The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-26
PROGRESS
ON TARIFF BILL
Democratic Leaders Predict Earlv
Passage of Measure in
Senate.
LIVELY SECTIONAL DEBATE
Relative Conditions in New Eng
land and Southern Cotton
Mills Discussed.

Washington, August ton
OF the free list in the tariff bill. with
reservation of a few commodities for
later consideration. agreement by Dem
ocrats of the Finance Committee to
consider an amendment by Senator
NehEon' which would automatically
transfer truSt-controllcd articles to the
free list; discussion OF free print paper
ana the paper schedule and n lively
debate on southern and New England
cotton mills. enlivencd the tariff debate
in the Senate to-day. SO rapid was
the progress in consideration OF the
free list that Democratic leaders were
led to predict ar early passage of the
biil, some insisting il would be ready
FOR a vote by the middle of next week
In the midst of this progress, how
ever. were injected several set speeches.
which precipitated a long collouuy be-
tween Senators Lippitt, OF Rhode Island
and Smith, Of South Carolina, over rela
tive conditions in New England and
Southern cotton mills. This occupied
several hours and left the schedules
considerably behind for the day.
Free raw wool was among the pro-
posals in the free list approved by the
Senate in committee of the whole"
but this will come up again on substi-
tutes offered in the senate proper.
Free meat, cattle. sheep. swine and
wheat were passed over at the request
OF Senator McCumber. of North Dakota
Assnils Foreign Labor.
Senator Smith, OF South Carolina as
sailing the foreign LABOR in New Eng
land cotton mills and the wages paid.
provoked a sectional debate Senator
LipDitt rctortinG with Il description of
the child labor in the South and a
comparison of wages. showing the
Southern wages To be lower than those
paid in New England cotton mills.
The p.lDrr sch hctlulp WAS agreed IN
as amended by the Finance Commit
tee. with the exception OF the para
graph on wrapping paper, which was
passed over at the suggestion Of SEN
ator Hughes, in charge OF the sched-
ule.
The sundries schedule was taken
UP, and the paragraphs on braids,
brooms, brushes and buttons agreed
to. Senator Bristow protested that
the reduced duties on brooms was an
other discriminate tion against products
in which farmers were interested.
Senator CumminS protested against the
reduced duties on the cheaper grades
OF buttons, claiming that the rates
proposed would put the Iowa manu-
facturers out OF business.
During the afternoon Senator Ashurst
delivered Il general defense OF the bill,
comparing II with other tarir meas
ures of the past. He denied that 1t
was a studied discrimination against
the farming class.
An amendment to the foreign meat
inspection clause was proposed to the
Finance Committee o-day by the Bu
reau of Animal Industry. which sug-
Gcstcd the original clause providing
that an inspection OF foreign meat
equal TO the inspection Of American
meat should he sufficient" The
amendment is designed to clarity the
clause by providing that such foreign
inspected meat shall enjoy the same
rights and privileges as accorded
American meat Inspected under the in
spection law of 1906.