The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
CBy Our Staff Corres)

Washington, June "A part Of the Underwood tariff bill which manufac- tuers have not paid much attention 10 in making protests against lower ing Of rates in the dutiabIe list Is Par agraph R. of Section 4. which pro- hibits the dumping of foreign made goods in the American market with out paying an additional duty. The section provides that the law shall work automatically, and as soon as an attempt Is made to sell goods in this country at less than their market value abroad. the additional 15 per cent. duty goes into effect
 Importing houses that were looking with some favor upon the tariff bill have just begun to pay attention to the clause which is located in the back part of the report in what is known as the admins tra tive section. And now the importers are shouting against the tariff. Letters which have poured into members of Congress during the past few days from i'm porters refute the charge that has been made by Republicans that the bill was going to be a fine thing for the importers, who were going to be as happy as Jersey yearling in a field of clover.
 Members of the ways and means committee have not said much about the clause, but they are banking up on 1t preventative measure against European manufacturers food ing their country with the excess pro ducts of their plants If they want some of the American market they must sell their goods here at what is considered the fair market. value in their home country, and pay the regu- lar duty. but if they attempt to flood the market they will have to pay the additional Is per cent. on top of the regular duty. Although the term .-protection'' is not used those who have discovered the clause regard it as protective measure that is sane, and really designed to protect the American workman
 By tomorrow the members of Con- Sress will probably know which com rnitees they will be assigned to. Con- gressu1an Jeremiah Donovan of Con- {: necticut has not expr eesed a choice for appointment to any committee, al- though he was free to pull a, few wires had he desired to do so.- MT. Dono- van has used his time m working for the manufacturers of his district who wanted a change here and there :n connection with the tariff, and through . his influence a number of changes in the tariff bill were made through amendments offered by the Ways x Means committee.
 A great deal of stress has been ma de byz the hostile press upon the clair1 that MT. Donovan UaE dispfeased with the hat schedule of the tariff bill. He was not actually displeased with the face of the bill which gave a 40 per cent duty, but he was displeased be- cause the figures that had been given the Ways & Means committee to work with were not correct, and that he did not believe it was the intention of tho committee to fix the rate they did unless they had the true facts.
 The discrepancy found by MT Dono- van was in the figures of the U. s. census bureau which fixed the business of fur and wool hat industries one industry. and admitted in its reports that in addition to doubling up the industries it had allowed a number of Implications of figures. MT. Dono- van voted for the bill after registering his protest, and his protest was so forceful that the hat schedule Is be- ing given some attention in the Sen ate, and If the Congressman is sue cessfu1 in having the duty increased there he will prove that he is a con- sistent performer.
 Washington. June 2-By his recent speech in the Senate exposing the methods used by the beet sugar trust to manufacture false and artificial public sentiment against the tariff bill, Senator Thomas, of Colorado, has per formed a public service second only to that of the President in calling atten- tion to the tnsidious tariff lobby, the most powerful which ever operated in Washington
 Senator Thomas's speech gives the public some idea Of the pressure na- tionaI legislators must withstand when they attempt to pass laws which the special interests oppose but which the people want
 Senator Thomas and his colleagues, Senator Shafroth, as well as two repre- sentatives-at-large. Edward Heating and F. T. Taylor, were elected in Col orado last fall on the Democratic tic ket by plura1ities ranging from 45.0oO to 50. GOO votes. While the platform did not specifically endorse the removal of the duty on sugar, it endorsed all the actions of the last Democratic House, one Of which was to pass a free sugar bill: and Representative Heating ran on a straight free-sugar platform. It was evident that Col orado. with its extensive sugar indus try. voted for free sugar by a plural ity of 45,000- ....--..
 The special session Of Congress met. The tariff bill. providing for free sug- ar, was introduced And then what letters began pouring in on that States Senators and Representatives protest ing against free sugar. So numerous and vehement were these letters and kilograms that they apparently indicat- ed a tremendous reVuhsion of feeling in the State toward t1e sugar tariff. Any honest legislator might well hesi- tate before he voted against such an overwhelming expression of public opinion
 Senator Thomas. however, went be- hind the returns He got in communi- cation with Thomas s. Price, an intel ligent man formerly employed by the Great western Sugar Co, at Long mont, Colo, who told the Senator how the fictitious public sentiment was manufactured. He wrote:
 You will no doubt receive letters from employees of the factory here as they are compelled in an underhanded way either to write them or take chances of losing their jobs by refus-