The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-15
BridgepOrters Grasp Hand of President
 at Capitol
George Forster Tells of Ante- guated Machinery and the
 Tariff Wall

ton to send the tariff bill to the Fi- nance committee Senator LaF'olIette offered an amendment to the Penrose amendment for public hearings. The tLaFollette amendment, while it may lengttren the program of adopting the tariff bill, will have a, tendency to place in the hands of the Senate a brief from every protesting nanufac- turer.
 The amendment instructs the Ff- nance committee to submit sixteen questions to any of the manufa cturers who do not favor the bill. The Ques- tions are as follows:
 FfrSt=What is the nature and use of the commodity which you produce? :?
 Second-What are the raw materials. used in it's production?
 Third-What 4s the amount of the production of this commodity in this country?
 Fourth-what is the amount of the consumption Of this commodity in this country2
 Fifth-FIow many concerns are en- gagged in the manufacture of the com nrodfty under considerations
 sixtil-FFho ' are the principal pro ducers?
 Seventh-yFhat are the ruling mar ket prices of the commodity in this. country2
 Eighth-wha.t are the, ruling market prices of this commodity in competing countries2S
 Ninth~what is the, total cost of production per unfit of product in this country?
 Tenth-what is the total cost of pro- duction per unit of production in com .peting countTieST
 Eleventh-What4i is the percentage of the labor cost Of the total cost of a unit of product in this country?
 Twe1fth-what 2s the percentage of the labor cost of the total cost of a unit of product irl5 competing foreign countries?
 Thirteentfl-What is the cost of transportation to the principal mar kets in this country from the principal points of production tin this country?
 Fourteenth-What is the cost of Transportation to the principal mar kets in this country from the ,princi- pal points of production in competing foreign countries2
 Fifteenth-What part of the existing duty represents the difference in the cost of production between 1this and competing foreign countries? Sixteenth-What. part of the existing duty represents the profit of the American manufacturer? At the suggestion of Senator Ollie | James, Kentucky, the amendment was further amended to provide that the | answers to the questions should be 1 94nade under oath It IS hinted about l the Capitol that the reason for the 1 delay in sending the bill to the com 1 1iittee is that Chairman Simmons of the Finance committee has not been assured enough votes to get the bill into committee without instructions for hearings On Tuesday the Senate spent two hours discussing the bill and then went into executive session where they | remained four hours and 35 minutes behind closed doors. Emerging they l reported the confirmation of one post l master in South Carolina
 Yesterday after discussing the tar-sI if for two hours they took up the matter of creating an additional U- s. 1udgeship in Pennsylvania
 Representative Donovan Is a daily visitor to The floor of the Senate where he takes a rear seat and pays strict attention to the proceedings. Hon. Michael A. Kenny, pr. and Mrs. c. R. Townsend of Bridgeport, Conn, were callers at the White House yes terdzy where they shook the hand of the president. MT Kenny, Dr. Town send. and Andrew Hope of Bridgeport have been attending the meeting of the Supreme Circle of the Brotherhood of America, and have been guests at the New Ebbit House. Thomas J. Cunningham, sealer of weights and measures for Fairfield county, of Bridgeport, is attending the National Convention of Sealers now being held in this city
  Representative Thomas L. Reilly will deliver the eulogy before New Haven Aerie of Eagles at New sHa- ven, Conn, on May 1s-
 Representative Donovan has recom- | mended the appointment of John J. Bohl to be postmaster at Stamford, | and William I. Austin to be postmas- ter at Noroton Heights.
 Representative Lonergan is the re- cipient of a set of resolutions from the ] Connecticut Leaf Tobacco Association | thanking him for his efforts in be- | half of the. tobacco growers while the | tariff bill was under consideration in l caucus. The vote to take Philippine | tobacco off the proposed free list re- ceived the largest vote on any cast against the provisions of the bill.
 New England members of Congress have received a. protest from cotton l mill owners in New Bedford against { the claim made by Leader Underwood | that their plants were not equipped 1 with modern machinery They also | claim that their machinery is handled | by sIiIIful operatives, and that no change in the tariff is needed to put ginger enough in the plants to make 1t possible for them to compete with | the world.
 George Forster, of Rockville, Conn. | chairman of the Connecticut Demo | cratic State Central Committee who i was here during the last days that | the House was discussing the tariff | gave an interview to local newspa per | men in which he said:
 Rockville manufactures the finest wooden goods that are made in this or any other country I do not think they will be- put out of business by