Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-05
SAYS THE SOUTH IS BENEFITED
Time viii Come, He Says, When the
South Will Be Found Shoulder to
Shoulder With the North to Protect
This Great Observation-Disclosures
Answers Penrose.


With the opening of tonight's session
of the Senate Mr. Aldrich proceeded
to reply to the attacks made upon the
committees amendments to the cot
ton schedule. He told the senators
present that he proposed TO make a
statement explaining the committees
amendments land to correct any mis-
apprehension that may have been IN
stilled in their minds by a torrent OF
misinformatiOn and misrepresenta-
ton
The amendments which have been
suggested apply but To very small
proportion of the Gotten schedule.
said Mr.. Aldrich. III one would have
listened to the debate one would sup
pose the amendments applied to the
whole Gotten schedule. and that three
fourths of rates of the Dingley law
would have been increased by these
amendments"
Only ten per cent of the cotton
schedule was affected by the amend
ments. he added.
Mr.. Aldrich reviewed the history OF
the cotton schedule. saying that in no
tariff act has there been fixed rates
so low as the schedule pertaining to
cotton cloth and cotton manufactures
generally.
When MIR. Bacon, of Georgia, in
terrupted Mr.. Aldrich to assert that
the latter's estimate of the differ
ence in the price of cotton in 1897
and at the present time was erroneous
Mr.. Aldrich intimated that he did
not propose TO yield the floor for ques-
~. h. limo his state
ment.
Reviewing the various court de
cisions in reference to the cotton
schedule, Mr. Aldrich declared that
the government has paid out as much
as s.. 900 600 year as refunds OF du-
ties on account of decisions result
ing from ambiguity in the Dingley
law.
Proceeding to show that estimates
of ad valOrem equivalents of SPECIFIC
rates could not possibly be accurate
ly figured, Mr.. Aldrich said that moth
ing could be told about equivalent ad
valorem rates in the cotton schedule.
He said ii was impossible to do so
when the value OF the goods range
from seven cents to thirty cents
square yard.
High and Low Rates.
He declared that there were high
and low rates in the specific rates OF
the cotton goods schedule and that
foreign manufacturers would change
their methods Of manufacture if neces-
sary to take advantage of low points.
Declaring that the menace to the
cotton goods industry of the United
I'LL he manufactures nj
those goods by Japan, Mr.. Aldrich
said that Japan today has four large
cotton manufactures in operation and
said that it would be hard to say
what would be the result If in the
next ten years Japan should 20 ex-
tensively into the manufacture OF
cotton. He called attention 20 the
six cents a day labor in the land Of
the rising sun. and to the ability of
its people in decorative work. He
predicted. on the other hand, that the
United States would become the
! greatest producer and manufacturer
Of cotton goods in the world If its
interests we're properly protected.
He reviewed the process Of the
Southern states in the manufacture Of
cotton goods. declaring that South
Carolina has become second only to
Massachusetts in the manufacture -
cotton goods: that North Carolina Is
third and Georgia fourth.
South Has Greater Interest
II is not for me 10 say how the
senators from the South shall vote
On this Gotten schedule said Mr..
AIdrich. after his review 81 the ETowts
81 the industry in the Southern states.
Continuing. he said. u say to those
senators on the other side OF the
chamber that ihc stake 81 ;hc south
Is greater than that ~ the North.
and ] predict that when another biz
IT, drafted the South viii have three
fourihs % the coticH mills.
Insisting that no man could point
~ an act cT word n his IN Indicate
that Nc was not vitality Interested tn
the prosperity II tho south. a. he -
In the progress 81 his own SECTION.
Mr.. kldrlch appealed directly ~ The
Representative 81 southern States O.
meet the question fairly.
u appeal 10 you directly. not 70
vote Tor this BIZ. for ! know that
this you viii not Do while 7 am m
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