The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-11
FINANCE COMMITTEE AGREES To
ACCEPT PRESIDENTS VIEWS
ON SUGAR AND WOOL.
FIGHT TO Be IN HOUSE
Opponents Of Free Wool and One Gent
Sugar Will Try to Carry Their Point
in Lower Branch, but Upper Cham
Der Will Accept Bill in the Main as
It Comes Up.

Washington, April 10.-The attitude
of the. senate toward President Will
sons tariff plans, as embodied in the
new house tariff BILL became fairly
well defined today after another meet
ing of the democratic members of the
finance committee. Briefly, the senate
committee will agree to accept the
view of the president and the house
as to free wool and one cent sugar,
with the free sugar in three years at
tachment but it will exercise it's right
to amend other schedules and pro-
visions of the tariff bill as it thinks
best. z.a- &C., ...., s.+#@@
The conference with the president
yesterday brought a working agree
ment under which both the legislative
and the senate leaders have yielded
do not propose to make any general
increase in the rates of the tariff bill
or to make the senate liable to the
charge of having impeded the efforts of
the president and the house toward
tariff reform.
Will Make Changes.
Changes will be made in many
schedules, the work having been start
ed today with consideration of the
first schedule in the bill Some of
the changes, regarded as necessary by
the senate leaders, may be carried over
to the house and put into the bill in
the democratic caucus still in progress
there.
The senate leaders reserve the full
right to make changes after the bill
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2 them necessary to make the tariff re-
vision more equitable and scientific.
The decision to stand with the presi-
dent upon the wool and sugar tariff
issues has brought the various forces
of democratic control into practical
unity, it is claimed. Should the presi-
dent and the house majority refuse
to accept any changes in the wool and
sugar provision, it is understood that
the senate committee will lend it's sup
port to the same program.
The fight against free wool, how
ever, has become more acute at both
ends of the capitol and several state
delegations in the house are appealing
to senators for support in the fight to
retain some duty.
In the House.
The democratic caucus of the house
had reached only the third schedule of
the new bill at the end of todays
work Representative Underwood and
other democratic leaders We're making
no apparent effort to limit debate or
hasten the party's decision on the bill.
This deliberate program has raised
the hopes of the wool and sugar in
terests that they may be able to or
sanize sufficient strength to change
the bill in the caucus so that it will
pass the house with at least a small
duty on wool and without the pro-
vision to make sugar free in 1916.
The opinion is strengthened by the
attitude of the senate democrats. Many
OF them who favor at least a small
wool and sugar tariff are lending their
Influence to the fight in the house, in
out there and will not have to be set
tied in the senate.
Representative Underwood and his
associates of the ways and means
committee, succeeded in plotting the
tariff bill through another days de-
bate in the house caucus without any
changes in its rates. Many phases of
the tariff were gone into with demands
for changes in duties coming in from
many quarters. The greater part of
the day was devoted to work on the