The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-22

vinced the senate finance committee did not intend to report any bill affecting the tariff other than the reciprocity bill. For that reason he said he woud join in the demand that the other bills be reported out within a certain time.
 q am prepared to consider fully a re- vision of the woolen tariff" replied Senator Penrose. "It has been on the statute books many years and conditions may have changed. But we have a tariff board making a minute inquiry into ev- cry phase; we have hundreds of people who have asked for hearings and to be mittees, and we have before us simply bill that was drawn without hearings and without recourse to detailed inform ation or recent statistics.
 Senator Cummins declared his belief that Congress had just entered upon a revision of the tariff from beginning to end"
 q speak for myself and for no other man." he said, that my vote shall not be cast for the adjournment of this ses- sion, provided the Canadian reciprocity bill passes until all tariff schedules have been changed
 Says Time Will Be Granted Cummins said he believed if by July 10 Chairman Penrose desired five or ten days more time, the Senate would be dis posed to concede it. MT. Penrose said hundreds already had petitioned for a hearing and he could not undertake to limit the time. MT. Cummins then sug- gested if the Gore motion was passed he believed an even greater extension of time would be granted by the Senate, guided by the situation on July 10.
 "I most certainly cannot accept this situation," said Chairman Penrose with emphasis. Tt would be most unfair to 1 those who would come here to seek to define their views. I am afraid I shall be forced to reply to the hundreds of petitioners all over this country that the Senate refuses to receive or to hear them.'
 MT Penrose prefaced his statement with an allusion that Senator Cummins inter preted as a reflection upon himself. His retort drew Senator Hepburn into the discussion and the latter attempted to read the Iowa senator out of the repub- lican party for his refusal to obey the mandates of the caucus. MT Cummins said he had never been bound by any caucus and he was proud of his record.
 "I want to say in this connection" he said, that intend to bring to this. Sem ate proposals for the revision of many schedules before the agreement with Can ada is voted on. We might as well be plain about 1t. The time for concealment has passed"
 Senator Borah was equally emphatic in his denunciation of the agreement and in the declaration of his intentions to as- sist in general tariff revision.
 "The Canadian agreement was drawn elsewhere than in this Senate, he said, "and was sent here with the injunction A IA xv.zI. 4I.aA before this agreement can pass I shall bring into this chamber for revision every section of the Payne-Aldrich bill. I do not want to criticise the finance com mttee. but am convinced that the sooner we get to work on the general measure the better it will be-" ...--... Jones Causes Surprise Senator Jones, while announcing his intention to vote for the agreement, urged that the revision of a large number of schedules would be advisable. Hereto fore Senator Jones has been counted with the regulars and his utterances occa- stoned surprise.
 The one significant development of the day was that the republican party is not in reliable control of the Senate. It is demonstrated that the regulars could be outvoted by even a partial combination of democrats and insurgents and further that such combinations are possible when the tariff is under consideration.
 The cooperation of today was attrib- uted to differing motives on the part of the two factors in 1t.
 The general understanding is that the Wisconsin senator's suggestions will con- sist of a series of amendments to the reciprocity bill. one of them dealing with the free list, another with the woolen schedule, another with cotton manufac- lures and still another with steel. They will add to and subtract from the House free list bill. reduce the duty woolens, increase that on raw wool and materially cut the duty on cotton goods and steel manufactures.
 The outlook now is that todays coali- tion will cease when the time arrives for voting on the LaFollette or other similar provisions as amendments to the reel procity bill, and If they believe as they do now that the addition of these para graphs to the bill would have the effect of killing it they will not vote for them