The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-15

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE tariff
on hundreds OF articles Is higher In
the Aldrich bill than In the Dingley
law, according to a tabulated state
ment fled in the senate today by Sen
ator Culberson or Texas, the Demo
cratic leader. When the Aldricn Dill
had been reported. the Democratic
oenators employed experts To make an
analysis OF the measure. one result
q their work Is this table OF increase.
The bill shows that the Dingley
kxate has been increased in seventeen
Paragraphs OF the metal schedule COW
ering a great variety OF articles. The
increase on fatirons. castings, cast
IrOn vessels, and tailor's irons. is 20
norcent ON certain steel sheets and
mates, the increase Is S2.65 per cent
md on steel ingots and blooms 1894
Der cent.
In the agricultural schedule there
are increases OF from 20 10 100 per
cent on oats, rye. wheat, hops ana
buckwheat -four. The duty on figs has
/ been Increased % and on date loo per
cent. On lemons the raise has been
\ 80: on olives 1888 and grapes IN bar
rels % per cent.
There are many increases In the
wine and spirit schedules, ranging
h from Is to IL per cent. Beer and ale
have been advanced 1880 per cent;
prune juice. 1867 per cent.
Cotton thread. OF 33 grades, has
duty that shows an increase OF from
4 two to ITO per cent The uplift In the
rates on cotton cloth has been gen.
oral and pronounced. the range being
from one TO 460 per cent. One grade
was advanced l25 and another ls5 per
cent. Silk increases run from u TO
133 per cent
The duty on artificial horsehair is
/ Increased $50 per cent and this affects
many articles made OF artificial silk.
~ There aTe-increases- of 100. 225 and
400 per cent in the photographic sched-
ule.
Wrapping paper is up 40 per cent.
The tariff on fireworks has been Civ
\ On lift Of 275 per cent. gaufrre leath-
er 100 per cent and cloth for buttons
800 per cent
Yachts, which are on the free list
IN the Dingley law, are assessed
duty of 35 per cent in the Aldrich bill.
What the senate has done with iron
ore, is a forecast OF what will
probably be done with hides, lum-
Der and coal Democratic votes
4 TO put a tariff on these raw
materials, 1t Is believed. are ready
\ to be delivered whenever the neces-
sity arises. Eighteen Democrats voted
yesterday to sustain the recommends
ton of the senate finance committee
= to put a duty of % cents per ton on
K iron ore which the house had propos-
ed to put on the free list. Fully as
many, il IL estimated. will be found
voting to restore the duty on hides.
coal and lumber. IL the solid Demo
cratic vote hao been joined with the
14eso-cailed progressive Republican,"
+ who voted for free iron ore they would
K have been sufficient TO carry that prop
.osition. But the hopeless division or
the Democrats not only kept iron ore
from the free list but practically en-
sures the other rates In iron and steel
+ schedules.
Free raw materials" used to be the
B coy of the democrats but since the won
derful Industrial development OF the
south in the last twenty years, that
has all been changed and the repre-
4 nentatives of that section are as eager
now for protection of their products as
he most ardent Republican could be.
|<>1n fac& itswas the Republican house
tat nat free iron ore, free hides, free
X 1oal with - reciprocity attachment
into the Payne bill and cut the exist
a III rates on lumpef oneEhaiT. Demo-
4 cratic votes have already overturned
1he tnrst Of these Republican verdicts.
4 80 the representatives of that party
- among the loudest in clamoring
VI ~ ~ restoration Of the existing rates
~ ~ per thousand on lumper.
~ consideration Of the tariff bill
nrogresses in the senate 1t is becom-
more evident that the finance COM
nee. with Senator Aldrich. at its
lad, has successfully gagged the SEN
t1ment OF that body. Every attempt
that has been made so far 10 change
the rates recommended by ii has been
voted down and 1t is apparent now
that no reductions will be made by
the senate which have not the sane
ton and approval of the finance COM
mittee. number OF such reductions
have already been made and others
will follow But the fact remains that
4. no amendments are being accepted IN
4 tife face 0f the Opposition from the
finance committee. Aldrich is still in