1 The Payne law was operative only July 1-Oct. 3 of this fiscal year ending June 30, 1914. Its rates are applied to the entire year, being the only census year showing production since 1909. Woven fabrics (except carpets and wearing apparel), felt goods, laces, and all manufactures of these materials. Woven fabrics (except carpets, handkerchiefs, and wearing apparel), pile fabrics, cloths, tapestries, laces, and other manufactures known as cotton small wares. 4 Woven fabrics (except handkerchiefs and wearing apparel), laces, embroideries, and all manufactures thereof. Not shown. You will notice in the above table that the tariff allowance to the manufacturers is in large figures standing for that many millions of dollars, and that the cost to the consumer is measured in still larger figures, while the revenue collected by the Government from the various industries is mostly in decimals of one million. The workings of the Payne and Underwood laws and some of the effects which the Fordney bill as written or a renewal of the Payne rates would have upon domestic production and upon the extension of our foreign trade, upon wages, prices, and the cost of living are shown in the following tables, and their net cost in the last column on pages 5408-5411. Senator LA FOLLETTE. Mr. Miles, will you furnish for the committee the tabulated statement there to which you have referred, so it may be printed in full in the record? Relation of customs tariff rates to production, wages, trade extension, and cost of living. Cotton manufactures (not including carpets, handkerchiefs, and Silk manufactures (not in cluding handkerchiefs and Wool manufactures, includ 1 The Payne law was operative only July 1-Oct. 3 of this fiscal year ending June 30, 1914. Its rates are applied to the entire year, being the only census year showing production since 1909. Woven fabrics (except carpets and wearing apparel), felt goods, laces, and all manufactures of these materials. 8 Woven fabrics (except carpets, handkerchiefs, and wearing apparel), pile fabrics, cloths, tapestries, laces, and other manufactures known as cotton small wares. 4 Woven fabrics (except handkerchiefs and wearing apparel), laces, embroideries, and all manufactures thereof. Not shown. You will notice in the above table that the tariff allowance to the manufacturers is in large figures standing for that many millions of dollars, and that the cost to the consumer is measured in still larger figures, while the revenue collected by the Government from the various industries is mostly in decimals of one million. The workings of the Payne and Underwood laws and some of the effects which the Fordney bill as written or a renewal of the Payne rates would have upon domestic production and upon the extension of our foreign trade, upon wages, prices, and the cost of living are shown in the following tables, and their net cost in the last column on pages 5408-5411. Senator LA FOLLETTE. Mr. Miles, will you furnish for the committee the tabulated statement there to which you have referred, so it may be printed in full in the record? Relation of customs tariff rates to production, wages, trade extension, and cost of living. plain and fancy cloths and pile fabrics, including tapestries). Other manufactures $488, 728,054 $1,487, 723,000 $28,844, 627 $151, 997, 817 $238, 153, 557 $16, 538, 804 $19, 594, 187 $52,238, 612 5.8 10.1 14.8 4.0 1.5 4.0 "cotton |