The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
SENATE DEFERS
DEBATEON WOOL
Schedule Read, After Which
the Free List Is
Taken Up.
VOTE BY SEPTEMBER 10
Night Sessions Not Likely if Present
Rate of Progress with Tariff
Bill Is Maintained.

The expected contest in the Senate
over the wool schedule was deferred.
The Senate yesterday considered the
committee amendments and finished the
reading of the schedule, but substitutes
proposed by SsEASor Smoot, Senator La
Toilette, Senator PenrOse, and Senator
CstrOn went over. It is understood that
these probably will be offered after the
bill has been completed in Committee of
the Whole and is taken up in the Senate
When the Senate adjourned at O'Clock
il was the confident belief of Republicans
as well as Democrats that-a final vote
would be reached in the Senate not later
than September 10, and probably by Sep
tember g.
There was no move made yesterday
either for earlier daily meetings of the
Senate or for night sessions, and it is the
present intention of the Democratic lead
ers not to urge night sessions if the
present progress with the bill is main
tained.
After passing from the wool schedule
the Senate took up the free list large
number of paragraphs were passed over
and approved, but many paragraphs " ere
reserved, and when the Senate adjourned
Chairman Simmons had agreed to recon-
init the amendment providing for an in
spection of importations in meats.
Attacked by CummIns.
Senator Cummins of Iowa attacked the
committee amendment, declaring that il
placed too much discretion in the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. The Senator from
Iowa first proposed an inspection of for
eign meats imported into the United
States equal to that which is applied in
this country to meats produced here.
Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator
a1G rad he nd
Senator Williams agreed with Chairman
Simmons that his subcommittee would
take the matter up and hear Senator
Cummins and amend the paragraph TO
make it unobjectionabIe. One hundred
and fifty paragraphs in the free list were
read, and most of them agreed to. There
was no objection offered to an agree
ment on the agricultural products free
listed.
The shoe and leather paragraph was
passed over on the demands of Senator
Weeks, Senator Gallinger, and Senator
Page. 1t is likely that there will be a
sharp contest over this paragraph.
The paragraphs relating to antimony
ores, indigo dyes, cotton bagging, bind
ing twine, books, engravings, photo
graphs, &c, and fax straw We're re-
served, to be returned to in the future.
The reading of the free list progressed
through more than half of the para
graphs. and it is believed that probably
one-third of the time that will be re-
quired to dispose of it was expended yes
terday afternoon.
There was a sharp colloquy between
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut and
Chairman Simmons. Mr.. Simmons had
suggested that certain predictions of re-
suits to business from the tariff bill, put
forward by Senator Brandegee, was part
of a plan to precipitate a panic.
You said early in this discussion thai
this bill would produce a panic, and
you have been waiting and hoping for
il. although conditions have been grow
ing better each day." said Mr.. Simmons,
addressing Senator Brandegee. ''Busi-
ness conditions on the eve of the pas
sage of this bill are better than they
have been for a long time. This situa-
tion is very discoUraging to the Senators
on the other side who have been hoping
for a panic to improve their political
condition"
Repartee IHduIGed In.
Senator Brandegee replied that the
Democratic party would be a subject for
coincidence and flowers in about three
years. instead OF the subject for con-
graduation on account of the tariff bill
to which Senator James of Kentucky
replied that if the Democratic party was
to be buried he hoped it would find a
more agreeable cemetery than Vermont
and Utah, which, he declared, holds all
that was once mortal of the Republican
party
In the course of the colloquy Senator
Brandegee charged that President Will
son had turned a complete somersault
I'm his tarifr policy. The President had
declared, said the Senator, that the re-
duction of duties should be gradual, and
that no legitimate industry should be
harmed He had then espoused the
House bill, with its sweeping reductions,
and was now reported to be in favor Of
the Senate bill, which was radically diff
ferent from the House bill.
Senator Bristow declared that the pend
ing bill was worse than the Payne-Ald-
rich law.
Among the amendments proposed was
one by Senator Jones of Washington for
graduated inheritance tax The tax
proposed is l per cent on inheritances
less than 5000, increasing TO so per cent
on inheritances of over S15,OOO,OOO.