Show ONTO ON AND MEANS A very exhaustive tariff tari ff examination CAUSE OF THE COMER CORNER on oa stagg diggins gial I 1 in the leir year the mills dili bill stare I 1 THE 1 fill industries the comparative cost of or forma foreign and domestic ji t i and the prices raid for labor there and here washington jan 4 at the hearing bearing before the wave tt aye and means committee today to day wm bright of newark N J the flax dresser operatives of that section allied to the gata of labor asked that the daty ditty on dree dres ed flix flax be in increased from rain 40 to 90 per ton lie ile eaid said the industry pi ii this country is is languishing because of insufficient protect protection ion the cost of dressing a ton of flax in this country is fla wy ile in europe it is but 35 ile a 8 k d the additional duty dpn the difference in oges alone atrain ai rani bentley entley li twine spinner I 1 ner asked that the tile present duties be e retained teta ined d on jute sital and manilla lift asserted that under the conditions that obtained formerly and which could be reproduced with adequate adeau ate encouragement thu tha existence of a bagging crupt would have been impassible impossible treasurer babbitt of the chelsea late into mills said the laborers in american jute mills are paid more than twice as much as in in scotland and and from five to ten times as much as in india lie read a telegram from the dolphin manufacturing company of paterson new jersey saying paying that unless congress gave them free raw jute they should be obliged to eus pus pend being no longer able to meet the lie t competition of dundee manufacturers the next witness argued in in favor of free jute charles E pearce of st louis m made a I 1 0 a co comparison in pariso n of the cost of C calcutta albu t ta and amerian amer can bagging to a show how that with jute butts free of duty at least two tents cents per yard upon the manufactured product must be laid in order to maintain the industry in i this country and if the present ati duty y of 5 3 per ton is is retained then the duty on the manufactured product must bo be two and a half cents per yard ArcIl mcmillan lillan questioned pearce as to the tile cause of the extraordinary rise in the price of bagging from seven and a half cente cents in in 1887 to twelve and a quarter cent cents in 1888 pearce explained at length that in in the spring of 1888 seven of the probable twenty five file in tile lie country cornered the product and were hadly badly bested by the probability of the pas a age go of the mills bill mcmillan asked pearce it if he lie justified the organ bation of a trust or corner 1 I bay pay responded the witness that ibal when you undertake take to destroy my business buein busi neEs I 1 am justified in pro letting 0 g myself and will do it every time 11 mcm llan ilan remarked that the organization did not realize its grip upon he the pe people I 1 after the danger of the bassage passage 0 we le of the mills bill vae vt as over mr breckenridge asked do vou you know of an any manufacturer returning the Inc increased j price of bagging Z do not said mr sir pearce they did not have it the chairman yon say you dij dil not put that 2 of indrea ed price into your pocket why liy you we get it who did get it 1 I dont know we to further questions by mckinley pearce eaid eald the mills bill if it had had jasd a sed would have destroyed every bagging a manufactory in the country and anti probably bankrupted seven eighths of the manufacturers it would have wiled tied out fion six to eight millions of dollare dollars of I 1 capital the tile organization of chato that cornered product of 1888 was due a solely 0 lely to the belief that the mills bill as hostile legislation to invested capital in regard to the hemp bemp industry pearce said if it were pro properly I 1 aly encouraged cou raged he had no do doubt u bt tal thai t with will in in three years there would be instead of twelve thousand tons as now from forty to fifty thousand tons of hemp raised in in the united f tates A L bemis of bemis co of B ston with the bag factories in st louis minneapolis and omaha omalia made a plea for adequate rates a of f duty on manufactured jute and free raw duff jute u te |