Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29
TARIFF: EXONERATED
Not to Blame for Smaller
Slices of Pie.
SENATORS WERE ALARMED
Feared Developments in Restaurant
Would Disprove Report of Com
mittee on Food Prices.

The findings of a senatorial committee.
after an expensive and protracted IN
vestigation, came near being overthrown
IN the Senate restaurant few days ago
And steps have been taken by members
of the upper house of Congress to make
sure that evidence in its own restaurant
does not appear to give the lie to the
report of its committee.
The report had to do with the prices
Of food that are features of the dining
tables in the humblest and the richest
homes in this country. There had been
reports around the country-that sounded
specially loud to those senators whose
reflections were near-that the new tar
if law had resulted in an increase in
the cost of living. The republicans in
the Senate who had supported the new
law decided to find out, if it were pos
sible, whether the reports We're true. and
a stately committee. headed by Senator
Lodge of Observation-Disclosures Was re-
cent Y re-clected-waS appointed Experts
were sent throughout the country and
Information and statistics were gathered
from all corners of the world, as well as
from the ends and the middle of this
country.
The committee found that prices had
not gone up since the new tariff law had
posed to put an end to the matter
Small Slices Cause Stir.
What was the chagrin of some of the
senator's to discover, a few days ago,
that this finding apparently had been
dsproved in the Senate restaurant. Up
to that time each pie retailed for the
sena torial palate was cut into four pieces
- st ,a,I,
one VINO was partial to that diet. But
on that eventful day those Senators
who ordered pie disco> cred the angle of
the triangle was an acute one, not d
right-ang.e one.
1t didn't take long for the senators
to discover that the restaurant manager
was cutting eacn pie into five pieces
instead of tour
The Payne-Aldrich tariff law seems
to have struck the Senate restaurant
casting a smile in the direction of u
republican 'stand-patter.'
The republicans are having to eat
their own pie remarked another of the
Jeffersonian party, who was fond Of
puns.
pie must be one of the luxuries that
the republicans were so anxious to tax
high another democrat dug into the
stand pa tiers.
The republicans could stand it no
summoned in a hurry before any other
democrat could order pie. He was
shown the diminutive pieces Of pie, and
asked for an explanation.
Il Just thought l would like to make
a little money on pie" the manager
hastened to explain.
Tariff Law Is Saved.
The Payne-Aldrich tariff law was
saved, acquitted of the charges brought
against it, but the manager is not max
ing the increased profit he had hoped
for.
The reputation of the colored cooks
from the south has also been recently
saved in connection with the Senate
restaurant. There was Matched fine
scheme for: substituting white for col
ored cooks in the Senate kitchen, and
the plan was carried out not long ago.
But there has been Il shift back again,
and black faces are now to be seen
bending over the ovens. There's Il
reason--the senator's had kicked on the
products of the white cooks.