The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
House Leader to Defer to Wishes of Wilson in Regard to Extra
 Session
TO, CONSULT SENATE, BUT HOUSE WILL MAKE THE ORIGINAL BILLS
Mir. Underwood Thinks Suggestion to Merge Finance Committee of the Senate and Ways and Means
 Committee Impracticable.
 The Archibald Case

Washington, November 9o-To Presi- dent-eleot Wilson will be left the task of determining whether the tariff alone is to be considered at the special session of Congress next spring, or whether gen eral legislation shall be taken up. and whether the tariff is to be revised as a whole or by schedules.
 Representative Oscar w Underwood chairman of the ways and means com mittee of the House, and democratic tariff leader, said today he would make no de- cision on either of these points until he had talked with President-elect Wilson. He will meet Mir. Wilson probably in. New York late in December or early in Janu- ary, and the plans for the extra session then will be elaborated and given to the public.
 Famous Schedule Plan
 T can express now only my own opin- ion as member of the committee" said Mir. Underwood. q favor going through the entire tariff law and revising and re- forming every schedule. Whether the re- vision will be in a single bill or in a series of bills, each to cover a single schedule. will not be determined by the X committee until we know what Mr. Will Son desires.
 ~grhe House desires to work in entire f1arhqony with the President, and to that end 1t will be guided by his wishes as fully A,s possible.'
 MT. Underwood talked with many nem- bers of the House today and received va- rious expressions of opinion as to what the present and the extra session should do. The ways and means committee will have q general meeting late next week, and the members then will begin plans for wilich all persons will be allowed to pre- sent flleir farlff views.
 The desire of Senate democrats to par ticipate in tlia original making of the tsriff bills drew-a definite statement from Mr. Underwood that the Senate would be fully consulted in all matters Of prep- aration. but that the House would reserve 10 itself its full authority to make the original tariff bills.
 Will Not Merge Committees
 q think the members Of the ways and means committee would be willing to con- fer freely with the membrs of the finance committee of the Senate, as well as with individual members of the Senate, with reference to 0 tariff bill, he said. We should endeavor if it Is possible to do so, to send bill to the Senate which is going to meet the approval of the dem ocrats of the Senate when 1t gets over there.
 But think that is as far as you can go. You cannot have general com mittee of the two houses 10 write a tariff bill because the ways and means committee is responsible to a different constituency than the finance committee of the Senate. We have to bring in a bill which will De satisfactory to the member ship of the House and the Senate finance s-- ittee has to bring in one that is satisfactory to the membership of the Senate.
 "If we had a general committee and the Senators sent something to the House that did not meet with the approval of the House, it would be making us stand for something that our consciousness would not stand for. The result is we will have 10 prepare our bill with the sentiment of the House in view, and we cannot afford to surrender that to anybody outside of the House
 There probably will be differences between the two houses in the end, on questions arising in the tariff bill, but when these differences go to conference they can be settled by compromise. The Senate may put amendments onto the
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