Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-28
Big Guns Had Been Held Back
for Final Day of General
Discussion in House.
NO TREATY VIOLATIONS,
SAYS LEADER UNDERWOOD
Declares Protests Of Foreign Gov
ernments Against Provisions Of
Bill Are Groundless.

A rush of speechmaking on the final
day of general debate on the tariff bill
made lively proceedings in the House.
Most of the members had held back with
view of getting the larger audiences
expected with the closing Of the general
debate. and the shifting of the considera- :
ton of the Underwood tariff revision to
a reading of the measure under the five
minute rule beginning tomorrow.
Chairman Underwood has not changed
his view that the bill should be disposed
OF in the House within a week from to-
day. and that the sugar schedule is not
likely to offer much real trouble. He
hoped that unless the fight of tine anti
free wool advocates spreads, the bill will
emerge from the Senate substantially in
the form in which it stands.
Representative Rainey of Illinois,
who had charge Of the agricultural
schedule of the bill as a member of the
ways and means committee; Repre-
sentative Murdock of Kansas. the
leader of the progressives, along with
Representative Chandler of New York
and others of that party and some Of
the big guns of the republicans. were
on today's speaking program
Dawn Of a New Era.
resented the dawn of a new era in the
governments fiscal policy, making
lighter the burdens of taxes upon con-
sumers and compelling great wealth to
contribute its fair share toward pay
ing the government expenses"
He pointed out that no government
that had adopted an income tax sys-
tenn and given 1t fair trial had re-
pealed it.
I'VE make the tax the highest upon the
great incomes and lowest upon the small
incomes, taxing A., 900 in all. and expect
ing to collect from them at least $TO,O
600 He said the tax would reach 126.OOO
incomes that amount to between $4,000
and 5000 year. from which the govern
ment expects to collect only $63O.0oO. an
average Of s. per income. and would
reach 100 incomes amounting TO more
than S1.OOOOOO each per year. from which
collection Of nearly $6O0000O is ex-
pected-
He declared that the revision would
end the alliance between the protected
woolen mills of the east and the WOOL
producing states Of the west.
Underwood Defends Bill.
Democratic Leader Underwood, framer
OF the new tariff bill, contends the
United States is.entirely within its rights
in the provisions Of the bill against which
foreign nations have protested. The
clause which would grant a per cent
tariff preference on goods imported in
American vessels. and which has caused
protests from a number Of nations, Mr..
Underwood says, is to encourage the
building of American ships, and he be-
Eeves IL violates no treaty.
The French protest is against the pro-
vision that foreign manufacturers and
exporters shall submit their books to
United States agents, when demanded.
This clause, Mr.. Underwood declares,
does not mean that the United States
Is going to try to learn the secrets Of
foreign manufacturers. as 1t will be used
only in cases where there is reason to
suspect that goods have been UNDER
valued.
Payne Attacks Measure.
Representative Payne, ranking republi-
can member of the ways and means COM
mittee. defended the Payne-Aldrich tariff
Law. and declared the Underwood bill as
a tariff-for-revenue measure "a signal
failure
If this bill becomes a law as it now
stands the next four years will be years
OF weary waiting" he said.
That the proposed bill is revision
downward / frankly admit, Mr.. Payne
concluded.