The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Democratic Leaders Ad- verse to Changes in
 Underwood Bill
THE HOUSE IS KEY
 TO TARIFF TANGLE
Underwood and House Leaders Do Not Wish to Go on Record as Favoring Partly Protec- v
 tive Tariff

l Washington. July 29.-Democratic lead'
 CTS of the House adopted anything but a
 concliatory tone on the wool tariff sit
 uation today. Chairman Underwood and Representative Harrison of the Ways and l Means committee, and other prominent
 democrats, expressed themselves tonight | in unfriendly terms toward wool tariff compromise with the Senate. that would | mean raising the rates of the original l Underwood bill. Meantime President
 Taft is generally accredited cy those who
 talked with him today as being fully de-
 termined to veto the bill when it reaches him. -.
 | The present situation in the House Is l the key to the entire tariff tangle in Con. gress tpon the action of the Houss rarly next week rests the possibility of further tariff legislation at this session speaker Clark expressed confidence today
 that wool bill would be agreed upon 'n conference, and that 1t would be signed ty the president. Other House leaders however adopted more pessimistic view Of the presidents attitude and contern- plate the presidents veto of any wool bill framed by the present democratic-in- sargent republican coalition in he Sem ate. It is apparently the desire of Chairman Underwood and certain House leaders now to take no chances of peiug placed n record as endorsing a partly protective
 tariff bill They believe the president will veto any bill and they do not want to be an record in favor of any measure except q straight revenue bill, sucn as 'he Un- cerwood bill is claimed to be. Back Of this sentiment is the demand also of an- other faction, of which Representative Harrison of New York Is leader, that The raw wool duty shah not be increased above 20 per cent Tfe general expres- sion is that the Lar ollette compromise till as 1t passed the Senate will emerge from conference as a measure based nn a 90 per cent ad vaiforem on raw wool.
 "The free wool advocates conceded sii 1t was possible for51them to concede wh D the gs1Ilsif6ef wood fbffl was made,p said Representative Harrison, and we be- lieve that the only way to settle the question of revising schedule X is so settle it right. We believe that if it is
 settled now in a compromise with pro lection that 1t will be many more years
 i,efore it is finally settled on the true tasis of revenue tariff" There. was I, real change in the situation in the
 Senate today, the democratic .jnsurgert
 republican coalition maintaining its strength and the parties to that .combi
 nation expressed confidence in their abil- fly to put through revision legislation.
 "The House is absolutely opposed to the wool tariff bill as 1t passed the Sen ate," said Democratic Leader Underwood
 today. "There is no possibility of that bill being agreed to by the House. As 70 what the outcome of a conference will be- if we have conference, I cannot say'
 Tn the event the president should veto the final conference wool bill. the derl- ocratic leaders will begin calculations as to whether the bill can be passed by the House over the presidents veto