The Brunswick news., 1913-04-29
UNDERWOOD STILL THINKS THE
BILL WILL BE PASSED
WITHIN a WEEK,
MANY CONGRESSMEN SPEAK
The United States Is Within Rights
Despite the Protests of Fore, an
Nations, Is the Claim Made BY
Leader of House.

Washington, April IS. A rush of
speech-making on the final day of
general debate on the tariff bill made
lively proceeding in the house. Most
members held back with the aim of
getting larger audiences expected with
the closing Of the general debate and
the shifting of consideration of the
revision measure to reading under
the iiye-minute rule beginning tomor-
row.
Leader Underwood has not changed
MS viCN that the bill should be dis
posed of in the house within a week
nom today and that the sugar sehed-
ule Is not likely to offer much trou-
Bile He hopes that unless the fight of
the anti-free wool advocates spreads.
the bill will emerge from the senate
substantially in the form in which it
stands.
Dawn of New Era"-Rainey.
Representative Rainey, Of Illinois,
who has charge of Nle agriculture
schedule Of the bill as member OF
the ways and means con mittee. Rep-
resentative Murdoch, of Kansas. lead.
er Of the Progressives hnd others of
hat party and some n the big guns
Of the Republicans ere on today's
speaking program fMr Rainey de-
2lared that he bilf represented the
dawn of a new era in the govern
melt's fiscal policy, making light +
the burdens Of taxes upon consumers
and compelling great wealth to con
rl5ute its fair share toward paying
the government expenses"
He pointed out that no government
chat had adopted an income tax sys-
TEN and given it a fair trial had re-
pealed it.
We make the tax highest upon the
great incomes and lowest on the
small incomes, taxing 1000 in all
and expecting to collect from them
at least $4,000, ,OO0'
lie said the tax would reach 1885,
O00 incomes that amount to between
$4,000 and $1,000 year from which
The government expects to collect
only $630,00O; an average of So per
income and would reach 100 incomes
amounting to more than one million
dc.lars each per year, from which a
collection of nearly $6,0O0,O0O Is ex-
pected.
Mr.. Rainey said he knew Of no
swollen fortunes which had not been
made possible by the fayors of gov
ernment, and that a protective tariff
conferred upon protected Aterests
the right not only to levy a Ees, but
to collect and distribute the yidends
to the holders Of watered styck.
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.
This, he concluded, is not free
trade bill, but it will fail Of its pur-
pose if it does not bring about
freer exchange between the products
cf this and other countries, each ma
tion, each section producing what it
is best adapted to produce and trad
ing its products for the products of
other sections and nations.
United States Within Rights.
Demcratic Leader Underwood,
framer of the new tariff bin, contends
that 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 pre-
ference on goods imported in Ameri-
can vessels, and which has caused
protests from a number of nations,
Mr.. Underwood says, is to encourage
the building of American ships and
ne believes it violates no treaty.
The French protest is against the
provision that foreign manufacturers
and exporters shall submit their
books to United States agents when
demanded. This clause, Mr. Under
wood declares, does not mean that
the United States is going to try to
learn the secrets of foreign manlfae-
tures, as it will be used only in cases.
where there is reason to suspect thI
goods have been underyalued.