Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-03
HIGH RATES HURT
DOMESTIC TRADE
Tariff Debate to Be Utilized to
Prove That Railroads Null
lily Protection.
Star Bureau.
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON. June 8.

WASHINGTON. June 8.
A question of railroad rate dis
examinations will be injected into the
tariff debate in the Senate, which is
likely to show side to tariff pro-
lection heretofore given little atten-
ton The question will be brought
te head by a proposed amendment
to the bill forbidding interstate rail-
roads to carry imported commodities
at lower rates than are given do
mestic producers on like articles to
the same points.
It has been charged in the pastt
that the low rates given by steam
ship companies and railroads for
bringing foreign-made goods into this
country have to a considerable ex-
tent destroyed the benefits domestic
producers received from tariff protec-
ton. While labor has been deprived
of its share of the tariff bounty in
having to work for wages kept at a
low standard by reason of unregu-
lated immigration, 1t has been shown
that many manufacturers have suf-
fered in much the same manner by
rate determinations.
Low Rate on Exports.
1t is pretty generally known that
the railroads make a lower rate on
goods for export than on the same
articles for domestic consumption. It
is perhaps not so we'll known that
many roads have made practise of
making lower rates for hauling I'M
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domestic manufactures of the same
kind. In a number of known in
stances the difference in the rates
has been greater than the amount
of tariff protection.
In one case that has been told of in
Congress. a protected manufacturer
was driven out of business because
1t was cheaper for consumers to buy
their product in England, bring it
across the ocean, pay the duty and
the railroad rate to destination, than
to pay the freight rate from his fac
tory to their locality. In this case
the domestic freight rate was so
much higher that it more than ate
up the tariff duty.
In the Underwood bill, as it passed
the House, no attention was given to
railroad rate discrimination. West
ern. senator's, especially from the in
termountain States. where rates are
the highest in the country, will urge
in the Senate that if their industries
are not to have tariff protection they
should at least have the assurance of
the government that they will not be
against by the rail-
roads in favor of foreign-made goods
No Summer Vacations.
With the announcement of the
determination to draw the
teeth of Wall Street and head off a
made-to- order panic by the passage
of a currency bill at this session that
will destroy the money trust, mem
bers of Congress generally have said
goodby to any hope they had of
summer vacation this year.
The tariff bill, by schedule, is still
in charge of Democratic sub-com
They expect to finish their
work this week, but will not make
public anything they have done until
it is approved by the Democratic
mem bers of the finance committee as
a whole. When the whole finance
has agreed upon the meas
IRE to be reported to the Senate, the
bill viii be taken up by the Demo-
cratic caucus, 1t is not likely that it
will come before the Senate for de-
bate before June 20. A debate that
will last at least two months is ex-
pected before the bill passes, and if
tbao Tho Gapota nrocaadS m taka nm
the currency legislation, it is gener-
ally predicted that Congress will re-
main In session continuously until the
of the regular session next
December. H. B. w.