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Figures Showing How New Tariff Act Has
Exceeded Expectations of Framers
Imports of merchandise into the United States during the flrst 10 months
October, 1913, to July, 1914 of the Underwood tariff, compared with
corresponding 10 months of preceding year under Payne-Aldrich law:
Oct., 1912 Oct., 1913.
Free of Duty to July 1913- to July 1914
Crude materials for use in manufacturing $426,288,885 ?7 6,6 31,873
TiVinrifltnrrn in nrudo condition, and food animals 146,127,571 180,5900
Foodstuffs partly or wholly manufactured 9,288,333
Manufactures for further use in manufacturing 153,525,916
Manufactures ready for consumption 78,521,292
Miscellaneous 7,856,170
41,469,374
170,823,497
109,463,260
9,724,132
Total freo of duty $821,608,167 $988,704,396
Dutiable.
Crude materials for use in manufacturing $ 98,538,931 $ 67,893,620
Foodstuffs in crude condition, and food animals 28,347,016
Foodstuffs partly pr wholly manufactured 151,422,902
Manufactures for further use in manufacturing. 144,152,526
Manufactures ready for consumption 256,257,749
Miscellaneous 3,499,712
40,010,806
161,950,132
84,223,980
259,841,767
4,344,675
Total dutiablo $682,218,836 $618,264,980
Total imports for ton months 1,503,827,003 1,606,969,376
Exports of domestic merchandise from New York for six months, taking
in horses, buckwheat, corn, wheat, wheat flour, automobiles, copper, cotton
raw, cottons unbleached, cottons knit and cotton wearing apparel, cart
ridges, firearms, machinery, wire, bacon, lard, illuminating oil, lubricating
oil, cotton-seed oil, sugar, leaf tobacco, wool apparel, zinc:
1913. 1914.
August $ 76,188,975 $ 32,841,243
73,274,514
82,623,762
71,141',834
80,426,235
1914
January ; 71,789,264
September
October .
November
December
60,323,690
86,086,309
82,891,122
94,326,218
1915.
100,841,418
Totals $455,444,584 $457,310,000
Record-making days of exports "of domestic merchandise from New York
In the present year: March 10, $10,575,191, the largest in the history;
March 11, $8,392,404; March 8, $8,049,006; February 24, $7,064,004;
March 4, $5,461,110; February 25, $5,425,645; March 9, $4,978,509;
March 5, $4,642,160. New York Herald.
Senator Stone as a Prophet
The Republic is glad to have given
to tho American public a speech on
the senatorial filibuster which Sen
ator William Joel Stone prepared
but had no opportunity to deliver in
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tho Sixty-third congress. Here is a
passage which should burn itself into
the consciousness of every member of
the United States senate:
' "Mr. Preside republicans contend
that we can not close debate and vote
on a bill so long as any senator de
sires to speak, unless we change the
rules, and when we try, as we have
tried for days at a time, to change
the rules they tell us we can not vote
to change the rules as long as any
senator desires to speak on that ques
tion. Thus one filibuster is piled up
on another, and tho senate stands be
fore the country in a state of pitiable
helplessness. Here is where courage
even the very audacity of courage
is needed; here we need a sword
to cleave a Gordian knot. The sen
ate can do business if it will, and do
it without violating the spirit' of its
rules and in strict conformity with
its constitutional rights.
"It lookB, however, as if the fes
tering fingers of stale custom are so
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pened than that the transformation
of the senate, making impossible for
all time the building up of another
Aldrich oligarchy, should come about
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leadership of a Missouri senator,
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