The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-11
UNDERWOOD WISHES ID ADJOURN BEFORE CONVENTIONS MEET Says Wool Bill Will Be the Last of Democratic
 Measures NO NECESSITY FOR
 LENGTHY SESSION Will Have Made Records in Bills Passed and No Use of Doing
 More Until Taft Has
 Chance to Act

Washington March 10.-Curtailment of the democratic tariff revision pro- eramme with a view to speeding up Congress to permit adjournment before the national conventions Is now the expressed aim of the democratic ma- jority in. the House. Republicans and. democrats in the Senate and House arc chafing at the delay n actual legis- lation which threatens to crowd Con gross later.
 Chairman UndeTrood of the House ways and means committee indicated that the wool bill to be reported with in few days is to be tho last revision bill to be presented at this session of Congress. Leaders of both parties in both houses and those who have con- cured have expressed the view that Congress was likely to be away from Washington before the gathering of the republican clans at Chicago on June IS and the democratic at Baltimore on June 25.
 Will Curtail Schedule
 T think our tariff revision bills will end with the woolen schedule, which we expect to report within 10 days" said MT. Underwood today. There is no use for us to go any further until we find out what the Senate is going to do with the bills already passed and what the President Is going to do. We have passed a steel bill and chem ical bill. We will pass a sugar bill and then we will have a wool bill
 We will have made our record on the tariff with these schedules and am opposed to going any further if the work is wasted"
 fha national conventions?p MT. Underwood was asked
 T am doing everything in my power to bring that about and l confidently believe that it will be accomplished. As soon as the sugar bill is out Of the way 1 may bring in the excise tax bill. 1 have not quite made up my mind whether to follow with 1t immediately after the sugar bill is passed, but prob ably will as l view the situation now, ! If not the appropriation bills VIII pc tals sy, aln~ sTtae 5iplo1na tic. post oftt ees ready. These can be hastened through.
 No Reason for Delay
 T see no reason nov why adjourn ment cannot be reached befo4 the con yentions."
 The democratic programme in the Sen ate is to stand solidly behind the House steel bill and in a general way to sup port the democratic measures that come over from the House. The regular re- publicans, standing on what they assert to be definite assurance that the President will veto any revision legislation not based on the tariff board reports will solidly op- pose House bills not based on board re- ports The House democrats are talking of g. free wool bill. though Democratic \ Leader Underwood insists that even silk or rubber would not raise the necessary
 ftf. ,aI Political conditions make the fate Of any such measure on which the House ways and means committee will begin final work next week problematical in the Senate.
 Expect Compromise
 While progressive republican senators, 1t is reported, are not acting generally In concert on the tariff bills, some of them believe, with many regulars of their party, that some ground may yet be reached with the democrats to achieve re- visions in the Senate. Several senators are now preparing a measure with this end in view. Democratic Leader Martin and some of his party colleagues share in the belief that this cooperation may be pos sible after the democratic senators have gone on record for the straight democratic measures. It is question how far the progressives and democrats respectively may be willing to yield.
 The House steel tariff revision bill will be negatively reported to the Senate on Wednesday. At the full committee meet ing on Tuesday the democrats will vote to make minority report in favor of the bill The tariff discussions will not be preclpitated in the Senate probably for a week or more, and in the finance com nlittee will proceed with the hearing on the chemical tariff revision bill. Progress s.ve republican senators generally, about about half dozen democratic senators, already have expressed opposition to the prt posed free sugar bill, although the democratic senators say they count upon several of the progressives to join with them If compromise, with a reduction of @ or 50 per cent on the present sugar nAxfff eho,1ld hai offerad