The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-23
TARIFF TANGLE To
Be FACED MONDAY
Situation in the Senate Re.
garding Legislation Is as
Yet Uncertain.

Washington, July 22.-The senate
on Monday will plunge into general
tariff discussion. What the outcome
will be is as problematical today as
II was a month ago. The senate
knows II Is pledged to vote on the
Democratic bill revising the wool
schedule next Thursday and OH the
bill passed by the house charging the
farmers free list on August l. Siren.
uous efforts to reach some sort of
agreement seemed to be out of the
question.
There Is still every reason to be-
lieve the Democratic bill revising the
wool schedule will be voted down, be-
cause both the regular Republicans
ind the insurgent Republicans are op-
posed to 1t. The question about which
everybody Is in doubt Is whether the
Democrats will support the bill Sen
ator LaFollette has offered revising
the wool schedule. II they do this the
Lii will be passed, for practically all
the insurgent senators intend to vote
for it. AS already announced In these
dispatches, many of the Democrats
are still unwilling to say that they
will vote for this bill of Republican
origin.
Free List Stands Some Show
Apparently. the farmers free list
bill stands some show of getting
through the senate. The tariff situa-
ton will be further complicated with
in the next ten days or two weeks by
the passage Of bill by the house re-
vising the cotton schedule. This cot
ton revision bill Is to be considered
at a Democratic caucus to be held
next Tuesday afternoon and If it is
approved 1t will go to the house on
Wednesday. The house Democrats
are showing no disposition to agree to
an adjournment until the senate acts
on all the important bills the house
has sent over.
The Democratic leaders in the house
are now wrestling with the question
as to whether they shall advise the
house to accept the drastic bill for
publicity to campaign contributions
passed by the senate. They said to-
day they expected to make up their
minds on this question early next
week.
amendment for the direct election Of
senators is still tied up in conference
and the indications are that it will
stay there.
A canvass Of the Democratic sena-
tors completed this afternoon by mi
nority senators who understood the
work, found eighteen who say they
Will never vote for the La Toilette
wool bill II these Democrats hold
eral tariff legislation at the session.
Desires to See Charges.
Floyd w. Robinson. who was dis
missed as an analyst in the bureau of
chemistry, agricultural department,
"for the good of the service" has
made a demand for congressional in
vestigation. He has also formally de-
manded Of Secretary Wilson that he
receive copies of any charges against
him that may be on file in the depart
ment.
Senator William Alden Smith, of
Michigan. is insisting that the depart
ment shall give Robinson hearing
Robinson asserts that his dismissal
was in direct violation of the civil
servive law. He was civil service
employe. and yet the civil service
commission approved his dismissal
without asking whether any charges
had been preferred against him. 1t
seems altogether likely that the dis
MI 1f
Investigation of the commission. 1t is
now we'll understood that no formal
charges against Robinson are on file
in the agricultural department. He
was dismissed simply because he had
refused to accept the decision of the
Remsen board that benzoate of soda
Is not deleterious.