Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-05-09
WASHINGTON NOTES.
NEW pARcE1. POST RATES.

NEW PARCEL. POST RATES.
Washington, D. c., May ST.
Lewis. of Mary-
land, who is considered the "Fa-
Their of the Parcel Post" is busy
at work on a bill making radical
changes, which he proposes to
in Congress making a
substantial reduction in the par
eel post rates. The operation of
the Parcel Post which is much
lower than the express rate, is |
nevertheless, yielding an inn
mense profit to the Post Oficel
Department. AS it is not the|
object of this system to wiring a
profit from the public, the rate
should be lowered at once, and
the bill by Congressman Lewis
will probably be passed during
the present extra session.
STANDARD OIL AGENT IN THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. McAdoo made a discovery
recently of the fact that an
agent" of the National City
Bank OF New York which is the
Standard Oil Bank has one of its
own clerks seated at a desk in
the Treasury Department so that
every night the financial eondi-
ton of the National Banks
throughout the country could be
Immediately made known to the
Standard Oil inanciers. This
method of favoritism in furnish
ing exclusive information to
particular group of inanciers is
but one of the many abuses that
has been developing in the Gov
eminent at Washington, during
republican rule.
THE TARIFF FIGHT.
The only two schedules that are
causing even a slight difficulty
in the progress of the tariff are
the wool and sugar tariff sched-
ules. The tariff provides that
one cent a pound duty shall be
collected on sugar, during the
next three years and after that
sugar is to be admitted free. The
sugar senators are making a de-
termined fight against this sched-
ule and the battle will be bitter
ly fought in the senate and it is
quite likely that a compromise
will be reached whereby instead
of putting sugar on the free list
at the end of three years duty
will be continued of either three
fourths or three-fifths of one cent
per pound. The fact of it is
that the public is satisfied when
it gets good sugar at FIVE cents a
pound and if sugar were placed
on the free list the Government
will loose about twenty million
dollars a year in revenues from
this source and on the other hand
the price of sugar will not be
lowered to the consumers so that
the only beneficiary of free sugar
would be the sugar trust. Fur
thermore it is argued that curl
sugar interests in Louisiana,
where cane sugar is a large item
of wealth and industry and the
beet sugar industries of Colo
RADIO, Michigan and Wisconsin in |
particular and several other states
in general would be heavy losers
II sugar should be placed on thel
free list.
RAW WOOL
The wool growers are also
stubboruly contending that, that
industry should not be taken at
single stroke OF the pen and plac-
ed on the free list and it is likely |
that a duty of 10 per cent. will |
be retained on wool.
PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE
TARIFF.
Chairman Underwood has stat
ed on the floor of the house that
free wool and free sugar we're the
suggestions of President Wilson,
and these two items are practic-
ally the only two of importance
that were changed materially at
The suggestion of President Will
ION. The President, however,
has shown above all things that
he is not only a patriotic and
man but one of broaI
md unusually deep reasonir G
powers and who wants above all
Kings else to be fair and JUS /,
ind it is not unlikely that he wi /
AVE no difficulty in reaching a :
satisfactory compromise with the =
vool and sugar producers and
heir senator's, and if this is dom.
promptly the new tariff bill will t
tand ! good chance of becoming Q