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APPENDIX

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APPENDIX.

SCHEDULE A CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

ACETIC ACID ANHYDRIDE.

[Paragraph 1.]

THE WARNER CHEMICAL COMPANY, WEST CHESTER, PA., STATES THAT ACETIC ANHYDRIDE HAS BEEN AND CAN BE COMMERCIALLY MADE IN THIS COUNTRY.

Hon. S. R. PAYNE,

WEST CHESTER, PA., January 2, 1909.

Chairman Committee of Ways and Means,

Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR SIR: My attention has just been called to the testimony of O. T. Zinkeisen, chemical importer, New York City, before your committee in reference to duty on acetic anhydride, which under the present tariff carried a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem, but by Tariff Decision 26400 duty was assessed at 2 cents per pound.

Mr. Zinkeisen states that "not a pound of acetic anhydride has ever been made in this country which was sold in the open market." In reply to this, I would state, as manager of the Chesco Chemical Company and its successor, The Warner Chemical Company, I have made and sold in the open market many tons of this chemical, and by the manufacture and sale assisted in the development of several of the industries to which reference is made.

Mr. Zinkeisen further states that it is highly improbable that this chemical will be successfully made in the United States for the reason that a special chemical must be used, which is not, and probably will not, be made here for a long time to come.

In reply to this I would state that all of the chemicals used by us for the manufacture of acetic anhydride were made by ourselves or others from domestic material, and it was not then and is not now necessary to import any chemicals to produce this article.

After the duty was lowered we found we could not manufacture the goods in competition with the German manufacturers, so we shut down that part of our plant, and imported through Mr. Zinkiesen, from Germany, sufficient acetic anhydride to fill our orders.

Certain parties are now ready to resume the manufacture of these goods if the duty is restored to the old rate, and I respectfully ask your committee to restore the rate of 25 per cent ad valorem.

Respectfully, yours,

T. FRANK WOODSIDE,
The WARNER CHEMICAL CO.

EXHIBIT B.

141 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, June 29, 1905. DEAR SIR: We beg to advise you that we can now offer the following goods in quantities to suit the purchaser, from 1 pound to 10,000 pounds: Phosphorus, stick, selected; phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride, phosphorus oxychloride, acetyl chloride, acetic anhydride, acetic ether, butyric ether, amyl acetate, amyl butyrate.

We would be pleased to receive your inquiries for any of these goods and will take pleasure in forwarding samples and quotations. Special prices on larger contracts. Respectfully, yours,

THE WARNER CHEMICAL Co.,
T. FRANK WOODSIDE, Secretary.

BORACIC ACID, BORAX, AND BORATES.
[Paragraphs 1 and 11.]

THE STERLING BORAX COMPANY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUGGESTS
A FIFTY PER CENT REDUCTION IN THE DUTIES ON BORAX,
BORACIC ACID, AND BORATES.

Hon. SERENO E. PAYNE,

CHICAGO, ILL., March 1, 1909.

Chairman Committee on Ways and Means,

Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: Referring to the tariff on borax, boracic acid, and borates, I would advise that the Sterling Borax Company, of California, of which I am vice-president, considers that the duties on the above articles could be scaled down to 50 per cent of the figures in the present tariff, and that if so amended the duties would give sufficient protection for the American industry. Our company owns extensive mines in California as well as controlling factories in Chicago and New Brighton, Pa., and we are absolutely independent of any other borax company. We need a certain amount of protection against the foreign article, both from a mining as well as a manufacturing standpoint. We must bring our ores by rail across the continent, as against the South American ores, which are more easily mined and are close to the seaboard. The bulk of the European borax is manufactured from this South American ore. Furthermore, we need a measure of protection for our factories in Illinois and Pennsylvania as against the English and continental manufacturers of borax. This proposed 50 per cent reduction would then give us the following rates of duty:

Borax and boracic acid.

Cents

- per pound.. 2 .do.... 2 ..do.... 1

Borax containing more than 36 per cent anhydrous boracic acid.
Borax containing less than 36 per cent anhydrous boracic acid..
This letter will come to you through the kindness of Congressman
Boutell, of your committee.

Yours, respectfully,

STEPHEN T. MATHER,

Vice-President Sterling Borax Company.

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