Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-20
QUESTION Of DATE
| |SNOT YET SETTLED
Phase Of Tariff Question of
Interest to Manufacturers
and importers.
WOOL SCHEDULE FIGHT
TO FIGURE IN DEBATE
Revision Plan Agreed to by House
Committee Passes Scrutiny of
Statistical Experts.

| Although the House ways and means
Of when the tariff revision laws will take
effect, 1t is believed the schedules will
| become active as soon as approved. Man
| ufacturers and importers are intensely
interested in this phase of the tariff, as
outstanding orders Will be seriously af-
fected in some directions. Clothing men
especially have asked that the laws be
not effective until December or January,
as In that trade the product Is made
several month ahead of the current sea-
sons.
The fight on the old stumbling block
Schedule X, or the wool schedule. Will
be heard from again, probably in the
House and surely in the Senate. The
ways and means committee has decided
in favor Of Is per cent duty.
Free lumber viii meet the earnest oppo-
sition of men from the lumber states, of
course. Most of the western or middle
western men will have something to say
'sebout the proposed low schedule on agri-
cultural products, and the reduction OF
| the sugar tariff will undoubtedly cause
| smoke and ruction in the Senate.
The Senate committee will begin con-
| sideration Of the complete revision bill
as soon as it is passed upon by the dem
1 OCIdtlC CAUCUS III Ifie I1OuSc anu WIlIoul
waiting for the House to act upon it..
The sentiment in both houses has devel-
oped strongly In favor of a single tariff
bill embracing the whole revision. in
stead of separate bill for each schedule
| Should the House adopt this plan Sen
ate leaders declare the tariff bill will be
passed quickly in the Senate.
To Draft No Republican Measure.
Representative Payne Of New York.
ranking republican of the ways and
means committee, said today that while
| there would be a minority report on the
tariff bill by the republican members oil
the committee. there would be no time to
present a republican tariff measure, as
| the republicans will not be called in to
the committee to vote on the democratic
bill until that measure is ready to be re-
ported to the House.
! The tariff revision agreed upon in the
| House committee on ways and means has
| been carefully analysed by corps of sta
| tistical and customs experts temporarily
| quartered in the committee offices. Rep
| resentative Hull of Tennessee, who will
| frame the income-tax feature of the bill
| and Representative Peters of Massachu-
| sets have been comforting over the adj
| ministrative features for report to the
| full committee. The committee plan is to
| retain most of the administrative sections
of the present tariff law. and the income
| tax has yet to be formally voted upon
Ringing upon the analysis Of probable re-
| turns from the fourteen schedules of du-
| table articles.
Whether the appropriations committee
will be named at the outset of the ses-
sion depends largely upon a coming con-
| ference between Chairman Underwood OF
/ the ways and means committee and
I Chairman FitzRErald5 of the apnropria
| tons committee. Democratic leaders
point out that with the Overwhelming
democratic majority it would be easy to
suspend the rules and act on the failed
sundry civil and Indian appropria ton
/ bills.