The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-16
CAUCUS STILL CONSIDERING
 TARIFF BILL What The Connecticut Delegation Is De-
 ing
DOnOVan's Story of Camp Meet ing Gets Laugh at Expense of
 Tardy COngresSmen
(By Our Washington Corres.)

w WaSn1nsIOn, Apr11 10-1naC the tar If comes pretty near being local question is proven by the manner in which the Democratic caucus is treat ing with the Underwood tariff bill. While there are attempts made to amend it by Representative when products of their respective districts are affected there does not seem to be a single one of the Representatives with a grievance of enough size to win a majority of the caucus to his standard. Each member and his as- sociates are apparently of the opinion that as a whole, the bill is all right except for the size of the reduction that it makes upon goods made in his or their respective sections of the country. That the remonstrants have not been able to amend proves that the Ways and Means committee have put about the smoothest set of rollers under the bill that ever were intend ed to carry a tariff bill thorugh the House. The kicks from members from their sections is the most positive proof, in the Nations history, that General Hancock was right in his famous declaration that-''the tariff is a local question:"
 What the Senate will do w1rn the bill that is the handtwork of two years of toll by the Ways and Means com mittee remains to be seen.
 Up to last night nearly one quar-
 
 been discussed by the Democratic members and so far the change in the shoe machinery schedule is the only one that has been made, and that was to remove the duty of the shoe machine trust and put their pro- duct on the free list. The members had in this direction the fact still fresh in their minds that the shoe people asked for free hides a.. few years ago and said that they could hold their own with the world if they had free hides. The result was that the prices of shoes went up despite the fact that the duty had been taken off from leather.
 The hope that had been expressed g. week ago that the bill would be ready for the Senate by the first of May has disappeared. It is believed week, and that fully two weeks will be taken with the bill on the floor of the House before the bill goes to the Senate.
 Representative Oscar Underwood. who has been absent from the caucus tack of acute indigestion returned tc the floor yesterday morning.
 After the recess yesterday RepreSen- tative Kennedy said that when Sched- ule K comes up dealing with the wool en schedule he would ask for an in crease in the schedu1e on manufac- tured woolens in view of the fact that raw wool is going on the free list
 Representative Donovan will ask that the tariff on manufactured hats be made 50 per cent. or 55 per cent instead of 40 per cent. He will also ask that Coney skins, rabbit skins and hare skins, the raw materials which go into the workingman's derby hat, be placed on the free list. If he 0RG than any of the other represen tatives have been able to do, but he is win ming the admiration of his fellow: mem bers by his persistence
 The member from the Fourth Con necticut has not missed ten minutes Of the caucus since it opened. A few days ago while seeking some changes in the schedule on machine tools a gentleman from Mississippi said that he was not aware that there was any demand in Connecticut for a change in the bill drafted.
 MT. Donovan responded that the gen. tleuan from Mississippi and a num- Der of his colleagues who attended ball games while the House was in session reminded him of a negro revival meet ing that he had witnessed in the South several years ago. The meeting was being held in a large tent and when the revivalist was exhorting at his best a man with g. load of waterrnel- OnS appeared on one S1de or the tent and a dealer in lottery tickets on the other. Tn a short time the revivalist found himself nearly alone beneath the canvas.
 The member from Connecticut said that the gentlemen from Mississippi undoubtedly wanted a tariff but could not stand the strain of knowing that the Nationals were performing that day. The comparison made hit and the crowd that left the caucus to see the opening game of the season looked "a theE sheepish when the Connecticut me ember got a laugh from his story. ] is Thomas L. Reilly, of Meriden, for mer owner of the Jersey City Eastern League team. But MT. Reilly never budged from the caucus no matter how much he likes to see the National game
 President Wilson sent to the Senate | yesterday a long list of postrnasters 1 for confirmation but none was from | Connecticut.
 Representative Lonergan of Hart ford has sent to the Post Office de- | partment the recommendation that l Perkins be made postmaster at SuffieId, a third class office with | Porter be postmaster at Glastonbury, a second class office with salary of $2,100.
 Senator Mclean yesterday intro duced a bill to increase the pension of Mrs. A. Parmly,of Haddam, widow of Owen Parmlee, late of Co. I, 11th from SIP to $30 a month, and an increase of a similar amount In the pension of Mrs. Margaret E.