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Lower wages per day and longer hours of work, with lower taxes (the quarries being in the country), makes competition on the part of the nonquarrying manufacturers prohibitive and thus (in the domestic material, at least) creates a monopoly.

If the foreign material (blocks, rough or squared) were admitted free, the nonquarrying manufacturer would be placed in a more equal position, the monopoly eradicated, the cost of the finished product reduced, and one step forward would be effected in the reduction of the cost of living.

We again respectfully call the committee's attention to the following conditions of our trade, viz:

First. Some of the largest quarry owners and producers of marble in this country are also manufacturers, and the nonquarrying manufacturers can not compete with them in the manufacture of their own product.

Second. The specifying of their own product in part gives control to the quarry owners and makes for unequal competition and for monopoly.

Third. The same quarry manufacturers contract to furnish foreign marble in combination with their own product and are to-day large purchasers of foreign marble, establishing the shortage of the domestic supply.

Fourth. One of the largest producers of marble in this country, in a signed statement before your committee about December, 1908, stated, viz:

"During the year 1907 the average price realized by this company for all of its marble actually sold, taking all grades quarried, was 96 cents per cubic foot in the block at the quarry.'

"

A recent "price list of marble for building work" (see Exhibit A, attached), issued to the manufacturers by this same company, shows the average selling price of the 39 grades of their quarry products to the trade, sawed, to be about $4 per cubic foot at quarry. Deducting sawing by water power at 50 cents a cubic foot would show an increase of about 250 per cent over the statement quoted before your committee in 1908. This is made possible by the present duty.

The same producer does not sell its marble in blocks to the manufacturing trade. Fifth. In a similar signed statement by the producers of Tennessee marble before your committee about December, 1908, they stated: "The selling price of blocks so produced, taking the average of the different grades produced, is now about $1 per cubic foot f. o. b. cars.

Although the average price the nonquarrying manufacturers are now paying for the same material is from 50 to 75 per cent higher, the character and color of Tennessee marble is peculiar to its locality and it has no foreign competition when this class of material is desired.

We, therefore, in the interest and for the protection of a young and growing industry respectfully petition your honorable committee that the present import duty on marble "in block, rough or squared," be removed, and that Marble in block, rough or squared" (under the present classification of marble, onyx, stone, and manufactures of) be admitted free.

Signed by the manufacturing members of the Marble Industry Employers Associa tion of the City of New York.

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BENJ. D. TRAITEL, President.

EDWARD J. MCGRATTY, Chairman Executive Committee.
WILLIAM K. FERTIG, Secretary.

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EXHIBIT A.

PRICE LIST OF MARBLE FOR BUILDING WORK, VERMONT MARBLE CO.

[Exhibit A of the manufacturing members of the Marble Industry Employers' Association of New York and attached to petition dated Jan. 8, 1913, and marked "Original."]

Price list of Vermont marble for exterior, interior, decorative, electrical, and similar classes of work, November, 1911.

Slabs 0.2 and under in thickness, other than full size of block, extra 20 per cent.
Extra for matched veining of Listavena, pink Listavena, Avenatto, and Venoso.

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SPECIALS.

Strips, pieces, etc., 2 inches or over in thickness and less than 2.6 wide, ordered 7 long and under 11, extra per cubic foot..

If ordered 11 long, extra per cubic foot......

For every additional foot in length, extra per cubic foot..

Pieces less than 1.6 wide and less than 2 inches in thickness, ordered 7 long, under 10, extra per superficial foot.

If ordered 10 long, extra per superficial foot..

For every additional foot in length, extra per superficial foot..

Slabs 2.6 or over wide, ordered 9 long or 4.6 wide, 2 inches or over in thickness, and for every additional foot in length and for every additional 6 inches in width, extra per cubic foot....

Slabs 1.6 or over wide, ordered 9 long or 4.6 wide, under 2 inches in thickness, and for every additional foot in length or for every additional 6 inches in width, extra per superficial foot.....

Slabs 2 inches and under in thickness, other than full size of block, extra 20
per cent.

Sawing edges of slabs 1, 14, and 14 inches thick, per superficial foot of slab..
Sawing edges of slabs 2, 3, and 4 inches thick, per cubic foot of slab....
Sawing ends of slabs the same as for edges.

CRATING.

Cubic stock 4 inches and over, per cubic foot..

Slabs 2 and 3 inches, per superficial foot.............

Slabs 1, 11, and 14 inches, singly, per superficial foot.

Slabs 1, 1, and 1 inches, two or more together, per superficial foot..

No marble will be crated unless so ordered.

COMPUTATION OF QUANTITIES.

40

.10

.08

.05

[In figuring all charges a half inch or any fraction in excess thereof will be treated as a whole inch. This does not apply to the thickness of slabs less than 2 inches.]

TILE.

Usual thickness varying from 0.04 to 0.1 not crated, per superficial foot.

Selects..

Medium.

Variegated..

(0.6 x 0.6, 0.8 x 0.8, 0.10 x 0.10, 1.0 x 1.0, 1.4 x 0.8, 1.8 x
0.10, 2.0 x 1.0.

.33

.28

.22

Diagonal half and quarter tile will be charged as whole square tile.
For tile 1 inches thick, add 30 per cent to above prices.
Special prices on all tile ordered of uniform thickness.

Cornered tile of regular sizes for dots not larger than 0.3; extra for each corner cut, $0.014.

Cornered tile of regular sizes for dots larger than 0.3 and not larger than 0.6, extra for each corner cut, $0.03.

Border.-Ordinary widths, 0.6 or over, if ordered with tile, same price as tile.

Border, ordinary widths, 0.6 or over, if ordered without tile, 20 per cent higher than tile 1.0 square.

Border under 0.6 in width will be charged as 0.6 wide.

Crating border, if ordered without tile, per superficial foot, $0.05.

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TERMS.

Two per cent discount for cash within 30 days from date of invoice, or payment in full after 60 days from date of invoice.

A discount of 5 per cent will be given on carload lots of sawed marble of 30,000 pounds or more in one order.

Special and net prices are not subject to carload discount.

All claims for errors in measurements or for unsoundness must be made within 20 days from receipt of marble, and no charge for work on defective marble will be allowed.

All marble will be carefully loaded on the cars free of charge and shipped the day the bill is dated, which is a delivery to the purchaser. The railroad company's receipt shall be sufficient evidence of such delivery.

Unless otherwise directed all marble will be shipped by the cheapest route, "owner's risk released," and subject to the official freight classification.

MARBLE INDUSTRY EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION,
New York, January 16, 1913.

To the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS,

Washington, D. C.

GENTLEMEN: The manufacturing members of the Marble Industry Employers' Association of New York City desire to supplement their brief filed at a hearing before your committee on January 8, 1913, as follows:

First. We believe the request of the importers for the maintaining of a duty on rough marble (in blocks, rough or squared) makes for control and monopoly, and also to make it as troublesome as possible for manufacturers to import direct, and to discourage anyone from entering the importing business because of the greater capital required where duty is to be paid than if there were no duty.

Second. We indorse, excepting as to the recommendations for the maintenance of any duty on marble blocks, all the statements made under the heading of "Marble,' in a memorial presented by the Italian Chamber of Commerce before your committee and printed in the hearing under date of January 9, 1913. (Print 4, page 741.)

Third. We beg to file the following additional signatures received from those engaged in the manufacture of marble for interior use, approving the recommendations in our petition of January 8, 1913, entitled Tariff on Marble: Peoria Stone & Marble Works, Peoria, Ill.; N. O. Nelson Marble Co., Edwardsville, Ill.; The Puffer Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass.; Jacoby & Sons Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; S. Klaber & Co., New York, N. Y.; Voska-Bremer Marble Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Allen & Haworth, Cleveland, Ohio; The Liquid Carbonic Co., Chicago, Ill.; Standard Marble Works, Cincinnati, Ohio; American Soda Fountain Co., Boston, Mass.; Flavin Marble Mill, Chicago, Ill.; Davis Marble Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Bowker Torrey Co., Boston, Mass.; Feeney & DeVanny Co., New York, N. Y.; The Eckhardt Monumental Co., Toledo, Ohio; The Johnson Marble Co., Boston, Mass.; H. Marquardt Marble & Granite Co., St. Louis, Mo.; John M. Gessler's Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; Northwestern Marble & Tile Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; The Buckeye Marble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Trusting this communication will receive favorable consideration, I beg to remain, Respectfully,

WM. K. FERTIG, Secretary.

STATEMENT OF JOHN S. SEWALL, REPRESENTING THE ALABAMA MARBLE CO.

Mr. SEWALL. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I represent the Alabama Marble Co. as its general manager. I am authorized also to speak for other American producers whose names are signed to a brief statement, which we have submitted to the committee in printed form. In this statement we have set forth facts which we believe justify the maintenance of the present tariff on marble in all of its forms, regardless of the point of view from which we consider it. We desire further to state the following facts:

The total investment of the companies whose names are signed to the printed statement is not less than $25,000,000. The development of a marble deposit to a point of profitable production is the