Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-04-21
Washington
SUPPLIES WILL
GO ON THE FREE LIST
Democrats Will Supplement
Reciprocity With Measure
for the Farmers.

NaSnllSlOn. april 10. Two OF the
tariff measures the democratic house
expects TO pass In advance of any gen
err. legislation We're introduced today
by Chairman Underwood OF the COM
miLtee on ways n mean They are:
II bill for Canadian reciprocity, fol-
lowing the Identical lines OF the Nc
Call bill passed last session except for
a clause authorizing the president to
continue negotiations for reciprocity
with Canada On articles not covered by
the pending agreement.
A bill to put on the free list about
100 articles now dutiable under the
general tariff.
Both will receive early consideration
The free list bill is designed TO pla-
cate m for agricultural losras,
which they will sustain under the Can
adam agreement, but ii contains alst
some food stuffs and hocts and shoes.
The list is as follows:
Plows, harrows, headers, haryesters,
reapers, agricultural drills and plant
ers, mowers horse rakes, c~ultivators,
threshing machines. cotton gins, farm
wagons, farm carts, and all other agri
cultural implements, including repair
parts.
Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth anC
fabrics suitable for baling cotton; bur.
laps n bags for sacking agricultural
products; hoop or band iron or stee'
" btLAllAS SOAINAlr 1 " DblljIE nay
straw and other agricultural products:
grain leather, huff. split, rough Or sole
leather, bend or betting leather boots
and shoes, harness, saddles and
sadd!e-y and leather Ecr :32c2s2cturc5
articles; barbed fence wire, wire rods;
wire strands or wire rope, wire woyer
or MANUFACTURED for wire fencing.
Meats of all kinds. fresh, sailed,
picked. dried. smoked, dressed or I'm,
dressed, prepared or preserved in any
manner, bacon, hams, shoulders, lar
lard compounds and lard substitutes;
sausage, buckwheat flour. cornmeal
wheat and rye -four, bran, middiings,
and other offals of grain, oatmeal and
rolled oats, and all prepared cerea,
foods, biscuits. bread, waters and Sim
liar articles not sWeetened: timber,
hewn, sided or squared, round timber
used for spars or building wharves
shingles, laths, fencing posts, sawed
boards. planks, deals and other lum,
Der, rough or dressed, except ebony
mahogany. rosewood and al other
cabinet woods.
Sewing machines and salt complete
the free list.
Washington. April R.-Reciprocity viii
Canada and a farmers free list, il was de-
cided at the democratic caucus held las
night, will be the legislation taken up IL
the order named In the present House O
Representatives.. The wooden and cotton
schedules. according 20 present indications
will follow.
In the caucus there was no opposition Il
Canadian reciprocity, and no changes o.
additions to the. bill as presented by
Chairman Underwood Of the House way
and means committee were offered bJ
those present.
On the free list will be included those
things which the farmer needs most
namely agricultural implements, dressed
meat and meat products, -four, rough lum
Der, boots, shoes and saddles; wire fenc
ing, bailing wire. cotton bagging. cottor
ties. bagging ties, buriap and salt.
on many of these products the present
tariff is practically prohibitive and ther,
are few importations OF them on that &C.
count. 1t Is impossible for this reason II
estimate what the difference will amoun1
to by putting them on the free list.
In the debate which followed Chairman
U~nderwood's presentation of the general
plan a dispute developed on the part OF
several members TO demand that Canadiap
reciprocity and the free list bills be com,
hlned. Representative Rucker, OF Colo
RADIO, and Shirley, Of Kentucky, led In eff
forts to oversize the majority. but the
ways and means program was generally
supported.
1t is probable the Canadian reciprocit.
bill will be introduced Thursday. Its intro,
duction and the farmers free list bill as
caucus measures will not stand in the way
OF immediate introduction of the three i'm
portant measures-popular election OF
senator's, publicity before election OF cam.
paign contributions and statehood for Ari.
IONA and New Mexico. These are not tc
be treated as caucus measures, but will
come in as party bills and will be taker
up for action as soon as they can be re-
ported from their committees. Another
caucus is to be held to debate the revision
OF the wool and cotton schedules, TO be
taken up in the House following the pas
sage Of the reciprocity and the free list
bills.
The caucus voted a straight endorsements
OF the Underwood reciprocity bill, l2S ayes.
% nays and 6 voting present.
The caucus added a provision to the Tn.
derwood reciprocity bill calling on the
president TO continue negotiations with
Canada with a view Of establishing fur.
Their reciprocal trade relations.
Mr. Fitzgerald, OF New York, fought this
provision, but he was voted down.
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It required more than two hours in the
House OF Representatives to elect it's new
committees. It was the first time I'm his
tory that the committees had been elected.
Former Speaker Cannon taunted the
democrats with having approved as the
republican representatives on the vari-
Gus committees practically the same men
whom he as speaker had put on these
committees in the last House. The repub-
leans charged the democrats with gross
unfaIrness in cutting down the minority
membership on the most important COM
mittees.
Mr.. Underwood. the democratic leader.
replied that the democrats had based the
proportionate representation on the COM
mittees strictly according to the democrat
&c majority la the House itself.
"Thi Is, moreover" he said, .the first
time a minority leader has been permitted
to name his committees and has had them
adopted by the majority without dorting
an 81" or crossing a t..
This statement was cheered Loudly by
the democrats.
Republican Leader Mann cited several
alleged Inconsistencies and his
were seconded by Messrs. Cannon and
Gardner, OF Massachusetts,.
Seeking particularly as to whether At
torney General wickersham has any out
side employment which would d~isqualify
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