The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-21
WOOL TARIFF BILL
, WON OUT EASILY
IN HOUSE
Twenty.tOur Republicans Voted
With Democrats for II
VOTE STOOD 22l TO 100
All Amendments to Original Bill De-
feated in Debate Lasting Five
Hours.

Washington, June 21.-The House
Of representatives. by a vote of 221
to 100 yesterday passed the Under
wood wool tariff revision bill proyid
ing for a reduction OF the duty on
wool and manufactures OF WOOL
Twenty-four republicans voted with
the democrats for the measure and
one democrat, Francis of Ohio, voted
against it. Many amendments We're
voted down. the only one adopted be
ing slight change in phraseology
Almost five hours were spent by
the House in debate under the five
minute rule. Immediately preceding
the final vote, motion offered by
Representative Payne of New York,
that the bill be resubmitted to the
ways and means committee, with in
structions that await report from
the tariff board on the woalen indus
try before making final report of the
bill, was lost by vote OF 1S9 to 118.
Representative Underwood chair
man OF the ways and means commit.
tee, and in charge of the bill, kept his
forces well together in their opposi-
ton to all amendments While some
democrats proposed amendments,
with one exception they voted with
the party when the bill came to pas.
sage.
Representative Gray of Indiana Of
fered an amendment to replace raw
wool on the free list, instead of 20
per cent ad valorem, as the bill pro
vides, and to commit the bill to com
mittee with Instructions that manu-
features of wool be reduced to 20 per
cent ad valorem. This was lost.
Representative Murdoch one of the
insurgent republicans, who finally
voted for the bill, proposed several
amendments placing certain grades oil
wool on the free list. His purpose in
these amendments, he stated, was to
give to the American people protec-
ton from the worsted trust by max
ing free those articles which enter
into the manufacture of trust CONTROL
ed wooden products"
Mr. Murdoch appealed to Represen-
tative Harrison of New York, a dem
ocratic member of the ways and
means committee and to others OF
the party who had favored placing
wool on the free list, to support him
Mr. Harrison replied that he would
vote for the bill, although he would
have placed raw wool on the free list
If his personal desires had prevailed. u
After the bill had passed a message
was read from President Taft in res
ponse to a request which had been
made for certain information from
the tariff board in regard to the
wooden question. The message stat
ed that the desired information could
not be furnished at this time.
The republicans who voted for the
bill were: Anderson, Anthony, Camp
bell, Davis, (Minn.) French, Haughen
Helgeson, Jackson, LaFollette, Len
root, Lindbergh, Madison, Miller
Morse, Murdoch, Nelson, Norris, Rees
Sloane, Stennerson, Stephens, Step
hens (Calif), Volsted, Woods, Ia)
Young (Kan.)
The bill places a duty OF 20 pei
cent ad valorem on raw wool imports
as against an average duty of little
more than A per cent under the pres
ent law. On partly manufactured
wool and on products manufactured
in whole or in part from wool, the
average duty under the proposed law
would be about 42.5 per cent ad val
orem, as compared with the presen
duty of more than 80 per cent. The
ways and means committee has esti
mated the bill would reduce the an
nual revenue under the wooden SEIZED
ule OF the tariff by a little more thar
100000.
he bill prescribes that it shall b,
in effect January !, next but it is
not believed that the bill will pass
the Senate at this session