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Show AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ROAST TARIFF FRAMERS BALTIMORE, Dec. 29. Following today's meeting of the various sections of tho American Association for the Advancement of Science, there 'was a ceneral meeting at Johns Hopkins university uni-versity devoted to a tariff svmposiurn. a paper by J. J. Orton of the TarilY Reform club of New Tock charged thai: members of the ways and means committee com-mittee aro pecunianlv interested in tho tanit" schedules which they have to adjust. "if ve had a high and honest stand-."r.i stand-."r.i f nublic morals in Congress.' ' he said, "it would be much osier to get an honest tariff, and the consumer would not be plundered as ho is now. I venture to say that Ihc moral code iu v Congress is lower than in most citv councils. In Washington it is common gossip that out of nineteen members of tho ways and means committee, which will frame a new tariff, various ones aro pecuniarily interested iu this or that schedule. ''' |