Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-21
Wool Tariff Revision
Passed by House.
The Vote, ri to 100
Republicans Vote Yes.
The Present Wool Tariff Raie Is
More Than Cut in Hall.
Special Message from PTesi-
dent on Cotton and Wool.
Tariff Board Not Yet Ready 10 Give
Required Statistics.

Washington, June 20.-The House
of Representatives by a vote of 22l
to 100 today passed the Underwood
wool tariff revision bill providing for
a reduction OF the duty on wool and
manufactures of wool. TwentNfour
Republicans voted with the Demo-
Gratis for the measure and one DEM
ocrats, Francis of Ohio, voted against
1t.
Many amendments We're offered and
voted down, the only one adopted be-
ing a slight change in phraseology.
Almost five hours were spent by the
House in debate under the 5-minute
rule. Immediately preceding the final
vote a motion offered by Payne of
New York, that the bill be re-submit-
ted to the ways and means commit
tee, with instructions that it await
report from the Tariff Board on
the wooden industry before making
final report of the bill, was lost by
a vote of 1873 to lis.
Underwood, chairman of the ways
and means committee, who WAS in
charge of the bill, kept his forces
well together in their opposition to all
sDolbG VI llit ItIiloG3 d ~
proposed amendments, but with one
exception they voted with the party
when the bill came to passage.
Gray of Indiana offered an amend
ment to replace raw wool on tire
free list instead of requiring a 20
per cent. ad valorem duty as the bill
provides. and to recommit the bill
to the committee with instructions
that manufactures of wool be reduced
to a duty of 90 per cent. ad valorem.
This was lost.
Murdoch, one of the Insurgent Re-
publicans, who voted for the bill. pro-
posed amendments placing certain
grades of wool on the free list. His
purpose he said, was 20 give the
American people protection from the
Worsted trust by making free Those
articles which enter into the manu-
facture of trust controlled wooden
products"
Murdoch appealed to Harrison Of
New York. a Democratic member of
the ways and means committee, and
to others in the party who favored
placing woel on the free list, to sup
port him. Harrison replied that he
NOult hoNG Ioi Tie bliii tlllbiSil ne
would have placed raw wool on the
free list If his personal desires had
prevailed"
After the bill had passed. a message
from President Taft was read in re
Spouse tn & request for certain infor-
nation from the Tariff Board in re-
gard to the wool question. The mes
sage said that the desired Information
could not be furnished at this time
The Republicans who voted for tile
bill We're Anderson, Anthony, Camp
hell, Davis. Mimi. French. Haughen.
Helgeson, Jackson, La Toilette. Len
root, Lindbergh. Madison, Miller,
Morse, Murdoch, Nelson, Norris. Rees.
Sloan. Steenerson Stephenson. Cal;
Vostead. Woods. Ia; and Young of
Kan.
The bill places a duty OF 20 per cent.
ad valorem on raw wool imports as
against an average duty of a little
more than Al per cent. ad valorem UNI
der the present law. On partly manu-
featured wool and on products manu-
| featured in whole or in part from wool
| the average duty under the proposed
| law would be about 42.5 per cent. adj
| valoren', as compared with the present
| averaged ad valorem duty of more
! than 90 per cent. The ways and means
committee has estimated the bill would
reduce the annual revenue under the
| wooden schedule of tn tariff by a little
more than s10O00O0
| The bill prescribes that it shall be
| in effect Jan. l next, but it is not be-
lieved that the bill will pass the Sen
| ate at this session