The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-07
DONOVAN IN
 THE THICK OF TARIFF FRAY Connecticut Representative Has Swords Crossed With Leader
 Underwood Says Tariff Bill Is Not the Meas ure of His Democracy--Much
 Debate

WaShlngtOn, May 7-Representative Jeremiah Donovan, of Connecticut, | wood yesterday. After he had read from the report of the Ways and Means committee the. speech of MT. l Underwood that the new tariff bill would fnJure no honest industry, he made the statement that he did not | think fair treatment had been given the hat industry because of an ambig- uity in the census report. Again yes l terday afternoon he startled the House by asking some questions that Claude Kitchin, the cotton expert of the Ways and Means committee, could not an swer. MT. Underwood here made the statement that he feared that the gen tleman from Connecticut had wander i ed on the other side
 MT. Donovan took the stand that he did not have to accept the figures of 1 the Ways and Means committee to qualify as a Democrat, and yesterday on the floor he read 8 telegram from l the Crane Valve Go. of Bridgeport, Conn, to the effect that that concern feared that a prohibitfve tariff had | been put on ferro-magnanese alloy that
 savored of a steel trust attempt to in | jure independents. After compliment ing the Ways and Means committee on the way they had handled the boot
 and shoe question, he said he regret
 ted that they had not given the same | attention to some of the other sched-
 ules, and expressed a wish that the President would inject his influence | into the matter as he had in the case | of the sugar schedule.
 Late Monday evening Representative Austin of Tennessee read statement
 from the Bureau of Statistics to show | that in 1896 the United States export
 ed to China $29, ,OoO, 900 worth of cotton goods and that six years after, 1912 | the exportation fell off $22, ,000, 900,
 leaving the exports for 1912 $7,oOO.ooo.
 MT. Austin then asked MT. Donovan 1 of Connecticut if he had not asked
 MT. Palmer of the Ways and Means l committee on May if that statement 1 was true, and if MT. Palmer denied | it, and lad replied that on the con- trary our expectations to China were i increasing.
 l MT. fDonovan-That is the way un- | derstood it.
 MT. Austin-I will print in the Rec 1 ord this statement from the Depart 1 ment of Commerce verifying my fig ures and statement.
 1 MT. Donovan-The gentleman from
 North Carolina, Mr. Kitchin. is look 1 ing for information on cotton. Can
 the gentleman state the transportation
 rates from Galveston to Liverpool for 1 cotton?
 l swer, cannot.
 k MT. Donovan-Can the gentleman
 state the number of yards of cotton print that are made out or a pound oI I cotton or a bale of cotton?
 Il MT. Kitchin-I cannot.
 H MT. Donovan-How could the gentle man as a member of this committee Il find intelligently the difference in ex-
 pense between the cost on the other Il side of the ocean, and on this side, not II knowing what it costs the manufac- | turer on the other side to take his raw cotton from this country over there or to return the manufactured goods here? How does the committee fntelligently find the difference, in or der to fix the tariff upon cotton fab rfcs? That is the question
 MT. Underwood-f the gentleman
 will allow me, [ think that he has
 wandered away from this side of the
 House That side of the House at-
 ternpts to fix their tariff rate on the
 difference in the cost at home and | abroad. Those figures are very nee
 essary for the Republican side of the | House This side of the House 1evtes
 a revenue tariff.
 MT. Donovan-I thought the gentle
 man was going to answer a. question Il or ask one. I did not suppose he was
 going to take up my time as these
 amateurs here have done. Q4augh- l ter1 I will say to the gentleman | from Alabama that when the whole ] force of his tongue is turned on Il becomes shockingly mixed with fiction He as chairman of the committee l ought to be able to say, or some mem
 Der of the committee ought to be able
 to say, why they fixed the rate upor cotton, because unless they know the , cost of transporting the cotton from
 this to the other side, manufactur1ne