The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-20
TARIFF MEASURE GOES THROUGH
THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
WITH LITTLE CHANGE.
GREAT FIGHT ON HAND
Will Be Passed in Lower House by
May IS, 1t Is Expected-Upper
Branch Will Consume Not Over Two
Months in journment
May Come Along About July IS.

Washington, April 19.-The demo-
cratic tariff revision bill with its
sweeping reductions, long free list,
augmented today by the ways and
means committee and it's income tax,
is now ready for debate in the house
of representatives
Approved late today by the demo-
cratic caucus as amended in two
weeks discussion and by the commit
tee in minor features, the bill will be
introduced Monday by Majority
Leader Underwood 1t will be report
ed favorably by the majority of the
ways and means committee on Tues
day and called up for debate on We'd
nesday.
Chairman Underwood predicted to-
night that the bill would be passed in
the house by May Is. Two months,
the administration leaders believe, is a
generous time to allot to the senate
for it's consideration and passage, and
unless it is decided to bring in a cur
rcncy bill thereafter, congress should
be ready to adjourn about July Is.
The bill, as approved by President
Wilson, came through the caucus un
scathed. Democratic opponents to free
sugar in three years and to free raw
wool made the most vigorous fights
on the presidents suggestions adopted
by the ways and means committee, hut
they We're hopelessly out-voted with
little chance to develop enough oppo
sition with republican alliance to do
anything with their amendments on
the floor of the house.
The caucus ratified the bill with its
minor amendments by an overWhelm-
ing vote, some members taking ad-
vantage of the rule granting them
freedom from the caucus pledge to
support the bill in its entirety.
The principal changes made in the
bill We're:
Shoe machinery, buckwheat rye, rab-
bit fur, and phosphorc acid, transferred
from dutiabe to the free list; onyx
reduced from Go to so cents a cubic
foot, to put it on the same basis as
marble; diamonds, uncut, are un-
changed, but cut diamonds increased
from Is to 20 per cent; castor oil, re-
duced from Is to - per cent; cod,
seal and herring oil reduced from 5
to per cent; sperm oil reduced from
5 to per cent vanile beans reduced
from so to 80 cents a pound; salts and
other compounds and mixtures of
Which bismuth, gold, platinum, rhod-
ium, silver, tin, and uranium consti
tute the chief value, cut from Is to 10
per cent.
A Mockery.
Representative Hardwick insisted il
would be mockery not to draw the
lines closely on the offering OF
amendments. He introduced a resolu
ton which was referred for Subse-
quent action, providing that the. tar
iff bill shall be passed under a special
rule restricting general debate to eight
legislative days and that the minority
in the house shall be limited in the
offering of amendments to not more
than two amendments as substitutes
to each schedule and section of tn.
bill and to not more than two amend
mcnts to the bill as a whole and thai
no other amendments shall be in or.
der.
The time when the income tax shall
become effective was left to futur
disposition by the house.
The big argument in caucus toda,
was over the provision that would al
low a 5 per cent discount on all goods
wares, and merchandise imported iii
vessels built in the United States AM
which shall be wholly the property o
United States citizens"
Representative Harrison of Missis