EXHIBIT C.

Mr. WILLIAM DICHMAN,

MILWAUKEE, December 12, 1908.

Oshkosh Bottle Wrapper Co., Oshkosh, Wis.

DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 10th instant to hand; also sample wrapper. While this wrapper is a good and safe one, we fear that you will have but little sale unless you will be able to considerably reduce price. The ordinary straw wrapper gives full protection and, as you are aware, is much lower in price.

Yours, truly,

Jos. SCHLITZ BREWING CO., BOTTLING DEPARTMENT.

Hon. J. H. DAVIDSON, M. C.,

MAYVILLE, Wis., December 17, 1908.

Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: I have a factory here for the manufacture of straw bottle covers, and tried to compete with the imported straw covers, but could not do so. In 1905 I went to Europe and investigated the manufacture there, and found it was a house industry. Their raw material is cheaper and better than we can get, because we have to use a machine-thrashed straw, while they get a flail-thrashed straw, of which they can use all for covers, while our machine-thrashed straw is half waste. The wages of the operator is also against us. I found that the people over there were satisfied with an earning of 20 to 25 cents per day of our money, while we have to pay $1 to $1.50 per day for our operators.

If we could have protection, a large industry could be developed in that branch, but as it is now there is nothing can be done. My factory has been closed for the last five years, and I can not use the factory for the manufacture of bottle covers unless we get a protective tariff that will nearly offset the difference in cost of manufacture in Europe and this country. The people over in Europe use a very similar machine for the manufacture as we use here. The only dif ference that I could see was that their machines were operated by foot power while ours are operated by steam power. An expert operator will turn out as many covers on their machines as an ordinary operator will turn out on ours.

Very respectfully,

WORKS OF ART.

A. F. SCHOEN.

"ART NOTES" THINKS THAT A LARGE PROPORTION OF AMERICAN ARTISTS ARE OPPOSED TO FREE ART.

Hon. SERENO E. PAYNE,

NEW YORK CITY, December 22, 1908.

Chairman Ways and Means Committee, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: Inclosed you will find a clipping from Macbeth's Art Notes for December, 1908, which is a very fair estimate.

Very truly, yours,

GEORGE A. TRAVER.

EXHIBIT A.

[From Macbeth's Art Notes.]

Now that general tariff changes are being considered the time is doubtless near when duties on works of art will either be removed or modified.

All who are for or against a change should be ready to express themselves. I find that, contrary to the general impression, artists are by no means of one mind on this question and that there is a very decided opposition to so-called free art on the part of many, Although the views of these opponents are not seen in print as often as those of the artists on the other side, their opinions must be given. consideration. I have had a good many opportunities to hear views of individual artists on this subject and I am of the opinion that a vote by ballot of the artists in any club or society in the city would show fully 75 per cent opposed to "free art."

WM. C. HUNNEMAN, BROOKLINE, MASS., WRITES IN FAVOR OF FREE ART AND FREE NEGATIVES OF FOREIGN VIEWS.

BROOKLINE, MASS., December 19, 1908.

Hon. SERENO E. PAYNE, Chairman,

Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: I desire to add my name to the petitioners for free art in the contemplated revision of the tariff, and, besides the articles that I have seen enumerated under this head, to add photographic negatives of foreign views taken by Americans. I have in mind an experience of a friend of mine some years ago who took abroad several hundred American dry plates, exposed them for pictures in Europe, and brought them back undeveloped. He was in the business and preferred to develop them at home, yet he was required to pay a duty on them, not as unexposed plates but as exposed plates. It might have turned out (as is often the case with amateurs) that the exposures were all faulty. It seemed very absurd, for of course the exposures were something that could not be produced here unless we brought the views or the scenery over here, which of course is absurd to talk about, and the result of his work was educational, to give the American public good, low-priced pictures of things they

want to see.

I hope you can be liberal in the revision with negatives, whether taken on American or foreign plates. WM. C. HUNNEMAN.

Yours, sincerely,

BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIXTIETH CONGRESS.

FIRST PRINT, No. 44.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1908.

(APPENDIX.)

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

APPENDIX.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

ANNATTO EXTRACTS.

[Paragraphs 3 and 475.]

THE NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS., WISHES A DUTY ON THIS PRODUCT.

Hon. SERENO E. PAYNE,

BOSTON, MASS., December 18, 1908.

Chairman Ways and Means Committee,

Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: We desire to call your attention to paragraph 475 of the act of 1897, which places annatto and extracts of annatto upon the "free list."

The annatto seed is obtained from trees in the West Indies and is imported into this country as a raw material. We believe that the annatto seed should remain upon the "free list, "there being no production of this raw material in the United States.

Under the heading of "Extract of annatto" there is imported free into this country a manufactured product of annatto seed and vegetable oils used solely in the coloring of butter and like foodstuffs. This manufactured article we believe should not be entered free, and we recommend that paragraph 475 be amended by striking out "and all extracts of" in so far as these words apply to oil extracts of annatto, thus leaving annatto or annatto seed on the free list while the products manufactured from annatto will automatically fall under paragraph 3 of the act of 1897 and pay a 25 per cent ad valorem duty as therein provided.

The sole use of annatto seed is for its coloring properties. In order to reduce this coloring matter to commercial use a chemical process is employed by which vegetable oils are used as a solvent of the coloring matter contained in the seed, the extract thus obtained being used by our producers of butter. This extract is a distinct manufactured product and falls within the class of manufactured chemicals which are now quite uniformly protected under the present tariff act.

Until recently this extract of annatto has not been of great commercial importance owing to a somewhat narrow market for its consumption. There have been but three or possibly four concerns engaged in its manufacture of which our company is one. The time