since tho time hearings s began for evidences of trusts found roun suspicious today which he will promptly bring bring- ho says sas to tho the attention of ot tho the department of or jus jug I tice I Alexander 0 O. of or the thc Circle I Mining company compan of oC Mo 10 told Mr Clark that the New Jersey Zinc company cOl which prod produces produce uce the greater part of ot of ot zinc might fairly be- be called a u. trust as it dictated the prices which that metal should bring In lii tho the market S S. S V. Mitchell of or Carthage e Mo asked that zinc ore oro be bo taken from Crom tho free list free t and m made mado do dutiable at nt 1 1 jents con In Ina a pound Such uch a n tax ho said tid was WIlS necessary to keep down the importations LIons from Mexico and to give tho the American Ah miner a fair chance in com coin petition |
