The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
Albanian Declares That Taf's S
Stand Will Aid On| the
Manufacturers
POOR MANS CLOTHES WILL
COST HIM MUCH MORE
immigration Rulings Made by Com
missioner Williams Are Criticised
by congressman Who Consid-
err They Are Too Severe.

Washington, July 21.-(Specia1.)-
The Presidents recommendations for
free raw material will get little in
dorsement from Senate democrats.
They declare the items he has picked
out play into the hands of the New
England manufacturers and the con-
sumer gets nothing. There would be
little objection to free raw material
If there would be a corresponding cut
in the duties on the finished product,
but as matters stand 1t looks to those
senators from producing states as If 1t
We're one-sided affair, New England
hogging everything. OF course, Sena-
tor Aldrich wants free hides and as
was stated at the time he placed the
Is per cent rate in the bill for trad
ing purposes
In discussing the matter today SEN
ator Johnston of Alabama said: The
Presidents fight for so-called raw ma
terial is perfect buncombe. If iron ore
comes in free it will not affect the
bill as to manufactured products of
iron or steel. If we have free hides
with highly protected shoes the con-
sumer gets not a cent benefit but the
manufacturer will be able to make
large profits. New England reaps all
the advantage in getting coal free and
her textile factories that have been
paying 40 per cent dividends will be
able to increase to so or 20 per cent
with free coal.
Free Raw Material.
IF the President would fight to re-
duce the tariff on wooden and cotton
goods in common and general use and
on the products of iron and steel he
will give some relief, but free raw
material can only give larger dividends
to the manufacturer. If everything the
President fights for is conceded the ex-
orbitant rates of the tariff will not be
affected in the slightest and there can
be no relief to the people. So far as
it affects the consumer, the Taft bill,
as it will be If he has his way, will
be worse than the present law"
Representatives of clothing con-
Germs of the country, controlling 95 per
cent of the ready made clothing in the
United States. left with the President
today a statement that after the new
tariff bill passes there will be an in
crease of from 20 to 25 per cent in the
wool clothing of the poor men of the
country.
The trouble with the Dingley bill
rates on wool and the rates proposed
in the new bill, the manufacturers said
is that the customs duties on the wool
from which the poor mans clothes are
manufactured are comparatively so
much greater than the duties upon the
wool of the rich mans clothes as to
amount to serious discrimination.
Poor Mans Clothes.
They told the President in the paper
submitted to him that If a change is not
made even at this late day there will
be a big storm all over the country with
in year as to the increase on the poor
mans clothes. They intimated that 1t
was probable the poor man would not be
able to wear clothing with wool in 1t at
all. and that he will be compelled to wear
clothes made of cotton and shoddy The
clothing manufacturers said that they
would not be hurt by the increases, as
they made more money on a higher mar
ket than on a lower one, but they thought
the President ought to know the situation
in advance.
The manufacturers favor an ad valorem
duty on wool according to its grade
which would make the higher grades pay
more duties than the lower grades, in
stead of the reverse as 1t is claimed Is
true under the Dingley bill and will be
true under the new bill, which is prac-
tically the same
immigration Ruling.
The deportation of many hundreds of
Immigrants from New York upon orders
issued by Commissioner of immigration
Williams within the past few weeks Will,
in all probability, be brought to the at
tention of Congress in a formal manner,
and it is not unlikely that an effort will
be made to enact legislation which will
expressly prohibit the exercise of such
power by immigration commissioners.
The present immigration laws are not
satisfactory to many members OF Con-
gress, and they are particularly dis
tasteful to members of the House whose
districts are largely populated by for
eigners. p
The law prohibits the entrance into this
country of pauper immigrants, but it
fails to define what a pauper Is. Com
missioner Williams, in attempting to draw
the line between the aliens who are apt
to become dependent upon charitable or
ganizations and those who are fitted to
battle with the new world, has ruled that
all persons coming into the port Of New
railroad fare necessary to carry them to
their future home. That this requirement
cannot be met by many of the immi-
grants is indicated by the deportation of
thousands during the past two or three
months. In one day recently 624 persons
were shipped back home
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri,
who has protested against the action OF
Commissioner Williams, is of the opinion
that foreigner should not be denied
entrance to this country because he can
not meet the requirements arbitrarily
fixed by a government Official. Mr..
Bartholdt holds that If a man is sound
physically and mentally and Is able and
willing to work he should be allowed to
land.
Representative Kusterman of Minne-
sofa modestly declares that had the rul-
ing Of Commissioner williams been In
force many years ago the country would
have BEEN deprived Of some of its most
eminent citizens. II would not be here