Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30
Proposed Passage of the Free
List Bill With One Chance.
FARM PRODUCTS LEFT OUT
Proposition Finding Support Among
Senate Democrats.
REVISION IN SEPARATE BILLS
Insurgents Agree to Withhold Pro-
posals to Reduce Rates in
Various Schedules.

! To pass the farmers free list bill
unamended. except to strike out of it
agricultural products, is the plan for
which there is strong sentiment
among democrats in the Senate, some
say a consensus of opinion.
Jeffersonian senator's who favor such
a course fear defeat for the measure, If
| it is left open to all kinds of tariff
revision amendments; they fear that
| the adoption of some amendments may
cause the withdrawal of just sufficient
support to bring about it's defeat
Should such a course be adopted, the
democrats would vote against, and there
by defeat all amendments except that
to strike out Of the BILL as it was
passed by the House. agricultural
products.
AS an indication of the serious dis
cussion which this plan is receiving it
is pointed out that insurgent republicans
who have been planning to try to put
on 1t revision of the iron. steel. lead.
sugar, rubber and cotton schedules of
the Payne-Aldrich law have been re-
quested to withhold their amendments
until The democratic course Of action is
determined upon And the proposal of
might prove embarrassin to the demo-
Gratis in mapping out their course.
Agreement Of Insurgents.
The insurgents have agreed to with
mold their proposals, indicating how
close is the working agreement between
the allies that suddenly overthrow the
regulars that have been in control Of
the Senate for over a decade-first, in
ordering a prompt report by the Senate
finance committee on the wool bill, and
second. in causing the passage of a
compromise wool bill by the Senate. The
insurgents are recognizing that the
democrats have the control Of the stu
alton, that they (the insurgents) are
powerless without the help of the demo-
Gratis. and neither side Is showing any
hfgh-handedness in dealing with the
other.
The course which the democrats are
to pursue was the subject of many in
formal conferences between democratic
rooms in the Senate office building did
not see several democrats earnestly
comforting at different times through
out the day.
There is talk. too. among the demo-
Gratis that they will hold a caucus to-
morrow to determine upon their action
on the free list bill and upon amend
ments to 1t; and at that time. several
democrats have announced, they will
urge their acknowledgements to push
except in the one particular already
noted.
Il might favor the placing of some
more articles on the free list, as the
House bill Is strictly a free list bill
now; but beyond that I am not in
favor of going" said a prominent dem
ocrat last night, after he had talked
with a number of his colleagues on the
minority side of the Senate chamber.
Revision in Separate Bills.
THE insurgents. in being asked to
withhold their amendments for revision
OF the metal, sugar and other sched-
ules of the present tariff law. will have
the assurance that the House demo-
Gratis will continue to send over to the
Senate separate bills for the revision
Of separate schedules just as long as
there are any indications that tariff
legislation will be successful.
Just how long that will be depends
entirely on the President. AS you have
said in The Star the contemplated veto
of the wool bill by the President would
indicate that the passage of further
this session is useless, and no further
efforts would be made"
1t Is being conceded by many demo-
cratic senators that the President
would practically prorogue Congress by
a veto on the wool bill OF course,
they admit he has announced that he
will not, by executive order. prorogue
this session. but his veto of the first
tariff revision bill put up to him-the
wool bill-would have that practical
effect.