New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-30
Serene E. Payne Says They
Must Pass Last Session Bills
or StuItify Themselves.
DANGER IN OMNIBUS PLAN
Democratic Senator's Suggest
That They Be Allowed to Share
in Preparing Party Reve-
nue. Measures.
LFrom nc Trlbune Rureau.I


Serene +. Payne, author of the current
! tariff law and ranking Republican mem
Der Of the Ways and Means Committee,
| predicted to-day that the Democrats
would undertake q scheduIe-by-schedu
revision of the tariff and must pass
| again. in substance, the Underwood tar
| in bills vetoed by President Taft
The Democrats would stultify them
selves, Mr.. Payne asserted, unless they
stood pat on the Underwood wool, cotton,
steel and chemical bills on which the
| party went on record during the last
session.
The Democrats said these bills We're
honest" declared Mr. Payne, Now, II
these measures are not passed again 1t
Will show that those bills were dshon-
est, or that the new measures are dis
honest.
III the Democrats do not pass practi-
cally the same bills as they put through
the last House-the wool, cotton, steel
and chemical bills-they will stutify them
selves. They declared these bills were IN
strict accordance with the Democratic
ideas OF tariff revision. They were held
out to be for revenue only, without any
protective features. and such as would not
| harm any industry. 1t is now up TO the
party to stand by these statements
Mr.. Payne advised that Representative
Underwood, the majority floor leader, IN
dertake a piecemeal revision Of the tar
| if'. instead Of making an attempt % pass
an omnibus measure.
Advice to Underwood.
Il think Mr.. Underwood Will De wise
! II he undertakes a schedule by schedule
revision" said the veteran Republican.
| In this way he can get votes in the
Senate for many schedules which might
be lost If carried In Il general tarin bill.
The Democratic majority in the
House is unweldy. | think they would
be able TO accomplish more after March
4 n their majority were nearer what II Is
in the present Congress. 1 do not think
the Democrats will he able to revise the
sugar tariff, At least, TO the extent Of put
ting sugar on the free list, for two years.
| There are too many Democrats, parucu-
| larry in the Senate, who would vote
against free sugar
Representative Payne said he expected
| the Democrats to take the tarin off all
highly protected industries.
They favor taking all tariff on sugar
/ 4 young industry he said, bit ironi-
cauy, yet they would leave tariff on
steel which presumably, according 10
| Democratic reasoning. Is another young
( Industry
| Mr. Payne said he expected extensive
| hearings would be held by the Ways and
| Means Committee before any tarin bills
were presented. Nevertheless, he figured
that the Democrats, 70 be consistent
must report substantially the bills or last
session affecting the wool, cotton, steel
and chemical schedules. or else he party
| would Tepudiate its own measures and lay
| itself liable TO the renewed charge thai
the bills Of the former session were
! framed solely with the idea OF putting
President Tart TN "a hole and without
cN p-ctatiou that they would become law.
When Mr. Underwood begins. tO-mor-
row. his conferences with House assOci-
utrs over the plans for tarir revision
next spring he will he met with q suSges-
ton from Senate Democrats that the
Senate be allowed first hand chance at
the framing of the tarn bills for the
Wilson administration
A plan for cooperation between the
Democrats OF the two houses, which mas
been advocated for some time by Senator
Hgke smith, OF Georgia, and other Scna-
tors. is receiving attention from incom-
ing members, and has secured consider
able support. Chairman Underwood VIII
be urged to make the Senate an integral
part OF his tariff machine from the be-
ginning OF work on bills for the special
session.
The making Of tariff bills belongs eNcIu-
slyrIy to the House, the Senate getting
the measures only after the House mas
completed them. Democratic members OF
the Senate Finance Committee are urs-
ing. however, that that body ana the
House Ways and Means Committee De
converted informally into II jo.t BODY
and that the Two houses work In harmony
from the beginning.
Mr.. Underwood's Idea.
Representative Underwood reached
Washington late tonight, and SAID the
Democrats would be inclined to pass asaln
substantially the same bills passed by
the House at the last session and vetoed
| By the President
."The Democratic caucus" SAID MT. IN
Jerwood. the party and the people have
| snproved OF the bills They will be the
basis for the hearings 10 be conducted by
the WAYS and Means Committee ana OF
the tariff bills OF the extra session.
ut has not been definitely decided but
think the revision will be schedule by
schedule. 1t is the intention of the House
leaders TO keep in touch with President
elect Wilson and to consult freely with
him regarding tariff legislation
Mr. Underwood said the Democrats
would begin hearings on the tariff IN tnn
| immediate. future. in order 10 have tarlh
bills ready 10 present 10 the new Demo-
cratic Congress when it convenes. The
short session. he added. would be devoted
| almost entirely TO appropriation bills.
II two more states ratify the income tax
amendment. Mr.. Underwood asserted,
| general income tax bill will be part OF
the Democratic tariff plan, and such a
measure will be- made d companion to one
Of the separate tariff bills or part OF an
omnibus bill
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