This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Three Hundred Hearings On Fair Tariff Held
Washington March 15. Fully three hundred importers and exporters, manufacturers and agriculturists, and tariff experts testified before the house Ways and Means Committee as hearings on tariff revision continued. Carnegie, Gary, Schwab, and other steel figures appeared. lumber, pottery, leather, wool, and sugar interests pressed for protection or reform. debate focused on ad valorem duties, free sugar, and the cost of production with officials noting plans and risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House Committee On Ways and Means
Thos. J. Doherty
Treasury Department
Herbert Lord
Andrew Carnegie
Charles H. Schwab
E. H. Gary
Gary
Carnegie
United States Steel Corporation
Schwab
Steel Corporation
Germany
South
Northwest
Champ Clark
Missouri
T. B. Walker
Edward Hines
United States
Canada
Paper Trust
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers Association
International Paper Co
Chester W. Lyman
Ways and Means
China
New England
West
William Whitman
Boston
Clark
Ways and Means Committee
Frank P. Bennett
Philippines
Taft
Edwin F. Atkins
Cuba
Claus R. Spreckles
New York
Wright
Sugar
Louisiana Cane Sugar Growers
Sugar Trust