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...work-roughened hand of the steelmaker joined figuratively last week with the delicate hand of the jeweler in a dance of delight. The Senate Finance Committee recommended tariff changes on items of vital concern to each...
Manganese. Hard and tough as the jaws of a rock breaker is steel containing manganese. Great U. S. steel companies search the world over for manganese ore, use some 675,000 tons of it per year. Free-listed in the tariff acts of 1909 and 1913, manganese ore was taxed 1 cent per lb. by the 1922 law to protect domestic production in 30 states...
What used to be the steel trust appeared last winter before the House Ways & Means Committee, declared that the 1922 tariff act had caused the steel industry to pay $45,000,000 in manganese duties without domestic production being benefited or improved. The House was asked to free-list this ore. The House refused...
...Finance Committee last week decided: 1) To abandon Senator Smoot's sliding sugar tariff because of its resemblance to price-fixing; 2) To triple the house-proposed duty on waste wool; 3) To reduce the duty on automobiles from...
...senators last week made hot haste to reach Washington in time for the reconvening of the Senate on Aug. 19. Reason: The Senate Finance Committee, badly stalled on tariff writing, admitted it could not complete its bill before next month. Gentlemen of the Senate had agreed to do nothing more than meet and adjourn for three-day periods until Sept. 3, when Chairman Reed Smoot of the committee was "almost sure" he would have the measure ready...