The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-02
DEMOCRATS TO
SPLIT ON WOOL.
Underwood Opposes Free
Raw Material.
COMMITTEE FAYORS IT.

Speaker Clark Joins Majority Leader
In Attempt TO sldstraek Report Fs-
vorinq Removal Of Duty, but n Sue
eessful Must Carry Fight to Floor
Of House, Where Majority VIII
Vote In Affirmative : Anderson
Pushes HE Pension Bill.
Washington, May 2. - A situation
has developed in the house Of repre-
sentatives in connection with the pro
posal to amend the wool schedule OF
the tariff law that may cause a seri
GUS split in the ranks Of the Demo
cratic party in congress, Nine Of the
IA Democratic members of the ways
and means committee are determined
to report wool bill which will admit
the raw product duty free. The FIVE
members Of the committee opposed to
raw wool are led by Chairman Under
wood.
While Speaker Clark has not up to
date attempted to dictate to the lead.
ers or the house membership in mat
ters OF legislation, he lie taking live
ly interest in the deliberations of the
committee over the wool bill. He has
expressed the opinion to members OF
the committee that the party will
make a serious blunder II it passes a
bill containing a free law wool pro-
vision.
Messrs. Clark and Underwood
have pointed out to the majority in
the ways and means committee that
II the Democratic house commits it.
self to free raw wool, Ohio, Indiana,
Nebraska and other woolgrowing
states which are now veering toward
Democracy will be lost to the party in
the next presidential election. They
have argued further that raw wool is
a big revenue producer and that IL
would be unwise from an economic
standpoint to admit the product duty
free until measures have been evolv-
ed that will furnish revenue to take
the place Of that now yielded by raw
wool.
Very Much In Earnest.
Speaker Clark and Chairman Un-
derwood are very much in earnest in
the arguments they have made in this
connection. Up to date the Demo
Gratis have worked in harmony on all
aggressive matters. The wool bill
threatens to make trouble Even II
the speaker and Majority Leader I'm
derwood induce the majority Of the
ways and means committee to ap-
prove bill providing for a duty on
raw wool, they will still have anoth-
er difficulty to overcome A count OF
noses has disclosed that q majority
of the Democrats in the house favor
free raw wool.
II is learned that the plan of the
Democrats now is to let the debate
on the free list to run along indef-
nitely instead Of passing it this week,
as originally planned. The indica-
tions are, therefore, that the wool
bill will not make its appearance for
two weeks or more.
aNAlufl obl vi OllOf
author of the Anderson bill, has filed
a motion that the committee on in
valid pensions shall be discharged
from further consideration of the
measure. This means that a vote on
this proposition can not be long
avoided.
SO the Democratic leaders, who
have heretofore been in an optimistic
frame of mind, are beginning to dis
close brows furrowed with trouble.
They knew that power brought re
sponsibility, but were hopeful that
their organization would prove re.
sponsiye throughout the life of the
special session. With one group de-
free raw wool and another
clamoring for a S40,000,00O pension
bill, Leader Underwood has come to
the conclusion that he will have his
hands very full before getaway day
rolls around.
Seven speeches were made on the
free list bill in the house. Represen-
tatives Moss and Cox OF Indiana and
Rucker of Colorado, Democrats,
spoke for the bill; Longworth of
Ohio, Madden OF Illinois and Dyer OF
Missouri made speeches in opposition
Representative Madden injected some
talk into his speech. He
said he believed close commercial re-
lations with Canada would tend to a |
political union. He said he favored |