The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-23
|OELAY A GENERAL
| TARIFF REL|S|ON
House Democrats Will At
tempt Nothing More Dur
ing Present Session.
BY RODERick CLIFFORD.

matt IN Ineif pans 10 UNDERTAKE Seu- /
| eraI revision of the tariff at the extra !
session, this recent decision being |
based upon the apparent attitude OF
the Senate not to vote upon any tariff |
| Legislation other than that which is
now before it.
The Ways and Means Committee of
the House is now at work on its bill
revising the cotton schedule, and this
measure will be probably brought into
| the House and passed. This does not
mean, however, that the House will
insist that the Senate take action on
the cotton bill before it adjourns. The
Democratic body will be content in the
event the Senate votes upon Canadian
RECIPROCITY, the wool bill and the farm
| ers free list bill.
| There is a general understanding at
both ends of the Capitol building that
the Senate will have to take action
upon those three measures before ad-
journment is possible. The passage of
| Canadian reciprocity is assured and
it is by no means improbable that the
Senate, through "a coalition of Demo
Gratis and Insurgent Republicans, will
also pass the bill revising the wooden
| schedule. of the Payne Aldrich law,
and the farmers free list bill. These
two latter bills, however, are apt to
be amended in the Senate by some of
the insurgent Republicans, but it is
not believed that the amendments will
be such that all differences cannot be
Strengthened out in conference.
On the other hand. there is re-
port which follows President Taft's
recent cruise with a number of the
Senate leaders Of both parties, that
the President will veto all tariff legis-
lation attempted at this time. AS an
excuse for this action it is understood
that Mr.. Taft will plead that the tariff
revisonists should await the report of
the Tariff Board. Be that as it may,
the Democrats of the House are bound
to demand action at the hands of the
upper body on the three bills named
1t was first intended by the Democrats
that their legislative program would
not be considered complete until the
Senate had taken definite action up
on the cotton schedule, the steel
schedule. the sugar schedule, the iron
SCueuule, ana OtnerS.
1t is only within the past week that
the word has been passed among the
house Democrats that they are will.
ing to halt operations temporarily if
the senate will make some DISPOSE
ton of wool an dthe free list
This does not mean, according to
the Democratic leaders of the house,
that thetariff revision plans of the
Democrats are not to be taken up with
4 renewed vigor at the beginning of the
, regular session in December. In the
event that it becomes apparent that a
Republican senate and a Republican
, President will frown upon all further
attempts to amend the present tariff
law, the house Democrats simply will
bide their time, and will begin right
where they left off, once the new con-
gress is reassembled.
The Democrats feel that a prompt
revision of the cotton schedule is ne
! cessary, but the farmers free list bill
and the bill revising the much de.
, nOunced schedule k-the wooden sche-
dule of the Payne-Aldrich bill is deem.
ed of paramount Importance The
l
all summer rather than miss an op
> portunity to put on record the action
! of the senate on these two important
: schedules. Representative Underwood,
the chairman of the ways and means
committee, on the other hand, has let
= it be known that his party will con.
e sent to an adjournment, even though
. the cotton schedule is temporarily
: sidetracked, in the event the senate
e gets down to business and votes on
the wool bill and the free list bill
e This latter plan, however, does not
indicate that the house has stopped
work on tariff revision. The ways
and means committee is now hard al
e work on the bill revising the cotton
schedule. The cotton schedule will be
+ ready for report within few days,
I and it will mean cut of about for.
ty per cent in the present rates on all
cotton goods and laces. The bill will
p be acted upon by a Democratic eau
; Gus, and will be brought into the
:. house and rusched through that body
irrespective of what reception it may
later receive in the senate
The hot weather in Washington has
practically precluded the chance tina,
the senate will consent to remain lon
: ger in session after it votes on reci
i procity, Schedule Il and the free list
bill. The latter two bills have now
been over at the senate end of the
capitol for two months, while the de
bate has dragged along on recipro.
city, which was sent there soon after
the extra session convened in April
The senate realizes that it must eth
er pass or kill the wool bin and the
free list bill at this session. 1t is
wiling to compromise with the house
and take action on these two meas
ures in the event that the house. in
return, viii agree to adjournment at
ter such action is taken.
q The Democratic leaders of the
House, while they are willing to 81,
out the hot summer in Washington
are nevertheless willing to make
some concessions to the perspirins
Senate. and, as a consequence, the
cotton bill will probably go hy the