Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-12
Tariff Statisticc.


Washington, Aug. 12:-Some tariff
| statistics which President Taft's friends
are to use in the coming campaign in
his defense of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law have just been compiled by the Blu
reau of Statistics.
Up to June 80, the end of the fiscal
year, the Payne law had been in oper-
alton just 35 months, which happens
to be the total period of the operation
of the Wilson law. The figures show
that whereas merchandise to the value
of 300 millions of dollars came in alb
s~olutely duty free under the Wilson
law, CIT millions is the total for the
Payne law in the same period.
The percent. of importations that
came in free under the Wilson act was
4S.8, under the Payne SIP. The aver
age rate of ad valorem duty under the
Payne law is Alp, under the Wilson
42.8. The average amount of revenue
from customs receipts per month under
the Payne law has been 26,5. Under
the Wilson law it was 1919.
When Solons Dine.
Washington, Aug. 12:-On the ground
floor of the Senate wing Of the Capitol
is a restaurant, with two special rooms
reserved for the solons and a big din
ing room open to the public. Therc
are times when charges for some items
on the bill Of fare rise to the altitude
of the high priced restaurants in New
York; Delmonico and Sherry, for In
stance.
There were smiles on the faces of
CIRCULARS" among visitors when they
spied an item on the bill Of fare setting
forth "sweet corn, 25 cents 1t
brought to their minds visions of daz-
cling and steaming cobs reposing on Il
plate. They ordered corn and beheld
with considerable surprise the serving
of one lonely cob of very ordinary dim
~ensions for the quarter mentioned in the
bill of fare. Next of the tempting
novelties on the bill was new pota-
toes, 20 cents.'
"WeI, well,' murmured one Of the
regulars, ga bowlful of now potatoe.
would certainly be excellent for lunch. ,
SO he gave the order and the col
ored emissary returned in due time and
set before him a small bowl containing
two potatoes, Of what seemed to him
rather limited cubical contents.
he observed, cat that rate they must
be deemed by the management a lux
ury fit only for the palates Of the rich.''
The restaurant is owned by the sem
ate and is operated by a manager. 1t
loses money because the bulk Of the
patronage is limited to a couple of
hours at lunch time. The deficit is
made good by Withdrawals from the
senate fund to meet contingent ex-
penses.
Famous Carrara Marble.
Washington, Aug. 12:-An interest
ing description of the world-famous
report by consular agent Felix A.. Del
mas, who is stationed at Carrara.
What he says on the subject of wages,
however, gives no reason for congrat-
%ulation to the poorly paid employees
who have to do with Carrara marble.
Delmas says the daily wages, which
have been slightly increased within the
las tfew years, are, quarrymen 40 cents
to $1.93, mill operators As cents to
$1.15, marble cutters 38 to 81 cents,
studio workers and sculpters As cents
to 1921 and boys 10 to 38 cents.
"Contrary to general belief Del
mas reports, "the Carrara mountains
or Apuan Alps, are not composed en-
tirely of marble, although deposits oc-
cur in sections parallel with the coast
for 40 miles. The jagged, rough, pre-
cipitous character Of the Apuan Alps
and the peculiar geologic formation Of
the deposits, which a be expressively
likened to a tortuous, broken, puzzle,
difficult of access, account in a great
measure for the slow and unique man.
ner in which the Carrara industry has