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Show oo MUST VOTE ON LEATHER TODAY Senator Walsh Opens Fight Against Rates on Shoes WASHINGTON, Aug 9 Proposed tariffs on hides, boots, shoes and leather, which were rejected by the house were on tno senate calendar to-, day with a decision before a recess made ne. i-.ssary under the u nankr. oua eonrent agreement cntored Into last eturdey, 1 nc iiriai:ce eu i n i u n i -, mujui uj nio recommended rates of two cents a pound on green, raw or pickled hides and four cents on dried hides, with 12 cents a pair and five per cent ad va-lorSm va-lorSm on boots and shoes 3 cents a pound and five cents on sole leather; 1", per cent un upperlea t hr r , , 't cents a square foot and 10 per cent on patent pat-ent leather, and t cents a pound and 5 per cent oc belting and harness lea I her The proposed tariff on hides would increase the nation's shoo and leather bll's $110,000,000 a year. Senator Walsh, Democrat, lias?., declared in opening the fight agulnst the rates. OPEN FIGHTS Senator Walsh argued that even if thi imposts were reflected In tho price paid to cattle raisers the total benefit to the cattle men would amount to only $16,800,000 n. year. "Whatever benefit Insures to an; lndlcldu.u or group of Individuals by reason of a duty on hides,' he said, "will be chiefly to the packers as they handle tJG per cent of the domestic hide production. ' The duty will tend to break up, If not destroy tho Independent tanning Industry and ,tend to the packers a growing monopoly of the tanning business." busi-ness." Senator Lnroot Republican Wisconsin, Wis-consin, charged In the senate today that the five per cent ad valorem duty on boots and shoes had been recommended recom-mended as a "halt" to get senato votes for tho duty on hides This was shown he asserted, by comparison of the large exports of boots and shoes with Imports so small as to require no pro-j pro-j tectlon for the industry 00 Detroit s fire department uses moton driven vehicles entreiv |