The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-02
.ATTEMPT TO COLO
BRICK THE FARMER
MONDELL, REPUBLICAN OF WYoM-
ING, so REFERS TO DEMO-
CRATIC TARIFF.
FREE WOOL EVENTUALLY
THIS WILL BE COMPROMISE OF
HOUSE DEMOCRATs-SENA
JEALOUSY GUARDING
IT'S RIGHTS.

WASHINGTON, May 2.--Exactly
two score out of the 38I members of
the house were on hand to-day when
the gavel fell for the sixth success
slve day of talk on the Democratic
free list bill. Representative Mon
dell Republican,. of Wyoming, de-
nounced the Democratic tariff policies
as bare faced attempts to gold brick
the farmers"
The last time the Democratic
party tried to do something for the
farmer--when they parsed the Will
son tariff bill---they robbed him of
$S00,000.0 200 in the value Of his live
stock" said Mondell
Free Raw Wool.
Free raw wool at the end of five
years will be the compromise OF the
house Democrats when the wool sche-
dule is revised. according to indica-
ton to-day. Nine or the fourteen
Democrats on the ways and means
committee favor immediate free wool.
The other five, led by Chairman I'm
derwood, favor a reduced duty.
Pressure has been brought to bear
on both sides. and the free wool
Democrats to-day proposed a revision
that will cut the present rate Of IL
cents a pound to six cents at once.
On this figure all are agreed, tt L.
said.
Then the free wool men propose
a sliding reduction that will take one
cent of the duty each year so that
at the end Of five years, raw wool
will be automatically on the free list
The opposition of Democratic lead
ers. Underwood and Clark, to i'm
mediate free wool Is founded on the
large revenues from the wool sche-
dule and on the fact that immediate
free listing OF the product would
probably ALLEVIATE from the party the
wool growing States OF the middle
West which the leaders hope to have
in the Democratic column in 1912.
More Canadian reciprocity is pro-
posed in a resolution introduced in
the house to-day by Representative
Ames tRepubIicanl, OF Massachusetts,
which reads:
1T is the sense and judgment OF
this House that negotiation with Cam
ada should be instituted at this time
with view to establishing closer COM
mercial ties and freer trade relations
with that country
senate Guards Rights.
The share the United States Senate
shall have In President Taft's most
comprehensive arbitration treaty ever
made between two nations Is the
most perplexing and delicate question
the trainers of the agreement, now
nearly completed. have To solve.
II was agreed at the outset that
questions involving the vital interest
and national honor" of either coun-
try, excepted from arbitration in all
existing treaties, should be brought
into the scope Of the new treaty. This
agreement at one blow took away the
power. previously invested in the Sen
ate, OF deciding whether tt would SUBJ
nit any question to arbitration.
The solution decided upon, 1t in un-
derstood, is to give the senate power
to ratify, reject or amend the writ
ten statement of the case and the
questions to be arbitrated which shall
be agreed upon by both nations pre-
liminary to arbitration. 1t has been
further decided that there shall be
no permanent arbitration commission.
All questions will be referred to courts
chosen from The Hague tribunal. 1t is
now President TAft's hope that the
treaty will be before the Senate for
ratification by June L.
Hearings Next Week.
Hearings on the Canadian recipro-
city. bill will be held all next week,
1t was unanimously decided by the
Senate committee on finance to-day
To accommodate shoe manufa cturers
who are in the city the committee
Will hold session tomorrow. Ac-
cording to the program the report on
the reciprocity bill WILL reach the Sen-
ate about May Is.
Senator Nelson fRepublican), Min
nesota, appeared before the commit
tee to-day 10 tell OF State anti-re-
caprocfty convention in Minnesota
and to ask that n hearing be given
to delegates who will be sent to Wash
ington. They Will be heard and so
will protesting farmers who have al
ready assembled here