The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-31
MR. UNDERWOOD
 MAKES ANSWER
 TOBRYAN ATTACK
Says Nebraskan's Attack on Wool Schedule Program
 Is Unfair

Washington. May so.--Aroused by Will liam J. Bry attacs4 en demdcrata who
 favor a raw wool tariff, Democratic Lead CT Underwood made a statement tonight, declaring Mr Bryan's attitude unjust and unfair" declaring that the wool tariffs to be submitted to Thursdays eau GUS are much the same as the Wilson wool schedule
 Mir Bryan's defiance today of the party leaders in the House, his warning to the democratic members of the House that the voters are yet to pass on the wool sched- ule they are to ratify and his appeal to them not to add hypocrisy to the sin of voting for a revenue on wool, have caused intense feeling in the party Notwitn- standing this Mir. Underwood, as chair man of the House committee oa ways and means, tonight was insistent in the pre- diction that the revenue wool bill will be approved by a big majority.
 "In my judgment MT. Underwood said in answer to Mr. Bryan, ''hs statement is unjust and unfair to the IT. embers of the ways and means committee and to the democratic representativ in Con- gress who will support the bill.
 ''The ways and means committee have cut in half the whole wool schedule. They have reduced the duty on manufactured goods as low as they were under the Will son bill that MT. Bryan voted for when raw wool was placed on the free list. In that reduction they have fallen short of $40, 600 900, now raised2by wool, by $13,000, GOO and it is necessary in order to secure this revenue to place revenue tax on raw wool imported into the United States. Solely for Revenue
 Under the high rates of the Payne tar fir bill the tax on raw wool was highl: competitive. nearly one-half of the wool used in this country being imported from abroad When the rates on raw wool are cut more than one-half 1t, is absolutely at competitive rate. levied solely for the purpose of revenue without any of the es-
 sentials of protective tariff
 MT. Underwood said in the tariff bill the ways and means committee has gone even further than gradual re- auction In the tariff to which the dem- ocratic party in its last platform was committed. "In the Wilson bill which MT. Bryan voted for was an honest reduction oi the tariff in the interest of the peo- lple. a bill that reduces the taxes on woolen goods which the people buy as low as under the bill Bryan voted for and advocated certainly cannot be a protective measure from this stand point The fact that in reducing these taxes on wooden goods we have levied a small tax on the manufacturers does not in any way increase s.the burder to the purchasers of woeIeh gooda" The democratic lea der explained that
 the party and the committee are con frunted with a deficiency in the treas
 ury; that the government needs more money and that the Income tax Is as vet unratifed. He said the committee in reducing the tariff has to so write the schedule that they would bring al
 present law. The committee contends that by reducing the rate and making the tariff more competitive. more goods will come in and thus supply the rev
 onue. Under the Wilson bill the tar ifs on wool averaged about 40 per cent ad valorem, a figure comparing closely 1 with the average in the bill to be made public next Thursday.
 | "The democratic party" Mir. Under. | wood concluded. stands essentially fol | tariff for revenue which means we shall collect from the custom house the revenue required for the expenses
 of the government It does not stand 1 for free trade and do not believe wher 1 this bill is published and the people
 understand the facts they will be mis- lead by the statements which Mir
 Bryan has made. feel sure the dem.
 ocratc caucus will adopt the bill by
 a large majority and that 1t will be approved by the democratic masses as g
 party measure.'
 Bryan's Statement
 q Washington. May 30.-William Jen- | nings Bryan today took exception to the programme of his party in the House