The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-06
WOOL AND SUGAR FREE
OR THERE WILL Be TROUBLE

with sugar duties substantially as at
present, President Wilson says he
will veto the measure and call on con-
gress to do its work over and he will I
make his views SO plain to the peo-
pie that he believes they will aid him
In the attempt to force the senators,
who are responsible for the present
situation, into line. This fact was
learned tonight from an authority very
close to the president and entirely in
his confidence.
There are two methods whereby this
can be avoided. First, is the original
plan to have the tariffs amended in a
series OF bills which would permit the
president to sign all but the sugar re-
duction measure. But the president
has believed from the beginning that
this plan would open the way for log
rolling and this he wants to prevent.
The second method would be to have
the house pass the sugar schedule
along the lines advocated by the presi-
dent and sent it to the senate, the
president meanwhile endeavoring to
enlist public pressure for use in fore
I ing the upper house to accept the
sugar schedule when it reaches that
body.
The president flatly told every SEN
ator who consulted him on the sugar
schedule that he was willing to make
his concession to the sugar interests:
Cutting the duty to $1.20 per hundred
pounds, with the exception of Cuban
sugar, which would be one dollar per
hundred, to remain for three years
and after that sugar to be free. II
this was refused by the advocates of
sugar protection, the president made
ii clear he will insist on immediate
abolition of all sugar duties.
Some of the western senators have
/ told some that they would be willing
to accept the radical cut if the presi-
dent would consent to three year
term being eliminated, that duty be-
ing permitted to continue indefinitely.
So far the president has refused to
consent to this.
i The president is greatly exercised
lover the developments in the situa-
ltion He had been led to believe that
the tariff bill would be modelled along
i the lines he has claimed the Balti-
more platform provided for. His
!. friends say that while he still hopes
! for the best, he is prepared for the
worst and will insist on congress
standing behind him as the national
leader of the democracy. He will meet
some Of the senate leaders and Rep
resentative Underwood, chairman Of
the house ways and means commit
tee, Sunday afternoon, following his
return from church.
The opponents of free wool were to-
night seizing on the sugar develop
ment to aid their cause. They say
that they are willing to consent to 9
very material reduction Of the WOO
tariff but insist that free wool would
cost the ranchers of the far west mil
: lions of dollars.
Veteran senators who called at the
WHllS uOuSC ftoiSOd ehps SAiN
fight on the sugar schedule means {
prolonged session OF congress. Sena
/. tor Smcot, one of the republican lead
. ers who is interested in keeping VI
n the tariff because of the beet suga
industry in his state declared thu
I tariff would not be out of the way be
fore the latter part of July
t "Talk of a short session is anus
e ling" said Smoot. Personally be
r lieve that we will be here until nearl.
: August /, and that there will be NJ
Legislation other than the tariff en-
y acted"
q Plot for Combine.
t WASHINGTON, April Overture
were made tonight to effect an III
surgent combination of senator
it against free wool and sugar to d.
Il feat the administration tariff bill. S
n far the effort has been unsuccessful
o Negotiations will continue tomorrow
e. The "sugar senator's are said to hav
e. made the initial overtures to the al
s. ti-free wool members. To secur
n votes from senators opposed to pla'
d, .Contirued On page Ia