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REPORT TARIFF
BILL TOMORROW
Debate Will Probably Start In
House on Wednesday.
MAY PASS bY NAY Is

Leaders Believe Senate Will Take 40
ton In Two Months and Congress
| Adjourn by July IS.
Washington, April 21.-The Demo
cratic tariff bill revising the schedules
downward will be reported fayofably
| in the house by the ways and means
| committee tomorrow, and debate on
the measure will probably begin on
Wednesday.
Chairman Underwood predicted that
the bill would be passed in the house
by May Is. Two months, the adninis.
tration leaders believe, is generous
time to allot to the senate for its con.
sideration and passage, and unless 1t
is decided to bring in currency bill
thereafter, congress should be ready
to adjourn about July Is.
Chairman Underwood and other
house leaders, as well as President
Wilson and his cabinet, are greatly
pleased at the successful way In Which
the scheme of revision went through
the trying ordeal of the long caa1cus,
in which there was absolute freedom
of debate and amendment. The result
was a complete vindication of the
leadership of Chairman Underwood,
for the number of changes made in
the bill in caucus was almost negligi-
BILE, and almost without exception in
the direction of lower duties OF re-
moval of all duties, the most notable
case of the latter being the free listing
of shoe machinery, on which the com
mittee had allowed a duty of % per
cent.
At the suggestion of Representative
Levy, of New York, the provision of
the income tax bill which assessed the
earnings of mutual savings banks was
stricken from the bill. Mr.. Levystold
the caucus that the proposed tax
would plave heavy burden on the
savings of the poor and that at least
100000 saving banks depositorB in
New York alone would be affected
The principal changes in the bill
made in caucus were: Shoe makhin-
cry, buckwheat, rye, rabbit fur and
phosphoric acid, transferred frout du-
table to the free list; onyx, redheed
from IS cents to so cents a cubic loot,
to put it on the same basis as ma1ble;
diamonds, uncut, are unchangedf but
cut diamonds, increased from to
20 per cent; castor oil, reduced FROM
Is to IL per cent; cod, seal and her
ring oil, reduced from to 8 per cent;
sperm oil, increased from to per
cent; vanilla beans, reduced from SO
to 30 cents pound; salts and other
compounds and mixtures Of which bis
muth, gold, platinum, rhodium, silver,
tin and uranium constitute the chief
value, cut from Is to 10 per cent.
Representative Hardwick insisted
that it would be a mockery not to
draw the lines closely on the offering
of amendments. He introduced reso-
luton, which was referred for subse-
quent action, providing that the tariff
bill shall be passed under special
rule, restricting general debate to
eight legislative days, and that the mi
nority in the house shall be limited in
the offering of amendments to not
more than two amendments as substi-
tutes to each schedule and section of
the bill, and to not more than two
amendments to the bill as whole,
and that mo other amendments shall
be in order"
The caucus adopted an amendment
fixing May 1, 1916, as the date when
raw sugar should go on the free list.
The time when the income tax shall
become effective was left subject to
the disposition of the house.