Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-28
TARIFF BILLS LISTED.
Congress to Tackle Iron and
Steel Schedule First.
THEN TAKE UP CHEMICAL S
May Not Reach Sugar, Wool and
Cotton Until February.
UNDERWOOD TO PUSH ACTION
Chairman Of House Ways and Means
Committee and Colleagues
to Get Busy.

The first tariff bill to be considered and
passed at this session of Congress will DE
one revising the iron and steel schedule.
The chemical schedule will come next.
then sugar. and wool and cotton probably
will not be reached until the latter part
Of February.
Representative Oscar Underwood of
Alabama, chairman OF the House ways
and means committee, got back to town
this morning from Richmond. Va, where
he has been spending a few days with
relatives
1t was Mr.. Underwood who explained
that in view of the fact that the govern
ment printing Office probably would not
be through with the report of the tariff
board on the wool schedule for ten days
and that it probably would take his clerks
three or four weeks to check I'D the
boards figures with the information al
ready in possession of the committee, it
would be necessary to take I'D other
schedules before wool was reached. The
tariff board, it is understood, will report
on cotton some time in January, and as
this report must go through the same
process 1t will probably be March before
this schedule comes before the House for
consideration
Underwood to Push Action.
But Mr.. Underwood and his democratic
colleagues on the ways and means COM
mittee do not propose to let the grass
grow under their feet. Mr.. Underwood is
particularly anxious to bring the steel
schedule to the fore in view of the at
tacks made upon him during the special
az hxy
who said in SO many words that Mr.. I'm
derwood's financial interest in the iron
and steel business either would induce
him to work against revision of the steel
schedule until the very last moment
" course, none of Mr. Underwood s
colleagues and in fact no one who knows
him at all paid any attention to such
statements as these. but the majority
leader replied to Mr.. Bryan from the
moor of the House at the time, character
ling Mr.. Bryan's comment as false and
indicating his willingness, even his anx-
tety. to revise the steel schedule. His
democratic colleagues on the ways and
means committee bore him out in the as
sertion that he had endeavored, when the
committee met to take up it's work for
the special session. to induce it to con-
slider the steel schedule first just as an
offset to the very sort of criticism that
Mr.. Bryan later made.
The committee had outvoted him. But
Mr. Underwood is now glad there is no
reasonable objection to bringing the steel
schedule to the front and putting a bill
for its revision through the House ahead
Of anything else in the whole tariff list.
Mr.. Underwood said today that the
committee had not got down to details in
the consideration of reduction in the iron
and steel schedules that would be recon-
mended. But discussion among the demo-
Gratis during the special session would in
dictate, II they are of the same mind,
that the reductions will be from 80 to 80
per cent on the different classes of iron
and steel products.