The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-06
TODAY'S SPARR|NG
OVER TARIFF
Free Raw Wool, tho Income Tax and
Free Paper and Wheat Flour
Are tho
Items.
UP AGAINST GIBRALTAR
oratory, RidicuIe and Common Sense
Has no Effect and Bill Goes
Through Without
Change.
UP AGAINST GIBRALTAR

l.
WASHINGTON, May 6--Free raw
wool. the income tax and free listing
of wood pulp, paper and wheat flour
were the items in the Wilson Under
wood bill promising big forensic bat
tie in the house today.
Todays political sparring began
over the free meat section. Several
believed the senate would amend the
bill by placing cattle on the free list.
Free wheat flour provided in the ad-
ministration measure provoked anoth-
er wordy squali complicated with re-
publican demands for inclusion OF
wheat in the free list. Canada's prob
able tariff action was drawn into the
fray on the wheat, flour and wood
pulp sections The republicans
charged that, by indirection in the
tariff legislation, the democrats were
in effect attempting to nullify the
Canadian reciprocity treaty.
Representative Sharp, an Ohio
democrat, led the democratic insurg-
ents opposed to the free wool para
graph. About dozen OF the major
ity party supported his stand against
what they termed ruin for the sheep
raisers of the country.
Underwood had his defense for the
wool clause impregnable as ever, the
fight on the proposed tariff slash be-
Ing doomed to defeat at its inception
Before adjournment tonight the house
planned finally to approve the income
section of the bill.
To Adjourn Afterward.
| WASHINGTON May 6.-To adjourn
the house for at least month imne-
diately after 1t passes the Wilson
Underwood bill In order that repre-
sentatives may have vacations until
the senate acts on the measure, was
the plan advanced today by score If
democrats They are canvassing the
house to ascertain If they have a
sufficient majority to put the scheme
through.
The idea is that there will be no
work before the house during the
: time the senate Is deliberating over
. the tariff, except possibly currency re.
form. AS President Wilson's plan
! for the currency bill, it is understood,
contemplates only preliminary constd.
Grafton, proponents OF the vacation
scheme figure that the house could
take a rest. while banking commit
! tee plugged away hearing witnesses
, and gathering data for the bill.
BY law the house may not adjourn
: more than three days except with con
; sent of the senate, but special con
3 current resolution would remedy thai
? effect. A considerable number ot
members favor the vacation plan
Majority Leader Underwood is waiting
to ascertain exactly what President
J Wilson's currency reform program is
L before committing himself. The ex
i pectation is that the president vii
o send special message outlining his
= views on currency by the end of the
+ week.
Strenuous republican efforts to pre-
II vent wheat -four from going on the
o free lost were defeated Minnesota
II members attacked the alleged incon
$ sistency of the democrats in taxinE
y wheat and making -four free. Repre-
t, sentative Anderson OF Minnesota, de
3 clared that the wheat flour "aragrapl
t, was the result of democratic menta
Y tight rope walking" He said tn
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