Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-07
NICKNAME IS GIVEN
"Surrender Tariff" Applied to
Proposed Schedules.
FREE LIST SPECULATION
Believed It Will Meet With Popular
Favor-Next Ways and Means
Committee.
The surrender tariff.

The surrender tariff
That is the name which republican
members OF Congress have already given
u the tariff revision law which the dem
ocrats will pass i'm the coming special
session The name. the republicans say,
Las been suggested by no less a person
than Oscar W. Underwood. chairman of
the House ways and means committee.
They point to remark made by Chair
man Underwood to John 4. Topping.
president of the Republic Iron and Steel
Company. on the evening Of January II:
eve want YOU TO surrender a very
small part of your market for the benefit
of the government
Similar comments have been made by
the chairman at other times during the
hearings on tariff revision. Hence the
republican decision to call the new tariff
'the surrender tariff
Free List Articles.
From the developments at the hearings
end mis- know ledge of the democratic atti-
tude, a. republican tariff expert in the
House has made up list OF articles now
ra;ing duty under the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law which he believes will be put
on the free list by the bill of the demo-
cratic House ways and means committee.
Hero is the list: Lumber. rough and
dressed: meats of all kinds. cereals of
all kinds including barley: food products
generally. sewing machines, typeU-riters,
linotype machines and printing presses.
agricultural implements bituminOus coal.
bags for agricultural products and cot
ton. cotton ties, steel rails. wire fencing.
laundry soap, leather. shoes. harness and
saddlery. lemons. sugar.
There is TO be a contest among the
Il, a,sr
list. with the chances not favoring free
wool
Heavy reductions in the duties on pine
apples and oranges are predicted.
Rates on Tobacco.
No changes are expected in the rates
on tobacco. liquor. laces, silks and fine
grades OF china.
You can paste that in Your hat. for
reference when the bill Or bills revising
the tariff schedules come out next
spring. commented this republican in
showing the list. with an air of CONT
dence.
1t is admitted, of course. that the
Senate may not accept all such proposals
and that the free list probably will not
include !. IL oil. these articles when the new
tariff law is signed by President Wilson.
The predictions. 1t is explained. are in
tended to refer only to the House ways
and means committee.
Over the placing OF some of these
articles on the free list, il is admitted
there will be a strong contest among
the democrats themselves. And a suffi-
cient number of democrats may join with
the republicans, 1t is further admitted.
to prevent such action.
Disregarding the tariff questions in
volved. il is admitted this new free list
will meet popular favor. 1t will contain
the free breakfast table features
cereals of all kinds and other food prod
ucts and meats of all kinds. Especially
for the housewife, there are laundry soap
and sewing machines; for the farmer
there are agricultural implements and
wire fencing: for Mr.. business Man and
Mr.. Breadwinner there are shoes, lum-
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