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Show RAW LEATHER SUPPLY OF U. S. TO BE CHECKED WASHINGTON. June 4. Monthly statistics covering production, distribution distri-bution and quantities of hides stored bj, tanners and dealers', would be published pub-lished monthlv by the director of the census under a bill pusscd by the house. Concealment of the number of hides and skins In the country would be mi-possible mi-possible with a consequent difficulty In explaining unusual Increases in price, satd Representative siegei. Re-1 publican, New York, wlm reported the m easure. Prices lncreused 100 per cent since the armistice, he added, "when tanners tan-ners and manufacturers frantically I bid up the prices." |