The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-02
LEADER ANGERED
BY BRYAN ATTACK
oiscloses Fact That Wool Tariffs
Under Consideration Are Near
Wilson Bill Schedules.

washington, d. c., May 31.-Arous
ed by w. ]. Bryan's attack on demo
Gratis who favor a raw wool tariff, Dem
ocratic Leader Underwood made a
statement last night declaring Mr.
Bryan's attitude unjust and unfair,
and disclosing that the wool tariffs
to be submitted to Thursdays demo
cratic caucus are much the same as
the Wilson bill wool schedules.
Mr.. Bryans defiance Thursday OF
the party leaders in the house, his
warning to the democratic members
of the house that the voters are yet
to pass on the wool schedule they are
to ratify and his appeal to them not
to add hypocrisy to the sin" of voting
for revenue on wool have caused in
tense feeling in the party. Nothwith-
standing this, Mr. Underwood, as chair
man of the house committee on ways
and means, last night was insistent in
the prediction that the revenue wool
bill will be approved by a big ma
jority,
I'm my judgment" Mr. Underwood
said in answer to Mr. Bryan, his
statement Is unjust and unfair to the
members of the ways and means com
mittee and to the democratic repre-
sentatives in congress who will sup
port the bill. The ways and means
committee have cut in half the whole
wool schedule. They have reduced
the duty on manufactured goods as
low as they were under the Wilson
bill that Mr.. Bryan voted for when
raw wool was placed on the free list.
In that reduction they have fallen
short of the s4o,000,O0O now raised by
wool $19,000000, and II is necessary
in order to secure this revenue to
place a revenue tax on raw wool i'm
ported into the United States.
Under the high rates of the Payne
tariff bill the tax on raw wool was
highly competitive, nearly one-half OF
the wool used in this country being
imported from abroad. When the
rates on raw wool are cut more than
one half 1t is absolutely at a com
petitive rate, leveled solely for the
purpose of revenue without any of the
essentials of O protective tariff"
Mr.. Underwood said that In the
tariff bill the ways and means com
mittee have even gone further thar
gradual reduction in the tariff tC
which the democratic party in its las
platform was committed.
IF the Wilson bill, which Mr. Bryan
voted for, was an honest reduction o
the tariff in the interest of the people
bill that reduces the taxes on woolei
goods which the people buy as low a
under the bill Bryan voted for and ad
vocated certainly cannot be proteo
tive measure from this standpoint TIL
fact that in reducing these taxes OF
wooden goods we have levied a small
tax on the manufacturers does not il
any way increase the burden of tn
purchasers of woolen goods"
The democratic leader explaine,
that the party and the committee ar
confronted with deficiency in tn
treasury; that the government need
more money, and that the income ta,
is as yet unratified. He said the com
mittee, in reducing the tariff, has t,
so write the schedules that they woul,
bring at least as much revenue a
under the present law. The commit
tee contends that by reducing the rat
and making the tariff more competi
tive more goods will come in and thu
supply the revenue. Under the Wi
son bill the tariffs on wool averaget
about 40 per cent ad valorem figur
comparing closely with the average il
the bill to be made public next Thurs
day.
"The democratic party" Mr., Under
wood concluded, stands essential,
for tariff for revenue, which mean
we shall collect from the custom
houses the revenue required for tn,
expenses of the government. 1t doe
not stand for free trade and do no
believe when this bill is published ant
the people understand the facts the.
will be misled by the statements whicl
Mr.. Bryan has made. I feel sure tn,
democratic caucus will adopt the bill
by large majority and that it viii
be approved by the democratic masses
as a party measure"
carros OF For Rome.