UNITED STATES TARIFF.
FIGHT COMMENCED IN SENATE. • IRON AND STEEL SCHEDULE. t-f New York, February 6. '• The tariff fight has opened in the Senate. ; ‘ A ■ ;"' r The Finance Committee has begun the discussion of the House of Representatives’ ■ 'Bill ■ /for K-tevising ;?tbe iron and steel schedules of the PayneAldrich tariff. POLITICAL, NOT ECONOMIC ' ISSUE. ■ “MOTHER OF THE' TRUSTS.” , (Received 7, 8.35 a.m.) London, February 6. The “Times” Washington correspondent, referring to fiscal legislation, which even the extreme protectionists admit is inevitable, declares that the reform movement has become active in consequence of a growing suspicion that the tariff is “the mother of the trusts.” He adds that it is a social or political rather than an economic issue.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 7 February 1912, Page 5
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