The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
AIdrich Con1fdent
 That His Tariff Bill
 WiU Weather Storms
Senate Leader Counts | D -Four Democrats to Aid in Pass-
 ing the Bill
SOME SNAKES FOUND IN
 THIS TARIFF MEASURE


 -A Manufacturing Concern gn Rhosu Island is Interested in c4tan Ma
 chimes Which Are Be
 Placed Upon Free list.
 Washington. May s.--fspeelal )-Senator Aldrich informed his friends Ioday that he no longer doubts that he Nn be able to get his tarln bill through be Senate substantially in its present sHipe
 '.I have counted the votes q pass the bill" declared Mir. Aldrlch Tt Ian be put through without amendment uiless l am impressed that the amendne1i ought to be adopted and consent to fit. l can let the republican obieotors have votes on all the propositions on which they wanf to make
 case at to make
 votes tn
 tirely
 An i'm with th
 prepari
 been --..,-..a convinced that he was beaten.
 For instance. there is an interesting rumor that. rather than take chances of ? test on the Deliver amendments to the cotton schedule Aldrich will himself bring in a committee amendment or rather a series of amendments.
 Damage by Deliver.
 The general belief is that Delivers speech has done rreparable damage to the committee al this point as well as on the wool duties The ridiculous extension of the wool duties to cover rubber boots. furniture and all manner of items in which a trace of wool could be discov- cred has attracted attention. and there is strong RaeakinS, ffs5AtAe \. .REsislslaitsn E have thorough inspe ef and under standing of these wares. It is thouglae more than likely that Aldrich himsef will offer some amendments to the wool duties as well as the cotton.
 The question of winning out aside All drich is not yet ont of the woods, so far
 
 his fellow senators is concerned Sen- ator LaFolette Is preparing a hot ad- dress. He served notice on the Senate yesterday that he would have something to say about the bill at the proper time It is understood that he intends to expose the incompetenoy of both the finance com mittee and the committee on ways and means in framing tariff bill.
 Bug Under the chip."
 Two new snakes have been located In the tariff bill. The first Is a striking in- stance of the way in which special n- terests are protected by some of the pro- visions of the Aldrich bill, and is found in paragraph 1s4. That paragraph after enumerating a number of machines, the duty on which is fixed at 30 per cent, provides that the duty on embroidery ma chimes and lace-making machines shall be 40 per cent, but places upon the free list for 8 period of two years two lace making machines, the Levers and Go- Through machines The question natural Iy arises why of all the thousands of ma chimes in use but two machines men toned by name should be placed on the free list.
 There are many different kinds of machines used in the production of lace. The Levers machine tso-called after the inventory and it's improvement, the Go-Through machine, make the cheap est kind of lace. but some of its prod ucts so closely resemble the lace made on other machines that none but an ex- pert man can tell the work of one from the other. Why then this special fayoritism shown toward these ma chimes? Why the linItation of their introduction to two years if the tariff framers desire to develop an infant in dustry?
 Tn Is one manufacturing concern, and only one which will profit exten sively by this exemption, limited as 1t is to the two years-the American Tex tile company of Pawtucket R. I.
 Too High In Price.
 The two exempt machines sell at about 5000 to 5000 apiece and the Installation involves additional out lay of about as much more. It Is doubtful whether any of the present establishments will be in position to increase their investment In these ma chimes to any extent within two years. except the American Textile company. Ma rshall Field & Co.,. who own plant at Zion City. have protested against the exemption ol these machines as an un- fair discrimination against their estab- lishment On the other hand it is re- ported that the American Textile com pany is about to bring in 50 or SO of these machines. valued at about $500.- 000 These machines, according to the report. are z present in an Idle fac- tory at Calais. France, and thereby hangs 8 tale. Emil OZanne of the Calais factory is also interested in the Amer lean Textile company. For the rest. Senator Adrich representes Rhode 1s- land. t.s
 Duty on Watches.
 Another interesting discovery that has been made is that the American Watch trust is not only asNiuS the government for protection against for7 eign manufacturers in the sum of 1i5 per cent, but they are also urging the government to protect them against themselves by levying a duty on Amer ican watches that are bought by Anie. I lean dealers in foreign countries and brought back to this country under the pretext that they have heon advanced in value abroad. This In reality means an improvement to the va'le of about 10 cents ana that Is done solely to keep them from being returned to this country. The Independent Watch Dealers association of America. to