New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-25
Ways and Means Committee
viii Begin Them in the First
Week in January.
WOOL SCHEDULE AT START
House Expected to Stand Pat on
the Revision Bills Which Met
the Presidents Veto
Last Session.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau !

washington. Nov. 2i-The Ways and
Means Committee OF the House Will oegln
It's tariff hearings in the first week IN
January. and will devote its attention hrst
% the wool schedule, according 10 the
oninion OF members OF the committee VINO
are now returning to their legislative du-
ties
REPRESENTATIVE Cordell Hull OF Tennes-
see, a Democratic member OF the COM
rnitteo and the author of the excise '"N
s,tension bill which passed the House las'
session. came to Washington yesteIuaE
and talked of the tentative plans Oh inc
committee. He thinks the tarin hearllss
will include all OF the schedules III me
Payne- Aldrieh act before the Democrats
hiring out bills revising that law
u ,s nrobable. Mr.. Hull believes. that
the tariff bills which passed last Session
and were vetoed by the President may oe
punched" in one general bill. Ihls WIZ
dispose OF the principal sections OF tue
istina tariff act and will not resemoIe pop-
run" revision. After these scheauIes' UI'
"a Diob the Democratic House has alreaoy
oor,rot,tad itself. are disposed o. 'he
Wsvs and Means Committee Will prooeeu
% ,hn remaining sections Of the Payne
Aldrich law.
Although none OF the Democrats no"
here will commit himself on ,t nv
yroposition, Il is the general ieeLhs Iii, III
The House will stand pat on suuSlalii "a
me Underwood WOOL COTTON So 800
chemical bills, which already nav So go,
tbrouph that body. Some changes lIlaS
no mace. II is admitted, but the DeilO-
Gratis are wary Of extensive chanse s's,,,ia
cause of the fear that the chaISe "Uo ra
he made that the former plLiS
nsssed FOR campaign purposes only
oIf we are consistent we cannot repu-
6iste our own bills" said one democrat
nd This opinion is shared by practicaly
ri ~ the members OF the House VINO
have returned TO Washington.
The tariff hearings will partly meet
the complaint that the Democrats are
Iayislating in the dark. All sldeS WIN
he allowed an opportunity TO ar IheH
views hut 1t is regarded as pracuca4ly
certain that no sweeping changes are 10
h. made in the Underwood bills OF last
session, ami il any compIo'I'S'
reached It must be in the Senate
During the tariff debates In the IaS'
,.ssion II was freely charged that the
Dsr,ocrats were simply playing poli"OS
n the passage Of bills destined to meet
f.. veto at the White House. where the
President was insntent that fev'S'o''
sbopld proceed along scientific and not
baphazard lines. The same charges W.
,s,terated during the campaign ana H.
dignantlv denied by the Democrats
70 the Ways and Means Committee ID
Oh. light Of the recent election, shouia
now reverse itself and bring In oli's ui-
IKE those reported by the same commit
Tee under q different administrator
,ba Democrats would have consideraO'e
svn,aining TO do. For the sake OF con-
s,stently. therefore, IL nothing else, 'ne
House will for a time adopt an a''''oUe
Of satisfaction with its own work
owing 20 the importance OF the "ooI
,c,eduls. Il is virtually assured that TINS
viii be the subject OF the first hearings
held. Hearings on the cotton scheou'e
nrobablv will follow, and then those IN
,srssted in the steel, chemical ana sugar
.cb,dules will have an innins.