The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-25
LITTLE EAGLE
 OF 6. 0. P. MISSES HOPED FOR PANIC
Senate Hears Lively Interchange
 & of Tariff BiII GOurteSieS
cBy our staff correspondent.>

| Washington, Aug. 25.-Senator F. B. | Brandegee is becoming the LAiglon i of the Republican party, but the part he is playing to the G. O. P. will prob 1 ably never be staged, with Bernhardt, | or Maude Adams, in the stellar role, | as was the effort of the for gotten scion | of Bonaparte. At the session of the | Senate. Saturday, the senator from | Connecticut precipitated a co1loquy OF | conditions, with Senator Simmons | chairman of the Finance Committee, when he quoted from President Will sons tariff message which urged that no legitimate industry be injured Sen i ator Brandegee insisted that the bill would injure the woolen industry. | Eff the President signs the bill,'' the Connecticut senator said, 'the will have | turned as complete a, som ersauIt, as has his party. After the President and l his party have passed bouquets to l each other, the people will have passed i upon the connection Of absurdities and i inconsistencies in this bill, and there will be placed one little wreath of lilies | of the valley upon the Democratic corpse, three years hence. Senator Simmons rgpIied that the pending bill, taken as a whole, came nearer giving I general satisfaction to the people than any bill since the Walker tariff.
 You said early in this discussion l that this bill would bring on panic, | Senator Simmons continued. You have
 
 | for that panic to come and every day conditions have been growing better | Today, only a few weeks before this bill is to become law, such a condi- ton of prosperity as exists has not | been witnessed in recent years There is not a cloud on the horizon. We are l about to pass this bill without sign l of panic, greatly to the chagrin of the gentlemen on the other side.''
 | Senator James said that Senator
 
 neral of his party his mind just nat ura11y turned to thoughts of graves, | flowers. and funerals eff the Demo cratic party does happen to be so un- | fortunate" Senator James continued, "as to go to the graveyard described by the senator from Connecticut, we shall at least be buried in States larger than Utah and Vermont
 That the Conn necticut senators and a. few others who are playing politics and preventing an early passage of the tariff bill are not aware Of the pros porous conditions of the country, or do not want to be, is borne out by the re- port of the Department of Commerce, II just issued, showing the total exports of merchandise for the fiscal year end | ing June 30, 1913. A comparison with the figures of the fiscal years ending on the same date for the two preced- mig years shows that Uncle Sam is. surely getting in touch with foreign markets The fgures:
 Exports. a
 1911-$2, ,O13, ,549, ,O25. s' }eFR Il 1912-$2,170, ,319, BPS.
 T 1913-2 428, ,5O6, 1858.
 | Only a gain of something like 250 million dollars during a period that the Democratic party had been in con- trol of the House of Representatives, and since revision of the tariff du- ties was forecasted\ as soon as Oscar w. Underwood became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to say nothing of the fact that every manufactures in the country has known that special privilege tariff did not have a ghost of a. chance after the day that Roosevelt bolted the Republi- lean convention They knew they had no hope with Democracy, and when. the G. O. P. went on the rocks-''C Good | Night"--it was then time to begin to. think about doing business upon merit The same report of the Department Of Commerce shows that Uncle Sam has been some buyer in the markets | of the world since the handwriting up on the wall of the Temple of American politics has forecasted that the G. O. P has been found wanting. Just take a look at the figures and make up your mind that all kinds of business men are breathing quite easy
 Total importations of merchandise for fiscal years ending June 30:
 Free Dutfable. 1911--$776, 972, 509. $75O, ,253, ,596.
 1912-$8s1, ,670, ,83G. a $771, ,594, ,104. l. 1913-$s87. .494. .162 $825, ASA, ,O72'' . Just about a gain of 159 millions over Hast year. If the United States shows a proportionate gain in exports over 7 imports during the next three years she will lay a good sized bank rtHll with ' which to buy lilies of the valley 4