The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01
Gives Records of Connecti- cut Delegation in Con gress in Connection With Tariff, Labor and Trust Legislation.
How They Voted on Tariff Duties, the General Trust Question and Income Tax Always in Favor of Trusts and Against the People.

People. Extracts from speech of Robert Hunter at Hartford, Oct. 31:
 Congressman Hill and his col leagues are experts on this (tar1nl subject. They can talk about 1t so cleverly that most of the voters in this state think there is something i'll peare, Milton and Dante thought about the tariff. He can demon strate by the most inexorable logic how Egypt was destroyed and Rome fell because demagogues monkeyed with the tariff. Hill knows his les son so we'll that he can say it forward and backward. He can even whistle it in four different languages.
 It is said that Aldrich, awakened from a sound sleep, immediately be- gins to crate upon the tariff and these men have actually made the people believe that the four hundred millions raised by the government on imports is paid somehow by the wretched foreigner. They know that you do not know that on everything you buy in the stores you are paying a tax On food and clothing, on iron and steel, on lumber and in rent. you pay these taxes. They come out of your cost of living and you have got to pay the bill.
 And I am willing to venture the opinion that for the four hundred millions you pay each year on foreign products you pay an additional four hundred millions in increased prices on goods produced in this country. But it little matters whether you pay your taxes at the grocery store or. pay them directly to the govern ment. You have got to pay them and you cannot escape and I cannot for the. life of me get up any en- thusiasm on the subject. It doesn't matter to me whether I pay three cents on salt and two cents on sugar or two cents on salt and three cents on sugar.
 What does matter to me is this and what should interest you is this that your representatives in Hartford and in Washington will not discuss the really vital issues of taxation. world is putting tax upon unearned wealth, upon swollen fortunes, when every other government of the world is heavily taxing inheritance and trying to lift the burden of taxation from the people and put it on the rich and powerful, our distinguished statesmen are discussing the pro- found question of whether you shall pay a tax of three cents on salt and two cents on sugar or three cents on
 
 Yet there is much in the matter of the tariff. It is cod liver oil to the trusts. It makes them wax fat and powerful and it may interest the voters to know how the Senator's and Congressmen from Connecticut voted for the trusts.
 Record of the votes of Honorable Morgan G. Bulkeley and Honorable Frank B. Brandegee, Senators from Connecticut.
 Sugar Trust:
 Against Senator Bristow's amend ment to eliminate the Sugar Trusts No. 16 Dutch Standard" joker, whereby the trust compels every con- sumner of sugar to pay It tribute.
 Against the Bristow amendment to lower the duty on. sugar from 1.9 cents per pound to 1.285 cents.
 Beef Trust:
 Against Senator Bacon's motion to reconsider tho rate of two cents per pounds on fresh beef and other fresh rate even lower than ]. cents, which had been proposed in the House bill. In favor of Senator Penrose's amendment putting petroleum, which is in the free list. under a duty of half cent per gallon.
 Oil Trust:
 In favor of countervailing duty on petroleum.
 In favor of changing rate from 35ee ad. val. to 35 cents per 100 feet and 65 cents per 100 feet on cartoons for electric lighting.
 Coal Trust:
 Against Senator McCumber's amendment to reduce to 40 cents per ton the duty of so cents proposed by the Aldrich Committee.
 Steel Trust:
 
 ton on iron ore. The House bill ad- mitted it free. The duty was fixed finally at 15 cents per ton.
 Against Senator Cummins' amend ment removing the duty of s2.50 per ton on wrought and cast scrap iron and scrap steel, also against Senator Cummins' amendment to reduce his duty to $1 per ton.
 In favor of the Aldrich commit tees amendment increasing the duty on wire nails from 14 to F cents per pound and from F tc A cents per pound.
 Lumber Trust:
 Brandegee against Johnston S amendment to place on the free list all lumber and building materials of wood, brick, lime, cement, nails, and paint materials. Bulkeley didn't vote.
 Against Senator McCumber's dInSDOIHenI ToOuCInS the Quty on sawed lumber from $1.25 to S1 a thousand feet.
 Brandegee against Senator Davis amendment admitting all sawed lum- Der free of duty. Bulkeley didn't vote.
 Leather Trust:
 Against Senator Stones amend ment to admit free of duty hides, leather and the principal manufac- lures thereof, including boots and shoes.
 In favor of the Aldrich committees amendment fixing the duty on hides at Is per cent. ad valorem.
 Paper Trust:
 Against Senator Browns proposal to remove the duty on print paper Against Senator Bristow's amend ment to reduce to two cents per pound and 10 per cent. ad valorem the duty on writing paper not ex- ceeding fifteen pounds per ream.
 Pottery Trust:
 Against Senator's Bacon's amend ment to reduce the duty on earthen or stone ware from so to 35 per cent.
 Asphalt Trust: r In favor of Aldrich's motion to