The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
CONGRESSSURE ID HAVE 4 DEADLOCK According to Representative Underwo0d's Ultimatum REVISION OF TARIFF Will Be Conducted by Democrats Schedule by Schedule-Appeal
 to People if Senate
 Balks
REVISION OF TARIFF
By JONATHAN WINFIELD

deadlock between the House and Senate over the legislative programme seems in evitable, according to the latest ultima tum issued by Representative Underwood the democratic floor leader of the House and chairman of it's ways and means committee.
 The house democrats have announced their intention to proceed with a revision of the tariff schedule by schedule There is no indication whatever that the Sem ate proposes to consider any legislation except the Canadian reciprocity agree ment, to approve which Congress was called in extra session by the President.
 During the debate on the wool bill in the House, Representative Underwood, pressed by the questions of Representa- tive Moore of Pennsylvania, republican, announced that the democrats proposed to proceed with their programme and that if the Senate failed to pass the measures put up to it by the democratic House that the democrats would take the issue directly to the people.
 Representative Underwood plainly indi- cated that the democrats do not propose | after the passage of the wool bill. He told the Pennsylvania republican that the democratic attitude was well understood, stating:
 we have announced that we intend to revise the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill from top to bottom. The only one to stop us is the republican Senate and a republican | " " will take the issue direct to the country and we will count upon it for yindication of our position
 Representative Moore declared that the 1 industries of the country would be alarm ed by the Underwood announcement. Representative Underwood could not see it that way.
 The announcement of MT Underwood, however, regardless of any partisan quai- ities, is significant in this respect: It in- dicates that the House and the Senate destined to serious disagreement before the end of the extra session. The legis- lative lineup is at present as follows:
 The House has passed Canadian reef procity by an overwhelming majority; the Senate is expected to pass the bill, and it is believed that the amendment, which emDarfaSSeS the Dill, VIII De ueIedteu, President Taft having said that any amendment to the treaty will invalidate it. The House has also passed the farm CTS free list bill. It is not believed that the Senate regulars will permit this meas ure to get beyond the Senate committee on finance, and the first clash between the democratic House and the republican Sem ate will occur there
 The House is now considering and will
 
 which reduces the tariff on the woolen schedule of the Payne tariff act. The democratic measure places an advalorem. duty of only 20 per cent on raw wool and leaves average duty of 4255 per cent on manufactured woolens.
 It is also expected that the Senate will chloroform this measure soon it reaches the finance committee. as the present intention of the Senate is to keep the Payne-Aldrich bill inviolate so far as the present extra session is concerned.
 The House has passed the bill provd- ing for the direct election of senators by vote of the people. The Senate has added the Brstow amendment, which reserves to the federal government the right to su pervise the time manner and place of holding senatorial elections. This amend ment is particularly obnoxious to south ern members of Congress who are con- frOnted with the negro problem III tnelr section of the country.
 It is not believed that the House will ever approve the Brlstow amendment, which still further strengthens the belief that there will be a deadlock between the two houses of Congress before the end of the extra session
 The House committee on ways and means is now at work on a revision of the cotton schedule. The Senate is just as bitterly opposed to revision of the cotton schedule as 1t is to tinkering with the woolen schedule.
 Representative Underwood has served notice that the democratic House will not be content with a mere postponement of action on these matters by the Senate. The democrats of the House, even if they keep Congress in session until next De- cember, are determined that the Senate shall take some definite action upon all these matters
 = The bills must either be defeated or they must be buried in committee rooms and the Senate must clearly state that they do not propose to take up the meas ures send over to them" said Repre- = sentative Underwood. "Tf the Senate re- l fuses to act upon these measures the s country will know where to place the re- s sponsibity for the lack of remedial legis- l lation. The House will continue to send tHtSt pillS over to the senate until the upper body shows that 1t will either pass or defeat them, or until 1t signifies that they will be buried in committee The House leaders declare that the r Payne tariff bill has been repudiated by the country In the November elections, and that it Is encumbent upon the major ity in the House to take up the bill sched- ule by schedule and to revise the bill as rapidly as possible. Democrats declare , that they will do their best to carry out their platform promises. If there efforts , are blocked by a deadlock, owing to the inactivity of the republican Senate the House leaders believe that they will have , ample justification to go before the coun- , | try in 1912 with the claim that they have done their best
 i Owing to MT! Underwood's latest an nouncement there is little hope in the , House or the Senate that Congress can be adjourned within the next 60 days, and , 1t is possible that the extra session may extend into September. while the Senate and House wrangle over a revision of the tariff.
 
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