The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-25
House Begins Help For the
Farmer
A LONG DISCUSSION HELD
Of the Measure Is Expected-Democrats
Will Not Rush on Taritf-Boston
Irishmen Protest Against
Taft's Peace Plan.

Washington, April 25 General debate
ON the farmers free list bill was be-
gun in the House yesterday Present
indications are that the debate will
run along for week or ten days and
the measure may not be sent over to
the Senate for two weeks
Pending consideration Of the free list
bill there will be no attempt on the
port of the Democratic members of the
ways and means committee to prepare
any Of the other tariff schedules which
Il Is intended to put through the House
1T tnis session of Congress. Chair
nan Underwood of the ways and
means committee said yesterday that
ii wiuld be impossible for his committee
to concentrate their efforts in intricate
tariff bills while tariff measure Is IN
the House, and that therefore prepare
ton Of cotton, wooden agriculture and
other schedules viii be postponed for
al least two weeks
II developed yesterday that there was
a difference OF opinion among the mem
bers of the ways and means committee
as to the order in which the WOODEN
and cotton schedules shall be reported
to the House While there has not
been a meeting of the committee since
the reciprocity bill was reported and
therefore no formal vote in the mat
ter, IL is known that the committee IS
divided on the subject Of free wool.
The radical element of the committee
is standing out strongly for free wool.
The conservative element is opposed
to absolute free trade Chairman Under
wood, it is understood, takes the posi-
tion that Democrats cannot afford 20
sacrifice entirely the immense amount
Of revenue derived from the wooden
schedule without finding some other
place to collect a similar amount 1t
was suggested yesterday that there
might be compromise in the ways and
means committee by substituting I'D
valorem duties wherever the duty is
specific and installing sliding scale 50
that there viii be very material re-
duetion in the duties al along the line
at this session to be followed by gradual
reduction from time to time in the flu
ture.
The genarally unprepared condition of
the cotton and wool scheduled in the
ways and means committee leads to
the belief that it will be several weeks
before the House is called upon to con-
slider another tariff measure. The
present plan is to take up New Mexico
and Arizona statehood and reapportion-
ment after the farmers free list bill is
disposed Of Following the disposition
of these measures the House viii adj
iourn twice week after the present
fashion fthe Senate in order that the
ways and means committee may con-
tinue its work undisturbed Chairman
Underwood declared yesterday that his
committee will not permit itself to be
hurried and that it viii take its own
time in reporting the next tariff bill.
Asked whether otton or wool would
be brought n first, Mr.. Underwood ex-
pressed the opinion that decision on
that matter might depend upon which
schedule was finished first
Correction of mistakes in appropria
ton bills of the. last Congress and
matters relating TO the organization of
the House when that body met yester-
day, postponed the prospective debate
in the free list bill The House passed
on appropriations for mileage for SEN
ators and members OF Congress amount
ing to $20l 900; for stationery for the
members of the House, $3.50; for EN-
ployes, including pages and clerks,
sl7,554 Minority Leader Mann again
attacked what he called the 'hurrah for
economy" which he declared was now
being followed, by resolutions increas-
ing the number of employees Represent
alive Lloyd Of Missouri objected vgor-
ously to what he said was "misrepre-
sentationn on the part Of Mr. Mann