Show PRICE FIVE t U f r. r KEARNS PROTESTS 1 t i RAISE c Y 1 JN IN HOSIER TARiFFS TARiFFS' T A SENDS WIRE TO SENATE j Blush of Embarrassment Crimsons Crim Crini sons Faces Paces of Senators as Telegram From Prom Utah Man Is Read Head at Committee Meeting ALDRICH FILES MESSAGE IN A SPECIAL ENVELOPE Wool Schedule Is Taken Up and the Indications Are That This Industry Will Not Be BeI I Injured red by Tariff Bill WOMEN SEND PROTESTS 1 From a Staff Correspondent Washington Washing D. D C. C March 31 A A great mass of tele tele- telegrams telegrams grams and letters have been received by the Senate com com- commission commission j mission on finance relating I Ito I to schedules in the new tariff tariU ig I bill but none of them crea l I II I more j 1 I that j te x fo j. j swept ept over lover the r I I when this telegram was read readI I as this burning interest ot ota o oi a trio n f fO mer er Utah statesman In I explainable Hn lingerie gene erie was vas inI in- in In- In I women clubs protests froming froming from froming ing in by th the be been corn com c e and ud nd the suffragettes have hav up masse en-masse against t t posed action that nta nay may AI crease the price of elbo elbow gloves These protests have been filed away in the ar ax archives archives chives of the commission but the telegram from Tom Kearns kicking on the advance advance advance ad- ad ad ad- vance in rates on ladies' ladies stockings created something something something some some- thing of a sensation Chairman AId rich carefully scanned the signature the fInding It was GenuIne genuine ine inc ordered the clerk to tile file It In Jim a B. special envelope It Is probable that the commission will keep Mr Kearns advised as to all nIl developments in la tho ladles hosiery schedule Many Inny Letters For Smoot The great grent interest that Is manifested throughout the country In the tho provisions provisions provisions provi provi- of the tariff bill shows I elf It el Inthe In ha Inthe the mass masa of ot letters that Senator Smoot a n. member of th the tho finance committee Is receiving dally daily These letters com come from nil all parts of ot the country and nearly nearly near oear- ly all of ot them are protesting against t the reductions made by the Payne bill Today the commission had up the wool woot schedule and discussed It thoroughly thorough While the result Is 19 not announced d Itcan itcan it itcan can be stated that the wool growers of or Utah nee need not worry over this sub sub- There is reason to b believe lIeve that they will be satisfied with the work that thiat Is 13 done In their behalf Senator Culberson of ot Texas declared declared today that the Increase of ot tariff on women's gloves pr provided for In the tho Payne tariff bill Is 16 another tax for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of ot the few rew as against tho the thor r The members of the ways au and aud moans means committee who are being stormed from all sides by delegations of or women who oppose oppose- the Increased tariff on feminine wearing apparel were vere thrown Into nto a panic by H n report that a carload of ot pretty glove glo makers young youn women arc coming hero horo from Philadelphia to make a 0 show of force torea against the glove Rn and stocking sched ached a ule Details are arc lacking Jacking as 9 to just when the delegation will arrive If It indeed Indeed in indeed In- In deed It Is coming Tn in the meantime nothing Is being done dono to have ha the objectionable duties reduced t So Sio o many outer other troubles are arc Continued on Page Two KEARNS PROTESTS AGAINST A ANY AY IY RAISE IN HOSIERY TARIFFS Irom ln Inge One bothering the married matr lI congressmen that women's grievances have not ye yet been taken up Mr Jr TON ru ruMs An exception though thou must be made In favor faor of Mr Foss Iosa of ot Illinois Mr Foss Foes declared d today oday that It was vas by no means mt-ans certain as ns reported day that tho Illinois Republicans In Congress will veto voto ns as a unit for tho the Payne bill even e If It tho the caucus so Instructs In In- instructs them and Mr 11 Foss Fou ad bad the tho lades In mind when he spoke Ns s sa a way Mr MI Fose Foss In common with avith most other congressmen i Is 18 In receipt these day days of or thousands of letters from women condemning the tariff on cloves hosiery etc tc and demanding at trat ho he oppose this schedule Tho The Ill 1111 noise nohie representative o declared toda today that ho was perplexed to see how seemingly seem sem he Is more favored b by this correspondence cor- cor than his associates What hat strikes the con congressman me mc t. forcibly Is the remarkable unanimity of ot all these ladles ladies In their demand Here Hero Is la one specimen from Highland Park Illinois Dear Sir I t think tho the tariff on gloves hosiery etc would bo be a great har and I r hope hOp every con congress ro aman a- a man will vill consider It his duty to vote voto against It Yours respectfully LOUISE LOUIS C. C BEARERS Mr Ir Foss bell believes tho the Illinois delegation dele dole gation gaLlon Is 18 not a unit on any nn Important schedule but he said Mid tho the Illinois con con- gr gressmen could be counted on to stand without a break upon the tho final vote oto upon oven even the schedules which will bo ho endorsed by the Republican caucus In h hs statement upon tho glove Iove ca case o S Senator Sen Sen- mator m- m ator Culberson says sas In part Dut Duty on Closes From figures hen given In Imports and Duties Duties' recently complied compiled under the direction of or the ways and means com corn It appears that about duties were collected In 1907 on ladles ladles' and childrens children's Imported gloves glove These duties were coll collected under specific rates to an ad valorem rate of some 30 SO por per cent to above c 30 50 o per cent Tho The duties collected In the year 1907 on mens men's gloves because of or a prohibitive duty some 36 26 to 30 p per r cent higher on onan onan onan an ad valorem basis bash than on women's glove cloves were so small as u to be practically negligible The Payne bill Increases the tho duties upon women's and childrens children's glove by Imposing a specific rate of or H 1 fc dozen upon all grades grade and the accumulative accumulative duties upon the more expensive sive he As All usual the largest increase In Increase In- In crease croue tails alls upon the poorer class clae or ot consumers the gr graies of ot gloves purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased by them constituting also alo the tha bulk of ot the Im Importations |