Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-08
ID IGNORE THE
 LADIES FAIR
Women Protest Against Tariff On Gloves and Hosiery But Congressmen Decide Not to Heed Them

WA SHINGTON. April T.-Speaker Cannon. Chairman Payne, Represent tative DalzeIl and Representative Smith of Iowa. in behalf of the ways and means committee and the com mittee on rules. practically have de- cided to ignore the demand of the women in regard to the tarif on gloves. and hosiery.
 A hearing is to be given during ! this week to the lumber men. but the i leaders of the house have concluded ' that the women of the west have ! been egged on to their protest by the | department stores and a few newsDa. pers, and that there Is no necessity | far giving them any unusual consid- eration.
 The result is that. while it now is | planned to have a vote not later than | Saturday of this week. and while an opportunity is to be given for sepa- ! rate amendment and a record vote on lumber, hides and some other | things. the duty on hos cry. gloves, sugar. woolen goods. including car pets. cotton goods. including of course underwear and all sorts of-silk [ goods will be left exactly as fixed by the ways and means committee, and if the women don't like 1t they can do the next best thing. which is to talk the matter over in their literary societies and sew ng circles. and sub- init to what is in store for them with as good grace as possible.
 Twelve Men Dictate Terms. | Notice has been served hy the house leaders that no protest by wo- men, whether it contains 500.0O0 names or five times that number, will have any effect. The manufacturers of GlOyersville and Johnstown. N. r.. are to have their way. and the impor- tation of cheap gloves Tn the future Is to be abolished. with a correspond- ing increase in the cost of cheap stockings
 1 As a matter of course. the necessi- ty for speedy action is made the req son for denying to the house of rep reseptatiyes the exercise of the full legislative function which was con- ferred upon it by the cOnst 'tution. The twelve republican members of the ways and means committee have constructed a tariff Dill which pro- yides rates of duty on more than 6 thousand specific terms. The house of representatives Is to be compel'ed to swallow that tariff bill as a whole, with perhaps half a dozen exceptions. No opportunity is to Se given to test the sense of the house as t< whether the members think 1t rgnL to bring in 3000O0 tons Of raw sugar free of duty from the Philippines, for nF h- -val then reduce the duty on the finished product Of that trust exactly one twentieth of cent per pound, a re- duction so infinitesimal that it will not have any effect on the retail rrice Of sugar. and will not add to the importat on of refined sugar. be , cause the duty as it Is left Is far more than prohlbitory.
 No Chance Fer Sugar Vcte. It is well known that the existing ! duty on refined sugar could be cut at least 25 per cent without affect Ing the interests or a single sugar grower in the United States. It would reduce the profits of the trust and would reduce the retail price Of Str gar, and yet the members of the house will not have a chance to vote on the sugar schedule at all
  1 When they are questioned by the'I ' constituents they will have to say | that uDdeF the operation Of a special rule they were compelled to vote for an absurd reduction prerared by the ways and means committee of one twentieth of one cent per pound on refined sugar. as compared to a re mission of all duties on the maximum of 300,000 tons Of raw cane sugal which may be imported from the Phil iuDipes on the free list of the Payne bill
 The members of 'hs house, are n clined to scoT at the efforts of ths women of Chicago and other cities tt prevent an increase in the rates oI cheap gloves. They say that even 1
 500000 women sign the protest i will not receive consideration. be
 cause they believe it to be their du
 ty to look after the interests of tn
 glove manufacturers of Fulton couT
 ty. New York, and others in the va
 rious sect ons of the county.