Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
SOUTH FILLS PLANT
ON Coffin TARIFF
But Amendment by Webb is
Voted Down

Washington, D. c., April 16.-Demo.
cratic representatives from all sections
are being besieged in letter and BY
personal Representatives of insurance
companies protesting against their in
clusion as taxable corporations unde,
the corporation tax provision of tho
tariff bill now under consideration be-
fore the house.
representative Hull, of Tennessee
authorif the income tax feature, saio
today thath is desk is piled with mail
from insurance companies prote ting
that they are not proft-making orgaul-
zations. The matter may be brougat
up in caucus, but the leaders decla .
that insurance organizations were gi :
eli careful consideration when the Law
was framed and that opposition viii
not avail.
The anti free raw wool representa-
tlves have organized for the contest
and although the odds against them
are admittedly overwhelming they
propose to make a determined struggle
to bind the caucus to Is per cent. du-
ty on raw wool as a substitute for its
fee listing by the committee at the
request of President Wilson.
Representative Ashbrook, of Ohio, is
chairman of the free wool opponents
conference. Failure in the caucus may
result in requests for exemption from
the pledge so the fight may be contin-
ued on the floor of the house.
Citrus fruits and cotton and wheat
were the chief targets of the opposition
in the caucus yesterday, the cotton
schedule still being under considera-
ton upon adjournment
No changes were made in the COM
bill as a result of the days
advocates of increased du-
ties on wheat as we'll as those favoring
its free listing being voted down anil
members who urged increased duties
on citrus fruits, pineapples, cotton
yarns and other articles meeting a
like fate
Representative Underwood, chat
rman of the ways and means commit
tee, who has been i'll, was able to re-
sumo control of the bill in the caucus
yesterday Representative Rainey, of
had charge of the agricultural
schedule.
The most stubborn opposition of the
day came from Southern members on
some of the cotton rates. Representa-
tive Webb, of North Carolina, propos-
ed an increase in the proposed rates
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finished yarns. The committees rates
OF duty ranged from 5 per cent. to %
per cent. The Webb amendment would
have increased the rates, beginning II
10 per cent on the lower grades and
running up to 80 per cent. on the
higher grades. The amendment was
voted down by vote of 10 to "a, the
first roll call of the day
Representative Broussard, of Louis
lana, vigorously assailed the proposed
duties on chicory, chocolate and cocoa,
dandelion root, acorns and other sub
stitutes for coffee proposed in the
committee bill, moving to place them
all on the free list as a boon to the
breakfast table.
He called attention to the recent
holding up by the government of Bra
lillian coffee and urged that the peo-
pie were entitled to coffee substitutes
without any tariff. His amendment
was voted down, however, adherents
OF the committee explaining that the
reciprocity features of the bill woul |
afford means for negotiations for Brat
lillian trade.