The Association and the Tariff. [Volume: 8, Issue: 2, 1888, pp. 125-127]

No. 2.1

CHARCOAL IRON WORKERS.

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The Association and the Tariff.
The special committee appointed at the last annual meeting to
memorialize Congress, met in Washington on January 14th, and
after a full discussion of the position of the charcoal industry,
and the advanced stage of the Senate substitute for what is pop.
ularly called the " Mills Bill," decided to confine its efforts to a
general statement and to call attention to several evasions of existing laws and specialities of manufacture.
Through the courtesy of Senators M. S. Quay, of Pennsylvania; William B. Allison, of Iowa; N. B. Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Frank Hiscock, of New York, and J. P. Jones, of Nevada, a special interview was arranged for the evening of January
15th, when the Association's committee met the sub-committee
of the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate, and
presented the following memorial:
Hon. W. B. ALLISON, Chairman Sub-Committee, Committee on
Finance, United States Senate:
SIR: The undersigned, a committee of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers (an organization whose membership is extended through most of the States), respectfully
represent that at the annual meeting of said Association the following resolution was adopted:
"Resolved, That a committee be appointed to memorialize
Congress, urging that such action be taken in regard to our tariff
laws and customs duties as will more perfectly protect and encourage the manufacture in the United States of the various
products in which the membership of this Association is interested."
With such as our commission we would represent to you that
the prominent feature of the late presidential canvass, and the
issue upon which the country fairly pronounced was that the inequalities and errors existing in the present tariff schedule should
be remedied by the friends of the American policy of protection;