The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-01
Bryan's Attempt to Dictate to the House Arouses
 High Feeling
UNDERWOOD SURE
 OF ENDORSEMENT
Champ Clark Declines to Comment on Bryan's Attacks on Ways and Means Wool Schedule
 Programme

declaration of war over the wool sched-
 ule with MT. Bryan, a protestant against revenue bill, Representative Underwood. the majority leader of the House, commanding the revenue forces and the opponents of free raw wool, to- night after a day of conferences de- clared MT. Bryan would be overwhelmed in the party caucus tomorrow. I The issue created by MT. Bryan has l been met squarely,' said MT. Under wood, chairman of the ways and means committee, which drafted the wolen bill, "and l have thoroughly canvassed the situation today. MT. Bryan's at tempt to dictate to this House what 1t should do has made converts to our cause. There are more votes pledged to the committee measure tonight than there were last night. The issue pre- scented has sent to us some democratic members who otherwise would have voted agaist us."
 The caucus will be called at noon by the caucus chairman, Representative sBurleson of Texas. It may be that the discussion will be prolonged so far that a vote will not be reached during the day. If necessary the caucus will be continued Friday and the House ad- Journed when 1t meets Friday noon.
 Democratic leaders are not disposed to cut off the debate in the caucus and want all the party disputes thoroughly aired before the bill is reported to the House.
 Representative Harrison of New York, free wool member of the ways and means committee, who has stood stead fastly by Mir Bryan, today answered MT. Underwood's statement of yester- day He asserted that revision of the committee on schedule is to follow the wool revision and he intimated that a reduction in cotton duties would bring an increase in revenue of possibly sta annea
 .Why then,l he asked, from a reye- nue standpoint, Is it necessary to levy cent of tax on raw woof?'
 Bryan Defended
 MT. Bryan is not trying to dictate to the ways and means committee" MT. Harrison continued, nor to the demo- cratic house on the wool question. He is merely fighting for one of the best established of democratic principles"
 Speaker Champ Clark declined positive lv to- comment on the Bryan appeal to the democrats not to masquerade un- der the guise of tariff for revenue only in voting for the Underwood revision of the wool schedule nor would he discuss the reply to MT. Bryan made last night hal derwood, smarting under the Bryan at tack, is exerting every effort now to in sure a two-thirds of the democratic members for the committee at tomor- rows caucus and is satisfied the bill will be ratified by big majority.
 Among members of the House of Rep resentatives, democrats and republicans alike. the dispute over the wool tariff stirred by MT. Bryan's attack upon the democratic leaders for drafting reve- nue measure instead of putting raw wool on the free list was the subject of lively discussion today.
 The answer of Representative Under wood, chairman of the ways and means committee, to MT. Bryan's attack again brought the feeling in the party over the wool question to the front, but the democratic leaders insisted that the cau- cuses would ratify the ways and means committee recommendations, and that the bill would go before the House with the party committed to it.
 Though considerable hot talk is looked for at the caucus tomorrow, MT. Under wood is confident that his position will be supported by at least two-thirds of the members.
 The House committee on expenditures in the state department expected to have before 1t today more evidence bearing on the disclosures made Monday regard ing the portrait of former Secretary Will liam Day Albert Rosenthal, the artist, testified that he received only sS50 for the portrait, though voucher showed s2450 was paid. The voucher is missing from the department files.
 Neither the House nor the Senate was | in session today