The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-09
WESTERN SENATORS PROBABLY
WILL OPPOSE PROVISION
FOR FREE WOOL.
CAUCuSES ARE HELD
Upper House Conference, Besides Op-
position to Schedule x, Learns That
dock of Kansas Gets Place on the
Ways and Means Committee.

Washington, April S.-The fight for
democratic tariff revision began in
congress today.
President Wilson's personally deliv-
cred message, calling upon his party
associates in both houses speedily to
enact the .party's pledges of tariff re-
vision, was followed by a caucus of
democratic house members which will
continue for several days. and in
which democrats will attempt to set
tie their differences and agree upon
support of the Underwood bill.
Criticism of many features of the
law developed today in democratic
circles in the senate. In a short
caucus of senate democrats, held to
consider other matters, criticism was
voiced by one or two western senators
against. the free wool provision and
the sugar schedule, proposing free
sugar in 1916.
The house democrats settled none.
of the general tariff questions today.
The three hour session was devoted to
an unsuccessful fight to throw the
doors open to the public a proposal
defeated by a score of 1877 to 81.
Details of the new tariff bill will be
taken up tomorrow.
Senate leaders still are insistent that
the Underwood bill be sub divided so
that separate votes may be had it
desired, upon the sugar and wool
schedules One plan that has been
proposed to President Wilson is that
schedules be grouped in such way
that the tariff will be comprised in
fn,
posals are based on a growing belief
that opponents of the sugar and wool
provisions may muster strength
enough to threaten defeat of the bill
Many progressive republican sena-
tors expressed their opposition to the
democratic bill because of the sweep
ing character of it's proposed reduc-
tions The democrats are counting on
little, if any, progressive republican,
support in the senate should the tar
1ff reVisions go before that body as
q single bill.
AS to Publicity.
In the house caucus, Representative
Palmer, the chairman, made a We
hement plea for letting the public
know what it's representatives are do
ing, aligning himself with President
Wilson'S expressed attitude in favor of
throwing all these meetings open.
The opposition centered mainly on
maintenance of party regularity and
the probability of secret preliminary
conferences if the doors We're opened.
Tomorrow the caucus probably vii,
adopt the Ways\and means committee
majority recommendations of the only
committees to be created at this time,
and will reach the tariff program with
the new tariff handbooks in the pocket
of every member as guides. The new
committees as recommended by the
leaders of the three parties follow:
Committees.
Ways and means-UnderWood Ala
bama, chairman; Harrison, New York;
Schackleford Missouri; kitchin, North
Carolina; Rainey, Illinois; Dixon, In
diana; Hull, Tennessee; Hammond,
Minnesota; Peters, Massachusetts;
Palmer, Pennsylvania, Ansbury, Ohio;
Garner, Texas; Stanley, Kentucky;
Collier, Mississippi, democrats. Payne,
New York; Fordney, Michigan; Gard
ner, Massachusetts; Moore, Pennsyl-
Vania; Anderson, Minnesota; Green,