The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-16
TARIFF BILL is
BEFORE SENATE
Cannot Pass Before Sept, 10
Is Prediction Of Leaders
SEVERAL WEEKS OF DEBATE
Measure as Sent over From House
Is Considerably AItered-Republl-
cans Give Notice of Bitter Battle.

cans Give Notice Of Bitter Battle.
The Underwood Simmons tariff bill
is finally before the United States
and at least six weeks OF debate are
now in prospect. The bill was re-
ported by the full membership of the
committee on finance.
The motion TO report was adopted
by a strictly party vote. Senator
Simmons OF North Carolina, chairman
of the finance committee, gave notice
soon after the bill was reported that
on next Wednesday he would move to
make it the unfinished business, which
motion if adopted will give the meas
ure legislative right Of way.
The bill as it came into the senate
carries many amendments. The in
come tax amendent has been practi-
cally rewritten.
The administrative features have
been modified materially since the
bill came from the house. One of the
most important amendments is that
creating joint committee OF three
members o; each house of congress to
submit a report on revision Of the
administrative features before Feb. l,
1914.
The senate committee also passed
an amendment giving federal circuit
courts of appeals concurrent jurisdic-
ton with the customs court over GUS
toms appeal cases where the amount
involved exceeds 500 in value.
One of the last amendments adopted
by the senate committee is intended
to conserve the constutionality OF the
measure and provides that If any
clause, sentence, paragraph or part of
the act is held to be unconstitutional
by the courts, that such judgment
shall not affect, impair, or inyalidate
the remainder of said act"
Democratic leaders contend that the
senate committee has reduced the
average ad valorem rate of duty
nearly 10 per cent below that carried
by the house bill and that it has in
creased the prospective revenue for
the bill about $5,0O00OO or 100000
AS the bill was finally reported to
the senate it provides that raw wool
shall go on the free list after Dec. l
and that sugar shall be free after May
l, 1916, bat the reduced duties on
sugars shall not take effect until
March /, 1914.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
served notice on the finance commit
tee that he would submit an individual
report on the tariff bill.
Senator Smoot, another Republican
member, gave notice that he would
submit a complete substitute for
schedule X, the woolen schedule, Mon
day which calls for duties nearly as
high as those in the existing law.
Senate leaders think the considers
ton of the tariff bill which will begin
next Wednesday will last six or eight
weeks and there is little prospect that
the bill will pass the senate before
Sept. 10.
The income tax amendment as the
senate left it reduces the minimum
exemption from $4,000 to $4,000 and
makes the maximum $4,000 1t dis.
between married men and
single men, giving an additional ex-
emption of $1,000 on account of a de-
pendent wife and $500 for each de-
pendent child.
The senate bill also exempts mutual
insurance companies from a tax on
so much of their income as is dis.
tributed among policy holders in the
form of dividends on policies or re-
bates on premium charges.
The free list was greatly enlarged
by the senate. Pig iron, femo man.
ganese and many other steel products
were free listed that were dutiable
under the house bill. There was
reduction Of 10 per cent on the aver
age in the manufactured steel products.