The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-22
MILAN MAKES GRAND STAND
 TARIFF PLAY Announces Readiness to Do Just What Finance Con-
 \ mittee Is Doing Matters of Peculiarly Local h. teTeSt in the National
 Capitol
1Rv our stan correspondent.l )

l
 little grandstanding in connection with
 the pending tariff bill. He announced
 last night that he would be glad to | appear before any or all of the sup- | committees in opposition to the bill, | and would be glad to receive from the | manufacturers full particulars con | corning their business. As matter of fact the ub-committees of the F1-
 nance committee have shown a ten dency to receive any evidence that | manufacturers desire to offer and they | have adopted Senator LaFoIlette's | plan of submitting set of questions | to all of the manufacturers who feel | that their business is going to be 1n- | jured. From the answers to these questions the members of the com l rnittee will. be able by deduction to 1 fix a, rate of duty that will be enough
 to offset the difference in the cost of
 production in other countries plus the
 cost of transportation to this country. l As a matter of fact all of the Dem ocratic representatives in Congress
 have volunteered to bring to the notice | of the committee of the senate any | changes that they think ought to be
 made Their offer was based on a l desire to get an adjustment of the tar l if that would work no injury to the i industries of the State in cases where
 it might be shown that the Ways 6
 
 red But the Mclean offer to rally to the defence of the manufacturers 1 is regarded as an appeal to the gal1er- les and an effort to create political capital Progressive Republican Sem ators like Miles Poindexter of Wash ington are of a, different opinion from
 the Senator of Connecticut. The lat ter who are closer to the people than
 clean take the stand that senators
 should appear before the sub-comnit- tees for the purpose of aiding the com mittee in settling the matter fairly without appeal to party prejudice.
 These senators realize that the coun- try wants the tariff lowered, and has spoken at the polls.
 Senator Mclean who has been
 dreaming of late about the reorgani-
 zation of the Republican party ap-
 pears to be far away from the people in his views and his most useful work
 as a senator has been in connection
 with the laudable work of protecting
 migratory birds. and of distributing
 large sized photographs of himself
 Senator Bryan of Florida and oth-
 CTS made an attempt in the senate
 on Monday to blame the Reilly Eight Hour Law for the large increase in the expense of the postoffice depart
 ment which has resulted by the inau- guration of the popular parcel post | | Monday took up and passed the house
 bill appropriating $600,0oO to meet the extraordinary emergencies of the pos | tai service. Senator Bryan said that
 the eight hour law ought to be amend ed so that the government would pay the men for all work over eight hours by giving them extra time instead of
 money. Senator Martin raised a point of order against Bryan's effort to re- peal the law and was sustained.
 Senators Dillingham; and Gallinger attacked the Reilly law The latter | from staid old New Hampshire, and l a Republican made his protest against 1 the Reilly law because it closed the Postoffice of the First and Second
 class. He said that it was without | rhyme or reason" The senator's ap- peal for an open Sunday postoffice will undoubtedly make a favorable inn pression upon the people who believe l that the Government should be the | first to give it's employees Sunday to
 themselves. But the appropriation
 bill passed despite the kicks.
 The Secretary of Agriculture is to l take steps to extend the line of battle | in New Eigland against the brown tail | and the gypsy moth, to prevent the
 moths from becoming a plague in oth- CT sections of the country. All per | sons interested are invited to attend I | city on June 12.
 Mrs. Laura Cramer, said to be a | clairvoyant of considerable power was | ordered. by the Supreme Court of the | District of Columbia a few weeks ago
 to return $40,00O alleged to have been | taken from Fenton J. Hurd of Green | wien, Conn.,, in fees for feats of clair voyancy. Now Mrs. Cramer has ta- | ken an appeal to the United States | al STaa | pretended to be a medium and had ob- l tatned the money from Hurd thereby | She contends that<Hurd, although now | adjudge ed incompetent in the Connec- | ticut courts was of sound mind at the | time she received, the money. She will offer many letters showing that
 he made many proposals of natri- | mony to her, and that Hurd's son who
 brought the suit against her was | strenuously opposed to accepting her | that the money she received was real Iy paid to her for many years of care given to MT. Hurd who appreciated
 her efforts for his well being.
 l Senator Chamberlain of Oregon | does not believe in halfway measures
 so far as free tolls are concerned for
 American ships passing through the | Panama Canal. Rather than have | the agitation continue on the part of | Great Britain, that the American na- | ton is about to violate the Hay l Pauncefote treaty in absorbing the | tolls ships flying the flag of the United States, the senior senator from | Oregon has introduced a bill abrogat- | ing the treaty as the easiest way out
 of the difficulty.
 l Senator Boral of Idaho, who is a.
 member of the foreign Relations Com
 ntttee of the Senate, is not convinced | that the Chamberlain bill is necessary | on the ground that the Hay-Paunce- | fote treaty contemplated the building | of the canal on foreign soil, whereas
 we have acquired the strip of terri tory through which the ''big ditch' passes and the canal by the very na-