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PLAN RAPID WORK;
ON new TARIFF
Ways and Means Committee
men Have Data.
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UNDERWOOD TO DIRECT
The Only Sign of Friction Among
the Democrats Concerns the Sugar
Schedule.

The Only Sign OF Friction Among
the Democrats Concerns the Sugar
Schedule.
Washington, Nov. 17.-Leading DEM
ocrats agree with Senator John Sharp
Williams that the work of the extra
session of congress should be confined
to tariff and trust legislation.
Bills reducing the tariff on metals.
wool. cotton and sugar will be passed
by the house early in the session and
later the chemical and minor sched-
ules will be taken up.
The ways and means committee has
collected tariff information, gathered
together by tariff experts. It was said
by Chief Clerk Roper, Of the commit
tes, that there will be no necessity for
q long-drawn-out fight over any of the
tariff bills. The ways and means com.
mittee, as it is now composed, will
not be changed much by the new con
gress.
Unless there should be an unlocked
for revolution in the house, Oscar w.
Underwood will be the dominant fac
tor in framing tariff measures, as he
was last session. He has the best or
CARRIED committee in congress. and
his subcommittee will be put to
work on. the various schedules the day
the extra session convenes, and one
schedule after another will be brought
out as they we're in the last extra ses-
sion The committee, as far as the
Democrats go. Is harmonious organi.
cation.
Senator Simmons, who Is in the line
Of promotion to the craftsmanship of
the senate finance committee, is on
friendly terms with Representative
Underwood. He has said that he will
redeem the pledges Of the Democratic
platform as accepted at Baltimore.
Senators Martin and Simmons will ar
rive home next week, and Represen-
tative Underwood Is due on Wednes-
day.
President-elect Wilson and the lead.
ers of congress worked in harmony
during the campaign. They will work
together in Washington, 1t Is believed,
and the president will be the buffer
between the leaders of the senate and
house and William ]. Bryan, should
one be needed.
While the president-elect Is resting
ct Bermuda during the next few
weeks, the Democrats of the two
houses will endeavor to settle the gen.
eral program to be followed at the OK.
ira session. 1t has not been deter
mined as yet whether one general bill
will be introduced. embracing wool,
cotton, iron and steel revisions, which
the Democratic house, has previously
passed, or whether each of these tariff
schedules will again be brought for.
ward In the form OF separate bill.
Little time. will be necessary. it ID
believed. to perfect wool. cotton. me-
I'll and chemical bills, but the Demo
cratic leaders are not agreed over the
sugar tariff, and this situation is puz-
sling the managers of the party in
both houses. The house free sugar
bill, passed at the last session. did not
meet the approval Of the Democrats In
the senate, and it still rests In con-
ference committee of the two houses.
President elect Wilson's determine
ton to call the extra session perfects
q record of practically z. continuous
work upon the tariff since the special
session called by President Taft In
1909. Following the general revision
of that year, embodied in the Payne
Aldrich bill, there have been attempts
to devise a Canadian reciprocity sys-
tenn, and 70 revise certain schedules Of
the tariff law, but no changes in the
tariff have been effected since tire pas.
sage of the Payne-Aldrich law.