Show Of COMMITTEE PASS MUSTER So Far Senator Aldrich Seems to Have the Situation Well in Hand DIFFERENT SCALE OF ZINC DUTIES COMING MR SCOTT MAKES A PLEA FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE GLASS INDUSTRY AND EXHIBITS THE GOODS A A v v v Washington May 11 A til progress was W IUS made inde In the con coni i I d ration of the tariff bin Wll today A the th amendments of th the committee on I finance belnA upheld In th the sen senA en enat A i at by majorities A s A feature f of the sessIon Mutton I was wu a aA amral A discussion concerning the great dt parity between wholesale whole A and retail price Republican Senators declared this difference was I so SI great as to demonstrate A that the duty levied by a A tive tariff had small effect on the e paid p ki by the consumer con umer A This feature f ture of the discussion di on was a precipitated ted by b Senator Scott himself a glass gla gIa J manufacturer The TheA A schedule covering the products of ofA A lead was vas passed pid over upon the sug aug of Senator AW Aldrich rich because e eal A he al aid said the finance committee de id d to make some changes In the duties dutie as a previously recommended v Washington ashington May iLAs As soon as th t aritT ariff bill was as taken ken up HP in the senate iday Jay Mr Aldrich stated staled that the com corn mitt on Oil finance would submit to the theM M nate a different acute ecIe of o duties on zinc ore re r products of sine and asked hat it th tile schedule as S welt well as sections matted on relating to 10 lead products b e over for the present The Th request was conceded Mr lr Bris Bus Briso i iII o II announcing that wh when n the tile white Iad a l schedule should be reached he wish to be heard hM he nl on it IL The committees amendment striking ut SOt it the house houe duty of of 1 cent per r pound on relined refined nitrate of salt saltpeter I peter was as agreed to t It to Ia 1 understood I that that product will win be lie placed on the thele ree le list Another Boost Agreed Agree To Torr Mr rr Aldrich then requested ecI an aft agree m meat Bl to the tAe UM amendment am in the duty on all salts of san salt t nin in from M it cents to 1 stating that th proposed propos duty was the rate of or both the Dingley Din ley and the Gorman Gorm n bills Mils But few fw senators sentor were present pre nt and Mr Ir Overman suggested eted the Ute absence ab enee of i quorum a roll mit call eail U bringing into the chamber senators The see sec e I on relating to salts of o was wa then agreed a reed to as ae enacted On nn motion of Mr Aldrich the section i r to soap was amended so as to toi toa i laT a duty of or M II I per ceRt cent ad valorem M n I perfumed soap BOAp which he said was ft revenue purposes The Th house provision prevision on sulphur hur was as amended so 80 as 88 to place crude cru on the free list flat and to provide for fir a duty of U 4 a ton on refined sul sulphur sulphur the present t law and the house boWIe bill billI I for a duty of 6 a ton Articles Passed Over ver Th section relating to limestone rock was U at t first amended by reducing ing the duty M per cent under the pres nt law w but later on motion of Mr Ir who suggested that perhaps that article should go o on the free list Bat the paragraph ph was temporarily passed f PI r The Th schedule relating to mica was U ao o parted paO over nver nV Mr lr Aldrich saying ying h committee delred to reconsider at lat paragraph pa as it was U not now sat M pd whether hether the duty should be In IAd ld or whether hether the article should v I S placed on the tile free list lift I lt Chinaware and Earthenware i l the schedules s relating elating to china chinat t I and anci earthenware were weft reached r r Cummins au g fd that the was as imported while Vl 5 p per r cent of the earthenware used S of domestic dome tic manufacture and that he proposed later to offer amendment to reduce the rate on Mr Aldrich Al said Mid that the Ute theS S II articles had been bee classified to tI and given gin gh i the same name duty since 1 ID n the th Wilson bill making no change i 1 classification A a result of an understanding tach ached af after ter a discussion of ot the parlia parliamentary m Matus tatu of th the bill hereafter the tIM thea nae a as in committee of the whole Continued on Page P Page ge 3 V OF COMMITTEE PASS MUSTER Continued From Page 1 will In finally adopt each paragraph of the bill biH as 1 s rached reached unless passed over by b agreement and no further opportunity ill be he had h d to amend the measure un unil until til il l it has 11 reached the parliamentary of f being before the senate Speaking in favor of oC a reduction on th the duties dutts on nn steel and earthenware e re Mr MrIon Ra Raon Ion on offered an amendment reducing the rate rat from fUm 60 o 0 to 36 35 per cent ad va m Mr Jr said id he would vote against a this decrease of duty Mr dr ir Aid Aldrich rich said that the revenue re ren n ivd from the China Chins and earthenware e schedules was the importation tion amounting to tl I Mr Bacons amendment was defeated by a vote of 25 5 to 54 Senator LaFot LaFollette lette being the only can who voted in the affirmative with the Demo Democrats rats s Explaining that he desired a rate of I duty on common which would reduce its cost to the consumer Mr Bacon offered an amendment to re reduce reduce duce duco the rate from 56 S per pel cent ad va valorem valorem Valorem lorem as it stood in the bill to 40 to per percent percent percent cent After considerable debate the amendment was voted down 50 to 27 Mr Ir Smoot offered an amendment te re reducing the rates of carbons for electric lighting which the finance committee provided with a duty of 70 cents per hundred feet Mr Smoots amendment offered for the finance committee made I I the duty on carbons made entirely of petroleum coke 35 36 cents per hundred feet while for carbons Into the manu manufacture manufActure manufacture facture of which lamp black is i used 65 I cents per hundred feet The amendment was passed over at atthe atthe atthe the request of Mr LaFollette who made the request for Mr Bailey Dallo The Glass Industry When the glass schedule was as reached Mr Ir Scott made a plea ilea lea for protection of the glass industry Taking from the shelf shelt of his desk one piece of or glassware after another and holding them up in full view of the senate Mr Scott gave an object lesson in the cheapness of the ware Here he said Is ls a half gallon pitcher we sell for 90 cents a dozen It Itsell sells sell at retail for tor about 40 to cents apiece Senators and visitors in the galleries craned their necks to see the sample held aloft by b Mr Scott Here again he said isa tumbler When I 1 first went Into the glass glas busi busl business ness this tumbler retailed at a dozen Now we spirit ellit for Ill III cents a dozen less than 1 cent apiece Here is isa isa Isa a glass dish to be bought In any store for 70 cents a dozen If It on we will soon be pay paying payIng paylag ing lag people to carry this glassware dozen doun we sell it for 11 cents a away Here is another goblet that for formerly formerly formerly merly sold for 3 a dozen and which now under protection sells for 25 2 cents a dozen Then holding up a picture of an elev eleven eleven I Ien en story building Mr Scott said it was the business place of a wholesaler and retailer of glassware and added that the men who owned the building had hati made more money than all aU the glass manufacturers Mr Hale Hate took advantage of Mr Scotts exhibition to make a point in support of the protective policy as a whole Inquiry Proposed Mr Mi 11 Newlands suggested the appoint appointment appointment ment meat of an official body to inquire Into the differences in wholesale and retail prices so that congress might have proper information Saying he had much information to illustrate the great difference in whole wholesale wholesale wholesale sale and retail prices Senator Flint said he had in mind an instance of a aset aset aset set of Haviland china costing to Im Import Import import port with 46 cents packing charges and duty dut making in all 1089 which retailed for 16 6 He instanced another case of an arti article article article cle costIng 41 U cents to import which retailed for SUO Those he said were the prices in the great department stores of the east and in the northwest states the prices were increased 50 per percent percent percent cent Senator Smoot made another contri contribution contribution to t the of f information con concerning corning exorbitant Jl JI a ease of oC a razor the manufacturers manu wholesale price of which was 3 a dozen which sold for tor 2 each to con consumers consumers consumers sumers Gloves he said sald manufactured for tor 7 per dozen sold for tor 2 a pair or 24 4 a dosen These high prices he said sald had nothing to do with the protective tariff because compared with the re retail ret tall tail t 1 price the tariff charges harges were small Possible Agreements Senator Fletcher inquired whether there were wore not agreements be between between between tween the manufacturers and the Job Jobbers jobbers bers hers and later between the jobbers and the retailers to sell at stipulated prices I have been manufacturing glass for forty years ye rs declared Mr Scott Indignantly Indig Indignantly and I never knew of such con contract contract contract tract to maintain the price He added that we should not be too hard on the jobber and retailer He said there was great breakage in glass glassware glassware glassware ware charges for packing etc which ran the price up Prices can be produced here to show said Mr Flint that the retail merchants make a larger percentage of profit than in any an other line of busi business nose ness I 1 undertake to say that if there were no duty on Haviland china that article would sell no cheaper than it does today toda Defended Retailers Mr Ir McLaurin defended the retail dealers against the charge of extortion saying MinG retailers would lose their trade if they undertook to charge too much He said the high prices resulted from the tariff Mr Lodge said that tea selling at wholesale at 16 cents a pound is retailed throughout the land for 60 6 cents a pound Mr McLaurin insisted that a tariff I of 10 cents a pound on tea ten would Increase in increase crease the price of tea too to that extent Mr Till Tillman man addressing Senator Hale asked whether if he believed that the duty on tea tOft would not increase the price he would Join him in voting for fora a 6 duty on tee tea We have an infant Industry down in South Carolina continued Mr Ir Till Tillman Tillman Tillman man and we want to know if the sen son senator senator ator from Maine will join me to protect It I 1 will assist because I want pro protection protection for that infant industry in South Carolina If the senator will be a little less loss boisterous interrupted Mr Hale I III will II try to answer him Why should you ou ask me to be less Jess boisterous retorted Mr Tillman when some other senators havo hao been around here as if they the I were in a circus I An Exploded Theory Mr McLaurin c chided hided the Republicans with having abandoned the theory that the foreigner pays the tax and asked to know who did pay the tax If the duty dut did not raise the price Mr Lodge Insisted that the destruction de truc tion lion of American manufacturing would result In the destruction of a corre corresponding spending portion of the worlds compe competition competition competition Mr Cummins offered several amend amendments amendments ments menU to the window glass schedule saving saying they were intended to prevent in the future any an combination froin from putting up prices Without acting on the window glass j schedule the senate adjourned |