Arizona republican., 1911-06-23
TARIFF REVISION
 PUT UP ID THE SENATE
FINANCE COMMITTEE ADVERSELY
 REPORTS HOUSE BILLS.
The Keenest Fears Are Felt for Reef
 proeity.

1 Washington, D. C. June 22.-Tread- | ing gingerly over the ground rendered dangerous by adverse reports made to- | day by the senate committee on finance on the democratic farmers free list and the wool tariff revision bills and startled by the threat that these meas
 ures. together with bills to revise the cotton. sugar lead and steel schedules. would be offered as amendments to the reciprocity bill. the senate concluded today without reaching the expected vote on the Canadian measure. Chairman Penrose of the finance committee fulfilled his promise. made
 in anger on the floor yesterday. when it became apparent that the republican majority had been hobbled bv the coali-
 tiOn of insurgents and democrats and called a meeting of the finance com
 mittee for today. IL resulted in the ad-
 verse reporting of the wool bill. to
 I. and the farmers free list bill. < to Is.
 when these reports were presented
 to the senate every chance Of an agree
 ment for vote on the reciprocity bill
 to be followed by an early adjourn
 ment of the extra session was removed.
 The senate realized that it was con
 frOnted with general tariff revision to which the regular republicans were op-
 posed and for which both democrats and insurgent republicans sought cred- it
 That the senate had entered upon the most difficult stage of it's progress toward action on the reciprocity bill was conceded on every hand IL was admitted that the measure was threat ened with death or amendment that might make 1t unacceptable to Presi- dent Taft. and obnoxious to Canada When the finance committee met today the regular members who had d bare majority of that committee that was once invulnerable, expressed relief that it had been demonstrated that their organization was no longer command; that they could shift the burden to the senate itself and that it was no longer necessary to dissemble.
 At the same time the yiavs of tle| republican regulars that the effect would be to accomplish practically nothing in the present session was voiced by such men as Senators Pen rose and Lodge
 The remarks of the republican lead CTS were expressive of contempt for the democratic bills. Mir Penrose say ing that the wool bill was made over night by mechanics. and that no sen sible body of men would think of de voting less than ten months to re- vision of Schedule K. The question now uppermost is whether the presi- dent would accept any amendments to the reciprocity bill. The demo- crats who hesitate to defeat reciproc- ity by amending if are many; but if | there is d prospect of forcing the president to accept any amendments in |. the way of further tariff revision | the amendments will have a majority | of the senate behind him.
 From the debate over the finance ! committees action the senate ran into l a discussion of the reciprocity bill | Senator Cummins attacking the Root | on the ground that it | would indefinitely delay the relief | which American paper consumers | seek from the grip of the sO-cslled 1 paper trust. Late in the afternoon | there was an apparent effort to bring ! about d vote on this amendment. but | finally. at Senator Nelsen's sugges- ton. the vote on the amendment was | again held over.
 Senator Cummins. in his attack | upon the Root amendment, declared | that he believed the manufacturers of | print paper in the United States ef- | fectually control prices and dictate | the mills from which purchasers may | buy. Senator Nelson declared that | the reciprocity bill could affect only | paper and pulp from privately owned | lands.