Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-13
tnu Assnclated Press.l

IBY Associated 1851
WASHINGTON, March l2.--ine ne,
publican senators of the conililit.edS t',d, of nf
fnance will begin a systematic STUDY OIL
.i,a ,,eI, tariff bill as soon as copies are
obtained. 80 ,,,.Assi,s,
Thev feel the Importance or pressing
+be measure to a speedy determination:
and Senator Aldrich, as CHAIRMAN VI
the committee. has said he woulu Iliane ne
an effort to have the bill reported as
soon as possible after It's passase Ny 'Ae
house. ,.,,,.as
IT is considered that many changes
will be made in the senate, ana that
most of them will be suggested oy the
finance committee. ,,,.o
In the senate the smaller states haNe
a greater proportionate representation ~
than in the house, and If the bill as IL
cornes from the house should fail TO
give what is considered adequate pro
lection to some of their industries there
would undoubtedly be strenuous el-
for by the senators from those states
to restore the desired equilibrium;
The thinly populated states or the
west are specially interested IN the pIo-
lection of wool, hides, fruits, lead, ore
conner. etc, and will unquestionaoly
resist any effort to discriminate against
them. and they would regard as such
effort the placing of these articles ON
the free list
While Senator Aldrichs nope Is W
have the bill in shape to be reported
soon after it comes from the mouse.
much will depend on the character OF
the house measure and the disposition
of the members of the finance COM
mittee.
Unquestionably the controlling desire
in the senate will be to make the Dill
a distinctively protective measure, ana
it is not believed that the Republican
1-ri1 oprn1it their desire
for haste to cause them to sacrif1ce this
feature of 1t.
Many Bills introduced
The deluge of bills introduced at the
opening of each session Of congress
nromises TO be SO great for the special
session which will begin next Monday,
as for the regular sessions. despite the
prospect that little legislation other
than the tariff will receive conSidera-
ton.
Five hundred bills were today pre-
sented to the clerk by one representa-
tive alone. All of them were intro
duced at the last session, and many
have been introduced " 1r after year:
Their introduction in advance or the
session gives the file clerks chance to
introduce them in the regular way.
1t is claimed the number of bills in
troduced at a session has increased
over OU per cent III lIC i1oS AtNS SSS@NS 80
Members at the beginning of each ses-
sion are accustomed to reintroduce the
unsuccessful bills which have been Of
fered in the preceding session.
Pension bills are often introduced by
a member year after year, and in few
instances the person for whose benent
such a measure was intended has been
dead for several years.
Although members with few excep-
tions can rarely procure action by the
pension committee on more than hVe
bills during a session. some of them in
troduce several hundred such meas
ures. The members who have been In
the house for years introduce fewer
bills than the new members.
There were 2S,440 bills introduced in
the house during the last session and
over 5000 in the senate.
To Prepare New Bill
The Democrats are preparing for the
new tariff bill, but as they have not
seen the bill and will not be Informed
of it's provisions until it is introduced
ii is not known on what schedules the
main fight will be made.
Representative Underwood of Ala
bama, minority member of the ways
and means committee, declared if the
duties were determined on 81 revenue
basis there would be no need for tax
ing the breakfast table or imposing
stamp tax. He said an Inheritance
tax offers the best means for making
up the treasury deficit and that If the
new pill contained a provision for such
tax neither the duty on coffee nor
that on beer need be increased.
A provision which many Republicans
as well as Democrats are likely to at
tack is that taking off the duty on
iron ore. The Dingley law imposes
40 cents a ton on iron ore, and the
ilnportations of 1907 amounted to more
than $3,000,000, from which the duty
amounted to more than 100000. The
placing of iron ore on the free list
was advocated by John w. Gates and
numerous foundry and furnace con-
Germs of the east and the Pacific coast.
Representatives of iron mining in
terests in the Lake Superior. Mesaba
and Adirondack regions favored re-
duction of from 10 to 20 per cent in
the duty on iron ore, if it was pro-
posed to make a. general downward
I revision.
The national grange favored free
iron ore as being in line with the idea
of conserving natural resources.
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