Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-14
Tariff Question Should Be
Settled This Week.
Prompt Veto Of Each Bill By
President Is Expected.
Much General Legislation TO Be
Fixed Before Adjournment.

tariff revision legislation question will
be settled during the coming week.
which in all probability will mark the
closing of Congress. Almost all of the
members of both Houses are anxious
to get home, despite the vociferations
of the revisionists that they will re-
main in session until fall if the leg
islation can be enacted. All the pow
er of the Democratic party that now
controls the House for the. first time
i'll many years and of the effective
Democratic Progressive Republican
coalition in the Senate, will be cen
tered on quick action on the trio of
pending tariff measures. This means,
in the belief of leaders of both parties,
an adjournment possibly by the end
of the week. or al any rate, within
few days thereafter.
Ont of the present tangled situation
with the three tariff billS-wool free
list and cotton-in varying stages of
legislation. the wool measure will be
the first to emerge. A complete agree
ment between the two Houses has been
reached on this bill. which provides
for = basic average rate of "a per cent.
ad Valorem on raw wool. With the
wool classification provisions identi-
eally as framed by Democratic Leader
Underwood of the House, making d
Hat tariff on all woods, it will be rush
ed past its final stage in the House by
adoption of the conference report
Monday and then hurried over TO the
Senate for adoption there it possible
Tuesday and then on to the expected
Presidential veto which awaits all the
tariff revision bills. The Democratic
leaders are sure of the passage of the
bill over the Presidents veto in the
House, but, are not confident of the
outcome in the Senate. Passage over a
veto requires a two-thirds vote.
The free list bill and the cotton bill
are still hanging up. The conferees on
the free list have disagreed TO the sin
gle House amendment. that adding
lemons to the free list, and TO the
Kern Senate amendment, limiting
free Importation of meat and cereal
products to those countries which have
reciprocal trade arrangements with the
United States. They have agreed on
all the other amendments and the
conference report will be presented to
both Houses tomorrow. There will be
a give-and-take outcome, with pos
sibility of each side receding and con-
curing with the other amendments so
as to ohyiate the necessity of sending
the free list bill back to conference.
The cotton bill has been discussed
without action in the Senate. Senator
La Toilette has expressed belief that
the cotton bill. which already has
passed the House can be put through
the Senate. The Democrats are not so
confident for some of them oppose 1t
on account of its effect on the big cot
ton mill interests in the Carolinas and
elsewhere in the South.
There is variety of miscellaneous
legislation to be cleared up. The cam
paign publicity bill will be reported to
both Houses tomorrow. Its companion
piece. the proposition for direct pop
ular election of United States senators,
has failed in conference and VIII go
over to the mercies of the regular ses-
sion of Congress.
Confirmation of the arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and France,
peace pact program promised in the
Presidents policy, bid fair to go over
until the next session. A legislative
investigation of alleged Irregularities
in the election of United States SEN
ator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin,
already probed into by the Legislature
at Madison, will come up again in the
Senate probably tomorrow or Tues
day, with the assurance of the Senate
providing for thorough inquiry.
A red letter day in what has come
to be known as the Wiley Remsen
board pure food charges investigation
by the House committee on agrieultur-
al department expenditures, is prom
ised for tomorrow when the central
figure. DIR. Harvey w. Wiley. chief of
the chemistry bureau of the depart
ment. will testify, DR.. Wiley's ex-
animation is expected to be sensa
tional.
Both the so-called Steel Trust" in
quiry and the Lorimer election inves-
tigation have gone over until autumn.
The New Mexico Arizona statehood
bill. which the President is expected TO
veto, will be carried on a possibility Of
passage over the veto.
The life of the National Monetary
Commission is at stake on a vote
which the Senate will take at 1.45
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon on the
Cummins resolution calling for that
body to submit it's final report and
dissolve by Dec 4. There have been
strenuous attacks on the commission,
based on alleged extravaganza and de-
lay in submitting results to Congress.
but it's defenders have spared for a
little more time.