The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-11
WILL DEMAND
LOW Err DUTIES.
If Agreement Is Made Part Of.
Regular Tariff Bill With Down
ward Revision, They Will
Vote for It-If Not,
They Will OPP
pose 1t.


Virginia delegation in the House this
afternoon, according to statement
made to The Times Dispatch CORE
spondcnt tonight By Congressman
Glass decided in caucus not to vote
for the CanT iiian reciprocity agree
ment unless it was consolidated with
a regular tariff bill for lowering
duties. I5
The delegation does not wish to
reduce the cost of the farmers prod
uctS unless at the same time il can
reduce the things he is forced to buy
If the reciprocity bill cannot be so 4
considered that there may be an
equa lization in the interests Of the
farmers, then the Virginia delegate
will vote against it.
This is the position taken BY Mr..
Glass iii the Democratic caucus on the 4.
reciprocity bill at the last session Of
Congress, according to his statement
tonight. Messrs Jones and Saunders
we're not present but Mr.. Saunders
voted by proxy. and tho above is said
to represent Mr.. Jones's ideas on the
subject. =. H. MEG. H
y Grcnt Thrift steal"
New Orleans, April lo.-That the
cotton bagging and tie trust. mot sat
listed with robbing the American cot
ton planter OF nearly $1,000, 900 an
nually through unjust tariff placed
upon bagging and ties under the
Payne Aldrich tariff law, are planning
TO increase their levy on the cotton
crop to s2.S00.000 annually" Is de-
clared in resolutions adopted to- day
by the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
The resolutions appeal to Congress to
place hagging and ties on the free list.
President w. b. Thompson, OF the
Cotton Exchange, In a. letter which
he addressed to each member of Con-
gress. tells Of the great Importance
to the South Of this alleged tariff
steal. He says in part:
Tho cotton crop Of the South Yields
annually an average of about 1000
600 bales. or this total approximately
five eighths. or 100000 bales, repre-
sentinG an average money value or
over 100000, are exported and ex-
changed for foreign gold. The mere
statement OF these facts attests the
Importance Of the cotton producing in
dustry emphasizes the obligation
which the country at large owes the
producer Of this crop and establishes
his right to at least just trea tment
at the hands Of the general la w-mak-
ing power.
Under the present tariff law the
duty on steel cotton ties amounts to
OFT cents per bale, or to $324, 900 on
q crop OF 100000 bales. This tariir
Is prohibitlVe as is shown by the fact
that no steel ties are imported
Therefore tho government has NO
share IN this impost which constitutes
simply and solely tribute levied upon
the cotton farmer for the benefit of the
cotton tie trust. l7@
The duty on jute bagging imposed
By the present tariff law amounts to
.05 cents per bale, or to 100000 on a
nP noJa tn
is to large extent prohibitive mas
much as It yields only about 100000
revenues to the government. The bal.
ance Of about S453.OO0 constitutes
tribute paid by the cotton farmer to
the baEGing trust
But the bagsing trust Is not salts
fled with its share Of this impost 1t
desires to raise the duty to a ngura
which will not only prevent the gov
arnment from receiving any revenue
therefrom. but will enable the trust
to take from the farm four times as
much as it has been able to take here-B
tofore.
From the reasons stated it will in
contcstably appear that not only tho
proposed outrage. but the present tax
on baSging and ties is inequitable and
wrong: and because the Western farm 4
er has now and had had for more than
fifteen years. his binder twinc on the
free list. the tax upon the Southern
farmer stands condemned OF tho adj
ditional vice of discrimina ting"
Mann Completes Task.
Washington. April lo.-RepreSenta-s
tive james r Mann minority leader
of the House o-day completed hia
TASK OF assigning the minority mem
bers to the committees Of tho House.
but he does not expect TO make his
selections public until tomorrow.
has treated the ranking minority places
MS chatrmanships and has given. the
no other assignments. Neither has Mr..
Mann considered that a minority menu
Der Is entitled as Il right TO remain
on two OF the leading committees.
the House has been given an assign,
ment with a new member, SO as "a
avoid the embarrassment which a new
member ordinarily has when alone on
a committee.
An early visitor to the minority lead,
cr's room to-day was Caleb Powers,
Tho only Republican member from
Kentucky, whose Democratic colleagues
declare they would not sit on a COM
mittee OF which he was a member
Mr. Powers. It Is understood has not
which there is another Kcntuckian
The House adjourned al :o7 p NJ
Intil tomorrow, when 1t Isl expected
the committees will be announced
Aimed at Express Companies.
Washington. April lO.--A bill to pros 4
hibit express companies and common
carriers from competing with the Post,
Office Department. In the transportation Il
OF mail matter weighing, less than eley,
en- pounds was introduced in the House
today by Representatives Howard, al
Georgia.
IN. 81! sets lor.n thu i the sxnres,
DON'T LET THAT COCGH GO ON.