The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-14
HIGHER TARIFF RESULTS FROM
 ALDRICH BILL
Senator Cnlberson, Democratic Leader, Files Tabnlated Statement in Senate Today Showing Increases Over Ding. ley Bill.
Democratic Votes Seem Ready for DeIiv. erance When Needed to Put Tariff on Raw Materials s-Industrial Develop. ment of South Has Brought About Change.
Special from United Press.)

Washington, May 14.-The tariff on hundreds of articles is higher in the A1drich bill than in the Dingley Law, according to tabulated statement filed in the Senate to-day by Senator Culberson. of Texas, the Democratic leader. When the Aldrich bill had been reported. the Democratic Sena- tors employed experts to make an an a1ysis Of the measure. One result of their work is this table of increases.
 IL shows that the Dingley rate has been increased in seventeen paragraphs of the metal schedule covering a great variety of articles.
 The increase on flat irons, castings, cast iron, and tailor's irons is 225 per cent. Certain steel sheets and plates, the increase is 32.65 per cent and on steel ingots and blooms 4S-94 per cent In the agricultural schedules there are increases of from 25 to 100 per cent. on oats. rye. wheat. hops and buck wheat flour. The duty on figs has been On lemons the raise has been 50; on olives 33.33 and grapes in barrels 25 per cent.
 There are many increases in the wine and spirit schedules ranging from 15 to 71 per cent. Beer and ale have been advanced 12.5O per cent. Cotton thread has a duty that shows an in crease of from to no per cent. The uplift in the rates on cotton cloth has been general and pronounced, tn a range being from 1 to 460 per cent. One grade was advanced 125 and an other 1s5. Silk increases run from 12 to 133 per cent.
 The duty on artificial horsehair is increased 150 per cent. and this af- fects many articles made of artificial silk. There are increases of 100, 225 and 400 per cent. in the Photographic schedules. Wrapping paper is up 40 r1a %o nv, 6rnx r-lrc ho been given a lift of 275 per cent. Gauf- fire Heather 100 per cent and cloth for buttons 300 per cent
 Yachts. which are on the free list in the DinEley law are assessed duty of BIO 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. lumber and coal. these raw materials. it is believed, are ready to be delivered whenever the necessity arrives. Eighteen Democrats voted yesterday to sustain the recom- mendat;on of the Senate Finance Com mittee to put a duty of 25 cents on iron ore which the House had proposed to put on the free list. Fully as many. it is claimed. will be found voting to retain the duty on hides. coal and lumber If the solid Democratic votes had been joined with the fourteen so- called Progressive Republicans who voted for free iron ore. this would have been sufficient to carry that pro- position. But the hopeless division of the members not only kept iron ore from the free list but practically en- sures the retention of the other rates in iron and steel schedules.
 Free raw materials" used to be the cry of the Democrats but since the wonderful industrial development of the South in the last 20 years that has all been changed and the representa- lives Of that section are as eager now for protection of their products as the most ardent Republican could be.
 Democratic votes have already over turned the first of the Republican yer diets and the. representatives of the party are among the loudest in clamor- ing for restoration of the existing rates of g per thousand on lumber. As consideration of the tariff bill pro- gresses in the Senate it is becoming more evident that the Finance Com mittee has ignored the sentiment of that body. Every attempt that has been made so far to change the rates by it has been voted down and it is apparent now that no reductions will be made by the Senate which have not the sanction and ap- proval of the Finance Committee. A number of such reductions. have al- low where, in the course of the de- bate. it appears desirable and there will be changes in classifications which will have the effect of reducing duties
 But the fact remains that no amend ments are being accepted in the face of the opposition from the Finance A1drich is still in control.